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Object description
Ts reminiscences (18pp) and a ts transcript of an interview (6pp), by Don Willshire principally covering incidents during his service in the RAFVR in India and England, including a collision on take-off and a near crash during a practice bomb run (in an aircraft piloted by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC) in September and October 1944 while he was stationed with No 159 (Pathfinder) Squadron RAF at RAF Digri, India, as well as containing descriptions of how punishments for minor infringements of service regulations were evaded, together with a ts transcript of an interview (6pp) containing much useful information on his CO, Wing Commander James Blackburn, and also ts notes (7pp) on his sorties, his Flying Log Book (June 1943 – 1946) recording training as an air gunner in England and bombing raids in the Far East, his Airman's Service and Pay Book, Service and Release Book, a photocopied history of Beaulieu Airfield and other related papers, four meal tickets issued to him at RAF Bridlington (1942), his medals, ribbons and a brevet, and medals and identity discs for his wife (née Gladys Marsh), who served in the WAAF, two photographs and two issues of 'Flight Magazine' (August 1944) and 'airmail' (July - September 1995) both of which contain a photograph of him with aircrew and his Liberator while stationed in the Far East.
Content description
Ts reminiscences (18pp) and a ts transcript of an interview (6pp), by Don Willshire principally covering incidents during his service in the RAFVR in India and England, including a collision on take-off and a near crash during a practice bomb run (in an aircraft piloted by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC) in September and October 1944 while he was stationed with No 159 (Pathfinder) Squadron RAF at RAF Digri, India, as well as containing descriptions of how punishments for minor infringements of service regulations were evaded, together with a ts transcript of an interview (6pp) containing much useful information on his CO, Wing Commander James Blackburn, and also ts notes (7pp) on his sorties, his Flying Log Book (June 1943 – 1946) recording training as an air gunner in England and bombing raids in the Far East, his Airman's Service and Pay Book, Service and Release Book, a photocopied history of Beaulieu Airfield and other related papers, four meal tickets issued to him at RAF Bridlington (1942), his medals, ribbons and a brevet, and medals and identity discs for his wife (née Gladys Marsh), who served in the WAAF, two photographs and two issues of 'Flight Magazine' (August 1944) and 'airmail' (July - September 1995) both of which contain a photograph of him with aircrew and his Liberator while stationed in the Far East.
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