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Emergency travel certificate
Tags: evading
Citation for Distinguished Flying Cross for acting Flight Lieutenant Harold William Bratley
Newspaper cutting - D.F.C for old Ludensian
H W Bratley - observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 1678 HCU; 7 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; escaping; evading; forced landing; Harrow; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honington; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; Wellington
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
Identification photos
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; evading; Resistance
Interview with Dougie Marsh
Part 1.
Doug Marsh was the son of a Royal Navy officer and moved around quite a bit as a child between Kent and Lincolnshire. When his father retired from the Navy his parents bought a fish and chip shop in Grimsby but…
Evading compass
Tags: evading
Holten in Oorlogstjd (1984) - Holten in Wartime
Interview with John Albert Taplin
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; bombing; evading; ground personnel; Halifax; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Leeming; RAF Melbourne; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; the long march; training; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Spanish, Frebch, Dutch, and German phrase book
Tags: evading
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; escaping; evading; prisoner of war
Les Pickford's 1943 Diary
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; C-47; entertainment; escaping; evading; prisoner of war; Red Cross; sport
German Truck Notice
It is captioned 'This is a photo of a notice on the back of a German army truck. The notice was brought back to Woodhall Spa by an Officer who was shot down & "walked home".'
Tags: evading; RAF Woodhall Spa
Crash and Crew of Lancaster ND533
Flying Officer Philip Derek Hemmens
On the reverse 'Survived crash -died in Buchenwald. 152583. Bomb aimer. Willie. F/O Phil Hemmens'.
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; crash; evading; killed in action
Pierre Madry raises his Hat to the Crew of a British Bomber
Finally there is an address by Abbe Plante, parish priest of Lyons-la-Foret,…
The Diary of an Airman
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bale out; bomb aimer; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; evading; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; missing in action; navigator; P-47; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; Resistance; shot down; Typhoon; wireless operator