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- Tags: RAF Cosford
Interview with Jan Black. Two
Tags: 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; crash; Defiant; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military ethos; Operational Training Unit; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Bramcote; RAF Cosford; RAF Evanton; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Aircraft histories of Tiger Moth aircraft flown by Denis Clyde-Smith
Geoffrey North rewritten account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
Geoffrey North account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
Peter Hattersley's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Hampden; Harvard; Hudson; Lysander; Magister; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Upavon; RAF Waddington; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Peter Hattersley's Service Diary
Tags: 1 Group; 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; Battle; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; Stalag Luft 3; training
Interview with Jan Black. One
Tags: 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-Semitism; crash; demobilisation; fear; final resting place; Guinea Pig Club; Holocaust; killed in action; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Andover; RAF Bramcote; RAF Cosford; searchlight; training; Warsaw airlift (4 August - 28 September 1944); Wellington
Interview with Les Rutherford. One
Interview with Raymond Moore
Tags: 408 Squadron; 426 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; faith; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Brackla; RAF Cosford; RAF East Moor; RAF Halton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF St Athan; recruitment; searchlight; sport; training
Interview with John Cox
Tags: 626 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; African heritage; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Wickenby; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with Ron Hemsworth
Tags: 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; fear; Halifax; military service conditions; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morpeth; RAF Swinderby; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6; superstition; Whitley