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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-11"
Letter concerning third batch of Ceylonese joining the RAF
Tags: aircrew; Asian heritage; C-47; ground personnel; Harvard; navigator; pilot; RAF Kenley; recruitment; Tiger Moth; training
The lucky crew
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; mine laying; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
William Cross' Flights to and from Warsaw
No 617 Squadron and the operation to breach the dams
Pobjeda, November 1944
The first article, "The Foreign Policy of the U.S.A.", is written by U.S. Minister of the Foreign Affairs Cordell Hull. It deals…
Tags: bombing; propaganda
Ted Foster DFM and Lancasters in flight
V Group News, November 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; H2S; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); pilot; radar; rivalry; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Bomber Command No 223 Squadron, RAF Oulton, No 199 Squadron, RAF North Creake
Second is of ten individuals standing and kneeling in front of a…
Summary of Terry Ford's Operations
Tags: 75 Squadron; bombing
Halifaxes
It is annotated 'PL40185'.
Information supplied with the collection identifies the aircraft as 'KW-U' and 'KW-S' and states 'Evocative…
Tags: 425 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; Halifax
Three Halifaxes
On the reverse -
'Tholthorpe
Nov 44
MZ454 KW-S in background
LL596 KW-U in foreground
425 Sqn'.
Tags: 425 Squadron; Halifax; RAF Tholthorpe
Pilot in cockpit
B-25 formation
Vitry
Tags: 226 Squadron; aircrew; B-25
Vitry
Second individual standing by end of a shed, airfield and B-25 in background, captioned 'Gary'.
Third is of four…
Tags: 226 Squadron; aircrew; B-25
B-25s
Tags: 226 Squadron; B-25