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Interview with Rudolf Williams about his father, James Raphael Williams
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; anti-Semitism; Asian heritage; bombing; C-47; childhood in wartime; demobilisation; faith; Fw 190; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; Lancastrian; P-38; RAF Cosford; RAF Hendon; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Northolt; RAF Yatesbury; strafing; training; wireless operator
RAF Driffield
Airmen and air training corps cadets
Tags: training
Three RAF officers
Tags: aircrew; ground personnel; mess; RAF Driffield
Station Police
Tags: animal; military discipline; RAF Driffield
Letter to Sydney Fox's wife only to be sent if he was reported missing
J F D Savill’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Training started at No. 3 Air Observers’ School, followed by posting to 78 Squadron in September 1939. Further training at the School of Air Navigation before returning to 78…
Tags: 10 OTU; 527 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; demobilisation; Dominie; Flying Training School; Hornet Moth; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; radar; RAF Abingdon; RAF Aldergrove; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Castle Camps; RAF Digby; RAF Dishforth; RAF Drem; RAF Driffield; RAF Fowlmere; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF North Weald; RAF Ouston; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snailwell; RAF St Athan; RAF Stapleford Tawney; RAF Sywell; RAF Usworth; RAF Watton; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
The Pennicott crew and ground crew
The Pennicott crew
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; Halifax; navigator; pilot; RAF Melbourne
RAF service record
King George VI awarding medal
Dennis Dowdeswell's navigator's, air bombers and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 170 Squadron; 27 OTU; 81 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Botha; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Catfoss; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ingham; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Morpeth; RAF Sleap; training; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
William Baillie's service record
Tags: 11 OTU; 149 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 51 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lissett; RAF Madley; RAF Methwold; RAF Snaith; RAF Stradishall; RAF Westcott; training; wireless operator
William Baillie's observer's and air gunner's flying log book. Two
Aircrew standing in front of Halifax
Tags: aircrew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; RAF Melbourne
Tommy's crew
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; flight engineer; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Home from Sweden
Tags: aircrew; crash; evading; missing in action; shot down
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
Letter from John Hopgood to his mother
Tags: Hampden; Manchester; RAF Finningley; RAF Swinderby; training
John (Jack) Clyde's Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book
He was stationed at RAF Yatesbury (No. 2 Signals…
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 19 OTU; 24 OTU; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Botha; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Kinloss; RAF Long Marston; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Eval; RAF Yatesbury; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); searchlight; target photograph; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
W D Tweddle. Tape Two
Gratitude and appreciation
Tags: 100 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Grimsby; Resistance; shot down; wireless operator