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Graduation Dance and Manu
Photo 1 is a ticket for the Graduation Dance.
Photo 2 is the cover of the menu for the Graduation Dinner.
Photo 3 is the menu and events for the 'Graduation Grub'.
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; navigator; training
H J Wylde's flying log book for aircrew other than pilot. Two
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 26 OTU; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Little Horwood; RAF Millom; RAF Oakley; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Westcott; RAF Wing; RCAF Rivers; Stirling; training; Wellington
H W Bennett’s RCAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Two
Based at RAF Brough (No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School), RCAF Station Neepawa (No. 35 Elementary Flying Training…
Tags: 27 OTU; 81 OTU; 88 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Flying Training School; Harvard; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Aqir; RAF Brough; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Shawbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Halifax 'Beryle'
The nose art is a cartoon of a woman, painted 'Tak Yer Time I'm Easy'. 56 bombs are painted on. Under the cockpit is 'Beryle'.
There is a…
Hedley Madgett diary 1941
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; Harvard; pilot; training
Interview with a navigator from 101 Squadron
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; coping mechanism; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Wymeswold; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Gerald Taylor
Interview with Herbert James Wylde
Interview with John Benjamin Beeching
Tags: 100 Group; 169 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Beaufighter; bombing; Gee; Mosquito; Oxford; P-51; pilot; radar; RAF Twinwood Farm; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Lawrence Larmer
Tags: 1658 HCU; 27 OTU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Martin Arthur Catty
Tags: 3 Group; 514 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; entertainment; evacuation; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Manchester; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waterbeach; sanitation; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Maurice William Marriott
Tags: 110 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 21 OTU; aircrew; Anson; C-47; crewing up; forced landing; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Harrogate; RAF Leicester East; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Rivers; training; Wellington
Interview with Norman Edward Wilkins
Interview with Ralph Freeman
Interview with Ralph Wild
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hurricane; Intelligence Officer; love and romance; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Weald; Spitfire; training
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
Interview with Roland Spencer Williams
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Mepal; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakley; RAF Padgate; RAF Westcott; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with William Frederick Chubb
Jack Crawford's trip book
Tags: 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; Catalina; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; RAF Barford St John; RAF Coningsby; RAF Scampton; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner