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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1951"
Anne Doward nee Tansley
My Time in the Royal Air Force 1942-1955
Tags: 11 OTU; 1668 HCU; 207 Squadron; 3 Group; 514 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cornell; crewing up; Dominie; flight engineer; Flying Training School; hangar; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bottesford; RAF Greenock; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marham; RAF Methwold; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Spilsby; RAF Sywell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Westcott; recruitment; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Jim Eley and Group of Airmen
Tags: aircrew; Harvard; pilot; RAF Oakington; training
Eight Airmen and Spitfire
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; Spitfire
Jim Eley and Vampire
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF North Luffenham
Letter to Mrs Doreen Ellis from the Imperial War Graves Commission
Harold Dryhurst RAF pilot's flying log book, Two
Tags: aircrew; Anson; Harvard; Lancaster; Mosquito; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Little Rissington; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; Wellington
Leslie Davies observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Castle Bromwich; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
Gordon Mills observer's and air gunner's log book
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1653 HCU; 1657 HCU; 218 Squadron; 26 OTU; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 83 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Martinet; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Horwood; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Penrhos; RAF Shallufa; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waddington; RAF Wing; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Thomas Other Prickett’s pilots flying log book. Three
Tags: 5 BFTS; aircrew; Anson; B-25; British Flying Training School Program; Dominie; Flying Training School; Harvard; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Oxford; P-47; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Finningley; RAF Hullavington; RAF Tangmere; Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Woman, girl and dog
Tags: animal
Model memories of air battle
Tags: 10 Squadron; bale out; evading; Halifax; shot down
Durnbach War Cemetery
Top right - close up of grave crosses with Flight Sergeant PR Jenkinson's in the centre,
Captions 'Durnbach War Grave Cemetery in 1951' and Durnbach War Grave…
Michael Beetham pilot's flying log book. Four
Tags: 214 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; pilot; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Marham; RAF Mildenhall
Jack Jarmy's Photographs 1951
Photo 1 and 2 are captioned 'Negombo - Ceylon'.
Photo 1 is a riverside with canoes.
Photo 2 is a European man in shorts with six native boys, one on a bike.
Photo 3 is a street with palm trees, captioned 'Tripoli -…
Tags: aircrew
Curriculum Vitae Barry Michael Smith
Some days in the life of a production test pilot
Tadeusz Wier flying log book. One
Tags: 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Meteor; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Blyton; RAF Cardington; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hucknall; RAF Hullavington; RAF Newton; RAF Shawbury; Shackleton; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Notes on log books
Tags: crash; RAF Aston Down; RAF Shawbury; Tiger Moth
Large group of men in front of a hangar
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; hangar; pilot
Interview with Ken Souter
Tags: 43 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Martinet; Meteor; pilot; RAF Tangmere; training