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Interview with Colin Bell
Tags: 608 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crewing up; fear; FIDO; Fw 190; ground crew; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; Me 262; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Downham Market; RAF Grantham; RAF Prestwick; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; training; V-weapon
Interview with Leslie Turner
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; crewing up; demobilisation; entertainment; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Melbourne; sport; training; Whitley
Freetown Sierra Leone
View of a wooded coastline with a town behind. Captioned, 'first glimpse of Africa. 'Freetown' Sierra Leone'.
Wooded coastline with hills beyond.
Bottom left: Airmen in uniform standing on the line of a sports field. A man stands with…
Tags: sport
Unbeschränkter Nationaler Notstand
Sie fuhren nach Engelland. Sie kehren nicht mehr heim
Tags: prisoner of war; propaganda; submarine
The letters of Eric Lloyd during World War Two
Interview with Peter Greenwood
Tags: 71 Squadron; African heritage; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing up; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; military living conditions; pilot; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Carlisle; RAF Driffield; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Heaton Park; Stearman; submarine; Tiger Moth; training
Harry Kartz’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Fighting the war sitting down
Tags: 156 Squadron; 2 Group; 49 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; Blenheim; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Hemswell; RAF Oakington; RAF Scampton; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Jim Hardy’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book One
Posted to No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School, 14 Operational Training Unit. Operational posting…
Tags: 14 OTU; 24 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Hampden; Hereford; Lysander; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Long Marston; RAF Scampton; RAF West Freugh; take-off crash; training; Walrus; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
General questionnaire for British/American ex-prisoners of war
Interview with Terry Lloyd
Interview with Colin Cole
Interview with Kenneth Edgar Neve
Tags: ground personnel; Home Guard; Swordfish; Walrus
Ostfrontreserven gehen nach Italien
Tags: B-17; bombing; propaganda
Bill Foskett’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot (Log Book 3)
Tags: 15 OTU; 1657 HCU; 214 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Harwell; RAF Millom; RAF Sculthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window