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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1942-10"
Wismar 12/13 October 1942
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster; searchlight
Gordon Dennett and Ruth
#1 is a half length portrait of Gordon smoking a pipe.
#2 is a civilian Gordon leaning on a tree.
#3 is a half length portrait of Gordon in uniform.
#4 is a half length portrait…
Tags: aircrew
Appendix VI- Table of Raids
Tags: bombing
Flight Sergeant William Spencer
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; killed in action
Extract from No 102 Squadron history in 1942
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; RAF Pocklington
RAF Officers record of service - Kenneth Saw
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Snaith
Details of sorties carried out with 97 Squadron
Tags: 97 Squadron; bombing
List of operations
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; mine laying; shot down; Wellington
Aiming Point Certificate
Tags: 57 Squadron; aircrew; arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster
Ceylonese in the RAF (1939-45)
Summary of medical board
Tags: 305 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby
Alberta
Bottom right - an Oxford parked on airfield with fuel bowser in front. Behind left a control tower. Captioned 'Penhold, Oct 1942'.
Six Soldiers
On the reverse -
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8/10/42
Fred
Jim Noden (Cheshire)
Eric Haywood (Surrey)
Ken Barker (Chatham)
Tom Pantry (Hampton Court)
Albert (Blondie) Newman…
Three airmen
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
No 31 Elementary Flying Training School De Winton, 1942
The first has a Tiger Moth over snow covered expanse, captioned 'Tiger Moth about to take off'.…
Halifax DT546 damaged by flak, returned to Melbourne airfield
Summary of Medical Board
Tags: RAF St Athan
Leonard Fry's personal document
Allan Gould Service and Release book
Tags: aircrew; demobilisation; flight engineer
Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley 149542 VR biography
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bramcote; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Mepal; RAF Paignton; RAF Pocklington; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Windrush; RAF Winthorpe; recruitment; shot down; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Selection board interview information form
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; C-47; Halifax; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Seighford; Wellington
El Alamein
Photo 1 is a half-length portrait of Sam Saunders.
Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photograph of the battle at El Alamein. The view is mostly featureless with two explosions. It is captioned 'L.B.40.NT.24/25/10/42.8-->…
Tags: 40 Squadron; aerial photograph; bombing