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Ground crew
Right top: 61 men in desert uniform arranged in five rows in front of a corrugated…
Certificate of service
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Tags: Blenheim; fitter airframe; fitter engine; ground crew; Lancaster; Lincoln; Oxford; Sunderland; training; Whitley
Lancasters at sunset
On the reverse is 'British Official Photograph. "T for Tommy makes a sortie". There is information about the…
Sergeant Reginald Frederick (Roly) Roberts
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 66 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; crash; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Harrow; killed in action; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upper Heyford; recruitment; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Tales of 463 Squadron RAAF
Tags: 455 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 77 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing up; FIDO; fitter airframe; fitter engine; Fw 190; gremlin; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Lancaster; Mosquito; nose art; petrol bowser; prisoner of war; RAF Bottesford; RAF Elvington; RAF Waddington; service vehicle; Stirling; tractor; Wellington; wireless operator
RAF - A Life for Men
Airmen working on Lancaster propeller.
Airmen working on Lancaster engine
Halifax under maintenance
Tags: dispersal; fitter engine; ground crew; Halifax; RAF Marston Moor
W G Uprichard - An Account of my Experiences in the RAF during my Long Service of 41 Years
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 215 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; fitter engine; Flying Training School; ground crew; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; meteorological officer; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Brough; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Driffield; RAF Halton; RAF Leconfield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Manston; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Coates; RAF Scampton; RAF Sealand; RAF Worthy Down; sport; Tirpitz; training; Whitley; wireless operator
John Russell
Tags: fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew
John Russell's F543A Record of service
War Service Career
Ground crew working on engine
Halifax under Service
Eleven airmen
Eleven airmen in front of a Halifax
Sergeant J F W Warner - RAF service and release book
Ernie Harris' Certificate of Service
Groundcrew, Lancaster and bomb
I Flew with Nine Wing Commanders
Tags: 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; debriefing; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; Do 217; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 3; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; promotion; RAF Cosford; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RAF Tilstock; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; target photograph; training; Whitley; Window
Biography of Reg Miles
Tags: 346 Squadron; 347 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 6 Group; 77 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; crash; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; Fw 190; Gee; Grand Slam; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Hampden; hangar; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); home front; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 109; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Carnaby; RAF Dishforth; RAF East Moor; RAF Elvington; RAF Halton; RAF Langar; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Prestwick; RAF Shawbury; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Tilstock; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; searchlight; Second Tactical Air Force; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Interview with Bertram Arthur Yeandle
Lancaster and ground crew
Fitters Training
Bottom, four men about to hit a tool with a hammer, captioned 'Fitters?'