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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Egypt--Cairo"

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Menu with bomber aircraft at top and three squadrons named - title 16 days middle east. Several named Mediterranean towns. Signatures on the reverse.

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Title 'at Mena'.
Top left - three airmen in front of pyramid. Captioned 'outside Mena hotel; (the road leading to pyramids)'.
Top right - three airmen wearing khaki uniform and side caps with pyramid in the background.
Bottom - view from inside…

LCrampinDE2206941v1.pdf
D E Crampin’s Wireless Operator’s Flying Log Book covering the period 15 October 1943 to 24 March 1953. Detailing his flying training and operations flown as Wireless Operator. He was stationed at RAF Yatesbury (2 Radio School), RAF Evanton (8…

LStewartEC87436v1.pdf
Pilots flying log book for E C Stewart, covering the period from 2 July 1940 to 25 November 1944. Detailing his flying training, instructor duties and operation flown. He was stationed at RAF Sywell, RAF Cranwell, RAF Ansty, RAF Walsgrave, RAF…

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List of deficiencies on arrival from the UK. No rank and name filled out.

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From YMCA HQ MEF Cairo. Receipt for parcel from Mrs M Powell.

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An airman wearing khaki uniform with sergeant rank standing under the tail of a B-24. Another B-24 in the background.

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An airman wearing khaki uniform with sergeants rank standing under the tail of a B-24. Another B-24 in the background. On the reverse 'Myself by the aircraft at Cairo West, 12:7:45'. Two versions of the same image.

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Outline street map with number locations.

BTaylorJTayorJv1.pdf
An autobiography of Jim Taylor's time in the RAF before the war. He spent time training with Oliver Bell, who is recorded in the memoir.

LHitchcockJS740899v1.pdf
J.S. Hitchcock’s RAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 25 April 1941 to 28 June 1941, detailing flights as a Transport Command pilot based in Egypt. Very short logbook, includes a summary record of service from 4/12/37 onwards. The last entry reads:…

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A bill for the use of an apartment at the hotel. The bill is owed by three airmen - R Smerdon, J Hitchcock and D Mitchell.

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The telegram acknowledges receipt of some money and expresses sorrow at his injury.

PPerryWRP17050021.jpg
Top left - distant line of Tiger Moths parked on snow covered airfield.
Top centre - Two airmen wearing khaki uniform and side caps standing on a path.
Top right - view across square. Ibrahim Al Lakani, El-Montaza, Heliopolis.
Middle left - and…

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Top left - view across city with mosques and minarets. Captioned 'The Mosque Mohamed Ali, Cairo'.
Top right - mosque with two minarets bottom left with city wall beyond and large mosque with two minarets in the distance. Captioned 'The citadel…

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Top left - a man standing in doorway with blanket fraped round him. Captioned 'Freddy at Cairo west'.
Top right - three men floating in a swimming pool with other bathers in pool and poolside on other side of the pool. Captioned 'Heliopolis pool,…

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Top left - view of airport terminal building in the distance. Bottom of the nose of an Avro York top right. Captioned 'Terminal building, Almaza airport, Cairo'.
Top right - five RAF officers, all wearing tunics and four with peaked caps standing…

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PPerryWRP17050002.jpg
Top left - side view of a York parked on hardstanding, captioned 'Avro York (Almaza Airport, Cairo)'.
Bottom right - view of Ibrahim Al Lakani, El-Montaza, Heliopolis. Multi-story building with minaret tower across square with palm trees. Captioned…

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LNimanMA137571v1.pdf
M A Niman’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book, from 6th August 1941 to 2nd May 1945, detailing operations and instructional duties in the UK, Middle East and East Africa as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner and “Special…
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