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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…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Warsaw Supply Drop 13-14 August 1944
51 Squadron, 4 Group, RAF Bomber Command
Tags: 4 Group; 5 Group; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Carnaby; RAF Elvington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Odiham; RAF Snaith; RAF Tangmere; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
More war memories. The RAF bombing raids on Revigny
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; dispersal; Dulag Luft; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); padre; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; sanitation; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; Window
I went back, saw Duisburg die
Letter to Charles Turner Mother from his Commanding Officer
Tags: 186 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crash; RAF Stradishall
9 Squadron Battle Order 22nd March 1944
Recommendation for non-immediate award of DFM for Sergeant Kenneth Saw
Letter to Mrs Scott from Commanding Officer of 37 Squadron
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; missing in action
Recommendation for Honours and Awards (Immediate)
Letter from the Prime Minister to A.O.C.-in-C. Bomber Command on Augsburg operation
RAF songs
The flying Fortress, the navigators lament, the bomb-aimers ballad. Shaibah blues, No flak at all, the airman lament, three old…
Interview with Efrem Colombi
Interview with Santina Colombo
Interview with Annunciata Buffadossi
Interview with Tito Samorè
Interview with Giuseppe Pirovano
Interview with Edvige Colombo
Tags: bombing; home front; Resistance; shelter
Interview with Alessandro Samorè
Interview with Leontina Giovanetti
Interview with Germana Pisa
Tags: bombing; evacuation