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LSmithEW174520v1.pdf
Pilot’s flying log book for Flight Sergeant Ernest Smith from 11 February 1939 to 31 March 1943, detailing his pilot training and 20 operations with 144 Squadron on the following targets in Belgium, France and Germany: Aachen, Antwerp, Brest,…

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LSmithEW174520v3.pdf
Pilot’s flying log book for Flying Officer Ernest Smith from 1st July 1944 to 25 July 1945, detailing duties as a flying instructor with No. 3 (later No. 7) Flying Instructor School at RAF Lulsgate Bottom, including attendance at No. 1 Beam…

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PThomasAF20080038.jpg
Photo 1 is a starboard side ground view of a Firefly.
Photo 2 is a starboard/front flying view of a Hampden.

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PDunmoreG16010002.jpg
Several women working on an aircraft panel. Submitted with caption 'Hampden bomber. Salvaging of damaged parts. Female workers engaged on reducing for producing'

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BWoolfASWoolfASv1.pdf
First page has head and shoulders portrait of Arthur Woolf wearing uniform tunic with half brevet, medal ribbons and peaked cap. Next page has badges for Bomber Command, 5 Group and 630 Squadron.

Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…

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BLumbCLumbTAv1.pdf
A biography of the two Lumb brothers.

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SGouldS[Ser#-DoB]v10001.jpg
Four aircrew in full flying kit, standing in front of a Hampden.

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PStewartEC17170033.jpg
Four airmen standing beside their aircraft. They are dressed in flying kit. On the reverse 'Flight Lieutenant Sanderson DFC & Crew (Hampden) (Sandy) Those grim days with our backs to the wall'.

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PHowellJ1702.jpg
An air-to-air photograph of four Hampdens including L4125 flying over RAF Hemswell.

Identification kindly provided by Jayne Barraclough of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Group.

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LJolliffeFSW197221v1.pdf
Flying log book for F S W Jolliffe, bombe aimer/navigator, covering the period from 11 December 1942 to 29 September 1952. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, instructor duties, Post war flying duties with 35 and 98 squadrons and RAE…

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LMottersheadF422232v1.pdf
Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for F Mottershead, wireless operator, covering the period from 29 April 1943 to 9 April 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RCAF Calgary, RCAF Mossbank, RCAF…

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MJacksonFAC84035-151002-03.jpg
Transcript from news cutting, Kings Lynn paper 1941. Reports that Pilot Officer Frederick Arthur Caunter-Jackson lost his life as a result of air operations on night 11/12 June 1941. Other names of his crew were listed and it is assumed his was the…

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BCruickshankGCruickshankGv2.pdf
Mentions time as a balloon operator at Felixstowe and then training as an air gunner. First tour on 50 Squadron RAF Swinderby on Manchesters, but had to wait for aircraft to arrive as squadron still flying Hampden when he arrived later transferred to…

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PBeltonSLS1507.jpg
Formal group photograph of personnel in front of a Hampden. They are arranged in three rows, some seated some standing. A dog is in the middle: a hangar, a gantry crane and sandbags are visible in the background.

Additional information about this…

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BLazenbyHJLazenbyHJv1.pdf
Harold Jack Lazenby's autobiography.

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BBlacklockGBBlacklockGBv1.pdf
From his youth to the award of his DFC by the King.

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SGouldS[Ser#-DoB]v10003.jpg
Hampden P4389 with squadron letters 'VN' parked on airfield.

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PHattersleyCR16010030.jpg
Starboard side of a Hampden L4194 parked on the ground. In the background are more aircraft and part of a hangar.

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MLeadbetterJ163970-160421-010235.jpg
A underside silhouette with 'Hampden I' on the reverse.

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PGouldS19080018.jpg
Hampden parked on grass with a group of airmen standing under aircraft nose.

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PDawsonSR16010417.jpg
Left page.

Top left - head and shoulders portrait of Sergeant Stephen Dawson wearing tunic with pilot brevet and side cap. Captioned 'Brand new wings, June 40'. Top right - looking down on aircrew wearing flying helmet in the rear gunners position…

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SGouldS[Ser#-DoB]v10007.jpg
Front quarter view of Hampden RE184 parked on airfield with a group of ground crew gathered in front.

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PGouldS19050023.jpg
Instrument panel and controls inside cockpit of a Hampden.

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PHattersleyCR16010028.jpg
The cockpit and instrument panel of a Handley Page Hampden. On the reverse '"The Office" of the Handley Page "Hampden" with which 106 is now re-armed. Note all the levers, nobs, handles, buttons, switches, tits, and so on, which one is expected to…

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PGouldS19010021.jpg
Hampden with squadron letters VN-J in a field with some undercarriage up.

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