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- Tags: petrol bowser
18 service personnel in front of a lorry
Air-to-air views and motor transport
Tags: Halifax; petrol bowser; service vehicle; Stirling
Aircraft
Bottom - photograph - view from above of a Lancaster with Spitfire and Hurricane on either wing over sea. Captioned 'Memorial in Flight,…
Aircraft
Alberta
Bottom right - an Oxford parked on airfield with fuel bowser in front. Behind left a control tower. Captioned 'Penhold, Oct 1942'.
Anson aircraft parked on airfield
Tags: Anson; fuelling; petrol bowser; service vehicle
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; service vehicle; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Dunc Ritchie
Underneath is a caption explaining that inside the Halifax 'A' is an air gunner who was washed out but was desperate to fly.
Five Airmen
Cyril Bell
Tony Tine
Albert
Paddy Aherne
Lancaster'
There is a second copy.
Tags: aircrew; fuelling; ground crew; petrol bowser; service vehicle
Five Ground Crew and a Lancaster
Five men standing under an Avro Nene Lancastrian
Fuelling a Halifax
Halifax being refueled
Halifax Refueling
A second image shows the top half of a Halifax.
Halifax Refuelling and Bombing Up
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are available.
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. One
Interview with Stuart Stephenson MBE
In the early 1970s the Lancaster PA474 was flown to RAF Waddington from RAF Henlow ostensibly to be a gate guardian. In 1973 the Lincolnshire Echo announced that it was to…
Tags: Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); childhood in wartime; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; perception of bombing war; petrol bowser; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Coltishall; RAF Coningsby; RAF Waddington; service vehicle; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Isn't it about time we touched down?
Lancaster at Wigsley 1943
Lancaster Mk 2 Refuelling
Leslie Alfred Davies and crew
Tags: 10 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); C-47; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Me 262; memorial; military service conditions; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; petrol bowser; pilot; RAF Banff; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; reconnaissance photograph; service vehicle; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
My overseas service by Raymond Barrett
Personnel travelling in France
Top right group of four airmen on a river bank or lakeside framed by…
Ramat David
Tags: 32 Squadron; dispersal; petrol bowser; service vehicle