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Interview with Bessie Thomas

Bessie Thomas left school at the age of 14 and worked as a typist at the Consett Iron Company. At the age of 18, at the time of Dunkirk, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force where she wanted to be a radio operator but there were no vacancies. …

Tags: 150 Squadron; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); love and romance; military service conditions; radar; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF High Street; RAF Innsworth; RAF Snaith; RAF Yatesbury; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force

Interview with Thomas Aiden Davidson

Born in Gateshead, Thomas was an apprentice railroad engineer. With the war beginning three days after his 16th birthday, Thomas feels very passionately about the British experience of the Second World War, as his only brother was killed. He claims…

Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; fear; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; Home Guard; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; perception of bombing war; RAF Driffield; RAF Riccall; RAF St Athan; searchlight; training

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