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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942-10"
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
Trevor Saint diary/memoir
Tags: 514 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; RAF Brackla; RAF Cardington; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halton; RAF Henlow; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-2; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; aerial photograph; 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 Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Sam Saunders in Egypt
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are scenes from Cairo.
Photo 4 is a side head and shoulders profile of Sam.
Photo 5 is a Battle aircraft in…
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…
Operational history of Lancaster 1B R5868
Tags: 467 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Lancaster; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon
Scripts of telegrams written and sent by Douglas Hudson to parents from prisoner of war camps
Tags: prisoner of war
18 aero-modellers
Tags: arts and crafts
British prisoners in chains
Tags: prisoner of war
Wyciag z ksiegi strat Dywizjonu 301 w okresie maj – listopad 1942
Business card for P/O Harry William Bock, Polish Air Force.
Tags: 301 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; pilot; RAF Hemswell
Polish Newspaper Cuttings about 301 Squadron
Item 2 is a Mess bill for Mieczysław Stachiewicz.
Item 3 and 7 are photographs of ground crew working on a Wellington.
Item 4 is a newspaper cutting about 301 Squadron and Polish…
Tags: 301 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; mess; RAF Hemswell; Wellington
Book 3, Commencing my Adventures Overseas
Book 2, Commencing my Flying Training and my Adventures up till the time of Leaving England
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Provides a detailed description of his and others experiences…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Continuing letter on following day, they have no started their…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his sister
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
William Holmes memoir - training in Canada
Tags: Anson; RAF Bowden; training
John Blair and Leo Balderamos
Caption: 'John Blair (left) and Leo Balderamos of Belize on the Empire State Building, New York, in October 1942'.
Keith Thompson's diary July 1942 to July 1943
Pilot's Flying Log Sheet
Tags: aircrew; pilot; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
History of RAF Foulsham
Tags: 180 Squadron; 98 Squadron; B-25; RAF Foulsham