Wilkins, Norman Edward

Title

Wilkins, Norman Edward
N E Wilkins

Description

Seven items. An oral history interview with Wing Commander Norman Wilkins (1925 - 2018, 1807646, 164478 Royal Air Force) parts of his log book and photographs. He flew operations as a navigator with 7 Squadron Pathfinders.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Norman Wilkins and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

Date

2017-09-22

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

Wilkins, NE

Collection Items

Seven aircrew on top of a Lancaster
Seven aircrew all wearing battledress with brevet, six sitting atop the cockpit canopy and one looking out of the cockpit side window. Seven rows of bomb symbols under the cockpit. Submitted with caption 'Norman E. Wilkins with aircrew on…

Seven aircrew behind a Lancaster
Seven airmen, one wearing flying suit and the others Mae Wests, two kneeling and the others standing behind the rear turret of a Lancaster. Submitted with caption 'Norman E Wilkins with aircrew and Lanc'.

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Norman Wilkins
Full face portrait of an officer wearing tunic and peaked cap. Submitted with caption 'Norman E. Wilkins in uniform'.

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

Graduation
Two airmen wearing tunics being congratulated by a man in civilian dress. In the background other airmen. Submitted with caption 'Norman E. Wilkins on Graduation'.

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Norman Wilkins certificates of qualification
Shows qualified as a navigator, pathfinder force air bomber/radar and visual bomb aimer.

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

Norman Wilkins - flying log book cover
Blue cover for log book.

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Interview with Norman Edward Wilkins
Norman Wilkins was born in West Norwood. At the age of 14 he joined the Air Training Corps and became a member of Brighton and Hove Air Cadets 176 Squadron. He then joined the University Air Squadron at Oxford, with fees being paid by the Royal Air…
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Collection Tree

  • Wilkins, Norman Edward