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Missing flyer reported killed
My Time in the Royal Air Force 1942-1955
Tags: 11 OTU; 1668 HCU; 207 Squadron; 3 Group; 514 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cornell; crewing up; Dominie; flight engineer; Flying Training School; hangar; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bottesford; RAF Greenock; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marham; RAF Methwold; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Spilsby; RAF Sywell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Westcott; recruitment; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Native Canadian and two Train Tickets
Item 1 is a photo of a native Canadian standing and wearing traditional costume.
Item 2 is a train ticket from Rivers to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Item 3 is a train ticket from Rivers to Winnipeg.
Tags: First nation
Neepawa News Cuttings
Item 1 shows a Tiger Moth, a ground crew woman and two airmen.
Item 2 is an article about local businesses supporting the RAF. It also describes Commonwealth and British pilots.
Tags: aircrew; Asian heritage; Blenheim; crash; ground crew; Tiger Moth; training
News Sheet No 31 June 1944
News Sheet No 42 May 1945
Newspaper cutting - Sgt Oscar Jensen killed last week on active service
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; wireless operator
Niagara Falls and Winnipeg
Photo 1 is a man and woman. The man is in uniform and is seated. The woman is holding a vase of flowers.
Photo 2 is two photographs joined to make a landscape of Niagara falls.
Photo 3 is seven airmen and a woman at…
Tags: aircrew
No 3 B.A.G.S. So this is McDonald!
Photo 1 is Sam's barracks, captioned 'Main St'.
Photo 2 is the control tower.
Photo 3 and 4 is a road turned to mud. A bulldozer is trying to clear the mud.
No 3 BAGS McDonald
No Failures (Yet)
The photo is annotated -
'1st Graduating Class No 5 Air Observers School
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
March 26 1941'.
Tags: Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; hangar; training
Norman Wilkins certificates of qualification
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: 7 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; Pathfinders; RAF Oakington
North Bay Railway Station, Pavilion Winnipeg and Terry the dog
Postcard 1 is North Bay railway station, Ontario.
Postcard 2 is the Pavilion at Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg.
Item 3 is a photo of a dog's head, captioned
'Terry Shediac. NB'.
Tags: animal
Party at Don Finlayson's House
Photo 1 is a worn out Joe Meadows, captioned 'Joe Meadows at end of course'.
Photo 2 is a group of men and women at the party.
Photo 3 is seven airmen at the party.
Photo 4 and 11 is five men and women at the…
Tags: aircrew
Paulson airfield
Tags: aerial photograph; hangar; runway; taxiway; training
Pilot Officer IC Thomson and Crew
Further annotation reads '24 O.T.U. [indecipherable] 1659 F/O Black'
Pilot Officer JA Kicak and Crew
Portage from Above and Below
Photo 1 is an aerial oblique of Portage and its river.
Photo 2 is a pavement scene of shops and pedestrians.
Photo 3 is a the main street with cars, captioned 'Main Drag'.
Photo 4 is a river with trees on the bank,…
Tags: aerial photograph