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Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; pilot; training
Letter from Alan North to Joan Strong
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; Mosquito; navigator; pilot
Letter from Alan North to Joan Strong
He describes trips to Bocholt, Germany and Orleans.
Letter from Alan North to Joan Strong
Tags: 98 Squadron; entertainment; mess
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: 98 Squadron; aircrew; entertainment; navigator
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: 98 Squadron; aircrew; entertainment
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; mess; navigator; pilot; RAF Warboys
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Air Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Air Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; entertainment; navigator; pilot; training
Airmen at a dance
Tags: entertainment
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
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Interview with Bernard Bell
Bernard can remember seeing much of the bomber action with the aircraft almost turning the sky black as they all left to participate in the ops over Occupied Europe.
Bernard…
William North's 1940 diary
Tags: bombing; entertainment; home front; Home Guard
Two Invitations, Skyscraper and newspaper cutting
#1 is an invitation to the Presentation of Wings
#2 is the Kansas City Power and Light Building
#3 is an invitation to the Wings Dinner, after the Presentation.
#4 is a newspaper cutting about a dance . Dick Rooke…
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Fancy Dress at Elsham Wolds 1944
On the reverse -
'Fancy Dress at Elsham Wolds 1944
Taken on WAAF site
l to r
Gladys Keeling, Grace ? Joan Fletcher Betty Hassett, Win ?
Joan Rooke (Fletcher) [redacted]'.