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Interview with Ian Wilkie

Ian Wilkie served as a flight engineer on 158 Squadron before being posted to RAF Leconfield in January 1944. Paddy, the mid-upper gunner on his crew always said that shrapnel wouldn’t hurt them until he was hit by it. He was pulled from the turret…

Tags: 158 Squadron; 640 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; flight engineer; RAF Hardwick; RAF Lissett; RAF Riccall

Interview with Fred Tiller

Fred was too young to get in the Royal Air Force, so he joined the Air Training Corps where they did aircraft recognition and visited various camps. He joined in 1943/44 and went to Lord’s Cricket Ground where he was evaluated to become an air…

Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Hardwick; RAF Kirkham; RAF Melbourne; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Topcliffe; training; Wellington; Whitley

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