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- Coverage is exactly "Royal New Zealand Air Force"
New Zealand aircrew captured by elements of the Todt Organisation
Tags: arts and crafts; bale out; forced labour
A-Able aircrew
Pilot gets D.F.C. and gunner D.F.M.
Hail these heroes of Empire. Eleven new awards to men of the R.A.F.
Hero of 21 RAF raids gets DFC
From: The People, 4 August 1940, p. 6.
44 Squadron and the Wesserling Raid 21/22 June 1944
487 Squadron personnel in front of Ventura
Tags: 487 Squadron; hangar; Ventura
Rotterdam Docks
Rotterdam Docks
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Royal Air Force Methwold
Top right a group of officers…
Interview with Geoff Bibby
Interview with Allan Joseph Couper
Interview with David Rayner Fox
Interview with Pat Hickton
Interview with Jack Meehan
Interview with Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; Intelligence Officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Ivon Warmington
Interview with Eddie Worsdale
Lancaster and Fred Phillips' crew
Fred Phillips' crew and Lancaster
Six airmen
On the reverse -
'"A" Flight (Netheravon)
L to R
"Tiger" Tarlinton, Australia
Graeme-Evans, New Zealand
Bunker, England
Bill…
Tags: RAF Netheravon; training
Des Horgan and crew on a Stirling
Tags: 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Māori; pilot; Stirling
Interview with Len McNamara
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; escaping; evading; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Langar; RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Ringway; RAF Woolfox Lodge; recruitment; training; Whitley
Interview with Hugh Parry. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 3 Group; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; guard room; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Me 163; military ethos; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; perception of bombing war; physical training; RAF Bridlington; RAF Mepal; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silloth; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Westcott; RAF Woolfox Lodge; reconnaissance photograph; Spitfire; training; Wellington