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- Tags: ground personnel
Wedding and WAAF's
Top right, six wedding guests including a man and woman in uniform at at Boswell House, North Elkington.
Middle…
Propaganda leaflets
Middle, left report of an aircraft landing on a car.
Middle centre, woman holding a baby, reports of engagements and births of babies.
Bottom left, report of the death of Lieutenant Geoffrey William…
Interview with Bertie Salvage
Interview with Terry Hodson
Tags: crash; ground personnel; RAF Coningsby
Interview with John Bell
Interview with Ernest Groeger
Interview with Wilf Keyte
Tags: ground personnel; RAF Henlow; RAF Swinderby
Interview with Kathleen (Katy) Reid
Interview with George Arthur Bell
Tags: bombing; crash; ground personnel; Lancaster; training
Interview with George William Taplin
Interview with Richard Moore
Interview with Kenneth Edgar Neve
Tags: ground personnel; Home Guard; Swordfish; Walrus
interview with Annie Mary Blood
Interview with Les Stedman
75 Squadron personnel
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster
Early days
Bob's father with his second wife, Gwen bottom left.
Right page: top left, head and should portrait of a woman in uniform and other family pictures.
Bob Smith's Memoirs Book 4
Tags: 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 617 Squadron; 622 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; love and romance; mess; mine laying; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Desborough; RAF Honington; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF West Freugh; Special Operations Executive; sport; V-2; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
A Tour of Operations with RAF Bomber Command No XV/15 Squadron Mildenhall
Covers his operational tour and bombing operations.
Tags: 1 Group; 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 186 Squadron; 195 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 5 Group; 514 Squadron; 6 Group; 617 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; escaping; flight engineer; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Master Bomber; Me 109; mess; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Sealand; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Weston Zoyland; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; target photograph; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Bill Foskett
Tags: control tower; ground personnel; RAF Udine
Udine airfield control tower
Tags: control tower; ground personnel; RAF Udine
Wellington, Air and Ground Crews
#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…
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Wellington
Bill Foskett
Tags: ground personnel; mess; RAF Udine
Bill Foskett and three colleagues
Tags: aircrew; ground personnel; hangar; pilot; RAF Udine
Bill Foskett in the control tower at Udine
A third photograph is Bill, alone with an Aldis…
Tags: control tower; ground personnel; RAF Udine
Bill Foskett
On the reverse 'To "The Old Man" With love from Son. "On Udine Tower Balcony" - My Domain Feb 1946.'
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; control tower; ground personnel; RAF Udine