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- Creator is exactly "Chris Brockbank"
Interview with Sheila Reid Chaplin
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Sandy Saunders
Tags: aircrew; bombing; C-47; crash; grief; Guinea Pig Club; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); memorial; pilot; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 82 OTU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control tower; coping mechanism; crewing up; dispersal; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; forced landing; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Me 109; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Desborough; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; recruitment; sanitation; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Roy White
Interview with Roy Saunders
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Roy Maddock-Lyon
Interview with Roy Briggs
Tags: 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Dominie; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Initial Training Wing; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; training; wireless operator
Interview with Ronald Mather
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; Proctor; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; wireless operator
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 Roger Calvert
Interview with Robert Norman William Didwell. Two
Interview with Robert Norman William Didwell
Interview with Robert Andrew Percival
Interview with Rita Chapman
Interview with Richard Hollis
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 BFTS; 50 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; civil defence; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; searchlight; training; Wellington
Interview with Rex Searle. Two
Interview with Rex Searle. One
Interview with Reg Freeth
Interview with Raymond George Goss
Interview with Raymond Barrett
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Posy Clarke
Interview with Philip Peel
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