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- Tags: nose art
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 82 OTU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control tower; coping mechanism; crewing up; dispersal; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; forced landing; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Me 109; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Desborough; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; recruitment; sanitation; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Refuelling Lancaster R5868 S-Sugar
Whitleys at Middleton St George 1941
Photograph 1 is of eight airmen under the nose of a Whitley. Captioned 'Pilot Sgt B. Jones with his Ground Crew, Whitley. A/C.'
Photograph 2 is of a sergeant pilot wearing a flying helmet and pointing to…
RAF Hartford Bridge
Photograph 2 is of a group of airmen arranged in five rows in front of a Boston, 'D'. Captioned '88…
342 Lorraine Squadron
Photograph 2 is of a French airman standing in front of a Boston, 'C'. It is named Ville…
First Mitchell to reach 100 Operations
Photograph 2 is the crew of the B-25 adding the letters 100 to the aircraft's nose art.
Photograph 3 is a group of airmen round the nose of the aircraft. They are captioned '226 Sqd, 1st Mitchell A/C to…
Lancaster 'Able Mable'
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: 100 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; nose art; RAF Grimsby
Ernie Twells and airmen
Ernie Twell's Lancaster DV385
Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster; nose art
Doris and Ernie Twells with the leader of Derbyshire County Council
The nose and main spar of Lancaster EE134. Six men are working on it.…
Halifax 'U again' aircrew and ground crew
Flight Lieutenant Mercer and crew
'March 1944 X for Xray
Dunholme Lodge
Bomber Command
Left to right
Isot Pratt. (mid upper) F/lt Mercer D.F.C. (pilot) Sgt Fallan (fit.…
Seven aircrew and five ground crew in front of a Halifax
Tags: aircrew; dispersal; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; nose art
Air and ground crew in front of a Halifax
Tags: aircrew; dispersal; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; nose art
Group of air and ground crew standing on a Halifax
Tags: aircrew; dispersal; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; nose art; taxiway
Group of air and ground crew in front of a Halifax
Tags: aircrew; dispersal; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; nose art
Denis and his crew - November, 1942
Tags: 9 Squadron; Lancaster; nose art
Wellington parked on grass
Tags: nose art; Wellington
Six airmen in front of a Wellington
Tags: ground personnel; nose art; Wellington
Zola
Tags: arts and crafts; nose art
Denis Clyde-Smith with his crew in front of Lancaster 'Zola'
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; nose art; pilot
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Sid Bunce with aircrew and ground crew members
On the reverse: '115 Squadron, RAF Witchford, Sid Bunce' and 'Sid X'.