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LRidingRH1525125v1.pdf
Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for R H Riding, navigator, covering the period from 5 January 1942 to 25 April 1948. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, instructor duties and post war flying with 1332 Heavy Conversion…

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PAllamAJ17010001.jpg
Five airmen wearing battledress standing under the port inner engine of a Lancaster. The Lancaster has the front guns removed and covers over the engines and cockpit.

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PAllamAJ17010002.jpg
View over the top of the starboard wing of a flying Lancaster.

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PAllamAJ17010004.jpg
Air-to-air view over the starboard wing of another Lancaster in formation.

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PAllamAJ1713.jpg
View from rear quarter of an airborne Lancaster. Two versions of the same image. Submitted with caption 'PD342-1'.

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PAllamAJ17010006.jpg
Front quarter view of an airborne Lancaster.

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PAllamAJ17010007.jpg
Five airmen all wearing battledress, three standing, and two sitting on the tail plane of a Lancaster.

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PAllamAJ17010008.jpg
Five airmen, all wearing battledress and side caps standing in front of the tail plane of a Lancaster.

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PAllamAJ17010011.jpg
Four aircrew wearing battledress with brevet standing behind the rear turret of a Lancaster. A fifth airman is sitting in the turret.

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PAllamAJ17010012.jpg
View looking up into cockpit of a bomber with one airman in pilot's seat and one standing, both looking back.

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PRidingRH21020008.jpg
A newspaper article about Ron after he was shot down over France. A second cutting has a brief note about Ron returning home after being missing in France.
[The details in the article are incorrect. His aircraft was a Wellington, it was shot down on…

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BAllamAJAllamAJv1.pdf
Chapter 8 - Overture and Beginners. Gives account of time on OTU at RAF Lossiemouth. Includes ground instruction, crewing up and description of station and training on Wellington. Writes about a fatal crash he sees and about some of his sorties.…

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LAllamAJ657570v1.pdf
Pilot's Flying Log Book for A.J. Allam. Covers the period from 11 September 1944 to 16 July 1945 detailing his final training and operational flights. Listed at the back are all the stations he was posted to: RAF Wilmslow, RAF Dalcross, RAF Sywell,…

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PAllamAJ1705.jpg
Seven airmen all wearing battledress with brevet standing in line in front of a Lancaster. Pilot is third from the left. Submitted with caption 'crew 2' and information 'Crew 2 l to r: Len Stevens FE, Harry Wilson W/Op, dad, Bob Lillico RG, Harry…

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PAllamAJ1706.jpg
Seven aircrew and two groundcrew, all wearing battledress and side caps, three squatting and six standing, all in front of a Lancaster. Pilot is third from left back row. Submitted with caption 'crew 3' and information 'Crew 3 as crew 2 but with…

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PAllamAJ1711.jpg
View down a row of four Lancasters line up on grass. Albert John Allam in shirtsleeve order is standing under the nose of nearest aircraft, PA283 9J-J 'The Jabberwock'. Submitted with caption 'May 10th 1945 Melsbroek. Exodus'.

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PAllamAJ1714.jpg
Prisoners of war lined up to rear fuselage of a Lancaster. Submitted with caption 'pow 1'.

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PAllamAJ1715.jpg
A group of men mostly wearing Mae Wests standing by the rear fuselage of a Lancaster. Submitted with caption 'pow 2'.

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LBennettHW561480v1.pdf
H. W. Bennett’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book, from 23 April 1937 to 14 June 1943, detailing training, operations and instructional duties as an Air Observer, Air Gunner, Bomb Aimer and Navigator. Includes bombing and…

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NBlythTS170516-010001.jpg
Headline - Stuttgart badly hit, factories ablaze. Internal headlines - hard-pressed Germans, feeling the strain including some pilot accounts. Bombs in centre - fires joined into one, pilots account of fires. Eluded fighter, another would not fire,…

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NBlythTS170516-010002.jpg
One single article covering with three separate columns. Headlines - RAF double attack on Schweinfurt, Regensburg plane works devastated, Big British forces out last night. Accounts of attack by British and Italian based American heavy bombers on…

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MRidingRH1525125-210923-32.jpg
Paul's story about his grandfather Ron, being shot down and evading capture.

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AMouritzFA[Date]-01.mp3
Frank was born in Australia in 1923 and joined the RAAF in 1942. After initial training as a pilot in Australia and Canada on Tiger Moth and Anson aircraft he arrived in England. Over the next 12 months he progressed from Oxford to Wellington to…

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BBryanR-MBurnsideJGBv1.pdf
Part 1 - family background with information on relatives and family photographs.
Part 2 - war service of Flying Officer James Gordon Bennett Burnside flight engineer. Covers training as flight engineer. Then follows short descriptions. listing…

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LBurnsideJGB155209v1.pdf
Navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book for J G B Burnside, flight engineer, covering the period from 20 March 1943 to 14 July 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at…

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