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OKeenEDL1451093-250903-01.pdf
Personnel management form with basic personal information. Enlisted 5-7-41 released 8-8-46, engine fitter then flight engineer, served on training units and 196 Squadron,

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MKeenEDL1451093-250903-01.pdf
Design, components, distributers, hand starting, contact breakers, contactors, lubrication. More on maintenance, leads and harness, hand starting mags, sparking plugs, tools required. More notes electrical system of various engine types.…

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MFlowerM575549-171129-04.pdf
Notes on: propeller feathering, rated and weak climb data, computer check and limitations, range losses, starting and closing down procedures. Followed by printed notes for pilots and engineers on the correct methods of controlling and handling…

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MFlowerM575549-171129-03.pdf
Notes on engine layout, fuel consumption for Hercules engines. Goes on with advantages of sleeve valve, inlet and exhaust openings, other parts operations with diagrams, crankshafts, master rod assemblies, reduction gear, oil pump unit with notes.…

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MFlowerM575549-171129-02.pdf
Covers indicated and real airspeed calculations. Engines horsepower, electrical systems (with circuit diagrams), fuel charts for Hercules engines, aircraft electronics, supercharging and carburettors, Goes on with aircraft performance, with tables,…

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MFlowerM575549-171129-090001.jpg
Book on Hunting Percival Pembroke aircraft.

This item is available only at the University of Lincoln.

MFlowerM575549-171129-050001.jpg
Book with front of engine and Alvis trademark.

This item is available only at the University of Lincoln.

BNoblePJordonSAv2.pdf
Second part of S A Jordon memoir, detailing his visits, while based in Wiltshire, to an English family in Sheffield and also describing his return to British Guiana and revisiting Sheffield many years later.

BNoblePJordonSAv1.pdf
Typed memoir describing S A Jordon's recruitment into the RAF, his journey to Great Britain and his subsequent travel within Great Britain by public transport.

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MHancockTN[Ser#-DoB]-251123-010002.jpg
'Bomber County', a History of the Royal Air Force in Lincolnshire, by T N Hancock.
This copy was passed around a 617 Squadron Association reunion in the early 1980s. It was signed by several veterans from the squadron.

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MHancockTN[Ser#-DoB]-251123-010001.jpg
A handwritten letter from Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Harris concerning his survey of land in Lincolnshire for possible aerodromes during the First World War.

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Commemorative scroll with Royal Crest for Flight Sergeant H Aspinall DFM, accompanying photograph of him and printed proforma letter of sympathy to Mrs H Aspinall from King George VI.

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MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-16.jpg
Harold was shot down in 1942 and swam for hours off Cape Gris Nez before being picked up by the Germans. Ended up in Stalag Luft 111, where he met Dixie Deans, the early founder of the Tally Ho Escaping club. He arrived at Fallingbostel in August…

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Typed citation from London Gazette dated 26 October 1943 detailing an operation over Hanover in September 1943, in which the aircraft was attacked by night fighters but managed to evade them and return to base although damaged, through the efforts…

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SDeansJAG-ParkTMv1.pdf
Dr Park's memoirs relating to the Long March.
1. Gresse Bombing account.
2. The Long March from Stalag 357.
3. Transcript of telephone conversation with Dr Park.
4. Letter from Heather at Reader's Digest to Cornelius Ryan.
5. Two letters from Dr…

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SDeansJAG-MowerEAv1.pdf
Brief notes kept by Mower. Included is Dixie Deans 'Ausweis' pass.

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SDeansJAG-MoggRv1.pdf
Ronald was as navigator in a Wellington shot down over Osnabruck 30 October 1940. He was interrogated and then detained in Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft I (Barth), Stalag Luft 3 (Sagan), Stalag Luft 6 (Heydekrug), Stalag XX-A (Thorun) and the…

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SDeansJAG-HeapeJv1.pdf
An account of the march from Stalag 357 (Fallingbostel). On 8 April 1945 the camp commander (Oberst Hermann Ostman) ordered 12,000 British troops to be evacuated, marching from the camp in columns of 2,000. After ten days they arrived at Gresse here…

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SDeansJAG-ChownCMv10004.jpg
A transcript of a phone conversation.

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SDeansJAG-ChownCMv10008.pdf
A transcript with a prisoner of war, Harold Isherwood-Bennett by HC.

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SDeansJAG-ChownCMv10006-0001.jpg
A transcript of an article in the Daily Express. It describes the liberation of prisoners of war at two camps near Fallingbostel.

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SDeansJAG-ChownCMv10003-0001.jpg
Murray describes his impressions of the Long March. He describes Dixie Deans passing on real news from the BBC radio they had with them.

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SDeansJAG-ChownCMv10001.pdf
Clement's experiences as a prisoner of war.

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SDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]v1.pdf
Diaries and memoirs of prisoners of war. There are stories of camp life, maps, poetry, cartoons and art works.

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MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-15.pdf
The crossing of a bridge under attack from RAF aircraft.

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