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Interview with Colin Bell
Colin talks of his entry interview into the RAF, his time at an…
Tags: 608 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crewing up; fear; FIDO; Fw 190; ground crew; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; Me 262; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Downham Market; RAF Grantham; RAF Prestwick; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; training; V-weapon
Interview with Peter Greenwood
Tags: 71 Squadron; African heritage; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing up; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; military living conditions; pilot; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Carlisle; RAF Driffield; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Heaton Park; Stearman; submarine; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Alastair Price
Alistair Price is the son of…
Tags: 12 OTU; 139 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Battle; Blenheim; escaping; Hampden; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Catterick; RAF Wyton; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; training
Interview with Peter Sewerin
Interview with Richard Leslie Skepper
Richard Spepper was born in Kent. His ambition was to be a tank driver but his mother escorted him to the RAF…
The old team - seven airmen
Tags: 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; RAF Binbrook
Interview with David Fellowes
Tags: 1656 HCU; 206 Squadron; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mid-air collision; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; RAF Binbrook; RAF Hixon; RAF Ingham; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Scampton; Shackleton; training; Wellington
Interview with George Dunn
Tags: 10 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 18 OTU; 20 OTU; 608 Squadron; 76 Squadron; aircrew; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Barford St John; RAF Downham Market; RAF Finningley; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Rufforth; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington
Memoirs of an Air Gunner
Tags: 620 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; briefing; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Operational Training Unit; RAF Ashbourne; RAF Fairford; RAF Leicester East; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Woolfox Lodge; recruitment; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Michael Peel interview. Two
Tags: 14 OTU; 227 Squadron; 44 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bale out; bombing; evading; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Market Harborough; RAF South Cerney; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; shot down; Stalag Luft 1; training
Interview with Dr James Hendrie Burt. Two
Interview with Dr James Hendrie Burt. One
Michael Peel interview. One
Interview with Terry Lloyd
Interview with Eric Haynes
Interview with George Griffiths
Interview with Ken Done
Interview with Bill Bilton
Interview with Ray Parke. Two
Interview with Gwendoline Thickett
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Rex John Arnett
Tags: 100 Group; 223 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; B-25; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crewing up; entertainment; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Manston; RAF Oulton; shot down; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Geoff Brown
Interview with Patricia Cook
Tags: animal; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter