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- Tags: petrol bowser
Personnel travelling in France
Top right group of four airmen on a river bank or lakeside framed by…
18 service personnel in front of a lorry
Refuelling Lancaster R5868 S-Sugar
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 Coningsby; RAF Waddington; service vehicle; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Ramat David
Tags: 32 Squadron; dispersal; petrol bowser; service vehicle
WO Donald Keith Fraser
Tags: 1 Group; 101 Squadron; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing up; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; perimeter track; petrol bowser; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Catfoss; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; runway; service vehicle; Tiger force; Tirpitz; tractor; training; Window; wireless operator
Anson aircraft parked on airfield
Tags: Anson; fuelling; petrol bowser; service vehicle
Twenty Lancasters
V Group News, September 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; flight engineer; fuelling; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); H2S; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; petrol bowser; pilot; radar; rivalry; service vehicle; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Tiger Moths
Tags: crash; fuelling; petrol bowser; service vehicle; Tiger Moth; training
Two airmen standing on a fuel bowser
Tags: aircrew; fuelling; Halifax; petrol bowser; service vehicle
Wellington on the ground
Tags: fuelling; petrol bowser; service vehicle; Wellington
Short Stirling
Five men standing under an Avro Nene Lancastrian
Ten Airmen
Five Ground Crew and a Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 2 Refuelling
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.
Seven Airmen and Three Ground Crew
Information supplied with the collection states 'The crew in the Autumn of 1943, at Tholthorpe; Standing left to right Bomb…
Halifax Refueling
A second image shows the top half of a Halifax.
Isn't it about time we touched down?
Five Airmen
Cyril Bell
Tony Tine
Albert
Paddy Aherne
Lancaster'
There is a second copy.
Tags: aircrew; fuelling; ground crew; petrol bowser; service vehicle
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. One
Leslie Alfred Davies and crew
Tags: 10 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; 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; 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 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