Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. One

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Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. One

Description

Charles volunteered for the RAF when he was 17 and trained as a bomb aimer at RAF North Luffenham. After qualifying, he was posted to 619 Squadron at RAF Woodhall Spa. He was shot down on his 18th operation and he became a prisoner of war. He talks about the conditions in the camp and on the Long March. He discusses his post war RAF career working in Palestine, Aden and Cyprus, his marriage and his work with the Bomber Command memorial.

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Date

2015-08-06

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00:42:57 audio recording

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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

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AClarkeC150806

Citation

Mick Jeffery, “Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. One,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 19, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/9017.

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