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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Coventry"
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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
Jo Lancaster - Getting kicked out of the VR
Roll of recruits
Tags: aircrew; RAF Cardington; training
Letter to Jo Lancaster from secretary of state for air
Tags: aircrew; military discipline; pilot
Pages from log book
Tags: crash; military discipline; training
Totaler Krieg
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
Letter from Józef Staniewski
Tags: aircrew
1944 continued
Totaler Krieg
Tags: bombing; propaganda
Release certificate
Peggy's identity book
Memories of Past Times
Tags: 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Caterpillar Club; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Oakington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; Tiger Moth; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley
Coventry Cathedral
Tags: faith
Biography of Reg Cleever
Tags: aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; pilot; prisoner of war; shot down
Anthony Frank Barralet
The Offensive Phase
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 169 Squadron; 171 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crash; Defiant; Do 217; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; Me 410; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Downham Market; RAF Farnborough; RAF Foulsham; RAF Little Snoring; RAF North Creake; RAF Northolt; RAF Oulton; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swannington; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; Scharnhorst; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; Tirpitz; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
The Radio War Waged by the RAF Against Germany 1940-1945
Tags: 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; Anson; B-17; B-24; Blenheim; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Do 217; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 52; Ju 88; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; radar; RAF Bawdsey; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Chivenor; RAF Defford; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Oulton; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Prisoner of War Artefacts
#1 is a 10 Reichspfenning note used in the POW camps.
#2 is a Coventry badge with an elephant.
#3 is a metal plate
#4 is a metal badge with a leather strap. It is stamped with Stalag 4B
The four…
Tags: aircrew; heirloom; prisoner of war; Stalag 4B