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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1942-12"
SS Olterra being used as an undercover base for manned torpedoes
Label reads “74”; signed by the authors; caption reads…
Tags: arts and crafts
Italian Army in Russia
Tags: arts and crafts
Letter to his sister from Ellis Edwards
Letter to his sister from Ellis Edwards
Tags: RAF Lossiemouth
This is why I joined the RAF
Air to ground photographs
Top right caption 'V =…
Caen-Carpiquet, Den Helder, Morlaix and unidentified canal
Top right an…
Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
Peter Hattersley's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Hampden; Harvard; Hudson; Lysander; Magister; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Upavon; RAF Waddington; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Davis
Tags: 49 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; faith; fitter airframe; Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; RAF Scampton; RAF Winthorpe; superstition; training
Denis Clyde-Smith wedding
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; pilot
Interview with Phillip Winter
Paolo Troglio holding puppy
Tags: animal
Letter from Dec Dexter to Phyllis Dexter
Albert Cluett's weapons notebook
Tags: ground personnel; training
De Wervelwind
Tags: bombing; propaganda
Interview with James William Birchall
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; lynching; Me 109; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Seighford; RAF Wickenby; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Grade Card and Approval to enlist in RAFVR
Item 2 is a letter enlisting Roy Maddock-Lyon into the RAFVR, dated 29th June 1943.
Tags: aircrew; recruitment
Interview with Harold Stanley Gardner
Two years in Prison Camp - airman's ordeal in Tunisia
Tags: escaping; prisoner of war
Interview with Richard Hollis
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 BFTS; 50 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; civil defence; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; searchlight; training; Wellington
Letter of condolence from Doris to Mr Moth
Tags: faith; grief; killed in action
Telegram to Harry Brooks' wife from Officer Commanding 9 Squadron
Tags: 9 Squadron; killed in action