Fitt, Peter

Title

Fitt, Peter
P Fitt

Description

An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant Peter Fitt (Royal Air Force) and two photographs. He flew operations as a wireless operator with 467 Squadron.

The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Peter Fitt and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

Date

2015-05-19

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

Fitt, P

Collection Items

Flight Lieutenant Peter Fitt
Head and shoulders portrait of an RAF officer wearing tunic with wireless operator brevet and peaked cap. Submitted with caption 'Flt Lt Peter Fitt'.

Claxton Crew
Seven aircrew wearing tunic with brevet, three in front all with sergeants rank visible and four behind. Submitted with caption 'Claxton Crew, late 1942'.

Peter was born in Norwich. His father was a head gardener and wanted him to follow that occupation and so refused to let him join the RAF. With the advent of war, the situation changed and Peter volunteered at a recruiting station and, after…
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