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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Leicestershire"
Cecil O'Brien Biography
Tags: 29 OTU; 466 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; crewing up; entertainment; final resting place; Flying Training School; George Cross; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Driffield; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; sport; Tiger Moth; training; wireless operator
Letter from D and G Withall to their daughter Margorie
Tags: love and romance
Letter to Harold Wakefield from Leicester recruiting centre
Tags: recruitment
Bob Burns computer compendium
Tags: 10 OTU; 106 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 Group; aircrew; bombing; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cosford; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Dennis Kirk. Two
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald. Two
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bombing; crash; decoy site; forced landing; Fw 190; ground personnel; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perimeter track; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with James Froud. One
Interview with Dick Tinsley
Interview with Bert Mason
Interview with Frank Edwards
Frank talks of his evacuation to the countryside near Croxton Kerrial when he was nearly five. He was accompanied by his two brothers and initially…
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter; V-1; V-weapon
Dick Curnock's Wartime Log
My War Story
Tags: 22 OTU; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; lynching; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elvington; RAF Gaydon; RAF Inverness; RAF Manston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Red Cross; sanitation; service vehicle; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letters to Caterpillar Club form Dick Curnock
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club; heirloom; RAF Melksham
Letter to Mrs Wareing from E.A.S. Lowe
Tags: missing in action
Letter to Harold Wakefield from E Boston
Eric Hookings's life story book 1
Tags: 6 BFTS; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Battle; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; crewing up; Flying Training School; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; love and romance; mine laying; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Newton; RAF Scampton; RAF South Cerney; RAF Strubby; RAF Uxbridge; Stearman; Stirling; training; Wellington
Letter to Joan Wareing from G Gouter
Letter to Joan Wareing from G Gouter
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 John Martin
Tags: 14 OTU; 166 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator