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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Dorset"
Gliders and tugs at RAF Tarrant Rushton
Letter to Dennis Raettig from former colleague from 158 Squadron
Tags: 158 Squadron; RAF Langar
Interview with Bert Turner
Tags: 196 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; ethnic or religious minorities; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; heavy conversion unit; Me 262; medical officer; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Tuddenham; shot down; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Interview with Gerald Walter Bell
Interview with Eddie Edmunds
Hedley Madgett diary 1942
Interview with Jack Perry
Interview with Jack Pragnell
Letter to David Donaldson from his mother.
Tags: missing in action
Letter to 'Winnie' Churchill from F P Grant
Tags: 192 Squadron; RAF Foulsham
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: aircrew; RAF Warmwell; training
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; RAF Upwood; training
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: aircrew; RAF Warmwell; training
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; RAF Warmwell; training
Andrew Bain on a RAF Norton WD16H motorcycle
Tags: service vehicle
Memoir Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cruickshank D.F.M. RAFRO
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Medal; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Credenhill; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stanmore Park; RAF Swinderby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Warmwell; superstition; Victoria Cross; Whitley
G Cruickshank Memoir
Joined Army – 4th Queen's Own Hussars on 2nd January 1936.
Joined RAF 1938 and trained as balloon operator then applied as air gunner, arriving at RAF Swinderby in December 1941. Took part in 50…
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Abingdon; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training