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- Tags: memorial
Commemorative cross
Tags: 156 Squadron; final resting place; Lancaster; memorial
A short history of 640 Squadron.
There is also a…
Tags: 4 Group; 617 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bouncing bomb; debriefing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; love and romance; memorial; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; operations room; pilot; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; wireless operator
Campaign to recognise deaths of bomber airmen
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; memorial; RAF Binbrook; Wellington
Service history of Sergeant Alfred Edward "Teddy" Cosgrove
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crash; final resting place; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF Ringway; RAF Wickenby; sport; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Flight Sergeant JR 'Bob' Cooke
Tags: 4 Group; 51 Squadron; killed in action; memorial
From Hackney lad to air bomber
Tags: 106 Squadron; 19 OTU; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; memorial; military living conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Kinloss; RAF Syerston; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Winston Churchill's Reference to Bomber Harris
In Memory of an Airman
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; killed in action; memorial
Verona Marshalling Yards and Budapest War Cemetery
Pilot Officer Scheidhauer - The Forced Landing and "The Great Escape"
Tags: 601 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; escaping; evading; Hurricane; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; pilot; prisoner of war; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Walrus
The great raids - Peenemunde 17 August 1943
Book includes:
Handwritten note on front 'In memory of Fred Dunn, killed Nov 22/23 1943'.
Telegram to Mr A C Dunn regretting to inform him that his son Sgt…
In Memory of John Henry Patrick Dwyer DFM
Bell Family at IBCC
Wooded Hill
Tags: memorial
St. Peter and St. Paul church Gravesend
Inscription reads: MORI PRO PATRIA/ 1939-1945/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ SQUADRON LEADER R.A.M. PALMER VC, DFC AND ALL OTHERS OF/ THIS PARISH WHO DIED IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND/ WHOSE…
Tags: memorial
Memorial and RAF chapel
Bottom left - view of altar with colours either side and RAF eagle on front.
Right - memorial…
Plaque at St Thomas's Amshouses and memorials
List of Crashed Stirlings
An Open Letter by Way of an Editorial to my Grandson, Paul
Tags: killed in action; memorial
Memorial and reunion Royal Canadian Air Force Croft
Bottom left - photograph of five men wearing blazers, shirt and tie standing by a white memorial stone.
Bottom right - front cover of…
Tags: memorial; RAF Catterick; RAF Croft
Royal Canadian Air Force memorial Tholthorpe
Top middle - RAF colour parties in uniform gathered round a memorial stone on village green with spectators front and in the background.
Top left - note 'Dedication of a…
Tags: killed in action; memorial; RAF Tholthorpe
Acton Ontario Cenotaph
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; memorial