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- Tags: African heritage
John Blair with aircrew
Photograph has been double exposed [film failed to…
John Blair and colleague
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; Halifax; navigator
John Blair and colleague
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; navigator
John Blair and six sports people
John Blair
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; navigator
John Blair at briefing
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; briefing; navigator; operations room
Margaret Kirkham
The Story of Flight Lieutenant John J Blair, DFC
John was born in 1919 to a poor…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 4 Group; 78 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; medical officer; mid-air collision; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Kinloss; RAF Oakington; RAF Pocklington; RAF Tangmere; RCAF Moncton; searchlight; sport; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Akin Shenbanjo and crew
In the top right corner a remembrance poppy has been added.
Tags: 76 Squadron; African heritage; aircrew; Halifax; nose art
Akin Shenbanjo and his crew
19 airmen including Akin Shenbanjo
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; ground crew; Halifax
Akin Shenbanjo holding a dog
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; animal
A Wing 1 Squadron C Flight
Tags: African heritage; aircrew
Akin Shenbanjo and young child
Tags: African heritage; aircrew
Group of airmen at dining table
People and bombing
Top right - air-to-ground view of landscape with many bomb craters.
Middle left - an airman on bed in barrack room.
Bottom left - air to…
1944/47 WAAF Life and After
Forces Preliminary course E.V.T. Sennen and Worth Matravers, Dorset, May - July 1946'
Three small photographs of 20 service personnel informally posed in front of a blast wall, wooden hut and base of an aerial tower in background.
Small head…
95 Squadron
Second is of George Ellams and with Abu Kamara, captioned 'No 95 Squadron R.A.F. Station Jui, Freetown, B.W. Africa, Abu Kamara and self'.…
Tags: 95 Squadron; African heritage
Caribbean airmen
Tags: African heritage; ground personnel; training
Communications flight personnel
My Maternal Grandparents
After the war John, possibly her brother, became a…
Pat Norton
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; arts and crafts; observer
Pat Norton
These items were sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are…
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; bomb aimer; observer