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We do try to keep up with what's going on around the forum world, but the reality is time is limited for our coverage to be 100% effective. We miss a lot in consequence, there are many forums availabl... |
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WHERE DO YOUR PHOTOS COME FROM?We've collected many photos over the years, and have our own family treasure chest of cou |
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HOW DO I DONATE?We're grateful to receive donations from our readers, which go towar |
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CAN I SEND YOU LETTERS, REPORTS AND PHOTOS AND OTHER MEMORABILIA?The more complete t |
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I'VE GOT SOME FABULOUS REFERENCE BOOKS I NO LONGER READ. CAN YOU USE THEM? |
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SOME OF YOUR INFORMATION IS INCORRECT OR INCOMPLETE. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?
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WHY DON'T YOU HAVE INFORMATION ON THE FAR EAST?Our original interest was with WWII m |
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HOW DO I SCAN A PHOTO?
Our intention is to provide a detailed explanation of the process.
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The material on this site is intended to reflect the stories of people not political systems. The prime purpose is to permit loved ones and friends to become aware of how and where those they cared fo... |
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YES PLEASE!
We get regular appeals from families for photos of lost loved ones. Sometimes we can provide these immediately, if we've got a note of the name(s) on a photo.
But more times than not, we... |
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We are preparing a detailed explanation to handle this important topic.
Until this is completed, please raise a ticket in our Helpdesk and include the information you want to send to us. You can also... |
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We want to encourage people to undertake their own family research. It's a fulfilling and rewarding process. Please join us!
We are developing a detailed roadmap of how you can go about doing this, s... |
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It's a matter of priorities.
We are constantly responding to requests from families and friends to research their loved ones, and we assign top priority to these requests.
We've got the icons showin... |
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We do try to keep up with what's going on around the forum world, but the reality is that time is too limited for our coverage to be 100% effective. We miss a lot in consequence,
We rely on the kindn... |
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Our colleague Captain Fred Paradie has developed what is believed to be the largest database of Canadian RCAF personnel who served in WWII. This is available on our site at
Paradie Archives
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Ah! that's a good question.
We humans are good at storing images and remembering them. Think of all the people you know who you recognize the moment you see them.
Unfortunately, computers aren't sma... |
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Luftwaffe Pages
Go here for a list of all Luftwaffe related pages
Kracker Archive
Our colleague Tom Kracker has developed what is probably the largest dataset in the worl |
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The birth of air conflict saw gigantic battles being fought between masses of planes. The rules of combat were being discovered at this time, the Immelman manoeuver for example. This is an era where t... |
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This is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
They commemorate the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars.
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We have a list of abbreviations commonly used. You are welcome to contact us if you have one that you feel we should also offer.
A further section on R.A.F. Abbreviations is explained within this kno... |
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We are a collaborating group of researchers. We welcome the participation of others. Please let us know how you would envisage working with us and what you have to offer and we will write privately to... |
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The Webmaster and technical directors are based in the United Kingdom.
We have collaborators based in Canada, United States, France, Germany, Holland, Denmark, South Africa, Argentina, Poland, India,... |
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Any language that you wish.
We are based in England and that is our first language. However we have translaters available for most languages but we always welcome more help with translation. |
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For an explanation of how Search works on the site, see Search Tips
Can't find what you're looking for in our Knowledgebase? Try our tips for successful searching.
Our search engine looks... |
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For an explanation of how Search works on the site, see Search Tips
There's a LOT of data on this site. All of it is searchable using the Search box on most pages.
You will usually be s... |
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Some folks are using our material to publicise the sale for private gain of bits they (or others) have recovered from crash sites.
WE DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS. We don't want to be associated with a pra... |
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We're trying to make it very easy for a reader to CORRECT content on a page he/she is reading or ADD new information to it.
An example might be you are looking at an Archive Report and you see a phot... |
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Helpdesk is the mechanism you click to send us an email/tiicket that you want a response to. Sure, we have a regular email address but the power of the our email/ticket system is that ev... |
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We tried a Wiki as an experiment in engaging our readers. We really wanted this to work, but it proved too cumbersome in practice.
We wrote this as we began our experiment and we leave the words in p... |
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We have very little funds to be able to finance these.
What we do try and help with is to bring various relatives together and guide them to a solution.
We are currently working with relatives on se... |
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We don't share personal information about you with anyone. Ever.
Before we put people in touch we always require the permission to do so from both parties.
In terms of the information on our site, w... |
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Great news that this has been announced of course.
