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Aerial inclined photograph showing open countryside with fields, woods and occasional buildings. In the bottom left is a field containing a large number of gliders gathered and parked close together in a corner at the far end. There are a number of…

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Aerial inclined photograph showing snow covered flat open countryside with a few marked field boundaries. In the foreground on the left part of a fenced field with a few boundary trees. In the distance more wooded countryside. Captioned 'Flooded area…

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Aerial inclined photograph showing flooded fields with some boundary hedges and isolated buildings in the foreground. In the middle is a village orientated left to right across the scene. At the left end is a church surrounded by houses. In the…

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Aerial inclined photograph showing flooded farmland. In the foreground a farmhouse with hedge lined fields/orchards to the right. A flooded road runs from bottom left towards the middle when it bends back towards the top left. Along the road are…

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Aerial inclined photograph showing flat flooded land in the foreground and a coastal town in the distance. On the left side a inlet open into open sea. A river runs from middle right side towards the sea on the left. Beyond the river is a town on a…

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On the left an aerial inclined photograph showing a city landscape with many multistory buildings. In the foreground several scattered damaged multistory buildings surrounded by rubble. In the centre buildings are more contiguous and intact but…

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On the left an aerial inclined photograph looking north showing a city with a river on the right. In the centre Cologne Cathedral with the railway station just beyond. In the foreground several damaged multistory buildings and areas of rubble. In the…

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On the left an aerial inclined photograph showing a wide river flowing right to left through the centre of a city of Cologne, In the centre the Hohenzollern railway bridge with the centre spans collapsed into the river. On the far side the railway…

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On the left an aerial inclined photograph showing a destroyed city area. In the foreground a long thin body of water is surrounded by destroyed and damaged buildings. In the centre buildings have almost completed been reduced to rubble with just a…

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On the left an aerial inclined photograph of a badly damaged town. The the foreground a open area with few standing buildings, large areas of rubble and occasional bomb craters. In the bottom right quadrant a road circles a small wooded area. There…

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On the left an aerial inclined photograph of a city on two sides of a river. The river flows from centre right to left with three inlets leading to two waterways on the far side. The whole land area is covered with buildings with some in the…

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On the left an aerial inclined photograph of a river with city on the far bank. At the bottom two waterways divided by a split of land lead up to a river which runs left to right. There are long low buildings on the spit of land. On the far bank to…

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On the left an aerial inclined photograph of a city on the left bank of a river. At the bottom left a park with trees and lakes. To the right of the park a road curves around a large built up area with a twin spire church at its centre. There is a…

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On the left an oblique aerial photograph of a city. In the foreground many multistory buildings some showing signs of damage or missing roofs and a a few having been reduced to rubble. On the right a railway runs along the side with a multi-platform…

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On the left an oblique aerial photograph of the River Rhine with a destroyed steel girder bridge with both spans collapsed into the river. This is the Raiffeisen road bridge. The Rhine which is running left to right, is split at this point into two…

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Colin Cole was brought up and schooled at Twickenham, and worked for a time at W H Smith before joining the Royal Air Force. He trained as a wireless operator/air gunner at RAF Yatesbury and RAF Barrow in Furness. He then served with 617 Squadron,…

LBellinghamPF1397635v1.pdf
The log book covers the training and operational career of bomb aimer Peter Bellingham from 10 March 1943 to 21 February 1946. After training in South Africa he flew Halifaxes and Stirlings with 138 Squadron, taking part in 30 night operations over…

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Roy Briggs was born in Battersea, London. After leaving school he undertook an engineering apprenticeship with Benham and Sons, producing equipment for the war. He describes his life during the Blitz. When he joined the Royal Air Force he trained as…

LCaseyJ2219470v1.pdf
Navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers flying log book for Sergeant John Casey from 26 February 1944 to 8 October 1945. Detailing training schedule and operations flown. Served at 7 Air Gunnery School followed by training at 29…

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Herbert Adams grew up in New South Wales Australia and joined the Air Training Corps as soon as it was established. He later joined the Royal Australian Air Force and after training, he completed a tour of operations as a navigator with 467 Squadron.…
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