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- Tags: pilot
Seven aircrew
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; flight engineer; observer; pilot
Wedding photograph
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; pilot
Seven aircrew
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; pilot
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
Letter from Alan North to Joan Strong
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; Mosquito; navigator; pilot
Letter from Alan North to Joan Strong
[some pages are missing]
Tags: 98 Squadron; aircrew; navigator; pilot
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; mess; navigator; pilot; RAF Warboys
Crash report
His last flight
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; pilot; RAF Newmarket; training
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; entertainment; navigator; pilot; training
Alan North's service record
HB Sproates and colleague
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; pilot
Senior RAF officers and Lancaster R5868 S-Sugar
Tags: aircrew; Lancaster; nose art; pilot; RAF Waddington
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
Overseas life
Tags: 105 Squadron; 110 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 203 Squadron; 37 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 70 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; crash; ditching; evacuation; Hurricane; incendiary device; killed in action; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Evanton; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Yatesbury; searchlight; Swordfish; Wellington
Years to live
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; killed in action; pilot; RAF West Freugh
In front of a pyramid
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; observer; pilot
Archibald Steele’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Grantham; RAF Metheringham; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF woodley; RCAF Brandon; RCAF Penhold; RCAF Virden; Tiger Moth; training
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force