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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1945-05"
Cologne
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Cologne, Germany - May 1945
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing
Course photograph
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; RAF Catfoss
Damaged German aircraft at Celle, 1945
Top left Arado 96
Top right Junkers Ju-188A-2 WNr 160078
Bottom left Nearest camera - Bucker 131 with Siebel 204…
Tags: Ju 352
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
Enrico da Ronca persuades the partisan 'Romano' to stop the violence
Label reads…
Tags: arts and crafts; home front; Resistance
Essen
Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of industrial site with many damaged…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Five groups of airmen
September, 1945'.
Top centre is of six airmen sitting on a grassy bank. On the reverse
'Spilsby, May 1945.
Ian Ron
Taffy Eric
Me Jim
Ron'
Top right 3 is…
Flying echelon, 550 Squadron, North Killingholme, May 1945
Tags: 550 Squadron; aircrew; animal; RAF North Killingholme
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
French and German money coupons and notes
Tags: prisoner of war
Geoffrey North account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
Geoffrey North rewritten account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
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
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
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
Interview with Andrew Barron. Three
Interview with Bernie Harris. One
Interview with Bernie Harris. Two
Tags: 515 Squadron; 622 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); entertainment; faith; Flying Training School; Gee; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Holocaust; home front; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hixon; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Dave Fellowes
Tags: 1656 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 262; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; taxiway; training; Wellington