Browse Items (185 total)
- Tags: 467 Squadron
Interview with Audrey Teasdale
Audrey was 23 when the war started and was conscripted on 15 December 1942 electing to join the Women's Auxiliary Air…
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; animal; bombing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morecambe; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; sport; Stirling; strafing; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with John Foster Thorp
Tags: 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; crewing up; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington
Bob Smith's Memoirs
Tags: 106 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 166 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 44 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 619 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; flight engineer; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Breighton; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Desborough; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harrington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Silloth; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wigtown; RAF Witchford; Red Cross; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; training; V-1; Wellington; wireless operator
Bob Smith's Memoirs Book 2
Covers his training.
Tags: 1653 HCU; 3 Group; 467 Squadron; 5 Group; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; crash; crewing up; flight engineer; Gee; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mess; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Andover; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harrington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Silloth; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wigtown; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Sidney Knott
Tags: 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 582 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bombing; debriefing; fear; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Manby; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Wellington
Interview with Peter Fitt
Tags: 467 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); briefing; crewing up; fear; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Denis Kelly
Interview with Ernest Cutts
Interview with Clarence Keith Bruhn
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; entertainment; Lancaster; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; recruitment; shot down; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window