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Two postcards from Wally Layne
Middle - front of postcard with address to Mr and Mrs…
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war; sport
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war; promotion
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war
Postcard from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from RAF central depository
Tags: missing in action; prisoner of war
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from Air Ministry casualty branch
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from the Red Cross
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from the Red Cross
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; sport
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from the Red Cross
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from the RAF war casualties account department
Tags: prisoner of war; RAF Uxbridge
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from 97 Squadron adjutant
Tags: 97 Squadron; prisoner of war; RAF Bourn; Red Cross
Wally Layne's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; Dominie; Gneisenau; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Lindholme; RAF Penrhos; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; shot down; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Wally Layne's YMCA prisoner of war log book
Note from censor
Tags: prisoner of war
Corrections to map
Notice from Red Cross
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Joan Layne's diary covering the period her husband Wally was a prisoner of war
Freed by Americans flown back home
Tags: bale out; prisoner of war
Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…
Tags: 5 Group; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; Guinea Pig Club; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator
Halifax DT546 damaged by flak, returned to Melbourne airfield
Loose on the wind
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 4 Group; 578 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control tower; crash; crewing up; Defiant; faith; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; In the event of my death letter; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; Manchester; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); medical officer; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; observer; operations room; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force