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Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: RAF Cosford
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Interview with Bob Smith
Interview with Owen Cox
Interview with James Ferguson Latimer
Urlop w Szkocji Joan
Photo 2 is a woman on a bicycle, her left hand on a wall.
Photo 3 is a man and a woman at the entrance to a house.
Photo 4 is the same man and a different woman at the same entrance to a…
Tags: aircrew; animal; entertainment
The Forth & Tay Air Chart, Sheet 3
Tags: navigator
The Eastern Highlands Air Chart, Sheet 5
Tags: navigator
G Cruickshank Memoir
Joined Army – 4th Queen's Own Hussars on 2nd January 1936.
Joined RAF 1938 and trained as balloon operator then applied as air gunner, arriving at RAF Swinderby in December 1941. Took part in 50…
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Abingdon; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
Photographs and memorabilia of Keith Thompson's time at West Freugh and on the OTU
Three photographs are captioned Port Patrick.
One, not captioned is of an aircrew sergeant standing in a country lane.…
Tom Wharmby
Details his military career with the Home…
Interview with Archie Weir
Interview with Arthur Vickers
Interview with Peter Thomas
Interview with Carolyn Pritchard
Interview with Geoff Payne
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Me 109; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner