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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Leicestershire"
Wedding and WAAF's
Top right, six wedding guests including a man and woman in uniform. Middle left, wedding party.
Middle right, the…
Ted Thornhill's Lancaster
List of aircraft flown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 463 Squadron; Anson; B-29; Bolingbroke; bombing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Conversion courses
Left - wedding photograph a full length image of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet and holding peaked…
Operations
Right - document titled "The Reckoning". Giving details of bomber commands sorties, aircraft and…
Tags: 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-38; prisoner of war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Service history
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Wretham; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wittering; RAF Wymeswold; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Wounded in Normandy
Ivor Cole
Tags: aircrew; wireless operator
Ivor Cole
A second photograph is a half length portrait of the same…
Tags: aircrew; wireless operator
Asfordby Airman Missing
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; navigator
Newspaper cutting - Bennerley boy awarded DFC
Newspaper cutting - Leicester DFC 10-Ton mission
Four Airmen including Herbert Davy
On the reverse '? Joe Slack Tom Birch H.D. Ron Rainbird Castle Donnington 1944.'
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; RAF Castle Donington
Flight Log to Stuttgart
Tags: aircrew; bombing; incendiary device; navigator