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- Tags: military living conditions
Dennis Moore's Crew and Accommodation
Photo 1 is inside a Nissen hut, captioned 'Officer's quarters, Wigtown'.
Photo 2 is an airman at the door to his accommodation, captioned 'Fred -Bomb Aimer'.
Photo 3 is a billet with pin-ups, captioned 'Methwold…
Dennis Raettig's wartime memoir
Tags: 104 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; animal; B-24; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; incendiary device; mechanics engine; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Driffield; RAF East Moor; RAF Harwell; RAF Leeming; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; runway; service vehicle; take-off crash; tractor; training; Wellington; Whitley
Desert photographs
2. Airman in shorts digging, captioned 'Making a new home'.
3. Airman standing at the entrance to his…
Diary - Sergeant F T Jones
Dick Curnock's Wartime Log
Dick Rooke and three colleagues
On the reverse -
'[indecipherable] (A/G)
Ken Wilkins (W/Op)
Tom Cameron (AG) (+ Sqdn crest)
myself
Reading from right to left
Shallufa, Egypt 11/2/46
outside our…
Dick Rooke's Bed
On the reverse of the second 'My bed. No mosquito nets. Out of season.'
Dining hall, gym and lecture hall at RAF Hillside Camp
Don Cameron
Donald Baker's wartime log for British prisoners
Dust storm at RAF camp
Eight Airmen in Mud
Eric Arthur
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Eric Arthur's diary
Eric Horace Woods' mess bill
Tags: aircrew; mess; military living conditions; navigator
Ernest Probyn and Letter from Sir Arthur Harris
The letter is a morale booster to encourage his airmen.
Extract from Bernard Clark's diary
Extracts from war diaries and information on aircraft crews and lists of bombing operations
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 28 OTU; 4 Group; 466 Squadron; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military living conditions; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Wymeswold; searchlight; training; Wellington; wireless operator
F G Bower in his Billet
Photo 2 and 3 are F G Bower working at a desk.
F32 Stalag Luft 1
Fayid, Egypt
This is a Norton model 16H 490 cc motorcycle with a Canadian Army registration number.
Second is of four servicemen, standing on sand, buildings and tents in…