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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1945-03"
Vitry March 1945
Tags: 226 Squadron; aircrew; B-25
Vimy Ridge Memorial
Photographs 9 and 10 are of the British Cemetery at Dury, captioned 'British Cemetery 1914 1918, Dury, France. March 1945.'
Tags: final resting place; memorial
View out of cockpit
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality…
Tags: RAF Balderton
Tiger Force Lancaster
Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster; nose art; Tiger force
The memoir of Eric William Scott
Tags: 142 Squadron; 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; Flying Training School; Harvard; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Watchfield; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stearman; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
The Londoner column
Targets and A&AEE Boscombe Down
Top left - a note 'got to here'. Top right - an aerial oblique view of a city-scape with some large buildings and some damage visible. Captioned 'Essen' on the reverse 'Essen'.
Middle - an aerial oblique view of a…
Stirlings and Parachutists
#2 is three parachutists close to the ground.
#3 is a Stirling dropping containers,…
Tags: Pathfinders; Spitfire; Stirling
Start of the construction works at the Casoni improvised landing strip
Tags: Resistance
Sam Saunders Final Flights
There are three photographs of his wife.
Roll of honour
Tags: missing in action
Registered numbers and squadron letters (& fate) of Manchester & Lancasters flown
Raid Assessments
Personnel in front of Lancaster
Pathfinder Bennett has plan for peace
Page from Ron Harrison's log book
Tags: 70 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bombing
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
On the road from Vitry en Artois to Cambria
Photograph 2 is of a destroyed German half-track, captioned 'German Tank.'
Photograph 3 and 4 are six airmen sitting on the barrel of a Tiger tank.
Photograph 5 and 6 are…
Newspaper cuttings concerning awards of Victoria Crosses
Missing on 111th raid VC
Me - William Roy Peter Perry DFC
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 227 Squadron; 29 OTU; 5 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; B-17; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York