Barron, Andrew
Title
Barron, Andrew
Andrew James Kelton Barron
A J K Barron
Description
Eight items. Three oral history interviews with Flight Lieutenant Andrew Barron (1923 - 2021, 163695 Royal Air Force) He flew 38 operations as a navigator in 223 Squadron at RAF Oulton flying B-24s.
The collection was catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
Additional items were licensed to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dr Steve Bond and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. This collection was provided, in digital form, by a third-party organisation which used technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive.
The collection was catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
Additional items were licensed to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dr Steve Bond and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. This collection was provided, in digital form, by a third-party organisation which used technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive.
Date
2019-05-10
2018-04-19
Publisher
IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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Identifier
Barron, AJK
Collection Items
Liberator crew
Nine airmen , four squatting in front and five standing behind all wearing battledress. In the background the nose of a B-24 with nose art gremlin. Submitted with caption 'Liberator TS530 crew 223 sqn Oulton Barron top left'. Additional information…
Transcription of interview with Andrew Barron
Talks about training in Canada eventually as a navigator before returning to Great Britain and joining 223 Squadron. Covers first operations trying to jam suspected guidance signals for V-2s and special operators. Mentions some aspects of training in…
Andrew Barron
An airman wearing battledress with half brevet standing by the nose of a Liberator. Nose art of a cartoon devil with name 'Gremlin Heaven" and sortie tally bombs. Submitted with caption 'Barron, Andrew Flg Off with Liberator TS530 223 sqn Oulton'.…
Interview with Andrew Barron. Three
Andrew recalls that during leisure time the crew drank, sang silly songs but didn’t really socialise much. He remembers an occasion when the Germans sent in about 200 night fighters infiltrating the main force on its way home. They shot down a B-17…
Interview with Andrew Barron. Two
Andrew hitchhiked from Edmonton to Calgary and then on to Mountain View by train. Gunnery training was in a Bolingbroke, which had a mid-upper turret; bombing training was done in an Anson. Andrew was then posted to navigation school in Quebec for…
Interview with Andrew Barron. One
Andrew was born in Chichester in 1923. The family moved to Wolverhampton when he was about two years old and then to Dulwich just before the war. When he was 13 or 14, his mother enrolled him at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, where he spent…
Collection Tree
- Barron, Andrew