We are pleased that we are able to offer our followers the correct form to download and complete.
Be aware, the application may take some time.
At... |
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A great question, some people have said "my relative was just training and never actually entered combat - can I obtain one?
Others wrote saying that "Dad was "just a sergeant, can he have one?"
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You can apply for his/her service records as a relative. If you are a direct relative i.e. husband or wife, a charge does not normally apply. If not although you must still be a relative and proof mus... |
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Pleased that we can help a little with this.
But word of advice - never send the original log book to anyone unless you are sure who they are and always send it in secure post. Many unscrupulou... |
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Happy to help and we have a list that you are able to download. We agree that this is far from complete and we have left some out that may well offend some people.
If you have a better list then we w... |
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Well, again we agree that this list is far from complete and of course if you have a better one to offer us (one of your own or with permission to use of course) we would like to hear further from you... |
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Probably the best people to buy these from is the British Legion. They sell via the principle of donation with a suggested donation figure. They also sell the many poppy items popular during remembran... |
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A very good question and one best answered by supplying yu with a download information sheet that may provide you with a fuller picture.
Further details can also be read here. |
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There are many descriptions for lost service men and women on the website of the Commonwealth Graves Commission that are far from complete and they welcome any contributions that can expand on this.&n... |
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We can repair some photographs digitally, it really does depend on the extent of the damage.
We are quite experienced in this type of work - send us a high resolution scan via the Helpdesk ... |
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If we have one you are welcome to it.
If we don't we can point you to perhaps where you can purchase one. Why not write up a page on your relative with as much information you have? We will try and e... |
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Yes we do. Here
We have many data bases that we are adding to the website on an almost weekly basis. We welcome any new data base that you have made and if suitable we will publish on a special secti... |
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No, why would you want to? They are constantly updated.
We and others have spent thousands of hours constructing these and we have built them to assist others with their research. |
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This was a codename given to the dropping of mines from aircraft at various locations - normally entrances to enemy ports and high activity enemy shipping lanes.
We have a map showing the names... |
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QR Codes: What are they?
Quick Response codes is the full title.
QR codes can be used in iOS devices (iPhone/iPod/iPad), Google's Android operating system and Microsoft's Windows Phone operating sys... |
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You can indeed. We welcome contributions of this nature. We are interested in publishing obituaries of ALL aviation-related people, groundcrew as well as aircrew, ordinary people as much as heroes.
P... |
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These are usually used for a page of remembrance and then filed accordingly. Sometimes they are not suitable for viewing for the page in question - they are then filed for reference purposes.
At time... |
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We spent 4000 hours of our own time at our own cost developing a web presence for the first time for a couple of individuals who styled themselves as 'Aircrew Remembrance Society', creating a website ... |
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We normally try and acknowedge receipt of your contact within 24 hours
Sometimes in this technical world, messages are mislaid or lost.
We are human and mistakes can sometimes occure.
Please ... |
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We never release private information without contacting the person for written permission. If you have changed your contact details and don't respond to our request, then we may publish on the page of... |
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We undertake to only use images belonging to others with the explicit permission of the owner.
An example is the brilliant image which used to be on the front of the Kracker Archive, for which the ar... |
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These are submitted to us by many interested parties and although, at times, the information may not be guaranteed to be 100% correct, it is nonetheless provided on the basis that it is hopefully more... |
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In time or money?
We spend about 13 hours every day between our technical chap and the webmaster developing the site. Then the contributors spend hours of their own time researching and typing out th... |
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We have several publications that we are preparing - these take many hours of work, even when the information supplied / gathered seems to be conclusive there is still a great deal of work to be compl... |
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No, we ask for a link to be added to our / your website if it is to be published for profit.
To 'care is to share' is our motto.
The more people that know about how our relatives are lost, the bette... |
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For an explanation of how Search works on the site, see Search Tips
Aircrew Remembered Search tips
As we are adding thousands of names to our various databases and more recently these h... |
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We are very fortunate in that the British Library adopted our website in 2014 and as such they scan the pages and keep them in their amazing web archive - forever!
This means that if we are not able ... |
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i think the way we would answer this is to say that within our team of more than 20 researchers, archivists and editors working across the world, we must represent one of the stronger concentrations o... |
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Over 55,500 air and ground crew lost their lives in WW2 in RAF Bomber Command along. When you add up all crews from all nations, it's probably close to 500,000 souls.
We will never list them al... |
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No, we are trying to overcome this.
