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- Tags: prisoner of war
Eddie Humes RAF personnel document
Eric Hookings's life story book 2
John Harrison's Caterpillar Club certificate
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Caterpillar Club; prisoner of war
British Red Cross letter to John Harrison's mother
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Bill Lord's Grave
On the reverse 'WCJ Lord 1st Grave Oerbke Stalag IIb'
and 'Plot 10, Row D. Grave No. 4'
'BLA 291'
'412303'
Letter from Bill Lord to his Sister
Lancasters at Juvincourt France awaiting released prisoners of war
Top left - a line of Lancasters parked on the left side.
Top right - a line of Lancasters on the right side.
Bottom left - a line of men at the rear fuselage…
Prisoner of war record
Tags: 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; prisoner of war; shot down
Arrest of Sergeant Hamish Philson
Tags: 106 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; evading; Hampden; prisoner of war
Prisoner of war facilities and formation of Lancaster
Bottom - air-to-air photograph of the front of a…
Tags: Lancaster; prisoner of war; sanitation; Stalag 8B
The memoir of Sergeant Harry J Whitwell wireless operator / air gunner 50 Squadron RAF
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Skellingthorpe; Red Cross; shot down; target indicator; wireless operator / air gunner
Biography of Squadron Leader Lighton Verdon-Roe DFC RAFVR -156 (PFF) Squadron
Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Flying Training School; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; intelligence officer; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Breighton; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
Telegram to Mrs A G Lang
Tags: prisoner of war; RAF Warboys
Jack Leslie Clark "Nobby" DFM flight engineer
Portrait of Alastair Lang
In American and English camps
Quotes from responsible statesmen
Biography of Squadron Leader Alastair G Lang DFC
Tags: 12 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Newton; RAF Warboys; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Keith Campbell's prisoner of war diary
Loose on the wind
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 4 Group; 578 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control tower; crash; crewing up; Defiant; faith; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; In the event of my death letter; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; Manchester; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); medical officer; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; observer; operations room; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Halifax DT546 damaged by flak, returned to Melbourne airfield
Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…
Tags: 5 Group; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; Guinea Pig Club; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator
Freed by Americans flown back home
Tags: bale out; prisoner of war
Joan Layne's diary covering the period her husband Wally was a prisoner of war
Notice from Red Cross
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross