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- Tags: RAF Graveley
History of 115 (B) Squadron
With compliments card
Tags: love and romance; RAF Graveley
Christmas dinner menu RAF Graveley 1942
Tags: 35 Squadron; RAF Graveley
Programme for revue 'Flying High'
Programme for 'Flying High' revue, third edition
Programme for revue 'Flying High'
John Alfred Wright's life story
Michael James Beetham’s pilots flying log book. Two
Interview with Ernest James White
Tags: 44 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Botha; Cook’s tour; Lancaster; Lysander; memorial; military service conditions; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Graveley; RAF Morpeth; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; searchlight; Window
Interview with Percival Trotman
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Flying Training School; forced landing; Initial Training Wing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Gwynne Price
Tags: 195 Squadron; 35 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; C-47; crewing up; faith; flight engineer; Gee; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Colerne; RAF Graveley; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Frank Dell
Ronald Mathers pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 1660 HCU; 35 Squadron; Anson; C-47; forced landing; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Oxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hullavington; RAF Scampton; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; Spitfire; Stirling; training; Wellington
No 35 Squadron (B) (Madras Presidency) Squadron
Tags: 35 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Graveley
RAF Goodwill planes home
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting titled 'Goodwill' showing 11 Lancasters over St Paul's Cathedral.
Lancaster formation and airmen
Photograph 2 is five airmen standing at the rear door of their Lancaster. It is captioned '(we pose in front of aircraft…
Operation Goodwill
Interview with Syd Marshall
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1667 HCU; aircrew; crewing up; FIDO; flight engineer; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Sandtoft; RAF St Athan; training
Caricature of Flying Officer 'Johnny' North DFC
Seven aircrew in front of a Lancaster
Tags: 35 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; ground crew; Lancaster; Pathfinders; RAF Graveley
Letter to Geoffrey North's father concerning pathfinder badge
Tags: missing in action; Pathfinders; RAF Graveley
Notes on flights in 1944 and 1945
Geoffrey North’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 15 OTU; 1659 HCU; 1664 HCU; 35 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; missing in action; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Catfoss; RAF Dalton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Driffield; RAF Graveley; RAF Harwell; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; shot down; training; Wellington; Whitley
Geoffrey North rewritten account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
Charles Godfey's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 15 OTU; 20 OTU; 37 Squadron; 635 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Defiant; Dominie; evading; Hampden; killed in action; Lancaster; Martinet; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Andover; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Blyton; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Carlisle; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Downham Market; RAF Graveley; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ingham; RAF Leconfield; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melton Mowbray; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Newmarket; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF St Eval; RAF Sywell; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Warboys; RAF Westcott; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; shot down; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; wireless operator