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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Cambridgeshire"
Interview with Leslie Blakemore
Interview with Syd Cooper. Two
Interview with Allan Joseph Couper
Interview with Mary Stanley Foister
Interview with Priscilla Henwood
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Interview with Peter Jones
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Pathfinders; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Oakington; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; Stirling; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with David Leicester
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; searchlight; superstition; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Alexander Lamb. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 14 OTU; 15 Squadron; 1654 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Meehan
Interview with Rupert Noye
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; civil defence; crewing up; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Home Guard; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; submarine; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Douglas Reed
Tags: 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; ground crew; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Upwood; take-off crash; target indicator; training; Wellington
Interview with Eric Taylor
Interview with Peter Woodard
Tags: 100 Group; 102 Squadron; 192 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; Cook’s tour; crewing up; H2S; Halifax; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; P-38; RAF Dumfries; RAF Foulsham; Raf Mauripur; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shenington; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Ronald Boone operations on 35 Squadron
Two groups of airmen
2. Seven airmen in uniform and side caps in front of a building. Captioned '156 Squadron armourers outside the Armoury at Warboys…
156 Squadron armourers at RAF Warboys
Interview with Thomas Waller
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; bombing; bombing up; crash; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; memorial; military living conditions; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; sanitation; Special Operations Executive; target indicator
Interview with Charles Frederick Green
Tags: 1664 HCU; 24 OTU; 429 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Croft; RAF Dalcross; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Padgate; superstition; training; Whitley
Roy Briggs' flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 30 OTU; 35 Squadron; 576 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Catterick; RAF Cranwell; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Graveley; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Seighford; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Tom Jones’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Dishforth; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Oakington; RAF Riccall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; York