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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1941-07"
Letter of appreciation
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My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
Thirty-five airmen
Submitted with caption 'Back row left to right. Edward Pullen, became a Wing Commander, killed in action 20 December 1943 when serving with 50…
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
Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Tags: RAF Lindholme
Donald Cameron certificate of service and release
Tags: promotion
F C Jenkins’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 20 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Lancaster; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cranage; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manston; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Penrhos; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Stradishall; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington
Robert Wareing pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 16 OTU; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; Flying Training School; Hampden; Initial Training Wing; Magister; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Grimsby; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sealand; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Seeding the Storm
Tags: 19 OTU; 207 Squadron; 220 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; animal; anti-aircraft fire; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Harvard; Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Driffield; RAF Kinloss; RAF Langar; RAF Morton Hall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Spilsby; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Worthy Down; Shackleton; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Two Wellington crews
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; missing in action; nose art; Wellington
F W Honey’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book. One
Letter and citation for Distinguished Flying Medal awarded to Dennis Batty
Citation describes daylight attack on Neiville [sic] Aerodrome when his aircraft was attached by…
George Alexander Mackie’s pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 15 Squadron; 1651 HCU; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Flying Training School; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; love and romance; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Cranfield; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
List of letters
RCAF School Aero Engine Division Galt July 1941
Tags: training
Script of telegram to Douglas Hudson's parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Telegram to Douglas Hudson from his mother
Tags: prisoner of war
Telegram to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Tags: prisoner of war