We realise that the only reason a Lancaster takes off or a Spitfire manages to land safely is because of the thousands of ground crew - including WAAFS, people who... |
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I have written a poem - would you like it?
Of course.
It is not important that you lost someone in order to have a page on our website, if you have written a poem with just a few lines we may includ... |
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I would like you to review a book that I have published - how can you help?
We have many books submitted to us for this service.
We are very happy to be able to offer this service, we reserve the ri... |
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We don't, but we are in contact with people who do.
If you are interested in visiting old airfields, museums, cemeteries etc. please contact us and we will try to put you in touch with the right peop... |
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I would like to send a letter describing what I know about my relative, but I am worried about my spelling, layout etc.
Dont be, send us what you know, include anything and everything, what is import... |
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We are able to digitalise old films and are able to reproduce them for possible inlusion on a page. We may also be able to produce them on a dvd for you to keep. A charge may apply but why not ask us,... |
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This we have been requested many times. We are very happy to produce a DVD for you from your collection into either a slide show for family entertainment or for possible inclusion on a published web p... |
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Never send any original material to us, or anyone, without contacting us first.
Some people are happy to sell their material on auction sites and if this is your intention our advice would be to firs... |
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Medals are an important part of history.
We do not want you to send any medals to us, but we can advise where they maybe appreciated and held in a safe envirorment
We are of course very intere... |
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We are often requested what code did such and such squadron use on their aircraft.
So, we compiled as full a list as we have been able (17 pages) and made it available to you as a dow... |
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There are proffesional outlets who offer this service, for a charge.
We are also able to offer this service to you. However, sending originals by post is never a 100% safe method and you do so at you... |
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We are very proud in that the United Kingdom Web Archive (British Library of London) has in 2013, adopted our website for "outstanding national interest" and as such they archive all our pages in orde... |
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It's an abbreviation for Next of Kin
A list of abbreviations used on the site is provided at:
Site Abbreviations
If you come across an abbreviation that isn't in the list, please contact via the He... |
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Polish Air Force.
This was integrated into the RAF in 1940 under a formal agreement between the British Government and the Polish Government in Exile, based in London. It followed RAF structures and ... |
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There are many reasons people have for sponsoring a page. For some it's a way to honour their loved one in a tangible form that is everlasting. Flowers fade and die, but a sponsored page lives forever... |
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In time of war involving Great Britain, dispatches from the various conflicts are published in The London Gazette |
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A list of abbreviations used on the site is provided at:
Site Abbreviations
If you come across an abbreviation that isn't in the list, please contact via the Helpdesk (Raise a Ticket/Email) ... |
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This is an expensive site to run. All costs are borne out of our own pockets, aside from the Donations we are so grateful to receive. Thankyou all Donors!
We have thousands of stories still untold in... |
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From time to time we donate our front page to a Charity running their annual appeal. Recently we published appeals on behalf of the Red Cross Ebola campaign, British Legion Poppy Appeal and Marie Curi... |
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For an explanation of how Search works on the site, see Search Tips
All our databases provide a separate Search facility from the general Site search box found at the top of most pages.
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For an explanation of how Search works on the site, see Search Tips
Site search is like a Google search but is restricted to the contents of our site. It works the same way as a Google w... |
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For an explanation of how Search works on the site, see Search Tips
Databases consist of structured data, similar to spreadsheets. We provide a Search facility on our databases that is o... |
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When you translate one of our pages, the translation you see is coming from Google Translation services, not from us. The translated text looks like it's being produced by Aircrew Remembered, but it's... |
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Sometimes you will find a date in one of our databases that differs from one you find elsewhere.
First thing to st |
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THIS IS NOW HISTORY BUT THE INFO IS LEFT FOR YOUR INTEREST
Hundreds of D-Day veterans are to receive the French L |
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Obviously we are sorry to cause you distress. Please send us the correction and we will put matters right.
We present our information with the best of intentions and whilst we accept our responsibili... |
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Service records (other than those killed in action) are not open to the public until after 20 years.
Those killed in action are available on line through Ancestry. Those now deceased but not killed i... |
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Access to and Use of Documents
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War Service Records
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This section provides information about how to apply for military service records and medals from NZDF Archives, what to expect from the files and where to go for further information.
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See:
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/service-records/
Service records
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See https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/South_Africa_Military_Records
For any queries regarding military history, contact the Department of Defence Archives at the South Afr |
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It's a fact of computer life that if you do not test on every conceivable combination of hardware, operating system and browser, then something, somewhere will look strange for someone.
