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Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Interview with Rob Carter
Interview with Reg Harrison
Tags: 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bombing; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; FIDO; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; love and romance; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Carnaby; RAF Croft; RAF Dishforth; RAF Gamston; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Memoirs of Des Matthews
Letter to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
Tags: missing in action; promotion
Royal Air Force volunteer reserve postponement of calling up for service
Tags: RAF Padgate; recruitment
Eric Horsham Flight Engineer
National Service letter for Dennis Raettig to attend medical
Tags: recruitment
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1678 HCU; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Andreas; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Croughton; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Memories of War
Royal Air Force volunteer reserve form of application for enlistment for five years' service for flying duties
Tags: recruitment; training
Letter to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
Tags: bombing; missing in action
Telegram to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
Tags: killed in action; Red Cross
Letter to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
Tags: killed in action; Red Cross
Letter to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
Tags: killed in action
Malcolm Staves' Grade Card
Tags: recruitment
The Prisoner of War February 1945
Letter to Dennis Raettig requesting he complete form 1764
Tags: recruitment