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Letter to Leonard Cheshire from G Gardiner
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from G Gardiner
Memorabilia from Photographic course
Photograph 2 - the signatures of some of the participants.
Captioned 'Christmas dinner, R.A.F. Farnborough…
Tags: arts and crafts; RAF Farnborough; training
Memories of 578 Squadron at Burn 1944
Tags: 578 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; fear; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Burn; RAF Farnborough; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Men and missiles
Tags: aircrew; Mosquito; pilot; RAF Farnborough
RAF Badges cigarette card collection
Tags: 104 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 18 Squadron; 20 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 23 Squadron; 25 Squadron; 27 Squadron; 28 Squadron; 31 Squadron; 32 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 43 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 66 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; RAF Abingdon; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Calshot; RAF Catterick; RAF Duxford; RAF Farnborough; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Kenley; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF North Weald; RAF Northolt; RAF Odiham; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford
RAF Farnborough Photographic Course
Tags: ground personnel; RAF Farnborough; training
Reginald Thomas
The third is a group of 18 airmen arranged in a group in front of a wooden hut. Reginald is fourth from the left in the rear row.
Tags: RAF Farnborough
Reginald Thomas in hospital
Photo 2 and 4 are the same. Reginald standing cross-armed with a dressing on his head. In front is a man on a bed and a third man seated.
Tags: RAF Farnborough
Robert Keeling's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: aircrew; Anson; Ar 232; B-17; B-24; B-25; B-26; Battle; Beaufighter; Boston; C-47; Defiant; Dominie; Fw 190; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Magister; Martinet; Meteor; Mosquito; Oxford; P-47; P-51; pilot; Proctor; RAF Farnborough; Spitfire; Stirling; training; Typhoon; Ventura; Walrus; Wellington; Whitley; York
Robert Victor Keeling's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 10 OTU; 21 OTU; 22 OTU; 51 Squadron; 7 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; Flying Training School; Hampden; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Magister; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Burnaston; RAF Cranage; RAF Dishforth; RAF Farnborough; RAF Hullavington; RAF Kemble; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Oakington; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Spitfire; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Samuel Guyan comments and memoirs
Samuel Guyan flew an operational tour with 90 Squadron and a second tour with 115…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 90 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; military discipline; Operational Training Unit; RAF Benson; RAF Dalcross; RAF Farnborough; RAF Penrhos; RAF Shenington; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Window
Six chapters of wartime memories
'Based at Burn' Introduction by Jim Allen
One More Chalked Up
A Trip to Remember
Sabotage on 578 Squadron at Burn by Joe Dudley
Memories of 578 Squadron at Burn 1944 by Joe…
Tags: 4 Group; 578 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); faith; fear; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Burn; RAF Farnborough; RAF Woodbridge; submarine; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; wireless operator
Tadeusz Wier flying log book. One
Tags: 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Meteor; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Blyton; RAF Cardington; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hucknall; RAF Hullavington; RAF Newton; RAF Shawbury; Shackleton; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Test Pilots of A.V. Roe & Co Ltd - S.A. 'Bill' Thorn
The Kriegie March 1992
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; Caterpillar Club; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; entertainment; flight engineer; fuelling; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Me 110; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Farnborough; RAF Honington; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Waddington; Red Cross; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Offensive Phase
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 169 Squadron; 171 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crash; Defiant; Do 217; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; Me 410; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Downham Market; RAF Farnborough; RAF Foulsham; RAF Little Snoring; RAF North Creake; RAF Northolt; RAF Oulton; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swannington; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; Scharnhorst; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; Tirpitz; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Thirteen airmen at RAF Farnborough
Tags: ground personnel; RAF Farnborough
Thomas Kimberley's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 101 Squadron; 180 Squadron; 320 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 88 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-25; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); Boston; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Hudson; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; propaganda; RAF Ballykelly; RAF Bardney; RAF Farnborough; RAF Ford; RAF Foulsham; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Lasham; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Northolt; RAF Pembrey; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training