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- Tags: ground crew
Fuelling
Tags: ground crew; petrol bowser; service vehicle; Stearman
Stearman
Tags: fuelling; ground crew; petrol bowser; service vehicle; Stearman; training
Aircrew and ground crew
On the reverse 'R Terras, I don't know who these people are. 83…
Tags: 83 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; Lancaster; pilot
Engine and Airframe mechanics B Flight, 83 Squadron
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Newspaper cutting - airmen back with squadrons
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Diary pages
War diary 1942
Entry for activities on 26 February - working on aircraft hydraulic system, and then going to cinema.
Entry for…
Hastings, port side
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel
Bomber Command record and transcripts
Lancasters at sunset
On the reverse is 'British Official Photograph. "T for Tommy makes a sortie". There is information about the…
Squadron group
Tags: aircrew; ground crew
22 airmen in front of Wellington
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; pilot; Wellington
Squadron group in front of Wellington
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Wellington
Millson's "War & Peace" Abridged
Tags: 101 Squadron; 102 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Gneisenau; ground crew; Halifax; mess; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Benson; RAF Bourn; RAF Desford; RAF Lyneham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rochester; RAF West Raynham; recruitment; Scharnhorst; searchlight; training; Wellington; York
Ready to fly
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; Mosquito
Letter to Naomi Muir
To Andrew's daughter recollecting when she, as an eight year old, unveiled the church war memorial, sharing family news and requesting a photograph of Andrew's grave should she visit it.
Right page:
Top left, an airman standing…
Air Ministry Orders
Tags: aircrew; Anson; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Oxford; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Defford; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Hullavington; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Wilmslow; Spitfire; Sunderland; Typhoon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Letter from Idwal Davies to his mother
Tags: aircrew; ground crew
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
61 Squadron group photo
On the reverse is a list of the 102 men with some of their names.
On a separate sheet is the same list.
On a third sheet is a list with some of the missing names.
Fourteen airman in front of Lancaster
A large group of airmen in front of a Lancaster
Gen's Story
Tags: 105 Squadron; 106 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; C-47; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; ground crew; hangar; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); killed in action; love and romance; Magister; mess; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Carlisle; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Henlow; RAF Hucknall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Red Cross; searchlight; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 5; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Conversation with Ray Lippiard
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