Interview with Geoff Rushton
Title
Interview with Geoff Rushton
Description
Geoff Rushton worked as a bank clerk before he volunteered for the Air Force. He trained as a navigator in Canada and after crewing up flew 20 operations with 15 Squadron from RAF Mildenhall. He and his crew were then posted to 186 Squadron at RAF Tuddunham, where they completed their tour. He discusses his crew and the events on some of his operations. On their first sortie to Stuttgart they returned on three engines and another operation were attacked by three night fighters and considered baling out. He married Mona, his childhood girlfriend and became the mayor of Gosport after the war.
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Publisher
IBCC Digital Archive
Date
2018-02-12
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Format
00:28:18 audio recording
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Identifier
ARushtonG180212, PRushtonG1802
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Citation
Joyce Sharland, “Interview with Geoff Rushton,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed January 23, 2021, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/11566.
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