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- Creator is exactly "Chris Brockbank"
Interview with William Horace Shaw
Interview with William Holmes
Tags: 149 Squadron; 3 Group; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; forced landing; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Methwold; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; Resistance; Stearman; Stirling; training
Interview with William Frederick Chubb
Interview with William Edwin Barnett
Interview with William Barfoot
Tags: 296 Squadron; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; Dominie; Gee; Halifax; Hamilcar; Horsa; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Brize Norton; RAF Castle Bromwich; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Earls Colne; RAF Hullavington; RAF Manston; RAF Shawbury; RAF Yatesbury; Resistance; Stirling; Tiger Moth; Whitley
Interview with William Arthur Coulton
Tags: 115 Squadron; 208 Squadron; 32 Squadron; dispersal; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Newmarket; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Witchford; service vehicle; Spitfire; tractor; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Walter Raymond Stevenson
Interview with Vivian David Williams
Tags: Advanced Flying Unit; fitter engine; Flying Training School; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Hurricane; Lancaster; mechanics engine; military service conditions; RAF Calveley; RAF Cosford; RAF Grantham; RAF Hednesford; RAF Henlow; RAF Hixon; RAF Hooton Park; RAF Kemble; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF North Weald; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Watton; searchlight; training; York
Interview with Violet Dicker
Tags: 205 Squadron; aircrew; home front; navigator; pilot; RAF Calshot; RAF Ruislip; RAF St Eval; shelter; training
Interview with Victor Stapley
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crewing up; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mechanics engine; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); P-51; radar; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; Stirling; Sunderland; training
Interview with Tom Sayer
Tags: 10 OTU; 102 Squadron; 81 OTU; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Medal; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Eval; RAF Upwood; Stearman; submarine; training; Whitley
Interview with Timothy Sindall
Interview with Tim Schneider
Interview with Thomas Peter Payne. Two
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 26 OTU; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Brough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Thomas Peter Payne. One
Interview with Thomas James Page
Tags: 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF St Athan; sport; training; Window
Interview with Thomas Eric Chad Cushing
Interview with Thea Coleman
Interview with Sylvia Fraser
Interview with Sue Chaplin
Interview with Stephen Walker
Interview with Stanley Clegg
He signed up for the Royal Air Force at the age of 18 in December 1941 and was…
Interview with Stanley Bradford
Interview with Stan Instone
Tags: 1664 HCU; 419 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; strafing; the long march; training