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A booklet issued to RAF volunteers on arrival at a Receiving Centre. It summarises what is about to happen to the volunteer.

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Pamphlet with b/w image of a crew round a table in low light. Wings and roundel on back cover.

This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.

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A booklet produced for Air Gunners. The cover features a Halifax and an air gunner brevet.This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.

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A booklet about becoming an air bomber. The cover features a four engined bomber and an air bomber brevet.

This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.

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Pamphlet cover. Text title and b/w photograph of an airman wearing flying helmet and jacket sitting at engineer station in aircraft with flight engineer brevet overlaid. On the back cover RAF badge and roundel.

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Reports Flying Officer Kenneth Gill DFC was presumed killed after being posted missing on 21 March 1945 on his 45th operation. Gives some local history concerning Ken Gill, mentions Tirpitz operation. Also reports other RAF Yorkshiremen killed, Sgt…

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Ye Olde Saracens Head at Balsall Common, Coventry. An airman is standing outside holding a pint of beer.

Identification kindly provided by David Perrett of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Group.

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Three photographs of yachting.
Photo 1 and 2 are of five men looking back. They are towing a small dinghy.
Photo 3 is of two men looking to the front of the yacht

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15 Squadron at RAF Wyton, posed in four rows in front of a Stirling.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

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The story of a Lancaster, NG358, LS-H. There are details of 12 operations during 1944/5. Dennis details the operations and his crew.

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Sent by John from prisoner of war camp to his parents and Joyce expressing his hope that he reaches home before the postcard. It includes a coloured drawing of some holly and a prisoner with a red triangle on his back looking through a barbed wire…

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102 aircrew wearing tunic and peaked or side caps sitting and standing in five rows in front of a Lancaster. There is a defaced set of characters in the top left of the photograph. Captioned 'August 1942, Wyton: Pathfinder Force'.

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Three items on an album page.

Item 1 is a photograph of eight airmen captioned 'Crew Room Wyton'.
Item 2 is a chart of Shallufa, Egypt captioned 'RANAD for Shallufa'.
Item 3 is a photograph of a Lancastrian captioned 'Lancastrian loading for…

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A list of 16 aircraft and crew lost between May and November 1942 from 301 Squadron.
Business card for P/O Harry William Bock, Polish Air Force.

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Book No. 1 Contents. A list of four significant events in Bob's service.

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Photo 1 is a group of people round the back of a car, annotated:
We got stuck in the sand near Garwolin.
Photo 2 is five people with a caption with their names 'Maciek Miszewski, Jerzy Rajewski, Jan Rabek NN.
Photo 3 is the same group as photo 2…

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Top - course photograph with a large group of members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force sitting and standing in three rows with wooden hut in the background. Captioned 'Senior NCOs Admin Course, RAF Wilmslow, March 1944'.
Bottom - document…

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Top - four m,embers of Women's Auxiliary Air Force standing chatting in a corridor to Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother). In the background a poster. Bottom - thirty-eight aircrew in four rows all wearing tunic and side caps. Reg Woolgar is in the…

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A group of four men and a woman standing outside the Arlington Hotel. One man is a pilot in khaki uniform, another is in battledress and the remaining two are in khaki.

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A woman stands beside a memorial gravestone to fallen RAF heroes. The same woman, in a second photograph, is standing beside a second memorial.

Left is photograph of a woman standing next to a memorial set against hillside with the inscription;…

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Two photographs of Wolfgang Thimmig.
#1 A half length portrait of Wolfgang, captioned 'Wolfgang Thimmig 1936'. He was the pilot that shot down Paul's Stirling in 1943.
#2 is a full length image of Wolfgang.

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