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Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
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Letter to DJH Maltby to attend an Investiture
Telegram to DJH Maltby
DJH Maltby Officer's service record
Churchill's funeral
Men and missiles
Tags: aircrew; Mosquito; pilot; RAF Farnborough
Armaments squadron
Bottom left and right, aerial views of an airfield, annotated '4 pages to do with Bob's work as test pilot Armaments…
Tags: aerial photograph; air sea rescue; aircrew; Halifax; Lancaster; pilot
Pilot wins D.F.C
Middle and bottom, congratulations to Bob on his award.
Right page; top, title of the Vauxhall Mirror.
Middle, report of Bob's operational career…
Aerial views
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; pilot
Swift and Sure
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; killed in action; medical officer; pilot; RAF Dishforth
Civilian life
Bottom; six children sat in a cart.
Right page: top, a group of seven men standing alongside an aircraft with a man standing in its open doorway, annotated 'Bob was engaged in charter…
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; pilot
Bob's aircraft
Whitley aircraft, B-DY, C-DY and E-DY, flying in formation; bottom, crashed Whitley MH-H, annotated 'Usworth 17 11…
Two part interview with Bob Panton
Part 1. Bob Panton was a child during the war. One day as his father was coming towards their house Bob saw three Dornier 17 come into view. Then out of the sun came six Spitfires and a battle started in front…
Septimus Robinson and crew
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Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; Lancaster; observer; pilot
Septimus Robinson's crew
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; Lancaster; pilot
Congratulations
Left page: bottom left, Bob in uniform with a woman in civilian clothes annotated 'Christmas 1940'.
Bottom right, a woman and a…
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; pilot
Robert Victor Keeling's decorations, epaulettes and badges
Tags: aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; pilot