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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Zimbabwe--Harare"
Airman on bed in barrack room
Five airmen on Christmas morning
Airman on bed in barrack room
Man with cats
Tags: animal
Tiger Moths Royal Air Force Mount Hampden
Tags: Tiger Moth; training
Civilian Tiger Moth on airfield
Tags: Tiger Moth
Tiger Moth ground collision
Tags: crash; Tiger Moth; training
Tiger Moth ground collision
Tags: crash; Tiger Moth; training
Tiger Moth dismantled and loaded on lorry
Tags: service vehicle; Tiger Moth; training
23 airmen
Tags: Flying Training School; training
Barrack blocks at Royal Air Force Mount Hampden
Royal Air Force Mount Hampden
Tags: training
Harare [entry point]
Interview with Lester Simms
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; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Donald Baker's war time story taken from letters which he wrote to his mother in Rhodesia
Tags: RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Paignton; training
Telegram to parents
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
South Africa prisoners of war in Germany
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3