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- Contributor is exactly "Carolyn Emery"
Interview with Martin Arthur Catty
Tags: 3 Group; 514 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; entertainment; evacuation; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Manchester; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waterbeach; sanitation; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Gordon Atkinson
Interview with Dennis Kirk. Two
Interview with Arthur Hulyer
Interview with Kenneth William Trueman
Tags: 640 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; crewing up; evading; final resting place; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Intelligence Officer; lack of moral fibre; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Leconfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; Resistance; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Walter Raymond Stevenson
Interview with Daphne Baptiste
Interview with Peter Andrew Hopgood
Interview with John Ormerod
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; FIDO; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator; York
Interview with a navigator from 101 Squadron
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; coping mechanism; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Wymeswold; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Bill Lucas. Two
Tags: 139 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 19 OTU; 20 OTU; 9 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Kinloss; RAF Torquay; RAF Upwood; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Roy White
Interview with Peter Jones
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Pathfinders; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Oakington; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; Stirling; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Harry James
Interview with Frances Anne Cooper
Interview with Jack and Jean Howes
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Brian and Jenny Bailey
Interview with Derek Jones
BBC recording of Gordon Cruickshank
Gordon joined the RAF in 1938 and Bomber Command in 1941 as an air gunner. Started operations in 1942 and completed first tour of 31 trips at end of November 1942. He says his…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; killed in action
Interview with John Usher about Bob Burns
Suddenly the aircraft broke in…
Interview with Kenneth Rudkin
Interview with James Ferguson Latimer
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