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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-12"
Hill Topics Vol. 1 No. 2 December 1943
In Memory of an Airman
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; killed in action; memorial
Interview with Jack Smith
Tags: 189 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Yatesbury; Scarecrow; Stirling; training; wireless operator
Interview with Jim Wildes
Tags: 10 OTU; 206 Squadron; 23 OTU; 31 Squadron; B-17; B-24; C-47; ground personnel; Hampden; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cardington; RAF Halton; RAF Pershore; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Swinderby; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with John David Pennington Cotter
Jim Cahir and crew
Reg Hall Reg Spalding Geo Brett Pat Edwards
Ralph Parsons
Jim Cahir'.
Tags: 4 Group; 466 Squadron; aircrew; RAF Leconfield
Jim Eley
Photo 1 is submitted with caption; “Self Dec. 1943”.
Photo 2 has Jim standing beside a Lancaster tyre and is submitted with caption; “At 514 Sqdn, Waterbeach.”
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; dispersal; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Waterbeach
Joan Layne's diary covering the period her husband Wally was a prisoner of war
John Mitchell - notes for memoire
Tags: 207 Squadron; bombing; forced landing; mine laying
Keith Thompson's diary from July 1943 to January 1944
Kew Gardens, Landram Bay and Tiger Moth
Top right - view across lake of trees. Captioned 'Kew Gardens, Richmond, Oct 43'.
Bottom left - view of a Tiger Moth in a…
Tags: Tiger Moth
Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Letter from Dave Davies to Betty Hughes
Tags: love and romance; RCAF Estevan; training
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Tags: love and romance; RAF Cark
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter to David Donaldson from his brother Ian
Tags: RAF Faldingworth
Letter to Jean Welland from Jack Darby
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; promotion