Browse Items (37 total)
- Tags: 50 Squadron
- Type is exactly "Sound"
Interview with Reg Payne. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dominie; Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; physical training; Proctor; RAF North Coates; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Les Rutherford. One
Interview with Syd Grimes
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Interview with Gordon Catling
Interview with Audrey Hazel Baker
Interview with Margaret Horry
Tags: 106 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; grief; killed in action; memorial; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Metheringham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Wickenby; Tirpitz; wireless operator
Interview with Howell Davies
Interview with Bob Hughes
Tags: 149 Squadron; 23 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; Botha; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lysander; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Pershore; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Reg Payne. Two
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald
Tags: 14 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; decoy site; Fw 190; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with John Tait
Tags: 35 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); entertainment; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Lancaster; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Arthur Emlyn Williams
Tags: 14 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; crash; fear; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Operational Training Unit; RAF Dalcross; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Arthur Emlyn Williams
Interview with James Flowers
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; fear; final resting place; Fw 190; Ju 88; love and romance; Master Bomber; Me 109; Me 262; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); P-51; Pathfinders; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; recruitment; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with John Taylor
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); C-47; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; physical training; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; recruitment; rivalry; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with George Crooks
Interview with Harrison Stanley Cammish
Interview with Eric Coling
Interview with Edward Robert McRae
Interview with Robert Barnes. Two
Interview with Robert Barnes. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Home Guard; Lancaster; memorial; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Torquay; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Norman Goodfellow
Interview with Keith Toule
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald. Two
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bombing; crash; decoy site; forced landing; Fw 190; ground personnel; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perimeter track; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Margaret Hourigan
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operations room; perimeter track; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; runway; service vehicle; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force