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- Tags: grief
An airman to his mother
The fight with evil and my earthly mission fulfilled. Letter found amongst the personal belongings of a Royal Air Force pilot recently reported missing believed killed, to be sent to his mother if he were…
Lost! afar in distant lands
To a wounded hero
Tags: arts and crafts; grief; killed in action
Tom Wharmby's crew biographies
Flying Officer Ronald Herman Downes Cook, wireless operator/ air gunner;
Sergeant Ronald Hughes, navigator;
Sergeant John…
Letter of condolence from Doris to Mr Moth
Tags: faith; grief; killed in action
Newspaper cuttings and thanks for condolences
Tags: 9 Squadron; grief; killed in action
An airman to his mother
Frederick Caunter-Jackson Obituary
The Story of Harold Gorton
Obituaries of Edward Milling
Tags: grief; killed in action; missing in action
Still they seek those vanished aircrew. Work of R.A.F investigators
Oskar Spieß
Erich Thom and Karl B
Grete G
Elfriede, N
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Interview with Ronald Davis
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); displaced person; faith; fitter airframe; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; RAF Halton; RAF Scampton; runway; training
Memory of Mailly-Le-Camp
Tags: 1 Group; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); debriefing; Gee; grief; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Woodhall Spa; target indicator
Interview with Penny Turner
Interview with Carla Baietti
Tags: bombing; civil defence; fear; grief; home front; shelter
Interview with Sara Ventriglia
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; faith; fear; grief; Holocaust; home front; Pippo; shelter; strafing
Interview with Margaret Horry
Tags: 106 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; grief; killed in action; memorial; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Metheringham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Wickenby; Tirpitz; wireless operator