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- Tags: military service conditions
Interview with David Bowker
Tags: 103 Squadron; 150 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lysander; Magister; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Pershore; RAF Rufforth; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
12 Squadron's Move from Khormaksar to Robat
199 Squadron
Second is of a Stirling just getting airborne, captioned 'Dusk take off', ' Nan taken by ground staff as we left for Germany on our last trip April…
301 Dywizjon Bombowy RAF Hemswell
Item 2 is a photograph of an airman in an aircraft cockpit.
Item 3 is an airman in a turret of an aircraft.
Item 4 is six airmen, one leaning out of the cockpit and the rest in front of the port engine of a…
52 Squadron Transport Command at Work
Photo 1 is three airmen in white uniforms, captioned "The Crew" and 'Van-Den-Ernie'.
Photo 2 is Dennis at his work station, captioned 'The great Moore at work in the air'.
Photo 3 is an airman, captioned 'Butch in…
75 Squadron photographs
Second is a photograph of a group…
A memoir of life in the WAAF during the war
Tags: 105 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 2 Group; 427 Squadron; 429 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Leeming; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
A Rather Strange Time
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; intelligence officer; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Account of operations
Aerial farm at Branston Mere Y station
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Air gunner in rear turret
Aircrew
Top right - three quarter length image of a man wearing parachute harness looking back from the cockpit of an aircraft.…
Aircrew
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Aircrew by YMCA mobile canteen
Aircrew by YMCA mobile canteen
Aircrew in B-24 cockpit
Tags: aircrew; B-24; military service conditions
Aircrew in bomb aimer position
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Aircrew in cockpit
Aircrew in cockpit
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Aircrew relaxing
Airfield views
Photograph 2 is of airmen eating at rows of tables in a mess hall.
Photograph 3 is a head and shoulders portrait of an aircrew member on an aircraft.
Photograph 4 is of a man sitting reading in an…
Airman and machine gun
Airman asleep
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; York