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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Zimbabwe--Harare"
Three Telegram Forms
The first to Induna from Thornhill advises that Moth D623 arrived.
The second to Thornhill and Cranborne from Induna advises that three Wellingtons left for Cranborne then Thornhill.
The third to Thornhill and…
Tags: Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Newspaper cutting, RAF lost half of all bomber crews
Crew List
D A Robinson’s pilot’s flying log book
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 21 OTU; 26 OTU; 28 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Grantham; RAF Lissett; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wing; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Letter from Rhodesian air training group to Donald Baker's mother
Tags: promotion
Letter from Red Cross to Donald Baker's mother
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Letter from Rhodesian air training group to Donald Baker's parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Red Cross list of articles suitable for inclusion in personal parcels
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Mrs Baker from Red Cross
Tags: missing in action; Red Cross
South Africa prisoners of war in Germany
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Telegram to parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Donald Baker's war time story taken from letters which he wrote to his mother in Rhodesia
Tags: RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Paignton; training
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Lester Simms
Harare [place]
Royal Air Force Mount Hampden
Tags: training
Barrack blocks at Royal Air Force Mount Hampden
23 airmen
Tags: Flying Training School; training
Tiger Moth dismantled and loaded on lorry
Tags: service vehicle; Tiger Moth; training
Tiger Moth ground collision
Tags: crash; Tiger Moth; training
Tiger Moth ground collision
Tags: crash; Tiger Moth; training
Civilian Tiger Moth on airfield
Tags: Tiger Moth
Tiger Moths Royal Air Force Mount Hampden
Tags: Tiger Moth; training