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- Tags: Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Wanda Szuwalska
Interview with Charles and Margaret Ward
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 Harold Yeoman
Tags: 12 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; debriefing; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; love and romance; medical officer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; recruitment; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Reg Jaques and family members
Reg Jaques with family members
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; Intelligence Officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melksham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mary Ward. Two
Tags: aircrew; animal; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; grief; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; heirloom; Intelligence Officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; military service conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Airwoman in uniform
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
The King is dressed in RAF uniform. Queen Elizabeth is being accompanied by a WAAF. Captioned 'R.A.F. West Raynham Sept 1942. King George VI, Queen Elizabeth. Group Capt Earl of…
Visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
King George VI presenting medals
Photograph 8 is an overall view of the investiture ceremony with the King and Queen, airmen and airwomen lined up and civilians spectating.
Captioned 'King George VI presenting…
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Interview with Andrew Deytrikh
137 Wing relaxing
Photograph 2 is of Reginald George Cavalier painting a partially-clad woman on the canvas of a…
Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
Motor transport
Photograph 2 is of a group of airmen.
Photograph 3 is of a group of airmen and a woman.
Photograph 4 is of a pilot standing beside a car.
Photograph 5 is of a four airmen, two airwomen and two…
Inside Binbrook control tower
Photograph 2 is of an airman with a very pistol raised.
Photograph 3 is of an airwoman is working at a desk, with an airman standing behind her. On the wall is a map of Great Britain and an airfield…
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…