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Forum: Useful Books and Research Materials

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  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Serial Numbers/Types

    Hi All, This file was on the old site and needed moving here for display. First ordered by aircraft type Start End Model Manufacturer...

    Started by Ross_McNeill, 2nd August 2008 19:07
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  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Canadian Awards Website

    The Air Force Association of Canada website (or at least the honours and awards section), having been down for "reconstruction" for some weeks, is...

    Started by HughAHalliday, 17th February 2009 00:18
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  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: £3.50 ORBs

    Coo.. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/squadron-operations.asp £3.50 for download of sections of AIR 27 ORBs Got to be...

    Started by Ross_McNeill, 15th February 2012 17:49
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  4. Sticky Thread Sticky: RAF Manpower and Deferred Service

    Though that I would collate the recent posts on the various sections of the Royal Air Force 1918 - 1945 in one place for reference. Regards Ross

    Started by Ross_McNeill, 29th June 2012 15:03
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  5. Sticky Thread Sticky: File photography service at The National Archives

    I will be at The National Archives one or twice a month until the end of next year. Please drop me a PM if you would like to contract me to...

    Started by Ross_McNeill, 23rd May 2011 18:55
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  6. Sticky Thread Sticky: Use of Quote Function

    I note the growing tendency to use the quote facility to include text from messages displayed on the same page as the new message. Your initial...

    Started by Ross_McNeill, 25th September 2010 08:08
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  1. RAF Ferret flight awards - added info welcomed

    BAINBRIDGE, Reginald Thomas, S/L (102569, Royal Air Force) - Central Signals Establishment, Station Watton - Air Force Cross - awarded as per London...

    Started by HughAHalliday, 21st May 2013 15:20
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  2. N.202 Squadron - some postwar met awards

    DAVIES, Eric, Signaller IB (1672028, Royal Air Force) - No.202 Squadron, Aldergrove, Coastal Command - King’s Commendation for Valuable Services in...

    Started by HughAHalliday, 21st May 2013 14:35
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  3. Useful books

    A new book in paperback is shorly to be published. It is a true daily account of a pilot officers life with the BEF in 1939/40 taken from five...

    Started by Ebocrew, 11th May 2013 15:26
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  4. Air Crashes at Sea Civilian War Dead CWGC

    In case it is of interest to anyone else, I stumbled upon a section on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website that I was previously unaware...

    Started by Linzee, 26th August 2009 11:00
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  5. Book release; "Pancakes and Prangs: Twentieth-Century Aircraft Crashes in Shropshire"

    Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the release of my book on the history of aircraft crashes in my native county of Shropshire, "Pancakes and...

    Started by thorne83, 23rd April 2013 06:11
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  6. Shropshire's casualties and aircraft crashes

    Hello all, I have been working on a book for the last few years that will record the aircraft accidents and Air Force casualties that have...

    Started by thorne83, 15th December 2008 21:25
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  7. P/O Clarence Bentley SUTHERLAND

    The RCAF awards entry for Sutherland has been revised on the Air Force Association website (the text is now too long, I fear, for reproduction on...

    Started by HughAHalliday, 13th April 2013 03:41
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    13th April 2013 08:30 Go to last post
  8. Coastal Command Losses

    For Ross: At Brooklands Museum, we have Vol 1 of RAF Coastal Commands losses. Does a Volume 2 exist, as we can't find a copy anywhere!! ...

    Started by andy wis, 5th August 2009 21:29
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  9. Robert Gordon Dale, DSO, DFC, r.i.p.

    See http://www.canadianobituaries.com/robert-gordon-dale-obituary-march-11-2013.html

    Started by HughAHalliday, 14th March 2013 00:59
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  10. Foreign Awards - Czech

    The following list (arranged chronologically) was published some years ago on the old Forum (and Ross may now wish to delete it from that board). ...

    Started by HughAHalliday, 15th February 2008 10:25
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  11. Hunt Recognition Trainer

    Build your own Hunt Trainer from the wartime Air Publication. While trawling through AIR 16/1146 I came across a wartime publication giving...

    Started by Ross_McNeill, 7th March 2013 08:14
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  12. Pre War RAAF Accident List 1936 to 1938 from Australian Newspaper Thursday 11 August

    From The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 11 August 1938 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17476897?searchTerm=Aircraftsman+R+C+Lawson ...

    Started by paulmcmillan, 29th January 2013 13:11
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  13. Interesting Recent Interview with WWII RAAF Fighter Pilot

    I thought forumites might be interested to read the below article (copy the link and paste it into your browser) which appeared in "The Australian"...

    Started by Steve Brew, 23rd February 2013 05:35
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  14. RAF officer deaths 1.1.29-3.9.39

    The following is a list in chronological order of all (826) OFFICER deaths for the above period as recorded in the monthly RAF Air Force Lists. The...

    Started by Errol Martyn, 10th December 2007 21:33
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  15. Royal Air Force Lists (Downloadable Online from Scotland Archives)

    Folks, I havent noticed this posted online - and my apologies if I missed such a post, but I found that the National Library of Scotland had uploaded...

    Started by Jagan, 23rd June 2012 22:26
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  16. Transat 1945 - Association of Trans-Oceanic Radio Officers

    Hello all, never say I don't look after you! This was lurking in the records of J G Gascoigne, R/O RAF Ferry Command and his daughter kindly had...

    Started by dennis_burke, 4th February 2013 20:44
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  17. Book Project: Westland Wapitis of the Indian Air Force.

    I have been on this board asking questions on Wapitis for the past couple of years. I finally can share some news as I am on the verge of completion...

    Started by Jagan, 27th January 2013 19:19
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  18. How to write a citation

    Second World War files on awards include much on policy (who gets what, when and why). It is obvious that some officers were tardy in making...

    Started by HughAHalliday, 19th January 2013 10:24
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  19. ARP wardens lists

    Hi all, by chance I came across following interesting links: http://www.sittingbourne-museum.co.uk/ARP%20book.pdf Maybe it should be useful for...

    Started by CZ_RAF, 18th January 2013 12:03
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  20. RAF/RAF OR Service Numbers

    RFC/RAF SERVICE NUMBERS (Courtesy of Air Force Deaths site) At least until the 1950s, the service numbers of RFC and RAF personnel indicated the...

    Started by Resmoroh, 14th November 2007 13:30
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