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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943"
Zosia Kowalska Interview
Yehuhi Halifax
It is captioned '"Yehudi" Halifax V DK-226 coded ZL-Y 427 Squadron 6 Group RCAF Leeming Yorkshire 1943'.
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WO Donald Keith Fraser
Tags: 1 Group; 101 Squadron; 1667 HCU; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing up; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; perimeter track; petrol bowser; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Catfoss; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; runway; searchlight; service vehicle; Tiger force; Tirpitz; tractor; training; Window; wireless operator
Wizyta Prezydenta Raczykiewicza w Polskiej Szkole Architektury w Liverpoolu. 1943
Photo 2 is a group of civilians in a classroom.
Item 3 is a note explaining the President's visit.
Photo 4 is Mieczysław Stachiewicz having tea and cake at the reception.
Tags: aircrew
Winston Churchill and group of officers by an Avro York.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson and Group Captain Evans Evans
William Shaw’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 37 Squadron; aerial photograph; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Aqir; RAF Evanton; RAF Shallufa; RAF Yatesbury; target photograph; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; York
William Holmes' Royal Canadian Air Force pilot's flying log book
Tags: 12 OTU; 149 Squadron; 1651 HCU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Methwold; RAF Morecambe; RAF Northolt; RAF Shawbury; RAF Syerston; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; RCAF Moncton; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
William H Cooke’s navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
William Gowland Anderson airman's service and pay book
Tags: RAF Topcliffe
William George Briley's service
Tags: 3 Group; 40 Squadron; Wellington
William George Briley's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
William Akrill
Tags: aircrew
Wedding group in garden
Wedding group in garden
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; love and romance
Wedding day and Clifford and Hilda Watson
Photo 2 is Sergeant Clifford Watson in flying kit.
Photo 3 is Clifford and Hilda…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; love and romance
Was it all a Dream
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 4 Group; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Intelligence Officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Lysander; Master Bomber; medical officer; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bicester; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Brampton; RAF Cosford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kimbolton; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Paignton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; searchlight; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Wartime Halifax operations
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Walter Smith
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; animal
Walter John Smith’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 1661 HCU; 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training
Walter Goodwin’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1661 HCU; 21 OTU; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Wally Layne's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; Dominie; Gneisenau; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Lindholme; RAF Penrhos; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; shot down; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator