It is captioned '"Yehudi" Halifax V DK-226 coded ZL-Y 427 Squadron 6 Group RCAF Leeming Yorkshire 1943'.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
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Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Yorkshire]]>
1943]]>
Donald Fraser]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Tricia Marshall]]>
David Bloomfield]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Memoir]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
France]]>
Germany]]>
Great Britain]]>
Poland]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
France--Modane]]>
Germany--Augsburg]]>
Germany--Berlin]]>
Germany--Bochum]]>
Germany--Düsseldorf]]>
Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]>
Germany--Hannover]]>
Germany--Leipzig]]>
Germany--Leverkusen]]>
Germany--Mannheim]]>
Germany--Mönchengladbach]]>
Germany--Munich]]>
Germany--Schweinfurt]]>
Germany--Stuttgart]]>
Poland--Szczecin]]>
Germany--Braunschweig]]>
Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]>
1942]]>
1943]]>
1944]]>
RAF Form 295A issued to William containing details of his temporary leave.
The photograph is captioned 'Aircrew and Erks' and has ten men in two groups in front of a hangar.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Service material]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Service material]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Civilian]]>
1945-12-01]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Civilian]]>
1945-12-01]]>
Photograph 1 is of eight airmen under the nose of a Whitley. Captioned 'Pilot Sgt B. Jones with his Ground Crew, Whitley. A/C.'
Photograph 2 is of a sergeant pilot wearing a flying helmet and pointing to the underside of an aircraft. It is is signed 'To Reg, with every best wish Bernard Jones 'Aussie' 29/7/41'.
Photographs 3, 4 and 5 are of a crashed Whitley, largely intact with bent propeller blades. Captioned 'Sgt Jones crashed Whitley A/C on the Yorkshire Moors returning from a night bombing rad on Germany. Aug.1941.'
Photograph 6 is a cartoon of a boomerang with Hitler hanging underneath. Captioned: 'The 'Mascot' on Sgt Jones Whitley A/C painted by Me, July 1941.'
Photographs 7 and 8 are of five airmen in front of a Whitley 'T'. Captioned 'Pilot Sgt B. Jones (Aussie) with his Air Crew, Whitley A/C.']]>
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eng]]>
Photograph]]>
Artwork]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Royal Australian Air Force]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Durham (County)]]>
England--North York Moors]]>
England--Yorkshire]]>
1941-07]]>
1941-08]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Photograph]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Yorkshire]]>
1941]]>
#1 and 4 are the same. Eight men standing under the front of their Wellington.
#2 Six airmen at the rear gun turret, One of the men is sat in the turret.
#3 Six airmen under the port engine of their Wellington.
#5 Seven airmen under the port wing of their aircraft.]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
On the reverse '775 having pre-flight befor [sic] leaving Asmara, Eritrea. April 1946'.]]>
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eng]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Eritrea]]>
Eritrea--Asmara]]>
1946-04]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
Photo 2 is two groundcrew pushing the port main wheel.
Photo 3 is two groundcrew loading a bomb.
Photo 4 is two groundcrew pushing a bomb trolley.]]>
Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
pol]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Great Britain]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Eritrea]]>
Eritrea--Asmara]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Laura Morgan]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Memoir]]>
MAllenJH179996-160512-050002]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
Top - squadron photograph of airmen wearing tropical uniform sitting and standing in three rows in front of a Vulcan,
Bottom - squadron photograph of a group of airmen wearing arctic parkas. Included is an enlarged version of the bottom photograph.]]>
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Sparkes, Ned. Album]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Canada]]>
Newfoundland and Labrador--Happy Valley-Goose Bay]]>
Newfoundland and Labrador]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pam Nassau]]>
eng]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Great Britain]]>
1943-02]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]>
Royal Australian Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
1942]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>