Browse Items (45 total)
- Contributor is exactly "Babs Nichols"
Letter from Pete Perry to his mother
Tags: aircrew; bombing; pilot; RAF Syerston
Dare to Discover: World War II experiences of V T Hilton
Tags: 192 Squadron; aircrew; arts and crafts; bomb trolley; bombing up; crewing up; FIDO; fuelling; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; petrol bowser; RAF Foulsham; RAF Rufforth; service vehicle; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
"J" Johnnie Lancaster
Bottom - Notes with list of operations.
Tags: bombing; gremlin; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; nose art
Legend
Aircrew and newspaper articles
Top right - newspaper cutting - Lancaster lands on bomb door. Account of badly damage Lancaster with wounded crew returning from operation…
Telegram from OC 617 Squadron to Vera Gill
Tags: 617 Squadron; bombing; missing in action
Letter from Kenneth Gill to his family
Tags: bombing; missing in action; nose art; RAF Bardney
Kenneth Gill 1941 Architect's and builder's diary
Postcards from John Goldby to his parents
Tags: bale out; Dulag Luft; prisoner of war
Trappes, Edward King's 14th operation of his tour
Ouistreham, Edward King's 15th operation of his tour
Heligoland pilots
Aircraftman Harry Gillott is standing second right.
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; pilot; RAF Mildenhall; Wellington
Newspaper cutting - Leuna oil left 'mass of flame'
Tags: Beaufighter; bombing; Halifax; incendiary device; Lancaster; Mosquito; P-51
Telegram to Allan Smith's Father
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; RAF Kirmington
Note accompanying photographs of cross marking grave
Four RAF Crests and Three Documents
Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…
Tags: 5 Group; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; Guinea Pig Club; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator
Notebook
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; training
Fred Honey's log book
His pilots on operations were Pilot Officer Benitz DFC and Flight Lieutenant Brown.