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Interview with David Bowker
Tags: 103 Squadron; 150 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lysander; Magister; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Pershore; RAF Rufforth; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Ivon Warmington’s pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 128 Squadron; 16 OTU; 166 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 30 OTU; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 410; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Gamston; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Paignton; RAF Peplow; RAF Upper Heyford; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Jack Jarmy’s Royal Canadian Air Force observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 218 Squadron; 75 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; Flying Training School; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Meteor; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Abingdon; RAF Carlisle; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chivenor; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Mepal; RAF Middleton St George; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Shallufa; RAF Swinderby; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Westcott; Shackleton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Letter to Doris Muir from the Air Ministry
The Prisoner of War March 1945
Wing Commander Burrows and Muriel Audrey Imming
'A Day at East Kirkby'
'A' Flight dance
'L to R 'Si' Turner, Gibson, Stephenson 'Diane' Jobling
GC MacDonald 'CBE' John Harvey'.
'Bailing Out' and 'Rear Gunner Inspects'
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Lancaster
'Comm' Flight Khormaskar
A post-it shows an engine and propeller with a star and 'Stanley Shaw…
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Wellington
'D' Day Route of Steve Puskas
'D' Flight RAF Grantham
#1 a port side view
#2 two airmen shaking hands at the front of an Atlas
#3 a port side view of an Atlas with a Hucks Starter vehicle at the front.
Tags: aircrew; RAF Grantham; service vehicle
'Flying' on the ground and V-crew
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Gaydon
'Gandhi Gardens' Karachi
Photo 1 is a view of gardens and palm trees.
Photo 2 is an airman in pith helmet, khaki and shorts leaning on a bench in the park.
Photo 3 is an airman wearing a pith helmet, khaki and shorts standing on a path in…
Tags: aircrew
'If I don't come back' documentary newspaper cuttings
Cutting 2 is an explanation of the idea of why the documentary was made and some detail about what inspired it.
Cutting 3 is…
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
'In a World of Space' Card
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Swanton Morley
'Meet Mrs Mandon' - Stalag Luft 3
Top left - Blurred image of fourteen men in two rows wearing a variety of civilian dress. Captioned '[..] "Meet Mrs Mandon", Stalag Luft 3. Nov'.
Top right - two actors, one in white waiters…
'Old Mike Squared' and Cape Town
'Ops' with the Howard Crew
'Piccadilly' Moncton
'Robbo' Robinson
#1 Robbo in front of long tin roofed building. On the reverse 'My "Oppo" Robbo '46 Played football & cricket for the Wanderers (RAF Egypt team)'.
#2 Robbo holding a cat. Behind is a long tin roofed shed. On the reverse…
Tags: aircrew; animal; flight engineer; sport