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PTaylorPR2101.jpg
Peter Taylor in uniform with Observer brevet.

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PWickhamHW19010010.jpg
Menu with bomber aircraft at top and three squadrons named - title 16 days middle east. Several named Mediterranean towns. Signatures on the reverse.

PBirdJH18010087.jpg
A brief newspaper report on an operation at Kalamaki aerodrome, Athens.

PBirdJH18010036.jpg
Handwritten descriptions of two operations. One to lay mines in the River Danube, near Gyor in Hungary and the other to bomb Kalamaki Aerodrome near Athens in Greece.

PBirdJH18010035.jpg
A target photograph for an operation to Salonika (Thessaloniki). Thessaloniki Bay occupies the lower half of the image and the upper right corner is obscured by light traces. The coastline and dock area are visible. There appears to be a ship in the…

PBirdJH18010033.jpg
Descriptions of three operations.
1. describes an operation to Tatoi Aerodrome near Dekeleia, Greece.
2. describes an operation to the marshalling yards at Brescia, Italy.
3. describes an operation to the marshalling yards at Szekesfehervac in…

PBirdJH18010032.jpg
A target photograph taken during an operation to Tatoi Aerodrome, near Athens, Greece. The lower half of the image is obscured by light but hangars and buildings can be seen at the top. The photograph is annotated 'A4' in the top left corner and is…

CPowellNI-191029-010002.jpg
1:1,750,000 map of Balkan peninsula Greece and parts of Turkey and Bulgaria. Two versions of same map, the second with country borders highlighted.

CPowellNI-191029-010001.JPG
1:3,000,000 map of Italy and the Balkans, Greece, Romania and western Turkey. Two versions of same map, second with country borders marked.

PJamesEC16010023.jpg
A small ship being attacked from the air. On the reverse '9-2-44 Katacolon, Greece'.
A second photograph shows a different boat being attacked.

MScottEW188329-170406-05.jpg
Map showing Mediterranean Sea and surrounding countries. Provides a history of of the group who provided the only mobile force of heavy bombers in the Mediterranean theatre. Wellington, Halifax and B-24 acted as a tactical force attacking…

PFOMetheringhamAF19010010.jpg
Top - four officers in Khaki uniform tunics and peaked caps standing in line with a building behind them. Submitted with description 'Four RAF officers in No 6 warm weather service dress uniforms. Left to right: G/Cpt R E Baxter, S/Ldr Jenner, S/Ldr…

MPerkinsFWJ1143173-150917-020001.jpg
Evacuation map for German occupation forces in Greece and Albania, highlighting an area which cannot be evacuated.

Leaflet, distributed by RAF and USAAF, mocks Hermann Göring’s quotation (19th July 1940) in which he praises their good fortune…

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Article 1. Headlines; Mr Churchill's warning to Italy, new offensive from African spring-board, towards a climax in Russia. Article 2. Headiness: Italian mutiny at Piraeus, troops take to brigandage. Italian troops refusing to embark for Africa.…

MMadgettHR147519-190610-01.pdf
A monthly magazine produced by personnel of No 37 Service Flying Training School, Royal Air Force Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Contains message officer commanding and articles on retreat from Greece, religion and local area, a fighter pilot in combat,…

PNealeETH15010034.jpg
A group of eleven men playing football, watched by a referee in full uniform and flat cap and man in football kit. On the reverse 'Football in the shadow of Mt."Imetos" '

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PNealeETH15010031.jpg
A roof top view of Athens with low houses. In the background are low hills and the Parthenon.

PTroglioP18040002.jpg
A man in uniform with arms folded is standing on a river bank. Two lorries can be seen in the background, on a dry river bed. Hills and trees in the distance. On the reverse: 'ricordo del vostro parente Angelo in terra Greca'

MTroglioP[DoB]-180902-01.pdf
Aviere Paolo Troglio joined the Regia Areonautica in 1941. He was posted in Italy, Greece, Albania, Russia where he became a prisoner of war. After his escape he was attached to a Luftwaffe logistic unit and later came back to Milan: he remained…

MBubbGJ1477939-160322-040001.jpg
500 drachmai note. Front depicts a Byzantine coin. On the reverse a church.

MDonaldsonDW70185-150610-05.pdf
Issued in may 1933 to David Donaldson as government official. Stamps for Germany 1934, France 1933, Visas for Romania 1935, Yugoslavia 1935, Bulgaria 1935, Greece 1935, USA 1941.

ACoburnA180509.mp3
Alan Coburn’s father was killed in the First World War when he was one year old and his brother was not yet born. He attended a prep school in London and then Rugby before gaining a degree at Oxford University. The insurance brokerage associated…

NAutonJ170119-02.jpg
A newspaper cutting describing air supply of equipment and munitions of patriots in several countries.
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