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Syd Marshall Initial Training Wing Bridlington
Photograph 2 is a head and shoulders portrait of Syd Marshall wearing a side cap with white flash.
The page is captioned 'I.T.W.…
121 intake Initial Training Wing Bridlington
Syd Marshall's Airman's Alphabetical Index card.
The page is captioned '121 Intake I.T.W Bridlington'.
Syd Marshall and flight engineer brevet
Syd Marshall's flight engineer's brevet.
Captioned 'After passing out St Athan 12-7-1944
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; RAF St Athan; training
Derrick Allen's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spanhoe; RAF St Athan; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington
Army history of cadet Ensign Margaret Pratt and Sergeant Charles Ward
Bill Thomas memoir
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 28 OTU; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Wigtown; training; Wellington
John Casey's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 29 OTU; 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Martinet; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Coningsby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
Airmen at Bridlington Grand Pavilion Theatre
Tags: aircrew; RAF Bridlington; recruitment; training
Interview with Harry Parkins. Two
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; fear; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Kirkby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; searchlight; Stirling; superstition; training
13 airmen
Group of airmen
Tags: training
Syd Marshall and a sailor
Tags: training
Flight engineer's training notes for a Lancaster
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster; training
Interview with Herbert Adams
Tags: 467 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Anson; bombing; control caravan; Cook’s tour; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fuelling; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Lichfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; Schräge Musik; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Richard Murray Allen
Interview with Sir Fitzroy Augier
Tags: African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; fear; RCAF Moncton; training
Interview with John Derek "Bill" Bailey. Two
Towards the end of the war, Derek did various bomber instructor courses and became a bombing instructor at RAF Lossiemouth on Wellingtons for Free French aircrew…
Tags: 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb disposal; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Blyton; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Swinderby; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Eric Reginald Barton
Interview with Philip Bates
Tags: 149 Squadron; 86 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; displaced person; Dulag Luft; entertainment; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lysander; Manchester; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Nissen hut; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Lakenheath; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; Resistance; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 4; Stirling; training; Window
Interview with Geoff Bibby
Interview with Charles Philip Blackham
Interview with Jeff Brown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-29; bombing; crewing up; Harvard; Lancaster; Meteor; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Marham; RAF Westcott; training; Wellington
Interview with John "Jack" Brown
Interview with Clarence Keith Bruhn
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; entertainment; Lancaster; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; recruitment; shot down; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window