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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Kenya"
Central Africa
Top right - view of coast and beach with trees. Captioned 'Mombasa'.
Centre - view of tail of an Avro Tudor. Captioned 'Tudor tail'.
Bottom left - view of the…
Tags: fuelling
Eric Parker's Biography
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 242 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 47 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-29; Blenheim; bomb aimer; C-47; Cornell; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; ground personnel; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; Me 109; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Paignton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; RAF Sywell; RAF Upwood; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Mount Kenya
Tags: aerial photograph; Wellington
Celebration dinner for winners of Nairobi Sub Area Cup January 1946
Front - lists an eleven-man team, three reserves, football officer and football committee. Includes three signatures. On the right a menu for a meal.
On the reverse - left side a list of…
Tags: sport
Halifax bomber tour
Derek's service career
Interview with Roy Monk
Hastie DFC: The Life and Times of a Wartime Pilot
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 157 Squadron; 2 Group; 214 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Bismarck; Botha; C-47; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evacuation; Flying Training School; Gee; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; radar; RAF Banff; RAF Catfoss; RAF Catterick; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Farnborough; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leuchars; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF North Coates; RAF Oulton; RAF Padgate; RAF Prestwick; RAF Riccall; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Thornaby; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Windrush; RAF Woodbridge; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Sam Saunders Final Flights
There are three photographs of his wife.
Interview with Doug Taylor
Tags: 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; RAF East Kirkby; training
Interview with Ian Denver
Henry Wagner's life story. Part one
Tags: 1652 HCU; 51 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; briefing; C-47; Caterpillar Club; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Dulag Luft; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; killed in action; Master Bomber; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; target indicator; target photograph; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley; Window
M A Niman’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Ken Hook's RAF flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers. Two
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Lincoln; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Upwood
Ken Hook's RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book. One
Tags: 12 OTU; 13 OTU; 1651 HCU; 49 Squadron; 75 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Martinet; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dalcross; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Manby; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wittering; Stirling; training; Wellington
Edward Key’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 1657 HCU; 514 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bridlington; RAF Burn; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; training
Group of airmen in front of a Hudson
Sticker on back of photograph 'This photograph must not be reproduced…
Tags: Hudson; RAF Eastleigh
Officers' dance
Sticker on back of photograph 'This photograph must not be reproduced without the written permission of the Air Officer…
Tags: entertainment; RAF Eastleigh