Browse Items (33 total)
- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1941-12"
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; entertainment
Picton, Ontario
Tags: training
Keith Thompson's diary December 1941 to July 1942
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Christmas meals at Stalag Luft 1 and Dulag Luft
Top right - a large number of prisoners of war sitting at several long tables all looking at camera. Captioned 'B37 Christmas 1940, Dulag Luft'.…
Tags: Dulag Luft; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
Christmas pantomime Stalag Luft 1 and Dulag Luft
Top right - actor dressed as a witch on stage. Captioned…
'Jack and the Beanstalk' - Stalag Luft 1
Top right - head and shoulders image of two actors dressed in bonnets.…
Gordon Cruickshank life on squadrons 1940-1944
Tags: 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Pathfinders; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Felixstowe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; searchlight; training
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Clifford Watson in tropical dress wth a Tiger Moth
Tags: Tiger Moth; training
South Africans December 1941
Photo 2 is one man standing in the snow, captioned 'McGarr '41'
Photo 3 is two men standing in the snow.
Photo 4 is eight men standing in the snow.
Photo 5 is four men around a table, playing backgammon,…
Letter to Douglas Hudson
Tags: prisoner of war
Scripts of telegrams written and sent by Douglas Hudson to parents from prisoner of war camps
Tags: prisoner of war
The Aircraftman
The cover shows a stylised airman holding up a twin engined aircraft.
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; training
Sam Saunder's UK Training and Malta
Photo 1 is an informal group photograph with airmen, two WAAFs and three dummies.
Photo 2 is an air-to-air view of a Wellington.
Post card from Donald Baker to his mother
The memoir of Eric William Scott
Tags: 142 Squadron; 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; Flying Training School; Harvard; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Watchfield; recruitment; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stearman; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington