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Boston
Side view from below of an airborne Douglas A-20 Havoc (Boston in RAF service).
Beaufighter
Front quarter view of airborne Bristol Beaufighter.
Whirlwind
Front view of airborne Westland Whirlwind.
Mosquito
View from below of an airborne de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito.
Hurricane
Front quarter view of an airborne Hawker Hurricane.
Boston
Side view of an airborne Douglas A-20 Havoc (Boston in RAF service).
Beaufighter
Front quarter view of airborne Bristol Beaufighter.
Sitting on a blockbuster and a damaged Lancaster
Firstly, a man in uniform with sergeant's stripes and a brevet, wearing gloves, sat on a Cookie. The bomb is on a bomb trolley in an open field alongside an aircraft with buildings and hedgerow in the distance.
Second, David, second right, is sat…
Second, David, second right, is sat…
Whirlwind
Side view of an airborne Westland Whirlwind.
Spitfire
View from below of an airborne Supermarine Spitfire with clipped wings.
Mosquito
Head on view of an airborne de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito.
Hurricane
View from below of airborne Hurricane,
Boston
Head on view of an airborne Douglas A-20 Havoc (Boston in RAF service)
Beaufighter
Front view of airborne Bristol Beaufighter.
Mosquito
Side view of an airborne de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito.
Spitfire
Front Quarter view of airborne Supermarine Spitfire.
Whirlwind
Front quarter view of airborne Westland Whirlwind.
Hawker Hurricane
Two images of a Hawker Hurricane taken at different angles. The bottom right photograph shows the Hurricane outside a hangar.
Newspaper cuttings
Report on recruiting and reforming squadron including photograph of Flight Lieutenant Mellersh, Mr Proudlove, and Squadron Leader Norman Hayes. Photograph of Group Captain John Cunningham following record breaking flights.
Ditching of Flight Lieutenant Frank Butterfield and 85 Squadron photograph
Reporting on the ditching of Flight Lieutenant Frank Butterfield and the plotting of the course of his return by his wife and him collecting his honours at Buckingham Palace. A photograph of 21 airmen in three rows; four seated on the ground, four in…
Personnel and aircraft
Reports of operations with Wing Commander John Randall Braham, Group Captain John Cunningham who was awarded the Soviet Order of Patriotic War, Flight Lieutenant W H Maguire and Flying Officer Jones. The second page has a cutting of six Defiant…
John Braham
Relating to Wing Commander John Braham with pictures of his wife, Joan and his father, Reverend Dr Ernest Braham. Reports of John leading night fighters and an operation with Flight Lieutenant Bill Gregory.
Personnel
Guy Gibson taking his oath to rejoin the Boy Scout movement together with Group Captain E Colbeck-Welch, Wing Commander S P Richards, Flight Lieutenant K Davison and Lieutenant F Carruthers; a report of an operation by Wing Commander C M…
Parade
Two photographs, the first of uniformed Royal Air Force personnel seated on wicker chairs in an open lorry. A man in civilian clothes stands near the lorry's cab. There is a crowd of people watching, standing between a row of shops and the road.…
Lancaster and Spitfire Sketch
A sketch of a Lancaster and a Spitfire, annotated 'Lancaster on Fighter Affil with Spitfire' and signed 'Ewing 43'.