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SFordTA1585520v20012.jpg
A planning chart used for an operation to Stuttgart, with handwritten annotations

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SFordTA1585520v20017-0001.jpg
A planning chart for a route from Mepal to Saarbrucken. On the reverse are lists of latitude and longitudes.

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SFordTA1585520v20003.jpg
A planning chart for an operation to the west-north-west of Essen.

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SFordTA1585520v20009-0001.jpg
A planning chart with a route from Mepal to Le Havre plotted on. On the reverse are two sketches of the area to be bombed.

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SFordTA1585520v20027-0001.jpg
A planning chart for an operation to Le Havre. On the front are handwritten annotations and on the reverse a sketch of the target.

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SFordTA1585520v20029-0001.jpg
A palnning chart for an operation to Le Havre. On the front are handwritten annotations and on the reverse 'Waterbeach' and 'F/L 6-65000'

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SFordTA1585520v20019.jpg
A planning chart used on an operation to Essen, with handwritten annotations.

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SFordTA1585520v20015-0001.jpg
A planning chart for an operation from Mepal to Dusseldorf. On the reverse is a sketch of a face.

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SFordTA1585520v20010.jpg
A planning chart for an operationto a target close to Duisburg, with handwritten annotations.

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SFordTA1585520v20021-0001.jpg
A planning chart with a route from Mepal to Dortmund. On the reverse is '51 32 07 03'.

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SFordTA1585520v20033-0001.jpg
A planning chart for an operation from Mepal to Dortmund. On both sides are handwritten annotations.

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SFordTA1585520v20013.jpg
A planning chart used for an operation to Dortmund, with handwritten annotations.

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SFordTA1585520v20026.jpg
A planning chart used for an operation to Calais, with handwritten annotations

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SFordTA1585520v20023-0001.jpg
A planning chart for a route from Waterbeach to West Germany then Mepal. On the reverse are handwritten latitudes and longitudes.

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BDowardATansleyEHv3.pdf
Covers background, marriage, civilian occupation and family. Followed by service history including basic and flying training in England and the United States and then advanced flying training and operational conversion back home. Posted to 57…

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LBantingP1399810v1.pdf
Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot for Peter Banting, bomb aimer, covering the period from 5 October 1943 to 11 July 1946. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and post war flying. He was stationed at…

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PRobinsonS18010010.jpg
Target photograph of Osterfeld (Oberhausen-Sterkrade). Roads and buildings are visible as are the Rhine-Herne Canal and railway running from centre left to upper right. Smoke can be seen in the lower left quadrant of the image and there is some glare…

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PRobinsonS18010001.jpg
A target photograph of Oberhausen. Cloud or smoke obscures the ground. There are some small smoke trails at centre left.
It is annotated "5B" and captioned: "2445. MEP. 4.12.44 //8 19,600. 109º 1412 OBERHAUSEN,YI 1 HC4000IN. 6ANM 50DT. 6GP500DT.…

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PWeedenRC17020007.jpg
Nine airmen wearing battledress with half brevet and side or peaked caps sitting and standing in two rows in front of a Nissen hut. Submitted with caption 'Navigators Mepal 1944 or 45 (RC Weeden front centre)'.

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PRobinsonS18010021.jpg
Target photograph of Neuss. Glare and cloud obscures all ground detail. It is annotated "5B" and captioned: "2720 MEP.6/7.1.45//NT(C) 7" 20,000' 029º 1853. NEUSS E 1HC4000IN, 13ANM64DT. 31 SECS. F/S. O'MALLEY C.75".

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PJolliffeFSW17100007.jpg
Target photograph of an operation to Neuss. Only a large area of glare, roughly in the middle, is visible. It is annotated '5B' and captioned:
'1787 MEP 23/24.9.44//NT 8" 19,000 ← 055 º 2127
NEUSS. H1. 11 x 1000. 4 x 500. 31 SECS. F/S…

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PBlakeMMD1806.jpg
Muriel Blake kneeling on the ground with three civilian men standing behind her. On the reverse 'Armstrong Sidley[sic] Mech RAF Mepal 1944'.

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MParryHP2220054-161011-01.jpg
List of operations between 11 February 1945 and VE day while Hugh Parry was serving with 75 New Zealand Squadron at RAF Mepal, Cambridgeshire. Operations are listed in chronological order with aircraft identification and losses.

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EFordTAFord[Fam]440830-0001.jpg
Terry writes home of his first operation and his social life.

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WNessTWadesonJR430803-0002.jpg
Letter of sympathy to Mr J R Wadeson informing him that his son had not returned from his fourth operation while attacking a target in Germany.

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