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No 1 Canadian transit camp information sheet
Notes about a memorial to the John Wenham crash
Flying Control Log Book
Tags: RAF Tholthorpe
Emergency Stations
John Joseph Parker at Blackpool boarding house
1. A photograph of the boarding house.
2. An advertisement for Southbank, the boarding house.
3. A photograph of 22 airmen, including John Joseph Parker as a corporal, three ladies and one man arranged in four rows in front of a…
Reg Jaques biography
Me - William Roy Peter Perry DFC
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 227 Squadron; 29 OTU; 5 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; B-17; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Two post cards from Wally Layne to his wife
Bottom - writes that he is fit and had been to performance at the camp theatre. Mentions pantomime starting in a few days.
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Tom Payne
Tags: bombing; civil defence; evacuation; firefighting; home front; recruitment
Letter from Terry Ford to Bob Moore
Ted Leaviss's account of 40th anniversary of Operation Manna visit
Some days in the life of a production test pilot
Ronald Walker story
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; RAF Pocklington
Letter from Roy Ellis to his Wife
Letter from Roy Ellis to his Wife
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; RAF Lakenheath
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
Condolence letter to Aubrey Read's mother
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
Prisoner of war letter from Roy Langlois to Jack Newton
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
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
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
Letter from Pat Hogan to Miss Marie Hogan
Tags: 466 Squadron