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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1945-05"
Sparks in the air - Jack Smith's wartime story
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 189 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bramcote; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Milltown; RAF Padgate; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Scarecrow; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Rotterdam Drop zone marker
Card with Lancaster dropping food parcels
Lancaster and members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Bottom - four members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force in shirtsleeves out side a Nissen hut with a Union flag above and behind. Submitted with description…
Mailly-le-Camp and aircrew
Mulheim/Essen airfield
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour; perimeter track; runway
Emmerich
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of Emmerich with the Rhine running top left to middle right. St. Martini church on near bank and a pontoon bridge across the Rhine. Captioned 'a town on the river…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Bremen
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Hamburg
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of a city showing damaged multi-storey buildings at the bottom. Both submitted with description 'Oblique…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Hamburg
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of a city showing park in centre and main roads running bottom right to left. Damaged buildings in foreground. Both…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Essen
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of industrial site with many damaged…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Two views of Cologne - May 1945
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph with the river Rhine running left to right and buildings including chimneys…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Joan Layne's diary covering the period her husband Wally was a prisoner of war
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war; the long march
Luckenwalde
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag 3A
582 Squadron and Lancaster
Cologne, Germany - May 1945
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing
A.I.D Staff in front of a Wellington
Tags: Wellington
Victor Mendelski, Crew and Daphne
Photo 1 is Victor in civilian clothes, captioned '1945'.
Photo 2 is Victor in uniform captioned '1945'.
Photo 3 is Daphne, sitting on a fence, captioned '1944'.
Photo 4 is a half length portrait of Victor, captioned…
Tags: aircrew; pilot; prisoner of war
Wartime log
It happened one night
Barbara Wood
George Hutton and Airmen
Photo 1 is a group of airmen arranged in five rows in front of a Stirling, captioned '199 Squadron Stirlings Lakenheath November 1943. Dad is third row up, fifth from left'.
Photo 2 is four airmen standing under the…
Tags: 199 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-25; bomb aimer; navigator; nose art; pilot; RAF Lakenheath; Stirling