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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-12"
1944 Christmas menu
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
Officer's Mess Bill
Tags: aircrew; mess; military living conditions; RAF Croft
Letter from C L Fackrell to his daughter Margaret
Tags: childhood in wartime
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Sam Saunders 128 Squadron
There is a photo of Arthur Harris giving the salute.
Loading Mines
In the second image a mine is on a trolley. Chalked on the mine is the…
Operational history of Lancaster 1B R5868
Tags: 467 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Lancaster; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon
Summary of Terry Ford's Operations
Tags: 75 Squadron; bombing
75 Squadron and Terry Ford's Crew
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…
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; Nissen hut; RAF Mepal
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…
Reims Fixing Chart
Tags: Gee
Doug (Bully) Walker and Donkey Races Christmas 1944
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'.
Tags: animal; entertainment; sport
162 Squadron Light Night Striking Force Battle Orders
Stalag Luft 7 Bankau Poland
Includes measurements, direction indicator,…
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 7
V Group News, December 1944
Christmas Card and crew notes
Tags: bombing; crash; Lancaster; RAF Milltown; RAF Wick
Christmas Card 1944
Tags: 220 Squadron
Ken Thompson's first car and second crew
Second and third pictures, same car, somewhat battered, parked on road, houses in distance, captioned 'Topcliffe,…