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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Pakistan"
Karachi, New Delhi and southern India
Top right - in the foreground a single storey building with three two storey building behind. Captioned 'Officer's mess and quarters, Mauripur airport,…
Tags: control tower; Raf Mauripur
Tel Aviv, Shaibah and Karachi
Top right - view of secluded garden with trees and building in background. Captioned '"little bit of heaven" at Shaibah, behind officer's…
Tags: animal
John Louis Goldby Biography
Tags: 38 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Anson; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Ford; RAF Henlow; RAF Jurby; RAF Kenley; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Odiham; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Swinderby; RAF Topcliffe; Shackleton; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
Trip to India
Top right - snake charmer with snake in basket.…
Tags: aircrew; animal; pilot; wireless operator; York
Christmas show programme
Tags: entertainment; Raf Mauripur
Christmas eve 1945 menu
Tags: mess; Raf Mauripur
No 2 officers' mess - Christmas dinner menu
Tags: mess; Raf Mauripur
Eric Parker's Biography
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 15 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; 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 Shawbury; RAF Snaith; RAF Sywell; RAF Upwood; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
An account of John Joyner's time in the RAF
Post war his squadron took part in the repatriation of Army personnel from Italy and his unit was in India at around the time…
Sam Saunders Final Flights
There are three photographs of his wife.
Terry Ford at Bournemouth, Calcutta and Karachi
Photo 1 is a Punch and Judy show on Bournemouth beach.
Photo 2 is Terry Ford in khaki and shorts leaning on a chair, captioned 'Mauripur again'.
Photo 3 is five airmen, two sitting on steps and three standing,…
Terry Ford, Cliff and Todge
Photo 1 is Terry Ford in khaki and shorts captioned 'Self outside billet Mauripur'.
Photo 2 are Terry Ford and two men, all in swimming shorts, captioned 'Cliff, Todge and Self'.
Photo 3 is Cliff and Terry Ford.…
Tags: Raf Mauripur
Mauripur, Bholari and Taj Mahal
Photo 1 is accommodation at Mauripur, captioned 'Billets at Mauripur, nr Karachi. Group of Bearers'.
Photo 2 and 4 are oblique aerial photos of the Taj Mahal.
Photo 3 is the starboard side of an Avro York, captioned…
Avro York
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: York
Homer Lawson's Documents
Item 1 is Homer's card from the Karachi Ordnance Officers' Shop.
Item 2 is a slip allowing Homer to wear five medals.
Item 3 is Homer's temporary members card for the Srinagar Club.
Tags: 77 Squadron; aircrew; entertainment
Homer Lawson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Llandwrog; Raf Mauripur; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Maurice Roberts
Tabloid Course 'A' Completion Certificate
Tags: ground personnel; training
John Shipman's 1943 Diary
Tags: B-24; Beaufighter; C-47; entertainment; Hurricane; Mosquito; RAF Locking; Raf Mauripur; sport; Wellington