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PWhiteheadT18010013.jpg
Top left - blurred image of small unidentified model and a plaque. Captioned '[..........] arts and craft exhib, Stalag Luft 3, Aug [..]'.
Top middle - a model square rig sailing ship on a table. Captioned '[..] NCO's arts and crafts exhib, Stalag…

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PValentineJRM18040001-0004.jpg
Top left: model sailing boat on a stand on table. Captioned 'A 11 NCO's Arts and Crafts Exhib. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: model monoplane with matchbox alongside resting on a table. Captioned 'A 8 NCO's Arts and Crafts Exhib. Stalag Luft 3.…

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PValentineJRM18040001-0006.jpg
Top left: Two posters; titled 'Keep your mind occupied' and ' Speed Sport'. Two paintings, one landscape and one of men decorating a room' all pinned on a wall. Top right: a model Lysander and a four wheeled carriage on the ground.. Captioned 'A 17…

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PValentineJRM18040001-0001.jpg
Title 'A1 - 18 Arts and Crafts'

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In last week of April 1942, Luftwaffe and RAF bombing are compared as well as Hitler’s announcement now and from 1941. Contrasting statements from American (R F Watt) and German (Sauckel) on availability of workers.

Extract from Ludendorff’s…

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PSeaggerA16010017.jpg
Destroyed Luftwaffe aircraft at Benina airport. On the reverse 'Benina Airport'.

MKellettR[Ser#-DoB]-191219-020001.jpg
A card used by POWs to send messages home.

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PThomasAF20060021.jpg
Photo 1 is a side view of a BV138 kicking up a lot of spray.
Photo 2 is a front view of a BV138 taxting towards the camera.
Photo 3 is a view of the rear of a BV138.
Photo 4 is an air to air view of the port side of a BV138.
Photo 5 is an air to…

PThomasAF20060025.jpg
Photo 1 is a starboard side view of a BV 141 flying.
Photo 2 is BV 141 seen from the front and underneath.
Photo 3 is a BV141 seen from starboard and slightly above.
The aircraft was designed for short range reconnaissance with a crew of three.

PThomasAF20060026.jpg
Photo 1 is a starboard side view of a BV142.
Photo 2 is a front view showing its four engines and cranked wing. It was all metal in construction and designed as a long range mail plane.

PThomasAF20060027.jpg
Photo 1 is a port side view of the BV222 seaplane on water.
Photo 2 is a view of the underside of the BV222.
Photo 3 is a view of the underside of the BV222. The angle shows two floats close to the end of the wings.

PThomasAF20060028.jpg
Photo 1 is a starboard side view of the six engined BV238 seaplane floating on water.
Photo 2 is a port side view of the BV40
Photo 3 is a port side and slightly rear view of a BV40.

PThomasAF20060019.jpg
A brief history of Blohm und Voss and the BV 155 and HA 137. This was designed as an all-metal dive-bomber.
Photo 1 is a front/ side view of an HA137.
Photo 2 is a port side view of an HA137.
Photo 3 is a front view of an HA137.
Photo 4 is a…

PThomasAF20060023.jpg
Photo 1 is a port side view of a HA139 sitting on the water.
Photo 2 is a starboard side view of a HA139 on a harbour jetty.
Photo 3 is a front view of a HA139. It is fitted with a magnetic degausser used in mine sweeping.

PThomasAF20060024.jpg
A starboard side view of a HA140 sitting on water.

BUsherJBurnsDRv2.pdf
Gives account of last (and 7th) operation to Schweinfurt 26/27 April 1944. His Lancaster was shot down and the pilot, wireless operator, flight engineer, and both gunners were killed. The bomb aimer and navigator (Bob Burns) were made prisoners of…

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BBurnsDRBurnsDRv1.pdf
Draft of memoir with contents page - giving service history. Followed by pages with reference to photographs for name and rank, deferred service, ground training dates and places, training in Canada, back home for service flying, 5 Group, 51 base,…

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CRennisonJ-160224-010001.jpg
Map showing north Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, part of Belgium and France. Goes east to include Poland and parts of Lithuania. Symbols on map with legend on reverse. Symbols are of German air force aviation objects and defensive systems.

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PWoodhallSpaCM1703.jpg
First is Station Road and the second is Tattershall Road from the Mall. On the night of 16/17 August two parachute mines were dropped destroying the Royal Hydro Hotel and Winter Garden.

Additional information about this item has been kindly…

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NBlythTS170516-010001.jpg
Headline - Stuttgart badly hit, factories ablaze. Internal headlines - hard-pressed Germans, feeling the strain including some pilot accounts. Bombs in centre - fires joined into one, pilots account of fires. Eluded fighter, another would not fire,…

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SValentineJRM1251404v10118.jpg
Britain has demanded through the protecting power a full and immediate report on the shooting after a mass escape of 47 British, Dominion and allied air officers in prison camp Stalag Luft 3. 76 officers escaped on March 22. 15 had been recaptured…

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PCurnockRM17020001.jpg
Plan, head-on, angled and side views of 65 aircraft in use during the war.

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PThomasAF20060030.jpg
Photo 1 and 3 are missing.
Photo 2 is a rear/port side view of a BU 181.

PThomasAF20060029.jpg
Photo 1 is a colour side view of a BU131B
Photo 2 is a starboard side view of a BU 131 incorrectly captioned BU133

PSoltysiakB17010176.jpg
Artwork showing a fat man with resplendent uniform with many insignia, baton, peaked cap and boots with spurs. Captioned 'L/Cpl Goering, the pride of the lootwaffe'. Two versions of the same image, the second submitted with information 'img178'.

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