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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1941-04"
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Ernest Smith's pilot’s flying log book. One
Tags: 14 OTU; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; 30 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Flying Training School; Hampden; Magister; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upper Heyford; training; Wellington
David and the RAF
Tags: 100 Group; 149 Squadron; 15 OTU; 156 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 192 Squadron; 3 Group; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; forced landing; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; P-38; Pathfinders; pilot; propaganda; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Evanton; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Warboys; RAF West Raynham; target indicator; training; Wellington; Window
Letter to M H Edwards from A C Rose
Tags: love and romance
Keith Thompson's very early service
RAF F2150 RAFVR, deferment of call up,
his service number 'ticket' drawn out of a hat and address of someone with a service number fifteen after Keith Thompson's.
Tags: recruitment
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
No 1 Squadron, D Flight, Aberystwyth
Tags: Initial Training Wing; training
Peter Hazeldene's Log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lysander; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Jim Tyrie's flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 21 OTU; 77 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Chivenor; RAF Cranwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hendon; RAF Khormakser; RAF Lindholme; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Seighford; RAF Shallufa; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watton; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; York
Arrival in Barth April 1941
Photo 2 and 4 are 14 men in two rows beside a hut. It is captioned 'May purge from Dulag
Back: Libbey, Stratford, Norton,…
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
Airmen Prisoners
Photo 2 is a bearded man with a pipe.
Photo 3 is two smiling pilots.
Photo 4 is a man in a sweater holding onto the wire fence.
Photo 5 is two men in shirts, one…
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; pilot; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
End Room Tunnellers April 1941
Photo 2 is a group of ten men.
Photo 3 is a group of 13 men.
Photo 4 is a group…
Tags: aircrew; escaping; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
Jim Tyrie
Item 1 is a newspaper cutting with a camp photograph of Jim Tyrie and nine other prisoners, all are named.
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting of Jim Tyrie…
Tags: aircrew; bombing; pilot; prisoner of war; shot down; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 2; Whitley
Letter to Mr JB Tyrie from Air Ministry
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; pilot; Red Cross
Postcard from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war