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- Tags: tractor
Air and Ground Crew
Photo 2 is three ground crew on a tractor, annotated 'Ground Crew Gatwick'.
Photo 3 is two airmen annotated 'Paddy & Geordie'.
Photo 4 is Ray topless at an outside table, annotated…
Tags: aircrew; Anson; ground crew; ground personnel; service vehicle; tractor
Aircraft
Bottom - photograph - view from above of a Lancaster with Spitfire and Hurricane on either wing over sea. Captioned 'Memorial in Flight,…
Aircraft
Airmen, a tractor and a Mosquito
Airmen, Trainees and an Oxford
Tags: ground personnel; Lancaster; Oxford; service vehicle; tractor; training
Alma Leedham's memoir
Tags: 49 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 83 Squadron; animal; bomb dump; bomb trolley; ground personnel; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; service vehicle; tractor; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Aubrey Read and three other airmen with a tractor
Tags: service vehicle; tractor
Bomb trolleys and Halifax
Bombing up
From information kindly provided by the donor. '115 Sqd Lanc Bombing up. Bomb trolleys & Lanc'.
Bombing up a Wellington
Photo 2 is a close up of the bombs being loaded into the Wellington. Two armourers are steadying the bomb and a third is winding a winch to load the bomb.
Bombs in bomb dump
Dennis Raettig's wartime memoir
Tags: 104 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; animal; B-24; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; incendiary device; mechanics engine; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Driffield; RAF East Moor; RAF Harwell; RAF Leeming; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; runway; service vehicle; take-off crash; tractor; training; Wellington; Whitley
German scenes
Top right - entranceway of a large columned building with 'RAF' inscribed above with pedestrian and cyclist in the foreground. Captioned 'Landestheatre…
Tags: hangar; service vehicle; tractor
Ground personnel in front of Nissen hut
Group of air and ground crew on a tractor
Halifax
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Tags: dispersal; Halifax; service vehicle; tractor
Halifax
Tags: bomb trolley; Halifax; service vehicle; tractor
Halifax under Service
Interview with Alma Leedham
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; animal; bomb dump; bomb trolley; bombing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; hangar; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; service vehicle; tractor; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Don Watson
Interview with Eric Peel
Interview with Frank Saunston
Interview with Harold Beech. One
Interview with Kenneth Shelton Green
He trained as an engineer after he was unable to fly due to eye…