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- Tags: military service conditions
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Jack Hay to 'Auntie'
Letter from Jack Hay to 'Auntie'
Letter from Jack Hay to 'Auntie'
Letter from Jack Hay to 'Auntie'
A memoir of life in the WAAF during the war
Tags: 105 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 2 Group; 427 Squadron; 429 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Leeming; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Peter Field - a memoir
Letter from Cynthia Barry to Angela Duwell
Four Airmen
#1 is a pilot at the controls of an aircraft.
#2 is four airmen leaning against a wooden railway building. Above is a sign for Priceville.
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot; training
Airman in Aircraft
#1 is a half length portrait of an airman in flying kit inside an aircraft.
#2 is a pilot in his seat in an Anson. It is stamped Mar 1942.
Tags: aircrew; Anson; military service conditions; pilot; training
Ron Riding - At the Controls
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot
Memoir
Tags: 1669 HCU; 227 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 582 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Balderton; RAF Graveley; RAF Langar; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Ron Riding, Baltimores, Airmen and Wrecked German Aircraft
#1 is an airman in the cockpit of a Baltimore with the cockpit open.
#2 is four airmen beside their tent.
#3 is Ron at the controls of an aircraft.
#4 is a port side view of a Baltimore.
#5 is an airman standing…
Algiers Grand Post Office, Sunken ship, Airmen and Statue
#1 is the Algiers Grand Post Office with palm trees and a pool in front.
#2 is a sunken ship with a man leaning on it.
#3 is Ron in flying kit at his station on his aircraft.
#4 is a statue on a plinth, in a…
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot
View looking up at pilot
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot