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- Coverage is exactly "Royal Australian Air Force"
Interview with John McCredie
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
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 Frank Mottershead
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 Joe Shuttleworth
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Max Spence
Interview with Herbert Tinning
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; coping mechanism; crewing up; fitter airframe; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ralph White
Tags: 192 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; crewing up; Halifax; Ju 88; pilot; radar; RAF Foulsham; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Kenneth William Munro
Interview with Wal Goodwin
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; displaced person; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training
Interview Notes: 410364 Don McDonald, 578 and 466 Sqn Halifax pilot 1944-45
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; Halifax; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Rufforth; training
Interview with Ronald Last
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; escaping; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; recruitment; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Letter to John McCredie awarding him a DFC
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Alan McInnes memoir
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Tags: 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Fw 190; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); ground personnel; H2S; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Lichfield; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wyton; Red Cross; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; target indicator; the long march; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with David Fellowes. Two
Tags: 1656 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Finningley; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hixon; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
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
Letter to Mrs Cahir from the Area Finance Office, Department of Air
Tags: aircrew; missing in action
Letter to Mrs Cahir from the Area Finance Office, Department of Air
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war