Browse Items (343 total)
- Temporal Coverage starts with "1945-05"
Lancasters at Juvincourt France awaiting released prisoners of war
Top left - a line of Lancasters parked on the left side.
Top right - a line of Lancasters on the right side.
Bottom left - a line of men at the rear fuselage…
Ivor William Ernest Foster’s flying log book for air gunner
Tags: 1651 HCU; 186 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 85 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Feltwell; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; Wellington
Extracts from Ian Denver's log book
Tags: 156 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 18 OTU; 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Warboys; Tiger Moth; training
Card with Lancaster dropping food parcels
Bremerhaven
Tags: service vehicle
Lancaster and members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Bottom - four members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force in shirtsleeves out side a Nissen hut with a Union flag above and behind. Submitted with description…
Mailly-le-Camp and aircrew
Mulheim/Essen airfield
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour; perimeter track; runway
Emmerich
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of Emmerich with the Rhine running top left to middle right. St. Martini church on near bank and a pontoon bridge across the Rhine. Captioned 'a town on the river…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Bremen
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Hamburg
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of a city showing damaged multi-storey buildings at the bottom. Both submitted with description 'Oblique…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Hamburg
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of a city showing park in centre and main roads running bottom right to left. Damaged buildings in foreground. Both…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Essen
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of industrial site with many damaged…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Two views of Cologne - May 1945
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph with the river Rhine running left to right and buildings including chimneys…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Mudd meals top menus for Yorkshire Canuks
Tags: home front
C McDermott’s flying log book for observer’s and air gunner’s
Joan Layne's diary covering the period her husband Wally was a prisoner of war
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war; the long march
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war; the long march
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war
Three telegram one from the air ministry to M Jenkinson, one with no signature and the other from Philip
Tags: prisoner of war
Pilot - face to face
Tags: 625 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Gneisenau; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; love and romance; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Blyton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Leuchars; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Silloth; RAF St Eval; RAF Watchfield; RAF Worksop; Scharnhorst; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Communication from senior British officer (SBO) to Russian authorities
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag 3A