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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Huntingdonshire"
Bill Eyles and crew
Tags: 35 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Lancaster; Pathfinders; RAF Graveley
Bill Eyles and two other aircrew
Letter to Bill Eyles and certificate for award of pathfinder badge
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Flying diary
Tags: RAF Cranfield; training; Wellington
Biography of Squadron Leader Lighton Verdon-Roe DFC RAFVR -156 (PFF) Squadron
Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Flying Training School; H2S; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Breighton; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
Telegram to Mrs A G Lang
Tags: prisoner of war; RAF Warboys
Two letters - Award of pathfinder badge
Bottom - mentions that Lang was reported missing on 4 May 1943 was permanently awarded the path finder badge.
Letter to Alastair Lang's wife from station commander RAF Wyton
Tags: missing in action; RAF Wyton
Letter from Donald Bennett to Alastair Lang and two newspaper cuttings
Middle - letter congratulates him on award of Distinguished Flying Cross.
Bottom - newspaper cutting announcing award of DFC to Flight Lieutenant Alastair Grant Lang.
The terrible three
Biography of Squadron Leader Alastair G Lang DFC
Tags: 12 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Newton; RAF Warboys; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Biography of Wing Commander P Isaacson AM, DFC, AFC, DFM RAAF and research related to same, part of 156 (PFF) sqn with AG Lang and L Verdon-Roe
Tags: 156 Squadron; 460 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ground personnel; Lancaster; mess; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Lichfield; RAF Warboys; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
XV Squadron photograph
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Wyton; Stirling
My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
The lucky crew
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; mine laying; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Crew and aircraft
35mm slides by Noel Chaffey 620 Squadron of WW2 1943/6 and 1954 onward
Tags: 120 Squadron; 620 Squadron; aircrew; B-25; B-26; Halifax; Horsa; Stirling
Letter to Mrs Wareing from Officer Commanding 582 Squadron, RAF Little Staughton
Tags: 582 Squadron; RAF Little Staughton
Letter to Mrs Wareing from Officer Commanding 582 Squadron, RAF Little Staughton
Tags: 582 Squadron; RAF Little Staughton
Letter to Mrs Wareing from Officer Commanding 582 Squadron, RAF Little Staughton
Letter from Officer Commanding No. 582 Squadron RAF Little Staughton to Mrs Wareing
Tags: 582 Squadron; RAF Little Staughton
Letter from the Officer Commanding 582 Squadron to Mrs Wareing
Letter from the Officer Commanding 582 Squadron to Mrs Wareing
Tags: 582 Squadron; RAF Little Staughton
Memorandum from the Officer Commanding No. 582 Squadron, RAF Little Staughton to the Air Ministry.
Tags: 582 Squadron; RAF Little Staughton