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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942-02"
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
Letter concerning third batch of Ceylonese joining the RAF
Tags: aircrew; Asian heritage; C-47; ground personnel; Harvard; navigator; pilot; RAF Kenley; recruitment; Tiger Moth; training
Course photograph and newspaper cutting
Kenneth Gill 1942 Diary
Sam Saunders in Egypt
Photo 1 is HMS Sagitta from the air.
Photo 2, 3 and 4 are Sam working on a lamp.
Photo 5 is Sam playing tennis.
Photo 6 is Sam and colleague in khaki and shorts.
Photo 7 is a letter in…
Tags: 38 Squadron; mine laying; RAF Shallufa; sport; Wellington
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.
Scripts of telegrams written and sent by Douglas Hudson to parents from prisoner of war camps
Tags: prisoner of war
Scoudouc Airfield
Tags: aerial photograph; hangar; training
Three cuttings: Ciano goes, Mr Churchill in Tripoli, Rostov captured
R Purnell Log book extract
Book 1, Commencing My Life in the R.A.F. up till the End of I.T.W.
Tags: aircrew; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; entertainment; faith; ground personnel; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Spitfire; sport; training; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Empire Air Training Scheme
Tags: aircrew; military discipline; Tiger Moth; training
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother and all
Interview with Len Harper
Ice hockey at Stalag Luft 1
Top middle - the backs of men playing ice hockey. In the…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 1