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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-09"
SS Rex on fire
Label reads…
Tags: arts and crafts
British prisoners of war escaping from the Torviscosa camp are helped by civilians
Tags: arts and crafts; escaping; prisoner of war
A dedication to AVM Ekanayake Edward (Rohan) Amerasekera DFC & Bar, R.Cy.A.F
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Graveley; RAF Lissett; training; Whitley; wireless operator
AVM Ekanayake Edward (Rohan) Amerasekera DFC & Bar, R.Cy.A.F.
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Graveley; RAF Lissett; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Letter from Dave Davies to Betty Hughes
Tags: love and romance; RCAF Estevan; training
Letter from Dave Davies to Betty Hughes
Tags: love and romance; RCAF Estevan; training
Book 5, Return to UK
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 1678 HCU; 196 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 30 OTU; 514 Squadron; 623 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Catalina; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fear; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Seighford; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Red Cross; sanitation; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ken Fawcett
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Celestino Chiesa
Camera course notebook
Tags: gremlin; ground crew; ground personnel; superstition; training
To Isabel Bain from British Red Cross Society
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; Red Cross
Luftpost 25 September 1943
Churchill describes the war’s progress in North-West Africa, a springboard to further offensive action, following conferences with…
The prisoner of war, Vol 2, No. 17, September 1943
George Royall's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 166 Squadron; 1667 HCU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; observer; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Mona; RAF Sandtoft; training; Wellington
Bernard Ross' observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 1665 HCU; 296 Squadron; 297 Squadron; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Blenheim; Halifax; Hamilcar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Earls Colne; RAF Hurn; RAF Penrhos; RAF Seighford; RAF Thruxton; RAF Tilstock; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; RAF Cark; RAF Ternhill
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Tags: aircrew; military discipline; RAF Cark; RAF Millom; training