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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943"
Last of the Tail Gun Charlies - Ronald Carter's Biography
At the age of 17, Ronald volunteered to join the Royal Air Force in November 1942. After basic training, Ronald was selected for gunnery and wireless operator training, becoming…
Tags: 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Caterpillar Club; crewing up; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); prisoner of war; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Ringway; RAF Waddington; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Bertie Salvage
Interview with Charles Avey
Interview with Wilf Keyte
Tags: ground personnel; RAF Henlow; RAF Swinderby
Interview with Peter Scoley
Jack with aircrew and family
A group of 13 uniformed airmen arranged in two rows outside an open window in a tile fronted building. Seven standing all with half caps and six seated in front, including two officers. The individuals are annotated, from the top…
Aircraft in flames
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; crash; killed in action
P R Taylor’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Bill Foskett’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. (Log Book 1)
Served at RAF Shellingford, Souther Field USA, Cochran…
Three Halifaxes in Flight
On the reverse 'Not[underlined] a nice way to fly 1943 10 Squadron Property of Ivan Ure [redacted].
Tags: 10 Squadron; Halifax
Stevenage Airmen Missing
Telegram to John Taplin's Parents from RAF
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; prisoner of war
Some memories of the war
Joseph Forster Mills flying log book
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Northolt; RAF Saltby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Staverton; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Ivan Ure's prisoner of war diary
Special Order of the Day by Air Chief Marshall Sir A.T. Harris
Gordon Dennett and Ruth
#1 is a half length portrait of Gordon, in uniform.
#2 is a near full length portrait of Gordon, in uniform.
#3 is Gordon, in uniform, and Ruth sitting on a grassy bank.
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Tags: aircrew
Bawtry Hall 1942- Hut 7
History of Malta Dockyard During War
Tags: bombing
Appendix I. Malta dockyard - period of siege 1940-1943
Tags: bombing