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Personnel travelling in France
Top right group of four airmen on a river bank or lakeside framed by…
My overseas service by Raymond Barrett
Leslie Alfred Davies and crew
Tags: 10 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 50 Squadron; 6 BFTS; 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); British Flying Training School Program; 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
Lancasters on dispersal
Lancaster Mk 2 Refuelling
Lancaster at Wigsley 1943
Lancaster and fuel bowser
Tags: 7 Squadron; fuelling; Lancaster; petrol bowser; service vehicle
Lancaster and fuel bowser
Isn't it about time we touched down?
Interview with Stuart Stephenson MBE
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)
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. One
Interview with Peter Miller
Hawker Hardys and Fairey Gordons
Halifax Refuelling and Bombing Up
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are available.
Halifax Refueling
A second image shows the top half of a Halifax.
Halifax being refueled
Fuelling a Halifax
Fuelling
Tags: ground crew; petrol bowser; service vehicle; Stearman
Four Ground Crew
Five men standing under an Avro Nene Lancastrian
Five Ground Crew and a Lancaster
Five Airmen
Cyril Bell
Tony Tine
Albert
Paddy Aherne
Lancaster'
There is a second copy.
Tags: aircrew; fuelling; ground crew; petrol bowser; service vehicle
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.
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; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; padre; petrol bowser; RAF Foulsham; RAF Rufforth; service vehicle; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Conversations with Norman Didwell
Tags: 214 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 3 Group; 40 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Beaufighter; C-47; escaping; fitter airframe; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; killed in action; Manchester; Me 110; mechanics airframe; Mosquito; petrol bowser; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF Waterbeach; service vehicle; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; tractor; Wellington