During making Into the Wind I came across the following postcard which the veteran kindly allowed me to scan and use. Has anyone else come across any similar period postcards from Bomber Command or beyond?
scan can be found here
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Into-the-Wind/118098058230349
best wishes
steve
By: Denis - 29th December 2010 at 15:10
A bit late due to needing a new scanner, but one here from the USAAF 9th the first Christmas after the 391st took up resdence in France.
By: low'n'slow - 24th December 2010 at 11:42
A personal favourite….
Merry Christmas all!
By: galdri - 24th December 2010 at 01:01
Here’s one taken by my uncle around 1940/41 at Reyjavik. Before that he had been at AASF HQ Reims during the Battle of France. He was later killed in Palestine in 1942. Helping out moving a bomb on the airfield, on his days leave!
Dave
G-ASEA, that Christmas Card is of enormous interest to me. I´ll be sending you a PM!
By: G-ASEA - 24th December 2010 at 00:21
Again not aviaton related but my grandad on the right of the photo. But he did see the Red Devil ( Red Baron) fly over the trenches in his red Albartros.
Dave
By: contrailjj - 23rd December 2010 at 23:54
mine’s not aviation related – this was from my Grandfather in 1915…
(I do have another 2 or 3 Service issue cards he sent home in following years)
By: Bager1968 - 23rd December 2010 at 23:24
As far as I remember, we don’t have any christmas cards from my maternal grandfather’s time in France… either for his preparatory time (1917), or for 1918, when he was in a US Army hospital, being treated for gas inhalation.
We do have a number of his letters home, a few pics, and I have his metal document tube with end-caps.
By: Hatton - 23rd December 2010 at 08:48
My own christmas card for the year…
best wishes to everyone,
Steve
http://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=0edb8747eb21c72401dd7249a&id=843e6caf32&e=51be0b2e76
By: G-ASEA - 22nd December 2010 at 10:18
Here’s one taken by my uncle around 1940/41 at Reyjavik. Before that he had been at AASF HQ Reims during the Battle of France. He was later killed in Palestine in 1942. Helping out moving a bomb on the airfield, on his days leave!
Dave
By: hindenburg - 22nd December 2010 at 09:27
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By: Mark12 - 20th December 2010 at 15:25
Desert Air Force 1944.
No family connection. I just picked it up at the local antique book shop
Mark
By: Doering - 19th December 2010 at 19:44
David,
You have some impressive memoirs!
By: ZRX61 - 19th December 2010 at 18:24
This one is my favourite. It was sent to my Mother by my Grandfather from the trenches of France in 1917.
& here’s my grandad with the same Enfield, altho he did the WWI trench deal (Cambrai, Ypres & Gallipoli) this pic was his second go round in WWII.
I just happen to have a few of these Enfields in the closet
By: Hatton - 19th December 2010 at 17:23
thanks for sharing those David, it seems squadron christmas cards were quite common.
By: David Layne - 18th December 2010 at 13:53
This one was saved by my father. From Christmas 1941 it is to the N.C.O.’s of 50 Squadron from Gus Walker.
At that time 50 Squadron were at Skellingthorpe. Gus Walker had been a very popular 50 Squadron CO until October 1941.
By: David Layne - 18th December 2010 at 13:37
This one is my favourite. It was sent to my Mother by my Grandfather from the trenches of France in 1917.
By: David Layne - 18th December 2010 at 13:35
Another one from a P.O.W.
By: David Layne - 18th December 2010 at 13:34
An American one.
By: David Layne - 18th December 2010 at 13:33
Here’s another one.
By: David Layne - 18th December 2010 at 13:32
I have that one too, but not signed.
By: Hatton - 18th December 2010 at 10:50
Whilst making the film we spent a fair bit of time with Ken Wallis who showed us his collection of images from over the year. One of these, a silhouetted air to air with a wellington ( piloted by Ken ), was taken for the 103 squadron christmas card. Has anyone seen an example of this in it’s christmas card format?
I havent the image on this hard drive to post i’m afraid.
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