Printout of colour scan of RAF `Met` sorties during World War II.
Map of the eastern North Atlantic with weather reconnaisance flight patterns over the North Atlantic and North Sea flown by the RAF during World War II.
2004.34.2
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2004.34.3
Printout of colour scan of Warrant Officer Derek Dolwin`s flight logbook.
Page from 518 Squadron Warrant Officer Derek Dolwin`s flight logbook for 9th to 30th June 1944 showing entry for plane LK692 which crashed on take-off on the 27th.
2004.36.6
Copy of letter dated 8/3/2004 to Katinka Stentoft from Alasdair Sinclair of Brock.
Information about Norse settlements of Tiree and difficulties in identifying them: the effects of wind-blown sand on the landscape, the scarcity of stone for building, the frequent winter flooding and the need for ditching, and the road-building programme during World War II (with three pages of photocopied photos). (For Katinka Stentoft`s settlement survey see 2004.40.1)
2000.67.1
Audio cassette recording of Vivienne Johnston talking to Dr John Holliday in March 2000.
Vivienne Johnston of Heanish talks to Dr John Holliday in March 2000 about her relations in Balemartine, coming on holiday every year as a child then as an evacuee in 1939, her stay at Taylor’s Cottage, her experiences at Balemartine School where Gaelic was the language of the playground, the kindness of the MacDonalds at Catrim, going to the pictures, the wartime plane crashes, experiences of her later life and how living on Tiree has affected her.
2000.88.2
Newspaper article about Churchill and a plan to evacuate the Royal Family to Canada via Tiree in the event of a German invasion.
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2001.188.1
Comb-bound book `Royal Air Force Station Oban 1939-45` by Neil Owen.
The history of the Flying Boat Station at Oban in World War II.
2001.188.2
Audio cassette recording of the sounds of World War II aircraft.
The sounds of World War II aircraft: Merlin-engined Halifax, Griffon-engined Spitfire at Wick, Pegasus-engined Swordfish at Macrahannish, Merlin-engined Hurricane at Connel.
1999.302.6
Paperback book `1939-1945 War Planes` edited by Andrew Kershaw.
Illustrated account of the development of both Allied and Axis aircraft in the years up to 1945.
1999.302.7
Hardback book `British Warplanes of World War II` edited by Daniel J. March.
Description of every aircraft which reached operational units with UK forces during World War II.
1999.302.5
Hardback book `Britain`s Wonderful Fighting Forces` by Captain Ellison Hawks.
Description of Britain`s armed forces during World War II.