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WW2 Service in the RAAF Robert Wylie Smith
Tags: Air Observers School; aircrew; recruitment; training
Workers in camp
Tags: ground personnel
Witchford Airfield Operations 18th/19th April 1944
Two aircraft were shot down by a Me 410 as they were landing. The crews are listed.
Wing Comander with pint glass and pipe
William Edwards - pilot's flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 27 OTU; 467 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Flying Training School; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; Me 109; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Calveley; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Windrush; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Yale
Whitleys at Middleton St George 1941
Photograph 1 is of eight airmen under the nose of a Whitley. Captioned 'Pilot Sgt B. Jones with his Ground Crew, Whitley. A/C.'
Photograph 2 is of a sergeant pilot wearing a flying helmet and pointing to…
Wellington memories
Waving aircraft off
Watten V2 bunker
Walter John Smith’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 1661 HCU; 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training
Volkel
View from from aircraft
Top left - view over starboard engines.
Top right - view of river with town on far side.
Bottom left - view of sea shore over starboard engines.
Bottom right…
Tags: Halifax
Veteran of 33 operations
Tags: 467 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
V T Hilton’s observer’s air gunner’s and w/t operators flying log book
Union Jack newspaper 25 July 1945
Page 1 headline is: 'I SAW GENERAL SHOOT AT PRISONERS'.
Page 2 is given over to the forthcoming General…
Tags: bombing; entertainment; Holocaust; prisoner of war; sport