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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "France--Versailles"

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A group of airmen and WAAFs positioned in front of the Palace of Versailles.
On the reverse 'Afternoon Thursday 11th July '46 Versailles'.

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Left page - a group of people walking down steps. Captioned 'Photo by Miss Webb coming down the steps at Versailles towards the palace, very hot all the time'.
Right page - a group standing in street outside a building. Captioned 'Outside our hotel…

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Left page. Top left - a group of people standing in line looking over parapet of a bridge. Top right - three people lying on grass in a park. Caption for both 'The day at Fontainbleau - left looking over from a bridge, right - sunbathing, very…

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Left page. Left - a view of fountain and wide path leading to palace. Centre - building across open paved square. Right - view through Arc de Triomphe. Captioned 'Left - from the steps at Versailles. Below - Versailles palace. Right - L'Arc de…

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A list of 129 Lancasters lost on 79 operations between September 1943 and April 1945. Target, date and aircraft tail numbers are listed in chronological order.

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Postcard showing view across ornamental pool of a three storey palace building. On the reverse '243 Versailles, Façade sur Parc (Midi), Front on the Park (Midi)'

LBlanchardJW1321435v1.pdf
Partial pilots flying log book for J W Blanchard, covering the period from 14 April 1944 to 14 August 1944. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Lindholme, RAF Hemswell, and RAF Kirmington. Aircraft flown in…

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Expresses sympathy over news of Sergeant Henry Simpson who was flight engineer of an aircraft that failed to return from an operation to Versailles.

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Informing his that his son was missing as a result of air operations on night 7/8 June 1944 when his Lancaster in which he was flight engineer failed to return.

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Photo 1 is the bedchamber of Louis XIV.
Photo 2 is the mill in the hamlet built for Marie-Antoinette.
Photo 3 is the chamber of war.
Photo 4 is the anteroom of the Queen's state apartments.
Photo 5 is the Royal Court with the Marble Court of…

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Night oblique aerial photograph showing a town with flares top centre. On the reverse 'Cam 1, Neg 1, 10.4.44, 150, St Cyr Airpark, 617,S/Lfr Munro, Lancaster, 0200,orbiting,10000/6000'.

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Oblique aerial photograph showing an object on fire in the centre. On the reverse 'Can 2, Neg 1, Ops 150, St Cyr airpark, 10.4.44, 617, spot bursts, [...], Lancaster, 0200, orbiting, 10000/6000, 51/44'.

AEdwardsAE161024.mp3
Allan joined the Royal Air Force in December 1942 as a flight engineer, having been a member of the Air Training Corps before the war. From Blackpool, he went to RAF St Athan for flight engineer training. His first squadron was at RAF Waterbeach,…
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