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SBeckettG622136v10084.pdf
Includes envelopes and 5 page letter from Peggy not knowing he had been killed, asking after Geoffrey Beckett and passing news of friends and acquaintances. Writes a little about Stamford and mentioning Wittering.

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AKirbyH150710.mp3
Harold Kirby joined the Royal Air Force, encouraged by two friends, but ended up training as a flight mechanic at RAF Halton on medical grounds. Harold became an airframe fitter, volunteered as a flight engineer, passed the physical but was then…

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MLovattP1821369-190903-74-01.pdf
A continuation of Peter's thesis on electronic warfare during the war.

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BPayneRPayneRv1.pdf
A detailed account of Reg Payne's 5 year service in the RAF, including a list of 18 RAF bases where he served. He was 16 when war was declared and volunteered for the RAF at 17. He was selected for training as a wireless operator, before retraining…

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BPayneRPayneRv2.pdf
An account by Reg Payne of his wartime experiences. He spent two years as a Home Guard before he reached the age where he could join the RAF. He recalls the many operations he took part in and the RAF stations where he served. He met his future wife…

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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-010.pdf
The news-sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. This edition covers the award of an OBE to the Association's President, the Prisoners of War memorial at Hendon, Trooping the Colour, the annual parade of the Air Cadets, a visit to RAF Cranwell, Lunches,…

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BMorrisWMorrisWv1.pdf
A memoir covering Walter Morris’ early life before moving into his service in the Air Training Corps from 1941 and his entry into the Royal Air Force in February 1942 (as the first Air Training Corps Cadet from Kettering to be called up). The…

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PKirbyH1509.jpg
A man inside left wing that has been damaged, the man is sticking out of the damaged wing with head and arm showing with no cap.
On the reverse 'LANCASTER PO-L WITTERING AFTER RAID ON V1 STORAGE SITE TROSSY ST MAVIN AUGUST 3 1944'.

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PKirbyH1501.jpg
A crashed Lancaster in field with belly landing, damaged to propeller and nose with two servicemen one seated with head showing from cockpit and the other standing with upper body showing out of canopy window.
On the reverse 'LANCASTER PO-L…

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PLovattP19010039.jpg
Two photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a man and woman outside their house, captioned 'Bill Hitchcock & Wife at home, Norfolk.
Photo 2 is an invitation to Squadron Leader and Mrs P Lovatt to a 15 Squadron to a presentation parade.

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MBakerWB1392752-161128-210001.jpg
Joined in 1942 and then details training and tour on 115 Squadron, gunnery course, tours as gunnery instructor. Further tour with 625 Squadron, crashed twice before another instructors tour. Mentions 14 ops on first tour and 20 on second. Comments on…

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B[Author]HanneJHv1.pdf
A biography of Jack, as he was known, from his birth to his early death.
Jack Hanne enlisted on his eighteenth birthday in 1931, he rose through the ranks to become a proficient pilot, serving overseas in Iraq and Karachi. By 1939, he was flying…

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OHanneJH564212-200113-010001.jpg
Form 280 issued to Jack's widow. it contains a summary of his service.

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PHanneJH20020008.jpg
Four photographs from an album.
#1, 2 and 3 are groups of airmen.
#4 is nine young men, captioned 'RAF Halton 1930.'

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SBeckettG622136v10012-0004.jpg
From the rear of a line of airmen walking through a gap in a tall metal fence with another fence beyond. On the reverse 'entering V.H.F Wittering 3.3.40, Woolford, Foster, Easby, Varley'.

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SBeckettG622136v10012-0018.jpg
Distant view of hangars with twin engine aircraft parked outside. On the reverse 'View from lane of 23 Sqdn hangar and G.S. shed. Kites lined up are 23 Sqdn Blenheims, March 3 1940'.

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SBeckettG622136v10012-0022.jpg
Two airmen wearing tunics with peaked caps standing at ease with grounded rifles with bayonets. Behind them a wooden hut with open window. On the reverse 'RAF Wittering July 1939. Beckett and Bell ready for first guard at this camp with rifles and…

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SBeckettG622136v10012-0024.jpg
In the foreground the back of a man with braces watching a distant aircraft over the roofs of camp buildings. On the reverse 'RAF Wittering 39. P/O Clouston throwing a Hurricane about just missing the tops of the buildings. Foster's hut in the…

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PHenningtonAJM17060004.jpg
A relief map with bomber command airfields marked with their elevations. There are two copies.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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SBeckettG622136v10033-0001.jpg
For Christmas 1939 at RAF Wittering. Airmen's Christmas dinner. List menu and signatures on the reverse.

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SBeckettG622136v10020.jpg
Sid view of a Blenheim parked with hanger in the background. Captioned '23 Squadron Blenheim night fisher winter 1939-1940 t RAF Wittering when Geoff was there as a wireless operator (or was it really GCI'. Wittering was the Fighter Command 12 group…

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SBeckettG622136v10023.jpg
Distant view of hangars with twin engine aircraft parked outside. Text provides information on RAF Wittering as being a fighter command station in 12 group with Blenheims and Hurricanes. Describes role of aircraft and that airfield suffered bombing…

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SBeckettG622136v10034.jpg
Top right - two airmen wearing greatcoats and side caps standing in countryside with tree in the background. Captioned 'Right: the photograph caption reads: Jack and Geoff near Wansford. (a village near Wittering) taken by Sidney Ball'.
Bottom left…

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MMackieNAJ88410-210811-160001.jpg
Made out for green rating for Squadron Leader Mackie. Renewals on the reverse.

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BChandlerRChandlerEBv1.pdf
A biography of Chan's life.
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet…

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