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Interview with Colin Fraser
Tags: 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crash; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Fairoaks; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF West Freugh; searchlight; shot down; superstition; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Alan Pugh
Tags: 17 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; fear; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Worksop; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Kenneth William Munro
Interview with Frank Gerald Bassett
Interview with Frederick Limer
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Gee; guard room; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; mess; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Methwold; RAF Staverton; RCAF Fingal; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Sidney Borthwick
Interview with Richard Harrison
Interview with Eric Clarke
Interview with Frank Leatherdale
Tags: 115 Squadron; 220 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; B-29; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lincoln; Master Bomber; navigator; observer; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Waddington; RAF Witchford; searchlight; training
Interview with Fred Logan
Interview with Peter John Peck
Interview with Douglas Robinson
Tags: 158 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; forced landing; Gee; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; submarine; Sunderland; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Geoff Packham
On his return, Geoff…
Tags: 550 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; B-17; bale out; bombing; civil defence; Dulag Luft; evading; Horsa; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Sutton Bridge; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 1; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window
Interview with Stephen Granville Bacon
Interview with Philip Bates
Tags: 149 Squadron; 86 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; displaced person; Dulag Luft; entertainment; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lysander; Manchester; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Nissen hut; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Lakenheath; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; Resistance; Scarecrow; searchlight; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 4; Stirling; training; Window
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 Bill Thomas
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; observer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Bicester; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Sywell; target photograph; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Robert Forsyth
Interview with Elizabeth Eady
Interview with Gerald Taylor
Interview with Peter Woodard
Tags: 100 Group; 102 Squadron; 192 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; Cook’s tour; crewing up; H2S; Halifax; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; P-38; RAF Dumfries; RAF Foulsham; Raf Mauripur; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shenington; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with John Philip Lambourn
He was classed as working in a reserved occupation, but joined the Air Training…
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; recruitment; Scarecrow; service vehicle; Stirling; target indicator; training
Interview with Peter Charles Hearmon
After RAF Padgate, Peter was selected as…
Tags: 61 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; fuelling; Gee; Harvard; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; perimeter track; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Chivenor; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Hullavington; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Upwood; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; training