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Christmas party at RAF Castle Bromwich
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Ration State for 10/6/40
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More than one liberty
Officers Mess Party
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Officers Mess Party
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SNCO's Mess Feltwell
SNCO's Mess Feltwell
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Airmen in the Mess
Tags: mess; RAF Stradishall
Singapore Mess
Photograph 2 is three men standing in the bar, captioned 'Mess treasure (sic) does bar stock take'.
Photograph 3 is mainly women, babies and children sitting. Captioned…
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Seletar views
Photograph 2 is a battleship, captioned 'H.M.S. Norfolk leaves Singapore 1946'.
Photograph 3 is the entrance to No 2 mess Seletar, captioned 'Entarnce to No 2…
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Christmas Dinner 1946 menu
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Derrick Allen and Bob Harvey in a doorway
Tags: 467 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; mess; RAF Waddington
Elsham Wolds
Tags: control tower; mess; RAF Elsham Wolds
Interview with Lawrence Larmer
Tags: 1658 HCU; 27 OTU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with David Leicester
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; searchlight; superstition; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Lachie McBean
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Frank Mottershead
Interview with Alan Pugh
Tags: 17 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; fear; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Worksop; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Douglas Reed
Tags: 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; ground crew; Halifax; Intelligence Officer; Ju 88; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Upwood; take-off crash; target indicator; training; Wellington
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Max Spence
Interview with Herbert Tinning
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; coping mechanism; crewing up; fitter airframe; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; Schräge Musik; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; Intelligence Officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington