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Two post cards from Wally Layne to his wife
Bottom - writes that he is fit and had been to performance at the camp theatre. Mentions pantomime starting in a few days.
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from the Red Cross
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 3
Wally Layne's YMCA prisoner of war log book
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
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
Portrait of Alastair Lang
Jack Leslie Clark "Nobby" DFM flight engineer
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
Eric Hookings's life story book 2
Charles (Dick) Pattisson Pocket Diary 1942
Tags: 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; Beaufighter; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; entertainment; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; killed in action; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; missing in action; prisoner of war; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Croft; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; Stalag Luft 3; Wellington
Letter from Eric Scott to his wife Jessie
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Postcard from Eric Scott to his wife Jessie
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter from Eric Scott to his wife Jessie
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
The Prisoner of War Journal
The Log
Letter to Allan Smith from the Caterpillar Club
John Nettleton VC
Tags: 185 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 97 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Fw 190; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Hampden; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stalag Luft 3; training; Victoria Cross
Interview with Laura Hickey
Letter from Reg Wilson to his parents
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; pilot; prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
My Prisoner of War Days
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; evading; H2S; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Odiham; Red Cross; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); sport; Stalag Luft 3; strafing; the long march; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
My POW Days - Postscript
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Caterpillar Club; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Goebbels, Joseph (1897-1945); Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; memorial; mine laying; navigator; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Elvington; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Pocklington; Red Cross; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 3; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); the long march
Laying of Monument Foundations
Tags: memorial; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3