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Rabbit Mascot
Tags: 630 Squadron; RAF East Kirkby; superstition
Last of the Tail Gun Charlies
Tags: 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); prisoner of war; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Waddington; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Letter from 514 Squadron RAF to Mrs RE Tempest
Tags: 514 Squadron; crash; ditching; killed in action; RAF Waterbeach
Wilsford Airman Missing
Tags: crash; missing in action
Letter from the Air Ministry to Mrs RE Tempest
The letter has the subject heading: "1623526 A.C.1. E.G. ROBINSON" and carries the references: "ROBINSON…
Tags: missing in action
Letter to DJH Maltby to attend an Investiture
Telegram to DJH Maltby
Charles Flint's Royal Air Force Flying Log Book for Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s, Air Gunner’s and Flight Engineer’s
Tags: 115 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1651 HCU; 178 Squadron; 70 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Graveley; RAF Madley; RAF Shallufa; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Warboys; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; Wellington; wireless operator
George Griffiths memoir
Albert Thomas Smith and Violet Mary Ralph's wedding day
Tags: love and romance
Albert Thomas Smith's service record
Squadron congratulations
Churchill's funeral
The greatest Englishman
King George VI
Visit from Princess Elizabeth
Centre right, report of Princess Elizabeth inspecting cooking equipment;
Bottom, viewing kitchen installations.
Right page: top and…
Experimental work
Tags: aerial photograph; Mosquito; RAF Farnborough
Men and missiles
Tags: aircrew; Mosquito; pilot; RAF Farnborough
Luton
VE Day
Middle left, Winston Churchill acknowledging the crowds.
Middle right, crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace.
Bottom, the King, Queen, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret with Winston Churchill on the…
Armaments squadron
Bottom left and right, aerial views of an airfield, annotated '4 pages to do with Bob's work as test pilot Armaments…
Tags: aerial photograph; air sea rescue; aircrew; Halifax; Lancaster; pilot