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- Tags: civil defence
City fire guard certificate and Defence Medal
Tags: civil defence; home front
Government information leaflet - if the invader comes
Tags: civil defence; home front
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Tom Payne
Tags: bombing; civil defence; evacuation; firefighting; home front; recruitment
Release from National Fire Service Letter
Tags: civil defence; firefighting
Air raid precautions album
Fire guard's pocket book pictures, diagrams and tables
Interview with Margaret Irene Maxwell
Letter to Dennis Batty from brother Phil
Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Tags: civil defence; home front; prisoner of war
Airman in hard hat and gas mask
Tags: aircrew; civil defence; observer
The Kriegie December 2005
Tags: 10 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 544 Squadron; 601 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; arts and crafts; bale out; Caterpillar Club; civil defence; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); escaping; flight engineer; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Halifax; Hampden; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); killed in action; Lancaster; memorial; mess; Mosquito; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Benson; RAF Duxford; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Northolt; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; the long march
Interview with Owen Cox
Letter to Douglas Hudson
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: civil defence
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: civil defence
Interview with Pat Harrison
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: civil defence