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A pilot sitting on a swing
An airman wearing battledress with pilot's brevet sitting on a swing in a garden. In the background a two story stone house and trees.
A place to remember
Newspaper article about a reunion and flypast at RAF Elsham Wolds. Mentioned are Mike Stedman (I squared), pilot Anseleme Vernieuwe who had escaped from Belgium through France and Spain then Lisbon, rear-gunner Tom Quinlan, flight engineer Walter…
A POWs Memories
Comments on target (Frankfurt) and odds on being shot down. It was their 19th operation and out of 124 aircrew shot down that night only 10 survived, five from their crew. Mentions evading, capture, initial treatment and journey to camp (Stalag Luft…
A prayer
Poem, prayer to those who fly.
A Prisoner of War
News clipping. John Taplin is reported as a prisoner of war in Germany.
A RAF pilot
Head and shoulders portrait of a pilot wearing tunic with pilot's brevet and medal ribbons (including DFC).
A Rather Strange Time
Terry Ford's wartime experiences written and read to Avon Talking Magazine for the Blind.
A rear admiral inspects RAF officers
A rear admiral in uniform carrying a stick and accompanied by an RAF flight lieutenant inspects the front rank of a parade of RAF servicemen.
A Reminiscence of the Flying Characteristics of Many Old Type Aircraft
A detailed analysis of very early aircraft and their flying characteristics.
A report from Wickham College
The end of term report for Charmian Quitmann who is described as 'having done well in spit of considerable absence'.
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Opens with some details of 625 Squadron and introduction with reasons for writing. Writes of beginning of the war when still at school and experiences before joining up. Mentions activities with Air Training Corps and being awarded an RAF bursary to…
A Reverie
Poem, titled 'A Reverie'. Writes of June day, evenings, a winding river, sadness and remorse and losing friends.
A S Atkinson
Half length portrait of A S Atkinson as an airman wearing tunic and side cap in an oval with RAF flags either side, RAF wings above, captioned "Royal Air Force" with artwork aircraft and barrage balloon in the margins. Additional information about…
A S Atkinson
Half length portrait of a sergeant wearing tunic with half brevet.
A schoolboy
Head and shoulders portrait of a boy wearing blazer and tie,
A schoolboy
Head and shoulders portrait of a boy wearing jumper and tie.
A sergeant in a doorway
An airman wearing tunic with sergeant rank standing on steps in a doorway. Submitted with caption 'the sargeant hemswell'.
A Sergeants' Mess Xmas Dinner
Christmas Dinner Menu, Iwakuni, Japan 1947. The menu is signed by many of the participants.
A Service of Remembrance and Intercession
Order of service including hymns, lessons, prayer and other events.
A short history of 640 Squadron
A number of stories, recollections and events remembered by George who was part of the ground crew on the squadron. It also includes press coverage and a programme from an amateur dramatics production Georg appeared in post war.
There is also a…
There is also a…
A Snowy Camp
A view across a snowy landscape with wooden huts.
A song of hate
Five verse song about an Irishman and the trouble R/T girls have with him.
A speck of history from long ago and far away
Account of the operation to locate a German submarine and shooting down of a United States Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator by a Ju 88 in February 1944. Author is the nose gunner/bomb aimer and describes the operation, attack by fighters, ditching, escape to…
A summary of Philip Batty's flying hours by aircraft type
Sixteen aircraft listed (Domine, Proctor, Anson, Wellington, Lancaster, Lincoln, B-29, Halifax, C-47, Neptune, Shackleton, Hastings, Varsity, Argosy, Victor, Vulcan) for a total of approximately 11,000 flying hours.
A survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant A)
The interviewee reminisces about her wartime experiences in the Voghera countryside, at the time when her three brothers where enlisted and how difficult it was for her parents to run the farm. She remembers how she narrowly escaped an aircraft…