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- Tags: ditching
Newspaper cutting - Planes snatched doomed airmen from the sea
Letter from Jack Dwyer to his wife
Letter from Jack Dwyer to his wife
Tags: aircrew; ditching; entertainment; RAF Methwold
Und mit uns fliegt der Tod
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; ditching; pilot; propaganda
Interview with Alan "Jock" Richardson. Two
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; ditching
Letter to John Leigh's wife from RAF Foulsham
Letter to John Leigh's wife from Air Ministry
German Air Sea Rescue Service
It is further…
Tags: 139 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Blenheim; ditching
If Love were all...the story of a Second World War bomber crew
Tags: 12 Squadron; 15 OTU; 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ditching; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; love and romance; lynching; Me 110; memorial; mess; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Binbrook; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Seighford; RAF Shellingford; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Watchfield; RAF Wickenby; RCAF Calgary; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Conversation with Lucian Ercolani
Tags: 214 Squadron; 355 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; Flying Training School; Lysander; pilot; RAF Newmarket; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Watchfield; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Jim Hardy’s Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book. Two
Letter from Wing Commander R J A Ford to Captain H E Taylor
Tags: 99 Squadron; aircrew; ditching; RAF Newmarket
Goldfish badge
Tags: ditching; Goldfish Club
Goldfish membership
Tags: ditching; Goldfish Club
Thomas prisoner of war
Tags: aircrew; ditching; missing in action; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Overseas life
Tags: 105 Squadron; 110 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 203 Squadron; 37 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 70 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; crash; ditching; evacuation; Hurricane; incendiary device; killed in action; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Evanton; RAF Kabrit; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Yatesbury; searchlight; Swordfish; Wellington
Coordinates of crash site
Position of crash
Route of Jack's final flight
Harry Dawson's decorations
Tags: crash; ditching; killed in action; Wellington
EASCO life jacket light
One image shows the item fully assembled.…
Tags: air sea rescue; ditching
The Air Ministry regrets
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 540 Squadron; 627 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; Anson; arts and crafts; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; Dominie; evacuation; firefighting; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Hurricane; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Benson; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Debden; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Glatton; RAF Ingham; RAF Kabrit; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Luqa; RAF Manby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Weald; RAF Northolt; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Syerston; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Freugh; RAF Westcott; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Yatesbury; Spitfire; Swordfish; Tirpitz; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter from 514 Squadron RAF to Mrs RE Tempest
Tags: 514 Squadron; crash; ditching; killed in action; RAF Waterbeach
Airmen's accommodation, office, dinghy drill and resting
#1 is an airman sitting on his bunk. It is annotated 'Oh, what a beautiful morning George Ward'.
#2 is an airman standing at a table, in the accommodation
#3 is two airmen working at a desk.
#4 and 5 are airmen in…