Robinson, Douglas

Title

Robinson, Douglas
D Robinson

Description

Six items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant Douglas Robinson (1922 - 2017 1215638, 170413 Royal Air Force) and five photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 158 Squadron and became a prisoner of war.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Douglas Robinson and catalogued by Barry Hunter.

Date

2016-09-11

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

Robinson, D

Collection Items

Crashed Halifax
Three images of Douglas Robinson's crashed Halifax 'NP-J'. Full side view, partial side view and rear turret view.

Crashed Halifax with German airman
Douglas Robinson's crashed Halifax with a German airman sitting on the mid turret.

Douglas Robinson
Three quarter length portrait of Douglas in uniform, standing in a garden.

Douglas Robinson
Head and shoulders portrait of Douglas in uniform.

Douglas Robinson
Douglas in full flying gear, in a garden with a bench behind him.

Interview with Douglas Robinson
Douglas was in the Local Defence Volunteers before joining the Royal Air Force as a pilot. After Babbacombe, he did initial training at Scarborough and then in Rhodesia. Initial flight training in Harare on Tiger Moths was followed by service…
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