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  • Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-12"

Five Group Newsletter, number 29, December 1944. Includes a foreword by the Air Officer Commanding, and articles on tactics, operations, gardening, signals, navigation, this month's bouquets, radar navigation, air bombing, engineering, training,…

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Seven photographs from an album.
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are a man in shorts doing boxing practice, captioned 'Doug (Bully) Walker'.
Photos 4, 5, 6 and 7 are men and donkeys captioned 'Donkey Races Christmas 1944'.

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Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is of six people, captioned 'Self, Joan, David, Mum, Aunt May & Dad'.
Photo 2 is of Philip Hopgood with his friend sitting on a metal fence, captioned 'Joan & Self'.
Photo 3 is a snow scene, captioned 'St…

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A chart used for location Reims, France. Scale 1:1000000. It is overlaid with a Gee chain.

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First is of a crew of eight, standing by left mainwheel of a Stirling captioned 'The crew'. ' The crew of aircraft 'N' for Nan. no 199 Squadron from Nov 1944 till April 1945'.
Second is of ten individuals standing and kneeling in front of a…

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Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is 13 Lancasters in flight over RAF Mepal.
Photo 2 is a frosty tree beside Terry's hut.
Photo 3 is Terry and his crew standing in front of a Nissen hut. In the caption each individual is named, as is their…

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A list of 35 operations undertaken by Terry Ford. It includes dates and aircraft used.

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Two images of mines being loaded. In the first image one mine is in position on the rack and a second is on the trolley about to be winched up. An annotation reads 'Mines'.
In the second image a mine is on a trolley. Chalked on the mine is the…

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Menu for Christmas meal at RAF Abu Sueir in 1944. Decorated border and artwork top and bottom.

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Christmas 1944 Menu, five courses.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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RAF Marston Moor Christmas menu for officer's mess. Signatures on reverse include K S Oakes.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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1944 card with kangaroo with hat and joey with RAF roundel from Aussies in England.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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Page captioned, 'Enschede Xmas Party, Xmas party given to the Dutch children, by 35 wing.' Four photographs, two showing two views of a large building with windmill, of the other two one is showing the inside of a large building decorated with three…

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Top left - large group of people in service and civilian dress at a party. Captioned 'WAAF Sgt party Leeming Dec 1944, note tinsel strips back left to form letters on curtain - "window" dropped over enemy territory to distract enemy…

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Top - now reveals that the operation for which Robert Palmer was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross involved his use of highly secret "Oboe" which meant he had to fly straight and level while being engaged by enemy fighters and anti-aircraft…

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Ten men in sportswear in a field with trees behind. Five men are sat in a row with five stood behind. The central figure in the front row is holding a football. Nine of the men are wearing matching team kit and the central figure in the back row is…
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