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interview with John Tomlinson
Tags: RAF Elsham Wolds
Interview with Cliff Thorpe and Roy Smith
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; Halifax; RAF Elsham Wolds
Interview with Peter Scoley
Interview with Kenneth Ivan Duddell
Interview with Christopher Francis Allison
Part one.
Chris Allison served as a flight engineer. He answers questions from school children about what it was like to fly in a Lancaster.
Also taking part in this interview was Tony Bradley who was a child in Hull…
Interview with Bernard Bell
Interview with George Arthur Bell
Tags: bombing; crash; ground personnel; Lancaster; training
Interview with Richard Moore
interview with Annie Mary Blood
Interview with Dennis Brader
Tags: childhood in wartime; RAF Wickenby
Interview with Les Stedman
Interview with Anthony Edward Mason
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; RAF Waddington; strafing
Flying echelon, 550 Squadron, North Killingholme, May 1945
Tags: 550 Squadron; aircrew; animal; RAF North Killingholme
R B Hatherly’s Royal Australian Air Force observer’s, air gunner’s and W/T operators flying log book
Interview with Ray Parke. Two
Peter Baxter’s Flying Log Book as Flight Engineer.
After pre-aircrew…
Tags: 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Faldingworth; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; sport; training; Whitley
Jack Crawford's trip book
Tags: 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; Catalina; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; RAF Barford St John; RAF Coningsby; RAF Scampton; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
So short a time
From the commanding officer
G A Hubbard’s Royal Canadian Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1659 HCU; 24 OTU; 242 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 437 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Blakehill Farm; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Topcliffe; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Robert Blamires' South African Air Force observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 57 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Wymeswold; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Ronnie Abbott’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; 8 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; pilot; RAF Waddington; training
Letter to ER Abbott from Freddie
Interview with Geoff Brown
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his…