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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1939"
Ernest Smith's Volunteer Reserve notice paper
Tags: recruitment
Es Reicht Nicht!
Tags: propaganda
Evacuation Why and How?
F A Robinson’s flying log book for pilots. One
Tags: 543 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; Flying Training School; Gneisenau; gremlin; Harvard; Lysander; Magister; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Benson; RAF Cranwell; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hendon; RAF Odiham; RAF St Eval; Scharnhorst; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
First Operation
Tags: forced landing; mine laying; Whitley
Five aircrew climbing aboard a Whitley
Flashbacks 0 to 4
Flashback 1. Mentions first operation on 300 Squadron at RAF Faldingworth. Continues…
Flight Lieutenant Freddie Spencer DFC
Tags: 106 Squadron; 120 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 19 OTU; 630 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; searchlight; training; Whitley
Flying Officer Ron Ward
Page has hand written log of his flights at Empire Air…
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
Front page of The Star newspaper
Tags: bombing
Gallantry in Captivity
George Ellams' early service
Second, seven individuals wearing Sidcot suits, captioned 'Flying Training Feb 1939. North Airfield Cranwell.'
Third sixteen airmen, captioned 'Flight Gang',…
Tags: RAF Cranwell; training
Government evacuation scheme
Tags: evacuation; home front
Government evacuation scheme
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
H W Bennett’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book. One
Tags: 214 Squadron; 27 OTU; 81 OTU; 88 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Boston; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Feltwell; RAF Lichfield; RAF North Coates; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Tilstock; training; Wellington; Whitley