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- Tags: heirloom
Memoirs of Jim Cahir
Short biography of Jim Cahir
Tags: 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Halifax; heirloom; prisoner of war; shot down
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Royal Air Force Association Friend brooch
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: heirloom
Fragment of a parachute
Tags: 460 Squadron; heirloom; prisoner of war
Parachute Story
Key ring with keepsakes
- a small humanoid figurine,
- an anchor with a cable wrapped around it,
- a blue enamelled 3-leafed clover,
- a small black wooden pig,
- a very small metal book with photographic pages of Lincoln…
Tags: heirloom; superstition
Three wise monkeys
Tags: heirloom
Wooden Elephant
Tags: 44 Squadron; heirloom; superstition
Wallet
Tags: heirloom; superstition
Italian war memories
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; evading; fear; heirloom; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Needle
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Thea Coleman
Before I was in the RAF by Reg Payne
Tags: 14 OTU; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; heirloom; Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; lynching; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Waddington; RAF Wittering; sanitation; superstition; training; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
A fire service memoir
Tags: bombing; final resting place; firefighting; heirloom
Interview with Ron Harrison
Wallet and personal items
Tags: animal; heirloom; RAF East Kirkby; superstition