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- Tags: pilot
Record of service for Squadron Leader Robert Antony Maurice Palmer VC DFC* AE (115772) RAFVR
Letter to Jim Tyrie from Montres Rolex S.A.
Tags: aircrew; pilot; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from Mrs EW Pepper
Tags: aircrew; pilot; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from Mrs EW Pepper
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; pilot; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Les Pickford from Mrs EW Pepper
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; pilot; prisoner of war
Norm George Smith video interview
Diary of Neill Chapman, Bomb Aimer
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Baby's cutlery set
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; heirloom; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Interview with Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Tom Coles
Tags: 158 Squadron; 4 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; grief; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Lissett; recruitment; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Harold Kirby. One
Tags: 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; crash; crewing up; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mechanics airframe; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; York
Interview with Howell Davies
Alan North collection inventory
Tags: 16 OTU; 98 Squadron; aircrew; B-25; bomb aimer; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Flying Training School; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Initial Training Wing; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Barford St John; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Halton; RAF Harrogate; RAF Oakington; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Warboys; sport; Tiger Moth; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Black Mike and Bomber Harris
Letter to Victor Rosser from Olaf Cusse
Tags: aircrew; bombing; ditching; missing in action; pilot; RAF Dishforth
Arthur Hollis: pupil instructor's final training report
Pat Hogan's recollection of events on 3/4 March 1945 written to a relative of Flying Officer Alan Shelton
Tags: 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; crewing up; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); entertainment; faith; final resting place; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; home front; Ju 88; killed in action; Me 109; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Lichfield; sanitation; shot down; training; wireless operator
Pat Hogan's account of being shot down and baling out
On take off
Interview with Harold Yeoman
Tags: 12 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; debriefing; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; Lancaster; love and romance; medical officer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; recruitment; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Robert Charles Stephenson Hancock
Harold Gorton
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; pilot
Caricature of Ron Mathers
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; Lancaster; pilot