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- Tags: memorial
Harold Wilson's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Service Medal; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Jurby; RAF Manby; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Middleton St George; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; training; Wellington
Specimen Headstone Design
On the reverse is handwritten 'Burial Ground Eindhoven (Woensel) Gen Cem (EE-103) Holland'.
Interview with Vic Farmer
Interview with Colin Atkinson and Jean McEwan
Pilot Officer Scheidhauer - The Forced Landing and "The Great Escape"
Tags: 601 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; escaping; evading; Hurricane; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; pilot; prisoner of war; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Walrus
Interview with Ken Marshall
Interview with Gwynne Price
Tags: 195 Squadron; 35 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; C-47; crewing up; faith; flight engineer; Gee; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Colerne; RAF Graveley; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Raymond Race
Interview with Kenneth White
Tags: 169 Squadron; 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bombing; memorial; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Oulton; training; Window
The Care and Marking of War Graves
Tags: final resting place; memorial
Letter from the Imperial War Graves Commission
Tags: aircrew; final resting place; memorial
Letter to Maurice Stimpson's Father from the Imperial War Graves Commission
Order of Ceremony Runnymede Memorial Unveiling
John Beisly memoir
In remembrance of S/Ldr Kenneth George Bickers DFC (Age 21)
The great raids - Peenemunde 17 August 1943
Book includes:
Handwritten note on front 'In memory of Fred Dunn, killed Nov 22/23 1943'.
Telegram to Mr A C Dunn regretting to inform him that his son Sgt…
Thiepval Memorial Booklet
Tags: memorial
Flight Sergeant JR 'Bob' Cooke
Tags: 4 Group; 51 Squadron; killed in action; memorial
P/O Rupert Harwood
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; Lancaster; memorial
Interview with Janet Denny
Interview with Peter Scoley
Peter spent most of his life in and around farming near RAF Metheringham, which he…
Memoirs of Jim Cahir
Interview with Rosemary Dorricott
The loss of Lancaster ED838 and crew
The report contains information about the crew, the operation to Essen and their loss as well as maps and photographs.
The crew were:
Pilot Officer G A…
Interview with Harvey Hayward Bawden
Tags: 150 Squadron; 153 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; mechanics engine; memorial; nose art; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; Wellington