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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1949"
Visit from Princess Elizabeth
Centre right, report of Princess Elizabeth inspecting cooking equipment;
Bottom, viewing kitchen installations.
Right page: top and…
Servicemen and aircraft
Left middle - a man in shirtsleeves sitting in cockpit of a Spitfire. On the reverse 'me in a Spitfire (in transit), RAF Fayd'.…
Tags: aerial photograph; Meteor; Mosquito; Proctor; RAF Melksham; Spitfire
New testament and psalms
Tags: faith
List of aircraft flown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 463 Squadron; Anson; B-29; Bolingbroke; bombing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Paul Wilson's civilian pilot's flying log book. Three
Tags: C-47
Durnbach War Cemetery
Top right - close up of grave crosses with Flight Sergeant PR Jenkinson's in the centre,
Captions 'Durnbach War Grave Cemetery in 1951' and Durnbach War Grave…
Gordon Mills record of service, educational and professional qualifications
Gordon Mills record of service, educational and professional qualifications
Peter Lovatt, Gwen and Wendy
Photo 1 is Gwen & Wendy on a beach, captioned 'Gwen & Wendy 1949'
Photo 2 is Peter sitting on a rock on a beach, captioned 'Self Watchet 1947'.
Photo 3 is Gwen in WRNS uniform seated on a bench with a dog.
Photo 4…
Tags: animal
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Phil over Thornhill 1949
Tags: Anson
Ansons in flight
Tags: Anson
Sandy Saunders' medical records following aircraft crash
Aircraft histories of Tiger Moth aircraft flown by Denis Clyde-Smith
Harold Beech at Snelland railway station
Tags: bomb dump; childhood in wartime
Interview with Dr Marjorie Birch
Dr Birch was born near London in 1924. Her father had served in the Royal Flying Corps…
Interview with Jeff Brown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-29; bombing; crewing up; Harvard; Lancaster; Meteor; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Marham; RAF Westcott; training; Victory in Europe Day (8 May 1945); Wellington