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- Collection: Weir, Greg. Oakes, Ken
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Pilot Officer Oakes K S - Course notebook
Covers signal cartridges, incendiary bomb, signal rocket, bomb tail pistol, smoke float, marine markers, smoke generators, 848, 845, 849, 860 fuses, sea markers, recce flares, photo flash. Continues with details of Frazer-Nash Turret system.
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Tags: air gunner; aircrew; training
Behandlung deutscher Kriegsgefangener
Photograph of healthy German prisoners of war consuming a meal is used to counter assertion that they have been murdered and mistreated by the Allies. The claim is made in a ‘secret’ document, dated 19 April 1943, from army headquarters to the…
Tags: prisoner of war; propaganda
Rugby match ticket
For Scottish services verses the Royal Australian Air Force.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: sport
Course photograph
Twenty-three airmen wearing battledress with half brevet sitting and standing in three rows. Captioned 'Catfoss, 90 GL Course, March - May 45'. Two versions of same image.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; RAF Catfoss
Accounts of three operations
Lists crew and then provides description of operations to Berlin (first operation), Leipzig and Schweinfurt between the 15 and 25 February 1944. Describes events, bomb load and distances.
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Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; flight engineer; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Target map Augsburg
Target map with built up area highlighted and woods marked.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: H2S
Target map Leipzig
Target map with built up area highlighted and woods marked.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: H2S
Target map Stuttgart
Target map with built up area highlighted and woods marked.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: H2S
Target map München
Target map with built up area highlighted and woods marked.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: H2S
Target map Braunschweig
Target map with built up area highlighted and woods marked.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: H2S
Target map Frankfurt am Main
Target map with built up area highlighted and woods marked.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: H2S
Ten fighter attacks did not stop bomber
List 10 Royal Australian Air Force airmen who: no heading (3), died on active duty (1), wounded or injured on active service (1), previously reported missing believed killed in action now reported prisoned of war (1), previously reported missing…
Damage bomber tied with rope
Relates how an Australian squadron Halifax with a damaged fin was successfully brought home with rope tied onto the rudder bar and the bomb aimer using it to operate the rudder under pilot's instructions. Annotated 'Aust newsletter April 11…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; Halifax; pilot
Kenneth Oakes
Half length portrait of an officer wearing tunic with air gunner brevet. On the reverse 'Jas Bacon & Sons Ltd, 130 Princes Street, Edinburgh'.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew
Driving licence
Ken Oakes British driving license.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: RAF Leconfield
Christmas menu
RAF Marston Moor Christmas menu for officer's mess. Signatures on reverse include K S Oakes.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: mess; RAF Marston Moor