Dennis, Frank

Title

Dennis, Frank
F Dennis

Description

Three items. This collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Frank Dennis DFM, Royal Air Force. Frank flew as a flight engineer with 419 and 427 Squadrons on operations to Germany, France and Norway. He recorded his experiences in an interview, from which his memoir was written.

The collection was made available to the IBCC for digitisation by Steven Payne and was catalogued by Andy Fitter.

Date

2015-10-15

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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.

Identifier

Dennis, F

Collection Items

Frank Dennis' memoir
In 1943 Frank completed an engineering apprenticeship and volunteered to join the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. He completed basic training in London, where he witnessed the fatal crash of a C-47 and then went to Initial Training Wing at RAF…

Frank Dennis is presented with information gathered by researchers, following his initial interview. His aircraft was attacked on an operation and the researchers were seeking further information about it. Frank talks about the Luftwaffe's Tame Boar…
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