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SValentineJRM1251404v20010-0003.jpg
States that he managed to bail out before plane crashed. Would be moved to permanent camp soon. Request wife not to send anything yet.

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Transcript of original letter. Written while at Uxbridge after he was attested and issued uniform and expected to be posted on soon. Describes the camp, pay and speculates of future leave.

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Three press clippings showing the liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in their wartime roles, front cover of 'Souvenir Calendar 1943'.

PColeFIG18010082.jpg
Two trams on the road leading to Giza with the three pyramids visible in the distance.

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1:20,000 map showing the area to the west of Spa, Belgium with the possible track of Derrick Allen's Lancaster to the crash site near Vieux Pre marked in red. It is annotated with an arrow to Dusseldorf at the top and with figures 1 to 5. Captioned…

PMadgettHR19030006.jpg
Top left - a man at bottom of ladder to train drivers platform. Top right - man in Royal Air Force uniform standing in front of steam engine. A engineer stands to the right. Lines point to both photographs annotated 'Bill Girdwood'. Bottom left a man…

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Lists training details. Aircraft Anson and Battle in Australia. Advanced training in United Kingdom on Anson, Wellington and Halifax at West Freugh, Lichfield and Richall. Operational flying on Halifax 466 Squadron at RAF Driffield and 466 Squadron…

PJeziorskiAFK17010009.jpg
In the foreground is a tank and behind is a squad of men. The location is identified as Blairgowrie in information supplied with the collection.

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MBallantyneWM1395001-191003-05.jpg
List of twenty-four pilot training sorties.

PQuineJW16020053.jpg
Top left - head and shoulders portrait of an airman wearing tunic with head resting on his hand. Captioned 'Another day over'.
Top right - view down the interior of a barrack with wooden posts and beams. In the foreground left part of a desk and…

SChattertonJ159568v10708.jpg
Lists training for 12 and 13 February 1944. Training includes flying and ground training. Flying involved check rides, cross country, formation flying and weapons ranges. Ground includes aircraft cleaning, link training, dinghy drills and 25 yard…

SChattertonJ159568v10750.jpg
Details night flying training for six crews on 11 December. Details five crews for day training fighter affiliation and bombing for 12 December. Lists eight crews for link training. Details personnel for church parade on 12 December 1943.

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Thirty three bareheaded men in uniform arranged in three rows; one row sitting with two rows standing behind. Four of the men are wearing armbands on their left sleeves. John is in the front row, fifth from the left. On reserve 'S. Rhodesia 12-1-43…

PSinclairET2301.jpg
48 airmen in four rows in front of a building. On the reverse their names. Eric Sinclair is far right on the front row.

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MSmithAC1459147-170607-040001.jpg
Notes taken during training to understand fighter tactics.

PMcGaughranJE1701.pdf
34 trainee airmen grouped in three rows. On the reverse each man has signed his name.

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PRoyallGL2205.jpg
A formal photograph of 46 trainee airmen, a corporal and a sergeant. All are seated or standing, in four rows, in front of a building and are wearing tunics. The trainee aircrew have a white stripe on their forage caps and are wearing white belts.…

PJeziorskiAFK17010010.jpg
Photo 1 is a squad of men being inspected by an officer, Crawford 1940.
Photo 2 is Churchill tanks at Duns, 1942.
Photo 3 is an inspection by General Wladyslaw Anders in 1942.
Photo 4 is a Valentine Mk III tank with Lt. Ludwik Makiello in the…

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Stanley Archer’s account of his training as one of the first flight engineers for Lancaster operations in 1942. First he attended an air gunnery course then transferred to 97 squadron at RAF Woodhall Spa. He comments on a daylight operation on…

POldmanDA1805.jpg
Two oblique aerial photographs with fields of view marked for 8" lens. #1 The image shows the coastline of Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada. #2 has similar marks but less annotation and shows fields. On the reverse of both 'On loan P&R Darby…

PBowerFG20010047.jpg
Photo 1 is of a man and a boy in swimming trunks with a women wearing a grass skirt at a bar. captioned 'Bar at Matheson Hammock.'
Photo 2 is of an airman studying. Captioned 'sometimes we work.'
Photographs 3 - 5 are of airmen standing at the side…

PBowerFG20010048.jpg
Photo 1 is of four airmen in front of trees.
Photo 2 is of two airmen in Sidcot Suits.
Photo 3 is of an airman wearing a beret.
Photo 4 is of four airmen in Sidcot Suits.
Photo 5 is of four airmen in uniform standing in front of a…

MPotterPL1878961-150914-23.jpg
Covers some aspect of aircrew training including decompression chamber and parachute training.

PAnsellAV1604.jpg
Airmen in uniform are lying on a grass area, seen in the background through an arch at Miami University. Among them are people in civilian clothing. On the reverse 'Afternoon Break, University of Miami, April 2nd 1942'.
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