Photographs of people and aircraft and newspaper cutting

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Title

Photographs of people and aircraft and newspaper cutting

Description

Left page. Top - Ground operations. Photograph of farm workers piling hay on a rick with a Halifax bomber behind.
Bottom - a large group of airmen, some with brevet standing in three rows wearing variety of uniform and caps.
Right page. Top left - two members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force wearing tunic standing side by side on a pier.
Top right - two men and two members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force all in uniform standing in line in front of trees.
Bottom left - group of airmen standing in front of a Halifax.
Middle right - duplicate photograph of one top left.
Bottom right - note with first names and fates.

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Format

One newspaper cutting, five b/w photographs and a handwritten note mounted on two album pages

Rights

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Contributor

Identifier

PNichollsJEK20010003

Transcription

Committed to HARVEST IN WARTIME BRITAIN
[photograph]
"GROUND OPERATIONS" on a Halifax bomber Station in the North of England, from which the R.A.F. takes off for the relentless blitz on Axis industries. Air [missing word] lend a hand with the [missing word] between "ops."

[photograph]

[page break]

[photograph] [photograph]
[photograph] [photograph]

Shot down near Celle
Alex, Alan & Charlie.
Rolly died in crash
Charlie Bister
Roy Croft
Bill [indecipherable word]
& 6 [two indecipherable words] Captured at camp 4B [two indecipherable words]
[underlined] Philip [indecipherable word] Stalag Luft 3 [/underlined]
[deleted] KN [/deleted] JD465 [indecipherable words]

Citation

“Photographs of people and aircraft and newspaper cutting,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/25370.

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