Unfortunately... |
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We stopped publishing the Kracker Archive as 27 separate entities (A - Z + Axis pilots) about 2 years ago.
We consolidated all entries into a single database because this provides a richer se... |
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The German Luftwaffe had allies from Italy (before it switched sides), Croatia and others.
Pilots in the Kracker Archive who were not in Luftwaffe units can be found by Searching for their country of... |
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Each of our databases has associated with it a listing in alphabetical order of the names in the database. This is called a Names List and is found by clicking the Names List button near the top of th... |
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Search Tips are found here.
Our database software utilizes MySQL on our host servers. It is the most widely used database software in the world. It's fast and very reliable.All MySQL searches you mak... |
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Search Tips are found here.
Our database software utilizes MySQL on our host servers. It is the most widely used database software in the world. It's fast and very reliable.All MySQL searches yo... |
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Search Tips are found here.
Our database software utilizes MySQL on our host servers. It is the most widely used database software in the world. It's fast and very reliable.All MySQL searches yo... |
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Every database has a Names List associated with it. Click the Names List button near the top of the page.
If the name you are looking for is NOT in the Names List this usually means it isn't in the d... |
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Site Search is provided to us by FreeFind. It's a sophisticated solution. FreeFind provides its services for a fee, or for free if the site agrees to FreeFind placing adverts on the re |
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We reverted to FreeFind to act as our Site Search engine, because it offers readers more opportunities to refine their searches, for example by including wildcard searches, and using Boolean logic (AN... |
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On the assumption that you have amassed sufficient material with which to fill a book, the answer is Yes, we can help.
We have people who can add research material, photographs etc, and can edit the ... |
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The reason is simple: we want anybody who sees one of our photos anywhere on the web to know where they can come for further information. Maybe they have more information to add to our story, but if t... |
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Search Tips are found here.
Our database software utilizes MySQL on our host servers. It is the most widely used database software in the world. It's fast and very reliable.All MySQL searches yo... |
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Search Tips are found here.
Our database software utilizes MySQL on our host servers. It is the most widely used database software in the world. It's fast and very reliable.
All MySQ... |
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Search Tips are found here.
Our database software utilizes MySQL on our host servers. It is the most widely used database software in the world. It's fast and very reliable.
All MySQ... |
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Resistance movements in occupied territories played many roles, from obtaining intelligence on the enemy for use by Allied officers at home, to direct action such as sabotage or attacks on military pe... |
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We have designed the site to optimize user experience in terms of readability. If we make the text too small for most people our readers will be squinting at their screens. If we make it too large &nb... |
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On some of our databases you may see the Star of David against an individual's entry.
The jewishvirtuallibrary.org makes the point that during WW2 Allied servicemen of Jewish extraction would usually... |
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Yes, of course the Germans were the enemies of the Western democracies in WW2, and of the USSR. If they had prevailed with their allies, the Japanese, who can tell what sort of appalling world they wo... |
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You have probably noticed the Translate button at the foot of every page does NOT include the option to translate into English.
There are at least 2 parts of the site where the dominant language on t... |
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In December 2020 our site began to experience abnormally high connections from unknown sources. It got so high that our hosting service temporarily suspended access to all our database content until w... |
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In December 2020 our site began to experience abnormally high connections from unknown sources. It got so high that our hosting service temporarily suspended access to all our database content until w... |
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At the foot of each database table is a Translate function.
This is provided to us by Google.
Some of our databases are not in English. If you attempt to use the Translate function you will find doz... |
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During maintenance on our servers, we were removing duplicates of images that had accumulated over the years and were not being used on any of the site's pages. These were now causing us a little conf... |
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The government has established the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC) to assist families who have experienced a loss or serious wounding of a relative.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance... |
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https://www.gov.uk/guidance/joint-casualty-and-compassionate-centre-jccc#additional-support
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Whenever a new crew was formed in RAF Bomber Command, the Pilot was required to join an experienced crew as Second Pilot in order to gain operational experience before flying his own crew over enemy t... |
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The problem is, accessing our databases using Google Chrome can result in pages where the menu no long sits across our banner, but appears as a list beneath the banner.
For reasons best known... |
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How to apply for access to personal data held by the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/requests-for- |
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In certain configurations, the AddThis buttons fail to appear at the foot of every page. These are the buttons that allow you to click through to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc.
So far as we can te... |
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Many of the videos we use to enhance our material originate on YouTube. Unfortunately, over time, some of these disappear from YouTube for whatever reason, and when this happens, the links in our mate... |
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