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Training sorties
List of twenty-four pilot training sorties.
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
The memoirs were recorded in 1980 at a reunion at Sudbrooke. He starts by describing crewing up at Silverstone. His opinion of the Stirling was that it was awful on the ground and in the air. His first operation was a second 'dickie' (an observer) to…
Tribute to a Pathfinder captain
Tribute to Squadron Leader William G Neal Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross, Croix de Guerre, 1912-2001. Describes how Don Briggs met and was crewed with Bill Neal’s crew who having completed one tour had been selected for a…
Trip to India
Top left - view on landing from aircraft window of airport buildings including control tower. Runway in foreground. Captioned 'Taken just as we landed at Dum-Dum aerodrome, Calcutta, March 46'.
Top right - snake charmer with snake in basket.…
Top right - snake charmer with snake in basket.…
Tunis, Niagra Falls, and Karachi
Four photographs, first shows a snake charmer captioned Tunis 1945.
Second shows officer pilot standing in front of a fence captioned 'Willie Fry Niagra Falls 1945'.
Third shows Patrick in the same place captioned 'Niagra Falls 1945'. Fourth is a…
Second shows officer pilot standing in front of a fence captioned 'Willie Fry Niagra Falls 1945'.
Third shows Patrick in the same place captioned 'Niagra Falls 1945'. Fourth is a…
Twelve air and ground crew by a Lancaster
Twelve servicemen, three squatting and four standing on the ground. Five further are on a raised stand or ladder leading to front fuselage of a Lancaster. Notes with names on the reverse.
Twenty air and ground crew
Twenty men mostly wearing battledress but two with uniform tunics and peaked caps in two lines in front of a Lancaster. Aircrew in back row with some groundcrew are standing, groundcrew are kneeling in front. In the background the Lancaster has 30…
Twenty-one pilots
Twenty-one pilots, all wearing battledress with brevet and side or peaked caps, sitting and standing in three rows.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Twenty-two pilots in front of a Spitfire
Seven pilots sitting in armchairs in front with fifteen standing behind, wearing a variety of uniform, all in front of a Spitfire. On the reverse '91 Squadron?'.
Two aircrew
Two airmen wearing tunics with, on the left half brevet and the right a pilot's brevet and holding a mug. Behind a brick wall. On the reverse 'Photo (Bomb aimer) & myself, note tea in the mug'.
Two aircrew
Head and shoulders portrait of Bernard Ross and a pilot. Both are in uniform without headdress.
Two aircrew in front of a Hampden
Two aircrew, the one on the left wearing flying jacket and side cap, the one on the right flying helmet and battledress with pilot's brevet and parachute harness. In the background the nose of a Hampden with a dragon and 'P/O R Wareing' painted on…
Two aircrew in Sidcot flying suits
Two aircrew standing together in front of a hedge. Unknown airman on left and Flight Lieutenant Frank Hugh 'Lofty' Long on right, Lofty taught Leonard Cheshire how to fly Whitleys whilst in 102 Squadron. Lofty died during a operation on 13th March…
Two aircrew inside a Stirling
Sergeant George Mackie (pilot) in the foreground, when instructing with 1651 Conversion Unit at RAF Waterbeach in 1942. He has his foot on the step leading into the flight engineer’s compartment from the cockpit inside a Short Stirling. Behind him…
Two aircrew officers
Two aircrew officers, one with pilots brevet other with half wing, full length, in uniform, standing on steps in front of ornate entrance to large brick building.
Two aircrew on a Lancaster engine
Two aircrew, one kneeling in front wearing a peaked cap, one standing behind on top of a Lancaster engine. Both are wearing battledress. Two propeller blades are visible. In the background a perimeter track and airfield. On the reverse 'F/Lt Evans,…
Two aircrew standing by a Tiger Moth
Two aircrew wearing flying suit standing by the rear cockpit of a Tiger Moth. The man on the left has on a parachute and the man on the right is wearing flying helmet.
Two aircrew walking away from a Tiger Moth
Two aircrew, the second obscured behind the first. The front man is carrying a parachute. In the background two Tiger Moths parked.
Two airmen
Two men one wearing battledress with hands in pockets and the other wearing flying jacket and peaked cap and holding a cigarette standing in front of the starboard wing of a Lancaster. Submitted with caption '009 - T. Wierzbowski - pilot i J.…
Two airmen
Two airmen standing in uniform with their hands in their pockets. On the reverse is handwritten -
'L Dos Sullivan A
R Bill Radford B
10 Oct '44'.
'L Dos Sullivan A
R Bill Radford B
10 Oct '44'.
Two airmen
Alan North and another airman standing at the front of a Mosquito.
Two airmen
Two airmen both wearing tunics with sergeant rank standing side by side arm in arm. The man on the right has a pilot's brevet and wears a side cap. In the background left part of a building. Submitted with caption 'Don Cameron on right'.
Two airmen
Head an shoulders portrait of two airmen both wearing uniform tunic. The pilot on the left wera a side cap and the airman on the right a peaked cap. Reported as Flight Lieutenant Frank Hugh 'Lofty' Long on left and unknown airman on right 5.6.40 –…
Two Airmen and a Halifax
A pilot and an engineer standing at the front of a Halifax. On the nose is painted a hand with its index finger raised pointing at the sky.
Two airmen and a woman
Half-length portrait of two airmen wearing tunic and side caps standing either side of a woman. Man on the left has pilot's brevet. On the reverse 'Terry Cook, Bert's best mate pilot' and Bert.This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in…