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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1942-07"
Letter from Bill Akrill to Ros and Harry
Bill describes his mounting flying hours during air navigation training and the imminent start of bombing training. He can’t wait to be doing it for real on operations.…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Now senior course so lots of cross country flights. Dropped his first bombs, which he describes in some detail. Continuing with…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his aunt
Bill says he enjoyed his last leave, although he mentions that the nearby aerodrome is expanding and aircraft going overhead. He did, however, managed to get a trip in an…
Day raid on Danzig. U-boat yards bombed. 1,700 miles through storms
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Lancaster; searchlight; submarine
David Boldy memorial plaque
Tags: killed in action; memorial
Foulness Island war memorial
Strong force raid Hamburg
Arthur Wright in sidcot suit
Tags: aircrew
Letter to Mr & Mrs Wright from Arthur Wright
Tags: training
Man standing by Devil's cataract
Tags: ground personnel
Middleton St George
Photographs 2 and 3 are of a group of airmen watching a 4000 lb bomb being lifted on slings. Captioned '1000 lb…
Paolo Troglio walking a dog and a duck
15-7-43
il mio cagnolino e un'oca'
Tags: animal
Photographs in wallet
Tags: love and romance
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Frances Valentine
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Ursula and Frances Valentine in garden
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Leslie Valentine
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Ann Valentine
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Fayid, Egypt
Three photographs, first is of nine servicemen in front of lorry,…