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- Tags: RAF Halton
Interview with Ted Stocker. Two
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military service conditions; Oboe; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Halton; target indicator
Interview with Wally Lashbrook
Jack Culkin at RAF Halton
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; RAF Halton; training
Jack's life and service up to 1942
Jack's postings
Jim Taylor's RAF Memoirs 1932-1939
John Alfred Wright's life story
Letter from Albert Evans to Mary and Bill Edwards
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: RAF Halton
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: RAF Halton
Letter to 'Lefty' from Jock
Tags: RAF Halton
Letter to David Donaldson from J F Mazdon
Tags: RAF Halton
Letter to Joan Wareing from Alan
Tags: RAF Halton
Letter to Ronnie Abbott from Ham
Tags: aircrew; mess; RAF Halton; RAF Swinderby
List of Fitters, Instrument Makers & Wireless Operator Mechanics
On the third page is a hand written comment.
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; RAF Halton; training
Loose on the wind
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 4 Group; 578 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control tower; crash; crewing up; Defiant; faith; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; In the event of my death letter; Intelligence Officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; Manchester; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); medical officer; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; observer; operations room; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Margaret Dixon's account of her early life and service in the Women's' Auxiliary Air Force
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; entertainment; evacuation; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF Hednesford; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Metheringham; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Memories of an Airman
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 19 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; crewing up; demobilisation; ditching; Dominie; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; Magister; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Halton; RAF Hednesford; RAF Kinloss; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pembrey; RAF Pocklington; recruitment; Spitfire; training; Wellington
Norman Jackson's Service Record
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Notes of Interview with William Parry 9 Squadron Ground Crew
One officer and 39 airmen
Tags: RAF Halton; training
Postcard from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: RAF Halton; RAF Upper Heyford
Programme for Flying Demonstration by Aircraft of the Home Commands RAF
Tags: Beaufighter; C-47; Halifax; Hamilcar; Hornet Moth; Horsa; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; RAF Halton; Spitfire; Sunderland
RAF Halton Apprentices Rugby Team
Tags: RAF Halton; sport; training
RAF Halton in 1938
First is of the three story brick accommodation blocks arranged around a square with some apprentices running, caption '10 times round the square'.
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