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- Tags: RAF Mildenhall
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
List of aircraft flown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 463 Squadron; Anson; B-29; Bolingbroke; bombing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Linzeux, Edward King's 23rd operation of his tour
Letter to Mrs Doreen Ellis from RAF Mildenhall
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; RAF Mildenhall
Letter to Mrs Doreen Ellis from RAF Mildenhall
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; RAF Mildenhall
Letter to Jack Darby's wife
Tags: aircrew; RAF Mildenhall
Letter to Flying Officer Wannop
Letter from Roy Ellis to his Wife
Letter from Jack Darby to his Wife
Tags: RAF Mildenhall
Letter from Jack Darby to his Wife
Tags: RAF Mildenhall
Letter from Jack Darby to his Wife
Tags: RAF Mildenhall
Letter from Jack Darby to his Wife
Tags: RAF Mildenhall
Letter from Hank Cooper to Norman Donaldson
Letter from Bob Butler to his sister
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter and transcript of telephone interview
Tags: 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); control caravan; crewing up; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; military discipline; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Athan; RAF Woodbridge; Scarecrow; searchlight; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Window
Le Mans, Edward King's 12th operation on his tour
Laon, Edward King's 5th operation of his tour
Lancaster rear turret
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Mildenhall
Lancaster in Flight
On the reverse 'Lanc ME844 15 Sqdn Mildenhall
80 ops as 'C' until 23/3/45 then 'W'
Flew in this a/c as 'C' on 5/12/44 as 'Master Bomber' SCHWAMMENUAL DAM
Daylight T/O…
Tags: 15 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; Master Bomber; RAF Mildenhall
Lancaster in Flight
Tags: 15 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Mildenhall
Lancaster and bombs
Bottom left - similar air-to-air view front port quarter of a Lancaster with further…
Lancaster
Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Mildenhall
L'Hay, Edward King's 18th operation of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; navigator; RAF Mildenhall; V-1; V-weapon