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Halifax letter 'EY-C' just above the ground taking off with hangar in the background.

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A Halifax towing a Horsa glider is taking off. The photograph is taken from ground level.
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Halifax, 'SE-U' taking off watched by two women and five airmen. Information supplied with the collection dates it as 10.12.43 at RAF Tholthorpe.
Information supplied with the collection states 'Croft 10 December 1943. WAAFs wave farewell to the…

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Five Halifax in line taxiing towards camera.

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A Halifax taxying past an airman in a flying jacket. He is giving the crew a thumbs up.

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Air to air view of a Halifax towing a Hamilcar glider above a military camp set in open countryside. Both aircraft carry invasion stripes. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are…

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Air to air view of a Halifax Mk 3 towing a Horsa over a built up area set in a rural landscape. Captioned '6002. AC19 Earls Colne 24 Mar.45// K20. 6 1/2'. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality…

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A port side view of a Halifax under maintenance with engine trestles and engine covers. A member of the ground crew is working on one engine.
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A port side view of a Halifax on dispersal under maintenance. On the reverse 'Marston Moor 1942/3 Property of Ivan Ure, [redacted]. Question: How many working on the aircraft "E" for Edward? No prize'.

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A Halifax with several ground crew at work on and around it. Information supplied with the collection states 'CH10434 - Working on a Halifax 23 Jun 43'

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A Halifax on the ground with its bomb doors open. An oil bowser in the background.

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A man identified as a rigger at the rear of Halifax 'Victor'.

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Notes taken from a book 'Nobody Unprepared The History of 78 Squadron' by Vernon Holland. John was the bomb aimer on the Halifax.

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View looking down on a Halifax, registration 'G-AGXA'. There is a large group pf people behind the port wing and a DH-84 Dragon parked off the starboard wing. Separate copy of this image included. Submitted with caption 'G AGXA'.

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Rear quarter view of a Halifax in dispersal with engines running. Top left the nose of another Halifax.

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Image taken over the port wing of a Halifax looking to front fuselage. One airman working on the port inner engine. Another airman stands by the gantry standing by the port inner engine.

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Three colour postcards.
#1 a Halifax of 35 Squadron, in flight.
#2 Albany, Georgia - Pecan trees and a hunter with aircraft above.
#3 Lakeland, Florida. Orange trees, fishing and houses.

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Two Halifaxes viewed from a third. One Halifax is coded 'PT-C'.
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The front of a Halifax with its engines running. Behind are two more Halifaxes.

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Three Halifaxes on the ground framed by a fourth. One Halifax is running its engines watched by four ground crew.
It is annotated 'PL40185'.
Information supplied with the collection identifies the aircraft as 'KW-U' and 'KW-S' and states 'Evocative…

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Air to air view of Halifaxes towing gliders, some of which have just been released from their tugs.

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A newspaper article about another attack on Hamburg. It is annotated 'No 6 2/3 8/43'.

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Top - Title note Hamburg 1944 relates 431 squadron lost 48 aircraft between July 1943 and October 1944. Mentions that 5 aircraft were lost out of 17 dispatched to Hamburg om 29 July 1944.
Below - document listing all aircraft lost on squadron with…
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