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Postcard from Donald Baker to Uncle Jack
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 1
Peter Lovatt, Gwen and Wendy
Photo 1 is Gwen & Wendy on a beach, captioned 'Gwen & Wendy 1949'
Photo 2 is Peter sitting on a rock on a beach, captioned 'Self Watchet 1947'.
Photo 3 is Gwen in WRNS uniform seated on a bench with a dog.
Photo 4…
Tags: animal
No 63 Course 3 FIS Lulsgate Bottom
Below is…
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; training
Michael Beetham's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; pilot; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Desford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Morton Hall; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
List of letters
List of James Lee's crew
Tags: aircrew; killed in action
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Letter from Pat Hogan to Eileen Hogan
Tags: bombing
Letter from John Valentine to father of his pilot
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: RAF Bridgnorth; training
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: RAF Upper Heyford; training
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Len Jones and an Atlantic convoy
Photos 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are ships forming up for a 1941 convoy from Boston. The photographer is Arthur's friend Cecil Reid.
Tags: civil defence; Home Guard
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
John, Sarah and Emily Thomas
The third photo is wife of Charles Thomas.
All are family members of Arthur Thomas.
Tags: love and romance
John L Kennedy’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 192 Squadron; 20 OTU; 26 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Martinet; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; radar; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF South Cerney; RAF Torquay; RAF Wing; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington