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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1948"
Aircraft histories of Tiger Moth aircraft flown by Denis Clyde-Smith
Interview with Jan Black. Two
Tags: 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; crash; Defiant; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military ethos; Operational Training Unit; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Bramcote; RAF Cosford; RAF Evanton; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Mary Stuart
Interview with Helga Wynne
Interview with Peter John Peck
Interview with Barry Smith
In 1948, Barry was…
Interview with Fiona Andrews
James Wrigley's flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1656 HCU; 19 OTU; 199 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 81 OTU; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Dominie; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Tilstock; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
A woman, an airmen and three civilians
Photograph 2 is a half length image of an airman with a side cap, captioned 'Blackpool 1941'.
Photograph 3 is a woman and two children sitting on a doorstep, captioned…
Tags: aircrew
Sam Wrigley, James Wrigley and groups of airmen
Photograph 2 is missing, captioned 'George's Girl Friend 1948'.
Photograph 3 is a group of six airmen, four standing, two kneeling, captioned '…
Tags: aircrew; animal; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morecambe
Paddy Hamilton, James Wrigley, a wedding and a young boy
Photograph 2 is a three quarters portrait of James Wrigley in a sidcot flying suit, captioned 'Yatesbury 1941'.
Photograph 3 is a wedding party…
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; RAF Binbrook; RAF Yatesbury
Washington, three civilians, aircrew
Photograph 2 is a head and shoulders portrait of a man, a woman and a girl, captioned 'Lloyd,…
Tags: aircrew; Lincoln; RAF Hemswell
Singapore and Malaya
Photograph 2 is small boats, captioned 'Sampans, Singapore Harbour'.
Photograph 3 is a cart and bullock, captioned 'Native transport'.
Photograph 4 is a street scene.
Photograph 5 is a street…
Tags: animal
Tengah Open Day
Photograph 2 is the nose of a Spitfire.
Photograph 3 is a Vampire flying by.
Photograph 4 is front view of a Lincoln.
They are captioned 'Open Day, Tengah, Singapore 1948. Beaufighter, Spitfire,…
Tags: 97 Squadron; Beaufighter; C-47; Lincoln; Spitfire
Malaya, Saigon, Borneo and Singapore
Photograph 2 is an oblique aerial view of a city and river, captioned 'Saigon, Indo-China'.
Photograph 3 is and air-to-air…
Tags: hangar; Lincoln; military living conditions
Beaufighter, Spitfire and Lincoln
Photograph 2 is an air-to-air view of a Spitfire taken from a Lincoln, captioned 'Spitfire breakaway, Shallufa Egypt…
Tags: 97 Squadron; Beaufighter; Lincoln; RAF Hemswell; Spitfire
Lincoln and Sigs Inst Course
Photograph 2 is ten airmen arranged in two rows, the front row of six is seated with four men standing behind. It is captioned…
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; Lincoln; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator
Lincoln at dispersal
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: bombing up; Lincoln
Jack Hayley’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 1667 HCU; 170 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 83 OTU; 83 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Magister; Meteor; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Defford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Madley; RAF Peplow; RAF Peterborough; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Windrush; RCAF Estevan; RCAF Moncton; Shackleton; Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York