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Prisoner of war record
German prisoner of war document for Albert Edward Bracegirdle with personal details and b/w photograph. Submitted with description 'Photo of prisoner of war record of F/Sgt Albert Bracegirdle of Cheadle, Cheshire including photo of fingerprint.…
Formation of Lancasters over Montrichard
Air-to-air view of a large formation of Lancasters flying over Montrichard. The Cher river runs from middle left to right with a bridge in middle. Submitted with description 'Photo numbered C3186. Showing Lancasters flying on low-level daylight…
This stone was unlaid at Dusseldorf by 106 Sqdn
Cartoon with two men standing in front of a stone inscribed with names. In the background bombed buildings. Above a four engine bomber. Submitted with description 'Photo of a cartoon of Hitler and Goering standing in front of bomb damaged stone with…
Airman in garden
Full length image of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet standing in garden with hedge in the background. Captioned 'Sgt C F Chamberlain, F/E to D Shannon'. Submitted with description 'Photo of Sgt flight engineer standing in a garden. The…
Arrest of Sergeant Hamish Philson
Crowd, some in uniform, around car in street, with houses in the background and car in foreground. Taken through window from inside a building. Submitted with description 'Photo taken from inside the Daugaard Inn in Daugaard, Denmark showing the…
Crowd waving to Lancaster
A crown of airmen and members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, several with bicycles, waving to a Lancaster taxiing past. Submitted with description 'Imperial War Museum photo No. CH10046. Annotated "Waving the boys off at Syerston." A group of…
RAF personnel
Top - full face portrait of a man with handwritten caption 'Danny Walker (Shannon)'. Submitted with description 'Photo of the head of a man. The handwritten caption reads: "Danny Walker (Shannon) (8). This suggests that the subject is Sgt J A Walker,…
Identity/Travel documents
Two identity/travel documents in German and French made out for Paul Camus. Submitted with description 'German/French travel and identity documents for Paul Camus dated 12 Apr 1944. The significance of "Paul Camus" is unknown'.
Airman standing on wing of a crashed Battle
An airman wearing tunic and side cap standing on wing by cockpit of a crashed Battle resting in a field with no undercarriage and bent propeller. Submitted with description 'P/O Peter Ward-Hunt standing on starboard wing of crashed Battle'.
Three 106 Squadron pilots
Half length image of three pilots wearing tunics with brevet and (the right hand two also medal ribbons), with peaked caps standing in front of a Lancaster with Mickey Mouse nose art. Submitted with description 'Photo of, left to right, S/Ldr John…
106 Squadron photograph
A large group of airmen wearing battledress or tunic with side or peaked caps sitting and standing in five rows in front of a Lancaster. Submitted with description 'Formal group photo of 106 Sqn aircrew, 1945. Taken in front of Lancaster PB677'.
Families
Top - two men, one in uniform, standing with two women, one wearing floral dress. In the background a house. Submitted with description 'A group photo of two women and one man in civilian dress with an unidentified RAF aircrew member in service…
Mittelland Canal near Kloster Gravenhorst and aircrew
Top - a reconnaissance photograph of results of a bombing attack. From a newspaper article. The photograph shows the Mittelland canal running bottom left to top right and very many bomb craters concentrated in middle with canal edges and embankment…
Destroyed works
Destroyed industrial site with just tangled metal framework remaining. A man in uniform standing centre at bottom. Submitted with description 'Photo of a bomb-damaged machine shop at Krupps Works, Essen. An unidentified serviceman in battledress is…
Blohm & Voss dock Elbe 17
In the foreground, a railway track with completely destroyed buildings beyond and U-boats nearing completion. In the upper left corner, a collapsed crane. In the middle, a ship in a drydock. To the right, a metal structure for submarines building.…
Aircrew meet undersecretary of state
Six aircrew wearing parachute harnesses standing talking to a man in civilian clothes. In the background a Lancaster. Submitted with description 'Under Secretary for Air Geoffrey Lloyd talking to 35 Sqn Pathfinder aircrew at Gravely'.
Airman and woman at piano
An RAF officer wearing tunic with brevet seated at a piano alongside a woman wearing dark dress holding up a sheet of paper. In the background left a bookcase with a vase of flowers and figurine on top. Submitted with description 'S/Ldr John "Dim"…
Ronnie Churcher in cockpit and funeral
Top - Ronnie Churcher wearing tunic with pilot's brevet and medal ribbons sitting in the right hand seat of the cockpit of a Vickers Viking (VC1) looking back. Submitted with description 'S/Ldr Ron Churcher seated in an aircraft cockpit'.
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617 Squadron reunion
Group of men and women in civilian clothes in a large room. Submitted with description 'Colour photograpgh of 617 Sqn reunion. L-R: #2 G Rice (?), #4 William Tait, #5 Prince Bernhard, #6 Lady Cheshire, #7 Leonard Cheshire. Date and location…
Night photograph and Whitley
Top - ground level photograph showing anti-aircraft tracer and searchlights with buildings silhouetted at the bottom. Submitted with description 'Night-time photograph of what appears to be searchlight and anti-aircraft artillery activity. Date and…
Card with Lancaster dropping food parcels
Ground to air photograph of a Lancaster flying to the right dropping food parcels with cheering crowd at the bottom below. Submitted with description 'A card with a photograph of a Lancaster dropping food parcels. Printed on the card: "Operation…
Seven airmen
Seven airmen some with brevet visible sitting on steps outside a building. In the background some deck chairs. Title 'Syerston Officers Mess. Captioned 'Some of my chaps outside the mess at Syerston, F/Lt Beeston, F/Lt Browne, F/Lt Stephens, F/Lt…
Gennevilliers
Top - target photograph showing tracer lines and explosions. Caption too faint to read. Submitted with description 'Target photo of Gnome-Rhone factory at Gennevilliers on 9/10 May 1944. Photo taken from Lancaster ND682, ZN-K. Captain: P/O…
Bordeaux and Lancasters bombing
Top - target photograph showing Bordeaux with Garonne river top right. Captioned '2005 METH 11.8.44//8". 18,000" 010 degrees, `16.33, BORDEAUX E. 6x2000. C. 36 sec. F/O MEREDITH E/106'. Submitted with description 'Target photo of Bordeaux on 11th Aug…
Bremerhaven
A convoy of military vehicles with jeep leading, driving along road through town with damaged buildings and rubble on roadsides. Submitted with description 'British military vehicles passing through the town of Bremenhaven [sic], May 10th 1945'.