Interview with Harry Kartz

Interview with Harry Kartz

The interview starts with S Bond explaining the purpose of the interview is research for a book on the 'Wimpey'. Harry then described his joining civil air guard and then volunteering for the RAF. He, initially hoped to be a pilot, but medical issues meant that he was employed on several ground jobs before being trained as a wireless operator and then air gunner. He arrived on 9 Squadron in 1941 and flew 17 operations as a Wellington air gunner. Harry describes an operation to bomb Scharnhorst and Gneisenau where they had an encounter wit a Ju 88. He recalls his crew and mentions other episodes of damaged aircraft. Harry comments on how robust the Wellington was to damage. Includes contemporary photograph of Harry Kartz

00:48:44 audio recording

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