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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1941-04"
D Flight, No 2 Squadron, 3 ITW, April 1941
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
Sgt J R Anyan (Observer) 106 Squadron
Pilot wins D.F.C
Middle and bottom, congratulations to Bob on his award.
Right page; top, title of the Vauxhall Mirror.
Middle, report of Bob's operational career…
My Wartime Memories by Richard Yates
Tags: 19 OTU; 35 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; bale out; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Dominie; Dulag Luft; forced landing; Gneisenau; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; love and romance; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Jurby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Scharnhorst; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Appendix VI- Table of Raids
Tags: bombing
Me - William Roy Peter Perry DFC
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 227 Squadron; 29 OTU; 5 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; B-17; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Course photograph
Tags: training
End Room Tunnellers April 1941
Photo 2 is a group of ten men.
Photo 3 is a group of 13 men.
Photo 4 is a group…
Tags: aircrew; escaping; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
Airmen Prisoners
Photo 2 is a bearded man with a pipe.
Photo 3 is two smiling pilots.
Photo 4 is a man in a sweater holding onto the wire fence.
Photo 5 is two men in shirts, one…
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; pilot; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
Arrival in Barth April 1941
Photo 2 and 4 are 14 men in two rows beside a hut. It is captioned 'May purge from Dulag
Back: Libbey, Stratford, Norton,…
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
No 1 Squadron, D Flight, Aberystwyth
Tags: Initial Training Wing; training
Keith Thompson's very early service
RAF F2150 RAFVR, deferment of call up,
his service number 'ticket' drawn out of a hat and address of someone with a service number fifteen after Keith Thompson's.
Tags: recruitment
David and the RAF
Tags: 100 Group; 149 Squadron; 15 OTU; 156 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 192 Squadron; 3 Group; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; forced landing; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; P-38; Pathfinders; pilot; propaganda; 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; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); target indicator; training; Wellington; Window
Reconnaissance photographs
Telegram to Desmond O’Connell's father from the Royal Air Force
Tags: crash
Air Gunners Qualifying Course No. 4 41 Air School
Tags: aircrew; animal; hangar; Tiger Moth; training
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; love and romance; training