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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Burma"
War changes everything
A Dorricott's army diary
Tags: animal; military living conditions
Interview with John McCredie
My Maternal Grandparents
After the war John, possibly her brother, became a…
Interview with Charles Baron
Grace and Ken Rhodes - War History
Interview with Jack Brown Franklin
Tags: 109 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; crash; demobilisation; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Home Guard; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Marham; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; training
Union Jack newspaper 25 July 1945
Page 1 headline is: 'I SAW GENERAL SHOOT AT PRISONERS'.
Page 2 is given over to the forthcoming General…
Tags: bombing; entertainment; Holocaust; prisoner of war; sport
Interview with Raymond Barrett
Interview with Maurice William Marriott
Tags: 110 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 21 OTU; aircrew; Anson; C-47; crewing up; forced landing; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Harrogate; RAF Leicester East; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Rivers; training; Wellington
Interview with Timothy Sindall
Letter to L V Rosser from Dave Smith
Interview with Len Harper
Interview with George Arthur Bell
George lived around Boston a the beginning of the war. After leaving school he worked with his…
Tags: bombing; crash; ground personnel; Lancaster; training
Interview with Joan Smith
Interview with Len Doward
Tags: 550 Squadron; 625 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bomb struck; bombing; Halifax; Harvard; Lancaster; pilot; training; Wellington
Dennis Moore List of Experience
Tags: 12 OTU; 15 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 52 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; C-47; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Master Bomber; Meteor; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Wigtown; RCAF Rivers; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; York
Dennis Moore Autobiography
Tags: 12 OTU; 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 5 Group; 52 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; 82 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; C-47; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Master Bomber; memorial; mess; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; padre; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Catterick; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Farnborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honington; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Shawbury; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Stradishall; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wigtown; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Moncton; RCAF Rivers; Shackleton; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; York
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Tom Walker
Interview with James Lamb
Interview with Douglas Frank Newham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Botha; C-47; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Kirmington; RAF Melbourne; RAF Warboys; rivalry; Schräge Musik; training; Wellington; Whitley; York
Le Courrier de l'Air #15
Le Courrier de l'Air #17
Tags: bombing; Fw 190; He 111; propaganda
William H Cooke’s navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington