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- Tags: superstition
Flight Lieutenant FC Jenkins
Badge
Tags: heirloom; superstition
Letter and transcript of telephone inteview
Tags: 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Athan; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; superstition; V-1; V-2; Window
Wedding of Bruce and Margaret Wilson
Photograph shows groom in uniform, two other airmen, bride with long white dress, veil and bouquet and holding horseshoe charm on a ribbon; two bridesmaids in…
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; pilot; superstition
Letter from Billy Akrill to his father
Tags: arts and crafts; superstition
Gremlins in the fog
Tags: arts and crafts; gremlin; home front; superstition
Gremlin Who's Who
1. Gremlin photoflash (Will Gremlin)
2. Gremlin crews for the convenience of Mark VIII (Georgie Gremlin)
3. Gremlin…
Tags: arts and crafts; gremlin; superstition
Key ring with keepsakes
- a small humanoid figurine,
- an anchor with a cable wrapped around it,
- a blue enamelled 3-leafed clover,
- a small black wooden pig,
- a very small metal book with photographic pages of Lincoln…
Tags: heirloom; superstition
Rabbit's foot
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: superstition
Wooden Elephant
Tags: 44 Squadron; heirloom; superstition
Wallet
Tags: heirloom; superstition
G Cruickshank operations playing cards
Tags: air gunner; bombing; mine laying; superstition
Memoir Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cruickshank D.F.M. RAFRO
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Medal; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Credenhill; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stanmore Park; RAF Swinderby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Warmwell; superstition; Victoria Cross; Whitley
We're On Tonight
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; faith; fear; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military living conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington