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PPriceAP19020024.jpg
Top - broken rear fuselage of a crashed aircraft. Captioned 'KLM airliner crashed Rhatra Wells, Arabia'.
Bottom - front quarter view of an Oxford parked with engines running and man in cockpit window. Captioned 'Oxford'.

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PPriceAP19020021.jpg
Top left - formation of five Boulton Paul Overstrands airborne in line abreast. Captioned 'BP Overstrands'.
Top right - view across open ground of two, two storey buildings. Captioned 'Penhold 1941'.
Bottom left - view of four Oxford aircraft…

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PPriceAP19010019.jpg
Top left - view across lake of a town on far bank. Captioned 'Calgary taken from St George's Island'.
Top right - three men in a window.
Bottom left - view of trees and a model dinosaur on right. Captioned 'St George's Island.
Bottom right - view…

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PPriceAP19010005.jpg
Top left - an airman wearing tunic and side cap standing by a doorway. Captioned 'Jock Ross, Calgary'.
Bottom right - an Oxford parked on airfield with fuel bowser in front. Behind left a control tower. Captioned 'Penhold, Oct 1942'.

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MWindmillSA174076-160422-03.jpg
Covers all postings in service including training in England and the United States and operations on 158 Squadron flying Halifax after which he was a pilot instructor.

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MWierT500238-170122-01.pdf
Tadeusz record of flying at No 48 M.U for years 1952 to 1958. Lists aircraft types and hours by month.

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MBallantyneWM1395001-191003-02.jpg
List sequence of blind approach training instruction on Oxford.

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MCameronD173516-200820-08.jpg
Table with aircraft column on the left and columns for day and night 1st and 2nd. Filled with hours and calculations. Submitted with caption 'calculating flying hours for logbook'.

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MLeeJR575842-180320-090001.jpg
Service history from December 1942 to August 1943 on 467 RAAF squadron at RAF Bottesford. Prisoner of war at Stalag IVB - 1945. Then list post war postings from June 1945 until September 1967. Shot down 15/16 August 1943.

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BDowardATansleyEHv3.pdf
Covers background, marriage, civilian occupation and family. Followed by service history including basic and flying training in England and the United States and then advanced flying training and operational conversion back home. Posted to 57…

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PJeziorskiAFK17010012.jpg
A port side view of an Oxford in flight. Information supplied with the collection states it is from the Service Training School at RAF Newton, 1943.

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MLancasterJO103509-170308-010001.jpg
A summary of the aircraft that John has flown and a list of his flying awards.

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SBakerDA19210428v20033-0001.jpg
Forty-nine airmen wearing tunic and side caps, sitting and standing in four rows. In the background a brick building with two windows. On the reverse 'P/O Baker, Cranfield, FTC, Advanced Flying Training Unit, flying Oxford trainers'.

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PDentonDH20057.jpg
Two air-to-air photographs of an Oxford, tail of the photographers aircraft in shot.

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PMcBeanLW16010039.jpg
Man wearing flying helmet and goggles on the left hand seat of an aircraft cockpit. On the reverse 'Oxford cockpit BAT [Beam Approach] course, Watchfield, Nr Swindon, November 44'.

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LKluva[Ser#-DoB]v1.pdf
A flying log book created for Kluva, temporary sergeant and assistant wireless operator, flight engineer and navigator, covering the period from 8 December 1942 to 20 June 1944. He was stationed at RAF Middleton St George and RAF Graveley. Aircraft…

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PFordTA17110039.pdf
Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is an Oxford on its nose, captioned 'An Oxford visits us'.
Photo 2 and 3 are a Harvard, AJ943, upside down, captioned '-and John got out & walked away'.
Photo 4 is a Harvard upside down, captioned 'Digger…

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PThomasAF20080031.jpg
Photos 1 and 2 are port side ground views of different aircraft.

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PEvansD17030069.jpg
A starboard side view of an Oxford.

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PTyrieJSB19010001.jpg
Photo 1 is a front/side view of a biplane, captioned 'Hart RAFVR Perth 1939'.
Photo 2 is Jim Tyrie at the controls of an aircraft, captioned 'Oxford Cranwell 1940'.
Photo 3 is a rear/side view of an Oxford, captioned 'Cranwell 1940'.

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BTyrieJSBTyrieJSBv1.pdf
A biography of Jim Tyrie. He was called up on 1st September 1939 and learned to fly on Tiger Moths. He was shot down on his 7th operation over Berlin. In POW camp he was described as a dedicated tunneller. There is a list of the camps he was kept in…

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PPaineGH1606.jpg
Geoff Paine in flying kit, parachute harness over shoulder, standing behind left wing root of Oxford. On the reverse 'Pilot Geoffrey Hugh Paine 1947 [deleted] Gwelloe, S. Rhodesia [/deleted] R.A.F. Valley conversion to multi engines A/S Oxford'.

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PMadgettHR19030045.jpg
Top left - view of cockpit with instruments and two seats and control columns. Captioned 'Oxford cockpit layout'. Bottom left - view of instrument panel and top of single control column. Caption 'Part of Harvard II cockpit'. Right - three quarter…

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PMadgettHR19030041.jpg
Top - rear quarter view of Oxford parked on airfield. Captioned 'Airspeed Oxford'. Bottom left - line of Oxfords in middle distance. Bottom right - front quarter view of Lysander parked on airfield. Captioned 'Westland Lysander'.

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PMadgettHR19030040.jpg
Titled 'Airspeed Oxfords'. Left - line of Oxfords parked on airfield in middle distance. Top right - line of three Oxfords parked on airfield with hangar in the background. Bottom right - rear quarter view of Oxford parked on airfield with control…

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