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- Tags: mess
Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks
Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks
Tags: love and romance; mess; RAF Syerston
Mary Brown at RAF Shawbury
Top right, photograph of 24 aircrew in uniform, in three rows, in formal pose. Captioned…
RAF Brawdy Officers Mess
Second, third and fourth photographs are all of two RAF officers, in uniform standing outside wooden structure…
Tags: 517 Squadron; aircrew; mess; military living conditions; pilot; RAF Brawdy
Frank Hobbs sergeants mess card RAF Skellingthorpe
Tags: mess; RAF Skellingthorpe
Frank Hobbs sergeants mess subscription card
Tags: mess; RAF East Kirkby
Christmas menu RAF Chivenor, 1945
RAF North Luffenham - Christmas 1944 Sergeants Mess Menu
Tags: mess; RAF North Luffenham
Interview with Alice Wrigley
Sergeants Mess Abingdon and Tripoli
Photograph 2 is the roofs of Tripoli, captioned 'Tripoli-Libya Old Town . 1955'
Tags: aircrew; mess; RAF Abingdon
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Tags: aircrew; mess; RAF Scampton; training
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Interview with Frederick Limer
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Gee; guard room; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; mess; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Methwold; RAF Staverton; RCAF Fingal; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with F N Larard
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; control tower; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mess; perception of bombing war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Dalcross; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with John Ormerod
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; FIDO; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator; York
Beach scenes, Royal Air Force scenes and DH.82B Queen Bee aircraft
Top centre, an man in shirt sleeves sitting on a beach.
Top right, five pilots standing in a row in front of a lorry. All are wearing…
Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
Airfield views
Photograph 2 is of airmen eating at rows of tables in a mess hall.
Photograph 3 is a head and shoulders portrait of an aircrew member on an aircraft.
Photograph 4 is of a man sitting reading in an…
North Coates chapel and Officers' Mess
Photograph 2 is of the bar of an empty Officers' Mess.
Captioned 'RAF North Coates Chapel (Researched)
Photograph 3 is of two barmen and two barwomen behind the bar at the Officers'…
Visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; Intelligence Officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melksham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; Intelligence Officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington