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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942-04"
Aerial Photographs, Canada
#1 is a city with a river.
#2 is a city at the side of a river.
#3 is a city with a regular grid street pattern and a river under the wing of an aircraft.
#4 is Montreal with three bridges crossing the St…
Tags: aerial photograph; training
Aerial Photographs, Canada
#1 is a view across forests and a town.
#2 is a city, islands and bridges.
#3 is a pilot at the controls of an aircraft.
#4 is a grid street with a river under the wing of an aircraft.
Captioned 'MAR 1942'…
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; pilot; training
Charles (Dick) Pattisson Pocket Diary 1942
Tags: 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; Beaufighter; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; entertainment; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; killed in action; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; missing in action; prisoner of war; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Croft; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; Stalag Luft 3; Wellington
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; sport; Wellington
Scripts of telegrams written and sent by Douglas Hudson to parents from prisoner of war camps
Tags: prisoner of war
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; 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
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Tags: faith; military service conditions; training
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Mentions air raid warning but no…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Aus der letzten April - Woche 1942
Extract from Ludendorff’s…
Le Courrier de l'Air #15
Keith Thompson's diary December 1941 to July 1942
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Lancaster parked on grass
Tags: 50 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Keith Dexter's decorations
Tags: 103 Squadron; killed in action; Lancaster
Aus der letzten April-Woche 1942 (From the last week in April 1942)
In last week of April 1942, Luftwaffe and RAF bombing are compared as well as Hitler’s announcement now and from 1941. Contrasting statements from American (R F Watt) and German (Sauckel) on availability of workers.
Extract from…
Reginald George Cavalier
Photographs 2, 4, and 6 are Reginald George Cavalier in uniform in various poses.
Photograph 3 is Reginald…