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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interview with Maurice Snowball]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Maurice Snowball was born and educated in Sunderland. After school, he served an engineering apprenticeship with a local family firm and was a member of the Home Guard. Maurice was a keen amateur footballer and had hopes of turning professional but, aged 21, he volunteered to join the RAF as a flight engineer and was called forward for initial training at RAF Bridlington in December 1944.  He discusses his time in flight engineer training at RAF St Athan and subsequent duties as a flight engineer on Halifax and Lancaster aircraft with 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Blyton. He recalls the operational duties with 550 Squadron, RAF North Killingholme where he took part in four bombing operations - two of them on night raids (close to nine hour round trips), and operations over Heligoland and Bremen. He reflects on the differences he encountered, as a flight engineer, between the Halifax and Lancaster, how the Halifax was spacious and comfortable; the Lancaster cramped and only a small tip-up seat for his flight engineer position.  He talks about the main memory of his time in the RAF, Operation Manna, and his later conversations with a lady from Holland who was eight years old at the time. He retrained as an MT driver when his squadron was disbanded and was demobilised in October 1947. Maurice later reaffirmed his affiliation with the RAF. In later years, he moved to Rutland and retired in the 1980s, from his last job as a mechanical foreman at RAF Cottesmore. ]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2015-06-26]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[00:56:14 audio recording]]></dcterms:format>
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