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- Tags: Red Cross
Interview with Arthur Mace
Letter to Mrs Lovegrove from E MThornton
A conversation with Oliver Wells
Tags: 5 Group; 600 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); evading; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; Mosquito; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cranwell; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Stradishall; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Sunderland; the long march; Tiger Moth; training
Gen's Story
The first part of the memoir talks of the many trials Genek went through both in attempting to rejoin his Polish Air Force unit and, once the Germans overran the country, escape to England.
Ganek…
Tags: 105 Squadron; 106 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; C-47; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; ground crew; hangar; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); killed in action; love and romance; Magister; mess; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Carlisle; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Henlow; RAF Hucknall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Red Cross; searchlight; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 5; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Letter to John Leigh's wife from RAF Foulsham
Letter to John Leigh's wife from Air Ministry
Letter to John Leigh's wife from the British Red Cross
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; Red Cross
Letter to John Leigh's wife from Air Ministry
Letter to Mrs JL Leigh from Red Cross
Tags: evading; missing in action; Red Cross
Letter to Mrs JL Leigh from Red Cross
Tags: missing in action; Red Cross
If Love were all...the story of a Second World War bomber crew
Tags: 12 Squadron; 15 OTU; 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ditching; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; love and romance; lynching; Me 110; memorial; mess; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Binbrook; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Seighford; RAF Shellingford; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Watchfield; RAF Wickenby; RCAF Calgary; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Advice to the relative of a man who is missing
The Last Flight
Tags: 3 Group; 460 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Fw 190; Halifax; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; missing in action; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Elsham Wolds; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Further notes Ben Boothman
Tags: 576 Squadron; crash; Dulag Luft; escaping; flight engineer; Ju 88; prisoner of war; Red Cross; shot down; sport
Sergeant B Boothman
Email from David Fell to Paul Handel
The document has handwritten annotations.
A second copy but with only pages 3 and 4…
Tags: 576 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; lynching; mess; mid-air collision; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Finningley; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; shot down; target indicator; target photograph; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Start of the Story
Tags: Red Cross
Letter to Brian Clarke's mother from Lilian Barclay
She writes about Christmas and stories about the crew.
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Brian Clarke's father from Air Ministry
Letter to Briain Clarke's father from Air Ministry
The Last Flight
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 3 Group; 460 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; final resting place; flight engineer; Fw 190; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 109; Me 110; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; shot down; target indicator; Wellington; wireless operator
Leslie Giddings memoir
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 207 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Me 110; prisoner of war; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6; training