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- Tags: RAF Wratting Common
Interview with Sidney Bunce
Tags: 115 Squadron; 195 Squadron; demobilisation; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; medical officer; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Kirkham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Bernie How
Map of Cooks Tour June 1945
Letter from John Brittain to 'Boss'
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
195 Squadron RAF Wratting Common, 1945
Tags: 195 Squadron; aircrew; hangar; Lancaster; RAF Wratting Common
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
John Brittain's flying log book
Tags: 1653 HCU; 17 OTU; 195 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Morpeth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with George Rex Armstrong
Interview with Bert Mason
Interview with William Holmes
Tags: 149 Squadron; 3 Group; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; forced landing; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Methwold; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; Resistance; Stearman; Stirling; training
Interview with Kenneth Killeen
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 83 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 410; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Peplow; RAF Torquay; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Interview with Bob Leedham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 86 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Halton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF St Athan; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wratting Common; Scharnhorst; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Geoff Payne
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 109; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Weeton; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Gwynne Price
Tags: 195 Squadron; 35 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; C-47; crewing up; faith; flight engineer; Gee; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Colerne; RAF Graveley; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Eric Wilkin
Tags: 115 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Oakington; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling
Jim Allen’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 15 OTU; 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; 578 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Banff; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Burn; RAF Harwell; RAF Hullavington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Paignton; RAF Rufforth; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Estevan; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington; York
William Holmes' Royal Canadian Air Force pilot's flying log book
Tags: 12 OTU; 149 Squadron; 1651 HCU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Methwold; RAF Morecambe; RAF Northolt; RAF Shawbury; RAF Syerston; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; RCAF Moncton; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Colin Deverell
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; Mosquito; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wratting Common; recruitment; Resistance; searchlight; Stirling; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Eric William Harrison
Tags: 1653 HCU; 195 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; fear; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military discipline; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hullavington; RAF Kirkham; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Locking; RAF Manby; RAF St Athan; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training
Flying Officer A F Thomas’ RAF navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1665 HCU; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Feltwell; RAF Methwold; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Wratting Common; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training