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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Blackpool"
Branch news
Frank Truswell's service history
Gen's Story
The first part of the memoir talks of the many trials Genek went through both in attempting to rejoin his Polish Air Force unit and, once the Germans overran the country, escape to England.
Ganek…
Tags: 105 Squadron; 106 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; C-47; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; ground crew; hangar; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); killed in action; love and romance; Magister; mess; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Carlisle; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Henlow; RAF Hucknall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Red Cross; searchlight; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 5; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Victor Wells
Tags: aircrew
Notice to Recruit to Rejoin for Service
Tags: aircrew; recruitment
This is ridiculous - we should bale out
Tags: 1667 HCU; 550 Squadron; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Hemswell; RAF Madley; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Staverton; training; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Service documents
Tags: RAF Henlow; RAF Kirkham; RAF Weeton
Conversation with Eric Clarke
Tags: 16 OTU; 23 OTU; 24 OTU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Pershore; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; searchlight; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Dan Nash memoir
Tags: 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 27 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dominie; entertainment; evacuation; Initial Training Wing; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; promotion; propaganda; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Hednesford; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lichfield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Locking; RAF Marham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Pembrey; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; searchlight; service vehicle; sport; Stirling; superstition; target photograph; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Rows of airmen
Tags: Asian heritage; training
Group of airmen
Tags: Asian heritage; training
Springfield House
Tags: Asian heritage; training
Young airman
Tags: aircrew
Newspaper cutting - Battle of Britain men put to scrubbing
Józef Staniewski
On the reverse 'Souvenier [sic] to Reg from Josef'.
There is a second identical copy with, on the reverse 'To Dear Ella with Best Wishes and Kind Regards - from Josef Blackpool 8/XII 1940'.
Tags: aircrew
Three airmen
On the reverse 'To Ella and Reg from [indecipherable] 18th January 1941'
Tags: aircrew
Airman and a woman
Tags: aircrew
Two airmen and a woman
Tags: aircrew
Two airmen
Tags: aircrew
Five airmen including Józef Staniewski and a woman
Tags: aircrew
Józef Staniewski and two women
Tags: aircrew
Funeral, Józef, Ella and Dusky
#1, 2 and 6 are the funeral at Newark.
#1 is annotated 'Funeral at Newark (Ella & Reg 2nd and 3rd from right)'.
#3 is Józef and Ella standing in the back garden of 12 Browning Road Coventry and is annotated.
#4 is…
Tags: aircrew; final resting place
Reg Sharlot, Józef Staniewski and colleagues
#1 is a head and shoulders portrait of Józef Staniewski, annotated 'Souvenir to Reg from Joseph'.
#2 is three airmen, annotated '14.1.41' and 'Blackpool (Reverse on separate sheet)'.
#3 is two airmen annotated 'Joseph…
Tags: aircrew