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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1941"
A few impressions of WW2
Tags: evacuation; home front; shelter
Thea Colemen - my story 1940-1945
No 2 Course Elementary Flying Training School Clyffe Pypard 1941
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106 Squadron Badge with signatures
Royal visit and Wing Commander Baxter
Royal visit to RAF Bircham Newton
Flight Lieutenant Graham Martin and Primula Rollo
Mrs Mudd's café - some notes about the signatures
Two newspaper cuttings
Right - Notified of award of Distinguished Flying Cross, some biographic…
Extracts from Alastair Lang's pilot's flying log book
C McDermott’s flying log book for observer’s and air gunner’s
Interview with Reg Harrison
Tags: 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bombing; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; FIDO; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; love and romance; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Carnaby; RAF Croft; RAF Dishforth; RAF Gamston; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Roy Chadwick - no finer aircraft designer - Part 2 (draft)
Roy Chadwick - no finer aircraft designer - volume 1 (draft)
Harold Yeoman’s pilot’s flying log book
Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…
Tags: 5 Group; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; Guinea Pig Club; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator
L Valentine’s pilots flying log book. One
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
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
Peter and Penelope Jenkinson
Tags: civil defence; Home Guard
Isabel Jenkinson
Tags: home front
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