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- Contributor is exactly "David Bloomfield"
Letter to Mrs E Milling from M T Derbyshire
We were only just beginning to enjoy our teenage years
Reminiscence and memories of Mrs E J Bascombe
Des Hawkins' service history and list of operations
Tags: 44 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; mine laying; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Kirmington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Waddington; training; Wellington
Letter to James Banks from the Air Ministry
Tags: demobilisation; recruitment
Air gunner course notes
Tags: air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; RAF Pembrey; training
The Pilgrimage of an English airman who in 1944 came down in the Spa region
Lancaster LM311 PO-L
The second part of…
Extracts from 'Nouvelliste Valaisan'
14 airmen were buried at Vevey and the funeral is described. There is repetition…
Tags: bombing; crash; final resting place; killed in action; shot down
The Homing Bomber
Army history of cadet Ensign Margaret Pratt and Sergeant Charles Ward
Bill Thomas memoir
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 28 OTU; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Wigtown; training; Wellington
Notes for officers course
Herbert O'Hara diary and account of Atlantic crossing in 1941
An interesting war
Tags: 462 Squadron; 614 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; evacuation; fear; Gee; ground crew; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; sanitation; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington; Window
Evacuation of Bankau Luft
The evacuation of Stalag Luft 7, Bankau Germany
Letter to Mrs Foster from S Rowley
Tags: killed in action; memorial
Loss of Lancaster ED 427
Tags: 49 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3
Roy Briggs training notes
Tags: operations room; training