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- Tags: Initial Training Wing
C Flight No 1 Squadron No 11 ITW June 1941
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
Flying Officer Francis Hosier's Record of Service
No 11 Flight "C" Squadron, Newquay
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
Physical training
A group of airmen undergoing physical training. On the reverse 'Newquay 1942 ITW'.
A second and third photograph have on the reverse 'Newquay Jan. 1942. ITW'.
IN the background of one is the New Theatre & Cafe.
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Three
The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.
Tags: 100 Group; 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Honington; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Oulton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Shipdham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodbridge; Stearman; Stirling; superstition; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter One
There is a second copy with handwritten edits.
Teddy's Career in the RAFVR 9th September 1939 - 11th October 1941
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Defiant; ditching; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; meteorological officer; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; propaganda; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; sport; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Service history of Sergeant Alfred Edward "Teddy" Cosgrove
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crash; final resting place; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF Ringway; RAF Wickenby; sport; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Ron Carter's Service Record
Jim McGaughran's Record Sheet
Extracts from John's Service Record
Tags: 109 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 20 OTU; 29 OTU; 8 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Distinguished Flying Cross; Gee; Initial Training Wing; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Cranage; RAF Dumfries; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; training; Wellington
Flight Lieutenant Graham Aungiers
Tags: 156 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 28 OTU; 582 Squadron; 8 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wymeswold; training; Wellington; Whitley
64 airmen at Bridlington Grand Pavilion Theatre
Flying Officer James Harry Bird DFC
Robert Wilfred Hawkes' training photographs
#1 a group of trainees arranged in four rows, captioned ' 'C' flight ISQD 13 ITW Torquay (1943)'
#2 is a head and shoulders portrait of Robert Wilfred Hawkes with a trainees cap.
#3 is three trainee airmen standing…
C Flight No 4 Squadron 5 I.T.W.
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; RAF Torquay; training
C Flight, No 4 Squadron, 21 I.T.W
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; RAF Torquay; training
C Flight, No 4 Squadron, 5 I.T.W April 1942
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; RAF Torquay; training
B Flight, No 4 Squadron Group Photograph
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
Course photograph
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; observer; training
21 Initial Training Wing
On the reverse each man has signed his name. There is an annotation '21 Initial Training Wing Bridlington Yorkshire January 1st- February 11th 1944'.
Eric Quinn Biographies
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 75 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakley; RAF West Freugh; RAF Westcott; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
No 1 Flight No 2 Squadron 10 ITW
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
53 Trainee Airmen
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
A Biography of Maurice Stimpson
Tags: 156 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Seighford; RAF Warboys; RAF Windrush; training