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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942-07"
Letter from Bill Akrill to Ros and Harry
Bill describes his mounting flying hours during air navigation training and the imminent start of bombing training. He can’t wait to be doing it for real on operations.…
William Holmes memoir - training in Canada
Tags: Anson; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; training
Turner Field, Albany, Ga Book
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; ground crew; Red Cross; sport; training
Sam Saunder's Operations
Photo 1 is a vertical aerial photograph partly obscured by tracer fire.
Photo 2 is the 40 squadron crest.
Photo 3 is Sam in shorts and tee shirt in front of a…
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Keith Thompson's diary December 1941 to July 1942
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Keith Thompson's diary July 1942 to July 1943
Letter from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Officers' School Initial Course no 55, "A" Flight
Scripts of telegrams written and sent by Douglas Hudson to parents from prisoner of war camps
Tags: prisoner of war
Deutsche Massengräber - Warum?
Page 1: Describes how the death and destruction meted out by the Luftwaffe to Germany's neighbours is being more than returned to German cities.
Page 2. Argues that the…
Tags: propaganda
B Flt No 3 Squadron - No 13 ITW
Tags: Initial Training Wing; training
Royal Air Force - guide to service - non commissioned officers
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; target indicator; training; Wellington; Window
Appendix I. Malta dockyard - period of siege 1940-1943
Tags: bombing
Interview with Bert Mason
Book 2, Commencing my Flying Training and my Adventures up till the time of Leaving England
Letter from Dave Davies to Betty Hughes
Tags: RCAF Moncton; 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
From Andrew to Isabel
Tags: entertainment; training
From Andrew to Isabel
Tags: training