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Kenneth Gill crew
Six airmen wearing flying clothes or battledress standing in line behind a Lancaster. Captioned at top 'Crew from left to right, Sid Grimes wireless operator, Ken Gill navigator, Charlie Randon bomb aimer, Jack Penswick gunner, Eddy Barnett engineer,…
Loss of aircraft report
List crew and weapon (Tallboy) and target location. Notes 'shot down by enemy ground defences approx. 1000 today (This a/c was hit by H/7 in the T/A and seen to go down in flames and exploded as it hit the ground near Syke)'.
Operations against Tirpitz, Ijmuiden and Bielefeld: Vielesible Viaduct
Description of three (one aborted due to weather) operations against Tirpitz, photograph of crew on return from sinking Tirpitz, poor photocopy of target photograph of attach on Tirpitz. Account of operation on E & R boat pens at Ijmuiden along with…
Ten Cloth RAF Badges
Ten cloth badges kept by Jose.
#1 an air gunner brevet
#2 a navigator brevet
#3 an RAF eagle
#4 Commonwealth oversea stripes
#5 Leading aircraftsman badge
#6 metal RAF badge
#7 Australia shoulder badge
#8 Warrant Officer badge
#9 wireless…
#1 an air gunner brevet
#2 a navigator brevet
#3 an RAF eagle
#4 Commonwealth oversea stripes
#5 Leading aircraftsman badge
#6 metal RAF badge
#7 Australia shoulder badge
#8 Warrant Officer badge
#9 wireless…
Seven airmen
Seven aircrew all wearing tunics with brevet and side or peaked caps standing in line with trees in the background. Captioned from second man from left 'Ted W.Op, Art bomb aimer, Pat (DFM) skipper, Don engineer, Cliff navigator'.
Aircrew
Top - head and shoulders image of three aircrew wearing tunics with brevet (one pilot, one wireless operator and one air gunner) standing in a group with another figure in civilian dress behind them. They are standing on a railway station platform…
Aircrew and newspaper articles
Top left - newspaper cutting (London Gazette) with citation for Pilot Officer Baker and Warrant Officer Meek.
Top right - newspaper cutting - Lancaster lands on bomb door. Account of badly damage Lancaster with wounded crew returning from operation…
Top right - newspaper cutting - Lancaster lands on bomb door. Account of badly damage Lancaster with wounded crew returning from operation…
Seven aircrew
Seven airmen wearing a variety of flying kit standing in line in front of the rear fuselage of a Lancaster (registration ME584 squadron letter "Y"). Captioned 'Jimmie Hall wireless op Scot (marked with cross), Jack Meek observer Canada, Bill…
Crew photograph and list of operations
First page - photograph of seven airmen wearing battledress with brevet standing in front of a Lancaster. Captioned 'Lancaster - 138 Squadron, Alf Warren (3rd from the left) mid upper gunner'. Then follows a list of thirty-one operations between 2…
First tour crew
Note listing 1st tour crew. 'Pat Finnerty DFM, Nav C Boyes, F/E Cowling, W/O T Bellamy, B/A H Jones, M/U T J Page DFM, RG WBB, "J" was KO-J DS626 a Lancaster II with Hercules engines'.
Songs
Words for a number of songs including our outhouse, the foggy, foggy dew, the bomb aimers lament, three old ladies, teeny-weeny bomb, the wingco's OBE.
Crew
Top left - looking up at an airman wearing flying helmet sitting in cockpit of a bomber. Captioned 'Me at the flight engineer's panel of a Halifax Mk V, November 1943, looking as though I know what I'm doing'.
Top right - seven aircrew wearing Mae…
Top right - seven aircrew wearing Mae…
Conversion courses
Top - note that at the end of war, Ned Sparkes crewed up with other instructors at 85 OTU to convert to Lancaster and train for Tiger Force.
Left - wedding photograph a full length image of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet and holding peaked…
Left - wedding photograph a full length image of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet and holding peaked…
Airman, pilot and bomb aimer
Left - full length image of an airman wearing flying helmet, boots, lifejacket and parachute harness standing by the main undercarriage of a bomber. Captioned 'Joe Gildea, bomb aimer'.
Centre - view from rear of an airman looking out of the port…
Centre - view from rear of an airman looking out of the port…
Crew and Lancaster
Seven aircrew wearing flying clothing, lifejackets and parachute harness, carrying parachutes, all walking in front of a Lancaster. Captioned 'F/O Halloran [O'Halloran] and crew, "Lucky Luxton flew with this crew on trip to Merseburg 4/4/45, all were…
Frank Jolliffe
Frank Jolliffe, head and shoulders with bomb aimers brevet.
Frank Jolliffe application to defer release
Has requested deferred release post war to apply to remain in the service.
Frank Jolliffe authority for award of Good Conduct Badge
Internal working slip for Good Conduct Badge when Frank was Flight Sergeant on 75 Squadron .
Frank Jolliffe Bombing Instructors course report
Held at RAF Manby, pass cat B2.
Frank Jolliffe's F 1369 for 1945
Frank's first confidential report, asked for by the Air Ministry.
Frank Jolliffe, Airman's Record Sheet
Three items front and reverse of one card and front of the second. Covers in great detail Frank's progress through the training system and records his promotion to sergeant on completion of his training in Setember 1943. It is closed on his…
Frank Joliffe's leave record September 1943 to April 1945
Two items front and reverse of his card.
Seven aircrew
Seven airmen all wearing battledress with brevet standing in line in front of a Lancaster. Pilot is third from the left. Submitted with caption 'crew 2' and information 'Crew 2 l to r: Len Stevens FE, Harry Wilson W/Op, dad, Bob Lillico RG, Harry…
Bombing of Germany
Headline - Stuttgart badly hit, factories ablaze. Internal headlines - hard-pressed Germans, feeling the strain including some pilot accounts. Bombs in centre - fires joined into one, pilots account of fires. Eluded fighter, another would not fire,…
Observer (navigator) cartoons
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A number of cartoon drawings featuring observers - the brains of the bomber crew who takes the aircraft, crew and payload to where it will do the most good. It includes cartoons of a secretary, Albert Einstein and Adolf Hitler.