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- Tags: bombing
Leslie Manser's Diary
Tags: aircrew; bombing; entertainment; home front; pilot; training
Leslie Pickford's diary
Leslie Valentines pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 13 OTU; 88 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bombing; Boston; Dominie; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bicester; RAF Hartford Bridge; Second Tactical Air Force; strafing; training
Lest We Forget
Letter and citation for Distinguished Flying Medal awarded to Dennis Batty
Citation describes daylight attack on Neiville [sic] Aerodrome when his aircraft was attached by…
Letter and transcript of telephone interview
Tags: 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); control caravan; crewing up; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; military discipline; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Athan; RAF Woodbridge; Scarecrow; searchlight; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Window
Letter card from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Letter card from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Letter from 408 Squadron to John Taplin's Parents
Letter from Air Ministry to Charles Hilder's wife
Letter from Alan Green to his Family
Tags: aircrew; bombing; home front; observer; RAF Torquay; training
Letter from Alan North to Joan Strong
Alan writes that he has been in London. He travelled back by train and ferry. Then via Brussels and then train the next day into Germany where a lot of the towns had been bombed.
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Tags: 98 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; mess
Letter from Albert Evans to Mary and Bill Edwards
Tags: bombing; RAF Dunholme Lodge
Letter from Albert Evans to Mary and Bill Edwards
Letter from Alf Bowden, Alan Gibson rear gunner to Peter Clegg
Tags: 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing
Letter from Armee Suisse to Department politique federal
Included is the map with the routes marked on.
Tags: bombing
Letter from Barnes Wallis to Leonard Cheshire
Letter from Basil Harrington to Peter Jenner of 2nd TAF medium bomber association
Letter from Bernard Gumbley to his brother Larry
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Now senior course so lots of cross country flights. Dropped his first bombs, which he describes in some detail. Continuing with…