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Interview with David Bowker
Tags: 103 Squadron; 150 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lysander; Magister; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Pershore; RAF Rufforth; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
A survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant A)
She remembers how she narrowly escaped an aircraft trying to…
Audio memoir
Tags: 28 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; C-47; Spitfire
BBC recording of Gordon Cruickshank
Joined RAF in 1938 and Bomber Command in 1941 as an air gunner. Started operations in 1942 and completed first tour of 31 trips at end of November 1942. Says was badly shot up on…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; killed in action
Conquest-Hospital Radio interview with Jack Newton
Daphne Brownlie Interview
She tells of the hours she and her colleagues worked and also what life was like on the base, including her…
Don Nicholson audio recording. One
Don lists his 31 operations and recounts how having arrived for the briefing for his first operation, he was…
Don Nicholson audio recording. Two
Dr Maurice Brook Interview
Tags: 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Eric Arthur's audio account of his time in the R.A.A.F.
Interview with a navigator from 101 Squadron
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; coping mechanism; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Wymeswold; Scarecrow; shot down; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with a survivor of the bombing of Berlin
Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant A)
Tags: bombing; evacuation; faith; fear; home front; perception of bombing war; Pippo; round-up; shelter
Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant B)
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; fear; home front; Pippo; round-up; shelter; strafing
Interview with a survivor of the Karigador bombing
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; Resistance; strafing
Interview with a survivor of the Villanova Marchesana bombings
Interview with a survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant B)
Interview with a survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant C)
Interview with Ada Breschi
Tags: bombing; evacuation; strafing
Interview with Ada Dellaferrera
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; strafing