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- Contributor is exactly "Cathie Hewitt"
An anxious moment
B Flt No 3 Squadron - No 13 ITW
Tags: Initial Training Wing; training
Beeston airman believed killed
Course 71 navigators
Interview with Allen Geoffrey Gould
Interview with Arthur Loudon
Interview with Betty Bascombe
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. One
Interview with Derek Jones
Interview with Donald Keith Fraser, One
Interview with Elizabeth Eady
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Gerald McPherson
Tags: 15 Squadron; 186 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; faith; Gee; Operational Training Unit; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Turweston; searchlight; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Philip Batty
Tags: 226 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridlington; RAF Coningsby; RAF Madley; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wattisham; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Richard Harrison
Interview with Ron Tomlin
Interview with Ronald George Doble
Tags: 1653 HCU; 21 OTU; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; displaced person; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dalcross; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Yatesbury; Scarecrow; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Sidney Bunce
Interview with the family of John Edward Ayres
John was a flight engineer with 427 Squadron. He was born at Westcliff-on-Sea and volunteered for the Royal Air Force when he received a letter from Bomber Command. He had joined the Air…
Kaleidoscope – the morning after - 1943
Letter to his mother from George Wilson
Letter to Mr Woolgar
Tags: air sea rescue; crash; ditching; missing in action; RAF Scampton
Letter to Mrs Miller from Alan Robson
Tags: missing in action; prisoner of war