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- Tags: dispersal
Stirling on a dispersal
Tags: 90 Squadron; dispersal; Nissen hut; Stirling
A-Able aircrew
Ferdinand II on ground
Tags: dispersal; Halifax; Halifax Mk 7; nose art
Flight Sergeant Stanley Archer
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; animal; dispersal; Lancaster
Caen Carpiquet airfield
On the left a reconnaissance photograph orientated with east at the top. On the left side of the airfield with a single runway 13/31 running from bottom left towards the centre. A…
More war memories. The RAF bombing raids on Revigny
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; dispersal; Dulag Luft; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); padre; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; sanitation; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; Window
Morlaix airfield
Caen-Carpiquet Airfield
Caen-Carpiquet Airfield
Caen-Carpiquet, Den Helder, Morlaix and unidentified canal
Top right an…
Feltwell village
Middle an aerial inclined photograph of a diamond shaped aircraft dispersal…
RAF Feltwell
Tags: aerial photograph; bomb dump; dispersal; hangar; RAF Feltwell
Six aircrew by the tail of a Lancaster
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; dispersal; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Six aircrew by the tail of a Lancaster
Interview with Kenneth Cook
Tags: 1 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Botha; crewing up; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Harry James
Interview with Ted Mawdsley
Tags: 103 Squadron; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Catalina; dispersal; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; perception of bombing war; RAF Elsham Wolds; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Wanda Szuwalska
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 82 OTU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control tower; coping mechanism; crewing up; dispersal; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; forced landing; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Me 109; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Desborough; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; recruitment; sanitation; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Don Watson
Lancaster and Fred Phillips' crew
Lancaster and Fred Phillips' crew
Lancaster 97 Squadron and Hampden aircraft and crews
Hampden aircraft and crews
Top left - head and shoulders portrait of Sergeant Stephen Dawson wearing tunic with pilot brevet and side cap. Captioned 'Brand new wings, June 40'. Top right - looking down on aircrew wearing flying helmet in the rear gunners position…