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Interview with Frank Dennis. Part two
Frank Dennis is presented with information gathered by researchers following his initial interview. His aircraft was attacked on an operation and the researchers were looking for further information about it.
Frank talks about the Luftwaffe's Tame…
Frank talks about the Luftwaffe's Tame…
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald. Two
Allan McDonald was born in Hull and watched Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus as a child. He worked as an apprentice electrician before joining the Air Force. He served as ground personnel in Northern Ireland until he passed the exams to become aircrew…
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald
Allan McDonald was born in Hull and worked as an apprentice electrician before joining the Air Force. He passed the exams to become aircrew and trained as an air gunner. During training, his aircraft crash landed and he was soaked in petrol. He flew…
Interview with Doug Packman
Doug grew up in Kent. He joined the Royal Air Force at 18, as a flight engineer for 630 Squadron at RAF East Kirkby in 5 Group Bomber Command, flying Lancasters. He carried out 34 operations, followed by time as an instructor at RAF Syerston,…
Interview with Brian Robert Southwell
Brian Robert Southwell was born in Sydney and lived during the Depression which saw him have to set aside his interest in aircraft in order to secure a steady wage with an office job. He spent eighteen months making a model aircraft with the support…
Interview with Bert Turner
Bert Turner was a member of the Air Training Corps before the war. He volunteered for the Air Force and was called up 2 August 1942. After training he became a flight engineer with 196 Squadron. He flew some bombing and mine laying operations before…
Interview with Bert Mason
Bert Mason was born in Germany and worked in light engineering and driving ambulances before joining the RAF in 1942. He started training as a navigator before joining a crew and became an air gunner on 195 Squadron at Wratting Common. He tells of…
Interview with Andrew Deytrikh
Andrew Deytrikh’s family emigrated from Russia in 1919 and he was born in the Isle of Wight. He grew up in London before being employed in a laboratory testing metals. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1940 and after training as a pilot he joined…
Instructions for starting FW 190
English language instructions for starting Focke-Wolf FW 190.
If you can't take a joke...
A detailed account of Ken Thomas's life from his early years at school, through his ground crew technical training followed by his aircrew training, operational tour, short post war service and his civilian career, he revised the account in 2005.
Harry Brabin memoir
Harry joined the Royal Australian Air Force on 25 June 1942 as a wireless operator/air gunner and received his initial training in Australia before going to Canada for his trade training.
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Gordon Mercier's navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book
Navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book for Gordon Mercier, air gunner, covering the period from 17 October 1943 to 11 April 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Stormey Down, RAF Abingdon,…
German Aircraft
Notes kept by JH Bird. Describes some Luftwaffe aircraft.
FW 190
Front quarter view of an airborne Fw 190 with RAF markings.
FW 190
View from below of an airborne Fw 190 in RAF markings.
FW 190
Side view of an airborne Fw 190.
Frank Dennis' memoir
In 1943 Frank completed an engineering apprenticeship and volunteered to join the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. He completed basic training in London, where he witnessed the fatal crash of a C-47 and then went to Initial Training Wing at RAF…
Focke-Wulf TA 152 and TA 154
Photo 1 is a TA 152, also known as the long nosed Fw 190. It is seen from the port side and its tail is raised on a small ramp.
Photo 2 and 3 are of the TA 154 seen from the port then starboard sides.
Photo 2 and 3 are of the TA 154 seen from the port then starboard sides.
Focke-Wulf Fw190
Two silhouettes of a Fw 190. On the reverse 'Focke-Wulf Fw 190'.
#1 is a port side silhouette. There is a handwritten annotation 'Warwick'.
#2 is an underside silhouette with 'Oscar' handwritten.
#1 is a port side silhouette. There is a handwritten annotation 'Warwick'.
#2 is an underside silhouette with 'Oscar' handwritten.
Focke-Wulf 190
A Focke-Wulf 190 A1
A row of Focke-Wulf 191 A3s
A front side starboard view of the front half of a Focke-Wulf 191.
A row of Focke-Wulf 191 A3s
A front side starboard view of the front half of a Focke-Wulf 191.
Focke-Wulf 187 & Focke Wulf 190
Photo 1 is of three Focke-Wulf 187s on the ground
Photo 2 is a Focke-Wulf 187 flying
Photo 3 is Focke-Wulf 187 D-ORHP on the ground
Photo 4 is a Focke-Wulf 190 flying side view from slightly under.
Photo 5 is a Focke-Wulf 190 flying port side…
Photo 2 is a Focke-Wulf 187 flying
Photo 3 is Focke-Wulf 187 D-ORHP on the ground
Photo 4 is a Focke-Wulf 190 flying side view from slightly under.
Photo 5 is a Focke-Wulf 190 flying port side…
Evidence in Camera Vol 4 No 6
Aerial photography covering images of Liberators and B-17s in formation, factories, St Malo port, a seaplane base to the east of Amsterdam, a steel works, the devastated city of Hamburg, rail workshops at Cologne, a new mine clearance ship under…
Evidence in Camera Vol 4 No 4
A magazine of aerial photographs of incindiary bombs dropping, a formation of Fw 190s, the bombing of Aachen, Turin, operations over Sicily, the port of Taranto, a gas factory and colliery, a railway junction, a coastal battery, combat film of the…