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Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 6
Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Kenneth Gill 1942 Diary
Keith Campbell's prisoner of war diary
Bomb aimers briefing sheet for an operation
If you can't take a joke...
Tags: 16 OTU; 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight mechanic; Flying Training School; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; H2S; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; mechanics engine; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranage; RAF Desborough; RAF Desford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hednesford; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Paignton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Silloth; RAF Silverstone; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Torquay; RAF Upper Heyford; RCAF Moncton; sanitation; Stirling; strafing; training; Wellington; Whitley
POW Parcel Contents
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Telegram to Eric Sanger's father
Tags: 9 Squadron; missing in action
Letter to Jack Newton's wife
Tags: 12 Squadron; missing in action; RAF Binbrook
Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from Pat Hogan to Miss Marie Hogan
Tags: 466 Squadron
Pat Hogan's recollection of events on 3/4 March 1945 written to a relative of Flying Officer Alan Shelton
Tags: 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; crewing up; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); entertainment; faith; final resting place; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; home front; Ju 88; killed in action; Me 109; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; padre; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Lichfield; sanitation; shot down; training; wireless operator
James Gordon Bennet (Lucky Jim) Burnside - biography
Part 2 - war service of Flying Officer James Gordon Bennett Burnside flight engineer. Covers training as flight engineer. Then follows short descriptions. listing…
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Mosquito; RAF Balderton; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
Prisoner of war letter from Roy Langlois to Jack Newton
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Ronald Saunders memoir
Tags: 114 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-26; Boston; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Dominie; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Madley; RAF Weston-on-the-Green; RAF Yatesbury; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Condolence letter to Aubrey Read's mother
Robert Anderson's memoir
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); fear; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; searchlight; service vehicle; Tiger force; tractor; training; Wellington; Yale
Letter from Roy Ellis to his Wife
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; RAF Lakenheath
Letter from Roy Ellis to his Wife
Ronald Walker story
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; RAF Pocklington