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- Contributor is exactly "Peter Bradbury"
Curriculum Vitae Barry Michael Smith
Message from Basil Harrington to Hazael Wakefield
Tags: Red Cross
A speck of history from long ago and far away
Tags: air sea rescue; B-24; ditching; Ju 88; shot down
Part of letter from C R Phillips to his wife Flora
Tags: RAF Sandtoft
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
My War Story
Tags: 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; lynching; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elvington; RAF Gaydon; RAF Inverness; RAF Manston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Red Cross; sanitation; service vehicle; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
D-Day letter
It happened one night
Le Mans, Edward King's 12th operation on his tour
Laon, Edward King's 5th operation of his tour
Essen, Edward King's 4th operation of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; H2S; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; navigator; RAF Mildenhall
Stuttgart, Edward King's 3rd operation of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; H2S; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Me 109; navigator; RAF Mildenhall
Berlin, Edward King's 2nd operation of his tour
Cherbourg, 'Gardening' Edward King's 1st operation of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; mine laying; navigator; RAF Mildenhall; Stirling
Letter to Alfred Dickerson's father from the Air Ministry
To Isabel from Air Ministry re Andrew's grave cross
Tags: final resting place
Air Ministry notification
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; missing in action; Stirling
Going on Leave
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from the British Broadcasting Corporation to Spencer Lewis Belton
Tags: bombing; propaganda; RAF Hemswell
German "Peace"
Tags: propaganda; round-up
Harold Warren's note book
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; training
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross