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Rex Searle and his barracks
Photos 1 to 3 are views across his barracks.
Photo 4 is a head and shoulders of Rex Searlein RAF uniform.
Robert Anderson's memoir
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); fear; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; searchlight; service vehicle; Tiger force; tractor; training; Wellington; Yale
Robert Wilfred Hawkes' training photographs
#1. Four men seated at a table in a Nissen hut. Bedding, washing and other paraphernalia of living can be seen. It is captioned: 'STURGATE '45'
#2. Six airmen in uniform, seated on bicycles with their arms around…
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…
Ron Riding's Mess Bill
Ronald Saunders memoir
Tags: 114 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-26; Boston; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Dominie; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Madley; RAF Weston-on-the-Green; RAF Yatesbury; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Room 9 Block 106 Stalag Luft III North
Room Arrangement AM Inspection
Room-mates at Carlstrom
Top right - single storey building with palm trees in front. Captioned 'The palm patio and orchestra shell…
Royal Air Force personnel and aircraft
Top right - nose art showing a woman throwing a bomb…
Tags: aircrew; Halifax; military living conditions; nose art; pilot
Rue Richelieu and Military Barracks
Sackville Hotel, Bexhill-on-Sea
Sailing
The photograph on the top centre of the left page shows a dinghy with trees lining the shore in the background.
The photograph on the top…
Tags: military living conditions; sport
Sam Saunder's Operations
Photo 1 is a vertical aerial photograph partly obscured by tracer fire.
Photo 2 is the 40 squadron crest.
Photo 3 is Sam in shorts and tee shirt in front of a…
Sam Saunders and Colleagues at Shallufa
Photo 1 is three airmen outside their quarters at Shaluffa, captioned 'Len Clark, WAG, Me.'
Photo 2 is Sam sitting at a desk smoking a pipe, captioned 'Me'.
Photo 3 is four airmen outside their quarters, captioned…
Sam Saunders Departing from Winnipeg
Photo 1 is Sam's barracks with airmen packing their belongings, captioned 'Packing! (Arthur and I)'
Photo 2 is the outside of the barracks with the snow melting, captioned 'Goodbye No 5'.
Photo 3 is an aircraft in…
Sam Saunders Training in Canada
Photo 1 is Sam at the navigator's station on an Anson.
Photo 2 and 4 snowy landscapes from an Anson.
Photo 3 is an air to air of the starboard side of an Anson.
Photo 5 is an ice hockey team resting.
Photo 6 is…
Scarborough postcard from Hedley Madgett to his parents
Scarborough postcard from Hedley Madgett to his parents
Scenes on the ground
Schlafenraum or Bedspace
Scrapbook page - aircraft and people
Scrapbook page - people
Tags: aircrew; B-24; military living conditions
Seashore, family scenes and service life
Top left - view out to sea with cliffs on the right.
Top right - six men and a woman wearing summer clothes sitting on chairs round a table in grass field.
Middle left - two women wearing dresses on a beach with sea behind them.
Centre…