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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Algeria--Algiers"
Army history of cadet Ensign Margaret Pratt and Sergeant Charles Ward
Interview with Charles and Margaret Ward
Interview with Stanley Clegg
He signed up for the Royal Air Force at the age of 18 in December 1941 and was…
Interview with Raymond Barrett
Interview with Gerald Walter Bell
Sergeants' Mess RAF Maison Blanche Xmas Menu 1945
Tags: mess; military living conditions
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Pilot to Navigator - Where are we?
Tags: 100 Group; 4 Group; 425 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; evading; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; military service conditions; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cosford; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Manston; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Sunderland; target indicator; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; sport
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross