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- Collection: Twells, Ernest
Lancasters at Yagodnik
Tags: 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Lancaster; Tirpitz
Gnome Rhone works
Ernie Twells and airmen
Bob Knights and seven crew wearing flying gear standing in front of…
Brest docks
Munich and of the Tirpitz
A target photograph of the…
Bob Knights' target photograph of the Tirpitz
The Tirpitz firing its guns, taken from onboard the vessel.
Tirpitz
On the reverse
'Battleship Tirpitz
Walter Hugin
46 Do-Huckarde
Servahust sh. 19'
Picture 2 Captioned 'Signatures of Survivors on back of each photo'.
Tags: Tirpitz
617 Squadron veteran reunion
Ernie Twells and airmen
Ernie Twells and airmen
Tags: training
Ernie Twell's Lancaster DV385
Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster; nose art
Tirpitz capsized
'Battleship Tirpitz
Tirpitz 15 June 1945'.
Ernie Twells and 29 airmen
Tags: ground personnel
Doris and Ernie Twells with the leader of Derbyshire County Council
The nose and main spar of Lancaster EE134. Six men are working on it.…
Barnes Wallis and Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire and officer
A civilian and two airmen under a Lancaster with a mocked up bouncing bomb during the filming of The Dam Busters. Standing with…
A Lincoln and a Varsity
A Lincoln with an experimental nose. In the foreground a man is sitting with his back to the camera, on his left is an Alsatian dog. Behind him is a VW…
Tags: animal; bomb trolley; bombing up; ground personnel; hangar; Lincoln; service vehicle
Ernie Twells' Obituary and letter from the King
A letter from the King awarding Ernie Twells his Distinguished Flying Cross.
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter engine; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Lancaster; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tirpitz; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Ernie Twells at a social occasion
A group of airmen arranged in three rows in front of a Beaufighter.…
Tags: aircrew; Beaufighter; ground crew; ground personnel; Lincoln
Bill Howarth and four veterans
A Lancaster flying over the nose of another Lancaster 'C'.
Tags: 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bouncing bomb; Lancaster
Lancaster
A three Ruble banknote, dated 1938.
Tags: Lancaster
617 Squadron veterans
Veterans on way to reunion
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew