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- Tags: military service conditions
Algiers Grand Post Office, Sunken ship, Airmen and Statue
#1 is the Algiers Grand Post Office with palm trees and a pool in front.
#2 is a sunken ship with a man leaning on it.
#3 is Ron in flying kit at his station on his aircraft.
#4 is a statue on a plinth, in a…
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot
Ron Riding, Baltimores, Airmen and Wrecked German Aircraft
#1 is an airman in the cockpit of a Baltimore with the cockpit open.
#2 is four airmen beside their tent.
#3 is Ron at the controls of an aircraft.
#4 is a port side view of a Baltimore.
#5 is an airman standing…
Ron Riding - At the Controls
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot
Airman in Aircraft
#1 is a half length portrait of an airman in flying kit inside an aircraft.
#2 is a pilot in his seat in an Anson. It is stamped Mar 1942.
Tags: aircrew; Anson; military service conditions; pilot; training
Four Airmen
#1 is a pilot at the controls of an aircraft.
#2 is four airmen leaning against a wooden railway building. Above is a sign for Priceville.
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot; training
Gunner in Rose turret
Rose turret 343
Rose turret 344
From information kindly provided by the donor. 'S Rose Lancaster turret 344'.
Diary - Sergeant F T Jones
Dare to Discover: World War II experiences of V T Hilton
Tags: 192 Squadron; aircrew; arts and crafts; bomb trolley; bombing up; crewing up; FIDO; fuelling; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; operational training unit; petrol bowser; RAF Foulsham; RAF Rufforth; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Avro York
Top right - an airman wearing shorts, shirt and peaked cap standing by the centre tail fin of a York. Captioned '"Taffy" feeling tired at Dum Dum'.
Bottom left…
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot; York
Java Jive
Sergeant SG Marshall
Ivor Cole and Three Colleagues
S G Marshall
Lancaster rear gunner in turret
Rear-gunner Roy
RAF Leave/Pass Form
Travellers declaration - RAF police security control document
Letter from Harold Wakefield to his parents
Letter from Harold Wakefield to his parents
Letter from Harold Wakefield to his parents
Letter from George Bilton to his mother
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner