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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1940"
144 Squadron at RAF Hemswell
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Tags: 144 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Hampden; hangar; observer; pilot; RAF Hemswell
205 Group Royal Air Force
Tags: bombing
205 Group Royal Air Force Battle Honours
37 Squadron Wellingtons
Middle an air-to-air view of a Wellington D-LF N2992 showing ventral dustbin turret, with open countryside below.
Bottom an air-to-air…
Tags: 37 Squadron; Wellington
460 Squadron unofficial history
Tags: 460 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton
601 City of London Fighter Squadron Hendon 1939
Tangmere-Hawkinge-Manston -1940-Middle Wallop - Merville, France -Tangmere'.
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 1668 HCU; 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Boston; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; final resting place; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; grief; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
A large group of airmen in front of a building
Tags: training
A memoir of life in the WAAF during the war
Tags: 105 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 2 Group; 427 Squadron; 429 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Leeming; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Air alarms log 10 June 1940 - 31 August 1943
Tags: bombing; civil defence
Aircraft histories of Tiger Moth aircraft flown by Denis Clyde-Smith
Airmen at RAF Cranwell
Bottom left - a group of airmen wearing tunics sitting and standing by a brick building. Captioned Cranwell 1937'.
Right - portrait of eight…
Tags: RAF Cranwell
An account of John Joyner's time in the RAF
Post war his squadron took part in the repatriation of Army personnel from Italy and his unit was in India at around the time…
Appendix I. Malta dockyard - period of siege 1940-1943
Tags: bombing
Appendix VI- Table of Raids
Tags: bombing
Application for temporary release
Tags: 100 Group; 149 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 3 Group; 57 Squadron; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Evanton; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Warboys; RAF West Raynham; training; Wellington
Arnold Louis Christian's Biography
Tags: 104 Squadron; 105 Squadron; 13 OTU; 207 Squadron; 218 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; Flying Training School; Halifax; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Debden; RAF Grantham; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Netheravon; RAF Sealand; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; training
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