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Interview with John Robert Dobson McClements
Interview with John McClements regarding his parents Robert and Iris McClements, and his decision to make a documentary about Operation Gisela, and his father's friend, Jack Laffoley.
Additional information on John Gifford Laurence Laffoley is…
Interview with Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford volunteered for the RAF in Jamaica. He was posted to the UK in 1944 and began his precision instrument training before being finally posted to work on trainer aircraft. After the war he returned to Jamaica. He married and then returned…
Interview with Douglas Clark
Doug Clark grew up in Lincolnshire and witnessed the construction of RAF Ludford Magna. He saw the wreckage of a Lancaster crash and recalled the time when Lancasters filled the sky. After he left school, he joined the Royal Observer Corps. He went…
Interview with Stan Mellor
Squadron Leader Stan Mellor joined the RAF in 1943, initially training as a wireless operator and air gunner before qualifying as a signaller. His early service saw him instructing on Dakotas before deploying to Burma, where he flew operations to…
Interview with Beryl Fitter
Beryl Fitter grew up in Birmingham during the war. She recalls the many hours spent in the Anderson or Morrison shelter. She also experienced the Black Market which supplemented the rations. The house across from them was bombed. An incendiary landed…
Interview with Maureen Shirley Lill
Maureen Lill grew up in Louth during the war. She recalls the one night when a bomb destroyed the house of her school friend. Her father was in the Army and she didn’t see him for the duration of the war after he was called up. He had begun to read…
Interview with Peter Brian Edwards
Peter Edwards is the son of a Halton apprentice. His father was based at RAF Wittering as Senior Technical Officer during the war, but his mother moved with him and his brother to Lytham St Anne’s for the duration. American servicemen were frequent…
Interview with Elizabeth Ann Rogers
Elizabeth's earliest memories include the family’s Anderson shelter, later replaced by a Morrison shelter where she slept during air raids. She recalls the sound of planes overhead and the impact of nearby bombings, including shattered windows and…
Interview with Suzanne Williams about her father John Andrew Cromie
John Andrew Cromie volunteered for the RAF in Australia. He was posted to 460 Squadron. On his thirteenth operation he was shot down and became a prisoner of war. After the war he didn’t talk to his family about his experiences. Upon the death of…
Interview with Tom Smith
Tom Smith grew up in Lancashire during the war. He recalls the German bombers going over to bomb the docks, the effect of rationing on a country community and the ban on night fishing during the war.
Interview with Rudolf Williams about his father, James Raphael Williams
Rudolph describes his father’s (James) life, from his childhood years in Trinidad, through to volunteering for and serving in the RAF in the UK. After demobilisation, James returned briefly to Trinidad before returning to the UK where he worked for…
Interview with Julian Michalski
Julian Michalski escaped from Poland at the age of twenty. He joined with other Polish evacuees in France and escaped when that country also fell. He went to North Africa and then to the Middle East before volunteering for the RAF. After arriving in…
Interview with Margaret Smieja
Margaret Smieja grew up in Ingham during the Second World War. One Saturday she was at the cinema in Lincoln when a nearby cinema was flattened by a bomb. She met her husband, a Polish servicemen at a local dance when she was fifteen and they married…
Interview with Len Plumbe
interview of Len Plumbe by Hillary Smith for “Deddington Discussions” a local radio program, regarding Leonard Plumbe’s life.
Len Plumbe grew up in Deddington in Oxfordshire before the war. After finishing school he went to work in a local…
Len Plumbe grew up in Deddington in Oxfordshire before the war. After finishing school he went to work in a local…
Interview with Colin Bell
Colin Bell spent eighteen months as a newly qualified pilot instructing trainees in America. He completed 50 operations as a pilot on Mosquitos on the Light Night Striking Force.
Colin talks of his entry interview into the RAF, his time at an…
Colin talks of his entry interview into the RAF, his time at an…
W D Tweddle. Tape Three
Doug Tweddle describes the final days of the war on the Squadron. He participated in Operations Dodge and Exodus bringing POWs home. After his posting to Bardney he was posted to RAF Skellingthorpe with 50 Squadron.
W D Tweddle. Tape Two
Doug Tweddle was awarded an immediate DFC because he flew on all three operations to attack the Tirpitz. This was delivered to him at his home four years later. While attempting an emergency landing at RAF Waddington he was told that because he was…
W D Tweddle. Tape One
Doug Tweddle undertook his initial pilot training in South Africa. On return to the UK, he attended Operational Training Unit at Upper Heyford where he selected his crew. The crew were then posted to 9 Squadron at RAF Bardney. Doug was the only…
Interview with Doug Jennings
While on operations with 5 Squadron Doug Jenning and his crew were forced to abandon their burning aircraft. The pilot died in the aircraft. Doug and the flight engineer separately evaded capture and returned to the UK. Doug went on to further…