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Letter to Joan Wareing from Enid
Thirteen Trainee Airmen
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; RAF Evanton; training
Kirche St Leonard Burgoberbach
Arthur Tindall's service and operations
Tags: 44 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Witchford; target indicator; V-weapon; wireless operator
Air gunners course photograph
Tags: air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; pilot; RAF Evanton; training
A Chibanoff and Crew
Flying Control Logbook
Tags: RAF Tholthorpe
Flying Control Log Book
Tags: RAF Tholthorpe
75 Squadron return to Mepal
Photo 1 is 14 aircraft over Mepal after an operation to Le Havre.
Photo 2 is Terry Ford at the ladder at the rear of his Lancaster.
Photo 3 is 15 Lancasters breaking formation to land at Mepal.
Photo 4 is six…
Le Havre
Photo 1 is bombing of the centre of Le Havre.
Photo 2 is taken on the next day and German Army positions on the outskirts were attacked.
Propaganda Leaflet and Bombing Attacks on Germany
Item 1 is a propaganda leaflet, dropped on Homberg on 21 November 44. It is a warning from Dwight D Eisenhower to the German people not to harm in any way those in forced labour battalions or concentration camps. Allies…
Le Havre and Terry Ford's crew
Photo 1 is a view during take off from the bomb aimer's station.
Photo 2 is air gunner Paddy Glover in his mid-upper turret.
Photo 3 is wireless operator George Tredinnick looking out of the astro-dome.
Photo 4 is…
Newspaper Cuttings after the attacks on Pont Remy, Le Havre and Frankfurt
75 Squadron and Terry Ford's Crew
Photo 1 is 13 Lancasters in flight over RAF Mepal.
Photo 2 is a frosty tree beside Terry's hut.
Photo 3 is Terry and his crew standing in front of a Nissen hut. In the caption each individual is named, as is their…
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; Nissen hut; RAF Mepal
Pilot Officer AG Edgar DFC
Alan Edgar and crew reunion
Avro Anson, R100 and Westland Welkin
Photo 2 is a port side view of the R-100 airship attached to a ground pylon.
Photo 3 is a port side view of a Welkin.
Tags: Anson
Westland Lysander
Photo 2 is a port side flying view from slightly above.
Photo 3 is a starboard/front ground view.
Tags: Lysander
Fairey Firefly and Handley Page Hampden
Photo 2 is a starboard/front flying view of a Hampden.
Tags: Hampden
Spitfire and Manchester
Photo 2 is a starboard side ground view of a Manchester.
Tags: Manchester; Spitfire
Seafire and Sea Otter
Photo 2 is a port side ground view of a Sea Otter biplane seaplane.
Tags: Spitfire
Piaggio P108, C-47 and Savoia-Marchetti SM82
Photo 2 is a port side view of a captured C-47 in German markings.
Photo 3 is a port/front flying view of a SM82. This three engined aircraft was…
Tags: C-47