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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Egypt--Cairo"
Sparks in the air - Jack Smith's wartime story
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 189 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military living conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bramcote; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Milltown; RAF Padgate; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Seid Vorsichtig, aber hort mit
Tags: propaganda
Sam Saunders's flying log book
Tags: 128 Squadron; 15 OTU; 16 OTU; 216 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 627 Squadron; 692 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Hudson; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Graveley; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Shallufa; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wyton; RCAF Rivers; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Sam Saunders in Egypt
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are scenes from Cairo.
Photo 4 is a side head and shoulders profile of Sam.
Photo 5 is a Battle aircraft in…
Sam Saunders Final Flights
There are three photographs of his wife.
Sam Saunder's UK Training and Malta
Photo 1 is an informal group photograph with airmen, two WAAFs and three dummies.
Photo 2 is an air-to-air view of a Wellington.
Ronald Saunders memoir
Tags: 114 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-26; Boston; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Dominie; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Madley; RAF Weston-on-the-Green; RAF Yatesbury; training; wireless operator / air gunner
RAF Receipts
The first is for £40 sent to his mother. The other three are for messing in Helmieh camp, Cairo.
Tags: mess
RAF Gun-Runners Drop Complete Offices to Balkan Patriots
Tags: aircrew; B-24; Halifax; propaganda
People, places and aircraft. Egypt and Sudan
Top right - flying boat airborne above a river with trees on left bank. Captioned 'BOAC…
Tags: mess; military living conditions; P-40
People, aircraft and places
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…
Tags: aircrew; animal; Tiger Moth; training
People places and aircraft
Top middle - Five aircrew wearing khaki uniform standing in front of the fuselage of an aircraft. Captioned 'Crew with…
Tags: aircrew; B-24; wireless operator
People and places Nigeria and Egypt
Top middle - two airmen wearing khaki uniform and shirts squatting with vehicles in the background. Captioned 'with Bisley convoy at Yola, Nigeria in 1942'. Top right -…
Tags: aircrew
People and places
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; wireless operator; York
Partial letter about leave in Palestine
Norman Powell by B-24
Tags: aircrew; B-24; flight engineer
Norman Powell by B-24
Tags: B-24
My War Story
Tags: 22 OTU; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; lynching; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elvington; RAF Gaydon; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Inverness; RAF Manston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Red Cross; sanitation; service vehicle; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force