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Wedding group photograph
Large group of people including Air Training Corps cadets, servicemen and civilians standing around bride, in wedding dress and groom in uniform.
Wedding group photograph
Bride wearing wedding dress and groom wearing uniform in the centre of a group on men women and children.
Wedding group photograph
Bride and groom in the centre of a group with servicemen in uniform at rear and men women and children in front.
Wedding group photograph
Bride and groom standing with a four RAF airmen all wearing tunics with brevet.
Group wedding photograph
Bride and groom standing with a servicemen wearing tunic with brevet on left and a man wearing civilian suit and bridesmaid to the right.
Envelope
Envelop with text "operation sunbronze, Pomigliano (Italy), Istres (France), June 1946.
Newspaper cuttings - award of Distinguished Flying Medal
Two cuttings noting that Flight Sergeant George Charles Shepherd had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal.
Newspaper cutting ATC party
Reports on party given by 1481 Squadron Air Training Corps for parents and friends. Flight Sergeant Shepherd was guest.
Lancasters
View from under the port wing on an aircraft on a parked Lancaster letters 'LS-N'. Captioned 'Five-ton lorries: the Lancaster bombing the Ruhr cities are now carrying nearly 5 tons of bombs per aircraft'.
Caen
Shows daylight bombing of industrial area. Captioned 'the Caen steelworks in flames after the attack. The concentration of bombing is phenomenal when it is remembered that some 50 aircraft took part'.
Air Vice-Marshall D C T Bennett
Head and shoulders portrait of an officer wearing tunic with pilot brevet, Pathfinder badge and medal ribbons and peaked cap. Captioned 'Air Vice-Marshal D C T Bennett CB, DSO the navigation expert who has received the Russian Order of Alexander…
Cologne suspension bridge
Photograph show river left to ring with downed bridge. Captioned 'Traffic suspension: all that remains of the Cologne suspension bridge after RAF bomber command attack on October 28 las.....'.
Lancaster taking off
Photograph of Lancaster from rear as it is just airborne. Captioned 'Friedrichshafen and North Africa: H for Harry, one of a force of Lancasters taking off for the raid on the Zeppelin works on the shores of Lake Constance. After leaving the target…
Lancaster bombing
View from front of airborne Lancaster with bombs falling. Complete cloud cover below. Captioned 'through the overcast: a Lancaster bombs an air torpedo launching site through 10/10ths cloud'.
Convoy of Lancaster parts
Convoy of lorries with dismembered parts of aircraft, front fuselage, rear fuselage and wings. Captioned 'Cavalcade: a crashed Lancaster moves off to a repair depot in line astern'.
Crew debrief
Airmen gathered round a table as an officer writes. Captioned 'Interrogation of a Lancaster bomber crew after one of the big raids on Berlin'.
Lancaster and leaflets
Rear fuselage of Lancaster squadron letters EA (49 Squadron) with airmen loading bundles of leaflets form a trolley. Captioned 'Back to nickel raiding: loading leaflets into a Lancaster of a Rhodesian squadron before one of the big raids on Hamburg.…
Lancaster in Hangar
View of front quarter of Lancaster in hangar with three men looking on and two working on top. Captioned 'working on a Canadian built Avro Lancaster. Turrets are fitted after arrival in Britain'.
Lancaster in assembly
Photograph of Lancaster assembly line in factory. Captioned 'Lancasters on assembly'.
Damaged Lancaster
Side view of a Lancaster with missing port aileron. below images of the rear of port and starboard wings with missing parts. Captioned 'Lateral instability: a Lancaster which recently came home minus both ailerons. The photographs below are close-ups…
Lancaster - honourable retirement
Side view of Lancaster W4783with many rows of operation bomb symbols on fuselage below cockpit. Captioned 'Honourable retirement: with 90 "Ops" to its credit, this RAAF Lancaster 1, "G" for George has been presented to premier John Curtin for the…
The latest bomb weighs 12,000 lbs
Title with clouds in background.
Lancaster
View from below looking up at a Lancaster with letters 'VN-N'.
Lancasters above cloud
View from front quarter of airborne Lancaster flying above clouds with another Lancaster following below and behind. Captioned 'Flying high: two Lancaster IIs, each powered with four Hercules engines, flying above the clouds'.
Lancaster 1
Page showing four artwork images of Lancaster from various quarters above and below. Title 'Lancaster I (4-Merlin), bomber, maximum speed 280 mph, cruising speed 210 mph'.