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Aircrew and aircraft
Andover's Lancasters
Tags: 156 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Grand Slam; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; military discipline; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bardney; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; Spitfire; take-off crash; Tallboy; Tirpitz; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Sympathetic communications to his wife on Hubert's death
Holten in Oorlogstjd (1984) - Holten in Wartime
Harrow and crashed Anson
The top right and bottom left show airmen standing around a Harrow K6949.
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.
Tags: Anson; crash; Harrow; RAF Bircham Newton
Letter to Mrs Hastings
Tags: crash; killed in action; missing in action; shot down
Teddy's Career in the RAFVR 9th September 1939 - 11th October 1941
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Defiant; ditching; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; meteorological officer; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; propaganda; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; sport; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Service history of Sergeant Alfred Edward "Teddy" Cosgrove
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crash; final resting place; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF Ringway; RAF Wickenby; sport; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Crew of Wellington Z8397
From Hackney lad to air bomber
Tags: 106 Squadron; 19 OTU; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; memorial; military living conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Kinloss; RAF Syerston; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Kenneth Richard Pexman's grave
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Letter from Ministry of Defence to G Marshall
The Hemmens Story
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; crash; Halifax; Lancaster; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 3
Crash and Crew of Lancaster ND533
Letter to Leading aircraftwoman Hayhurst from Flying Officer EJ Detheridge
A handwritten annotation states 'Died in crash'.
Flight Lieutenant White
On the reverse 'Chalkie - died in crash'.
[Holden's pilot was Flying Officer Bryan Esmond Bell.]
Tags: aircrew; crash; killed in action; pilot
Flying Officer Bryan Esmond Bell
On the reverse 'Skipper F/O Tim Bell. Died in crash'.
Tags: aircrew; crash; killed in action; pilot
Flying Officer Philip Derek Hemmens
On the reverse 'Survived crash -died in Buchenwald. 152583. Bomb aimer. Willie. F/O Phil Hemmens'.
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; crash; evading; killed in action
Pierre Madry raises his Hat to the Crew of a British Bomber
Finally there is an address by Abbe Plante, parish priest of Lyons-la-Foret,…