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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-09"
Railwayman Giovanni Grillo being executed
Label reads “142”; signed…
Tags: arts and crafts; Resistance
Interview with Frank Mannion
Interview with James McKenzie Leith
Notes for pilots and flight engineers Bristol Hercules engines in Stirlings
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; pilot; Stirling
Interview with Stan Instone
Tags: 1664 HCU; 419 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; strafing; the long march; training
Interview with Eric Horsham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; Master Bomber; military living conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Page from squadron routine orders
Fred Hooker's notes after being shotdown
Page 20/Scanlon/Arnhem/Sept 44
Interview with Ralph Brumwell
Letter from Gordon Lett to Mario Fontana
Tags: Resistance
The prisoner of war, Vol 3, No. 29, September 1944
No 2 P.T. Re-qualifying Course
Tags: physical training; training
Sangatte
463 & 467 Squadron Notes on Ops
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 5 Group; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cook’s tour; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; RAF Waddington; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy
Bert Adams 467 Squadron
Tags: 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Lichfield; RAF Waddington; Stirling; training; Wellington
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Tags: aircrew; home front; pilot; RAF Fiskerton
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Jack Darby to Jean
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; RAF Winthorpe; training