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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Somerset"
28 airmen
Tags: aircrew; RAF Locking; training
20 Trainee Airmen
Tags: RAF Locking; training
27 Trainee Airmen
Tags: RAF Locking; training
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
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Interview with Eric William Harrison
Tags: 1653 HCU; 195 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; fear; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hullavington; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Locking; RAF Manby; RAF St Athan; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Service life
Tags: RAF Cosford; training
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 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; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Interview with John Green
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; bomb disposal; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; shot down; training; Wellington
Eric Horsham Flight Engineer
Arthur Norman Hollis’ Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); C-47; Flying Training School; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; mid-air collision; mine laying; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Turweston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wattisham; RAF Westcott; Stearman; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Harold Warren's note book
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; training
Interview with Jack Harris. Three
Andrew Bain in Army uniform
Tags: training
Jim Allen’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 15 OTU; 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; 578 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Banff; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Burn; RAF Estevan; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Paignton; RAF Rufforth; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Ernest Smith's pilot’s flying log book. Three
Tags: 12 Squadron; 144 Squadron; Anson; Hampden; Lancaster; Magister; Oxford; RAF Hemswell; RAF Wickenby; training; Wellington
Ernest Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; mine laying; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Finningley; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wickenby; training; Wellington
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 Cottesmore; 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
Interview with Elizabeth Anne Tyler
Interview with Richard William Lambert
Tags: 101 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; entertainment; flight engineer; ground crew; Initial Training Wing; pilot; RAF Cosford; RAF Credenhill; RAF Hednesford; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirton Lindsey; RAF Lindholme; RAF Locking; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Ternhill; RAF Thorney Island; Tiger Moth; training