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- Tags: Nissen hut
Seven aircrew in front of a Lancaster
Tags: aircrew; Lancaster; Nissen hut
RAF Hartford Bridge
Photograph 3 is the port side of a Boston 'D' with invasion…
Interview with Jack Hayley
Tags: 170 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 83 OTU; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; love and romance; Magister; Meteor; military living conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Defford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Madley; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Windrush; RCAF Estevan; Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
342 Lorraine Squadron
Photograph 2 is of a French airman standing in front of a Boston, 'C'. It is named Ville…
RAF Ambulance and patient
Photograph 2 is of a patient on a stretcher being carried between the building and a military ambulance. There is a sign 'Officer's Entrance'.
Photograph 4 is…
Ground personnel
Photograph 2 is of a group of airmen and airwomen inside a Nissen hut.
Photograph 3 is of three airwomen and three airmen standing outside the entrance to…
Malcom Blake and Harry James
Tags: Nissen hut
Two airmen playing
Two airmen playing
Interview with Harry Irons. One
Tags: 158 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Halifax; In the event of my death letter; Ju 88; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Nissen hut; radar; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Driffield; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lissett; RAF Manby; Scarecrow; Spitfire; training
Interview with Bessie Birkby
Interview with Kenneth Shelton Green
He trained as an engineer after he was unable to fly due to eye…
Interview with Kenneth Locke Brown
Between leaving school and joining the Royal Air Force, Kenneth worked as a bank clerk, before signing…
Interview with Stanley Shaw
Interview with Margret Young
Interview with Victor Harding
Interview with George Royall
Tags: 166 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; entertainment; fear; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; observer; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Kirmington; searchlight; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ron Wade
Tags: 58 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; Ju 88; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morecambe; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Whitley
Winthorpe August 1944
Two airmen sun bathing with Nissen hut in background captioned 'Ken', 'Jim (Pilot)'.
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Kenneth Pope with two crew members
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; Nissen hut; pilot; wireless operator
RAF Aqir
Top right - three men in tropical uniform. Two have rifles (with…
RAF Ramat David
Tags: 32 Squadron; Nissen hut; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport
Airmen and scenes
Cairo and Egypt
Tags: Nissen hut; service vehicle