Browse Items (211 total)
- Collection: Shepherd, George Charles
Flight magazine - Pathfinder group - portraits of senior aircrew
Flight magazine - Lancaster 1 and 2 - engine provision
Tags: Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2
Flight magazine article - the Pathfinder Force
History of 50 (Founder) Squadron Air Training Corps, January 1939 - 1946
Tags: training
Newspaper cuttings DFM and wedding
Top right - photograph of an airmen wearing flying jacket, helmet…
Operation sunbronze
Top right - seven airmen wearing khaki uniform standing in a row with the Temple of Jupiter (Tempio di Giove), Pompeii in the background.
Second row left - two men seated…
Newspaper cutting - RAF pound Heligoland
Tags: 49 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; pilot; RAF Mepal; wireless operator
1946
Postcards sent each time sent on operation
Air gunners of 7 PFF Squadron
Tags: 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster; Pathfinders
1945 continued
Tags: 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster; Pathfinders; RAF Mepal
1945
George Shepherd decorations
Top right - Note of award of 1949/45 Star, France and Germany Star.
Bottom photographs of decorations front and rear. Captioned 'medals awarded to GCS from…
1944 continued
1944
Tags: 12 OTU; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); flight engineer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Shenington; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Wellington; wireless operator
Training 1943/44
Middle - image of a large group of airmen sitting and standing in eight rows all wearing tunics and side caps. Captioned 'ITW 1943, GCS…
Letter from Georg Shepherd to Barbara
Airman in flying jacket and equipment issue
Bottom - copy of page from clothing card with issue of flying clothing.
Tags: aircrew
Poem - A.G.
Tags: air gunner; aircrew
Diary of events as member of air training corps -2
Diary of events as member of air training corps -1
Tags: civil defence; firefighting; physical training; sport; training
George Charles Shepherd biography
Tags: RAF Bridlington