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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1940"
Flight Lieutenant Graham Martin and Primula Rollo
Obituary: Harold Yeoman
Pilot Officer Owen Meredith Clement Jones DFC
Two notes giving biographic details and record…
Tags: 1662 HCU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Drem; RAF Hemswell; RAF Seighford; RAF Torquay; shot down; training
Eulogy for Philip Jenkinson
Describes early life, joining the RAF, training and joining 10 Squadron as mid-upper gunner on Halifax. Was shot down during operation to Munich on 6/7 September 1943. After evading was capture and prisoner of war until April 1945. Goes…
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; evading; Halifax; memorial; prisoner of war; shot down; training
Eulogy for Philip Jenkinson
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; evading; Halifax; memorial; prisoner of war; shot down; training
Forty-three airmen
Tags: aircrew; training; wireless operator
RAF Cosford in 1939 and 1940
The first is of two apprentices sitting on a raised bank, captioned 'Armourer Brown and armourer Smith'.
Second is of a vehicle…
RAF Penrhos accomodation
First is of the accommodation huts.
The second is of the interior of Peter's hut.
The third is of Peter standing outside his hut.
RAF Penrhos hangars and aircraft
The first shows some of the buildings bordering the grass airfield, with the station flag pole in the foreground, aircraft in the background.…
Tags: hangar; RAF Penrhos
No 45 Course photograph
Draft history
Officers' Training School, Crawford
Photo 1 is of two squads of marching men with bell. To one side are bell tents and behind are low hills.
Photo 2 is taken from a hillside looking down on many…
144 Squadron at RAF Hemswell
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Tags: 144 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Hampden; hangar; observer; pilot; RAF Hemswell
C Flight Elementary Flying Training School, Brough
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; training
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
Cutty Sark, HMS Victory and bomb damage at John Lewis
Photos 5, 6, 7 and 8 are bomb damage to John Lewis store in Oxford Street, London.
Tags: bombing
Arthur Thomas and Friends
Photo 2 is man sitting on a fence.
Photo 3 is a man sitting on a tractor.
Photo 4 is a man sitting on a fence.
Photo 5 is a man standing on a brick wall.
These five images are captioned '1938 Cecil William Reid &…
Tags: Gneisenau; killed in action; Scharnhorst
Whitley and Crew
Photo 2 is eight airmen in flying kit standing in the snow at the nose of a Whitley, captioned 'Jim & Crew pre take off 1941'.
Tags: 77 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Topcliffe; Whitley
Jim Tyrie in a Whitley
Tags: aircrew; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; training; Whitley
Jim Tyrie, Hart and Oxford
Photo 2 is Jim Tyrie at the controls of an aircraft, captioned 'Oxford Cranwell 1940'.
Photo 3 is a rear/side view of an Oxford, captioned 'Cranwell 1940'.
Tags: aircrew; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cranwell; training
Jim Tyrie
Tags: 10 OTU; 4 Group; 77 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; C-47; Dulag Luft; escaping; Flying Training School; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Chivenor; RAF Cranwell; RAF Shawbury; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watton; RAF Worksop; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley