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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Manchester"
Interview with Bill Thomas
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; observer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Bicester; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Sywell; Schräge Musik; target photograph; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with John Cooper
Tags: 101 Squadron; 3 BFTS; aircrew; British Flying Training School Program; Cornell; crewing up; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Lindholme; RAF Methwold; RAF Morecambe; training; Wellington
Interview with Susan Jones
Tags: Anson; bombing; civil defence; firefighting; home front; Lancaster; Manchester; shelter
Interview with Edith Taylor
Interview with Rosemary Lapham
Interview with Geoff Paine
Tags: 100 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cornell; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Flying Training School; Harvard; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Oxford; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Ansty; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lyneham; RAF Oakington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Valley; recruitment; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Interview with Thomas Peter Payne. Two
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 26 OTU; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Brough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; RCAF Moncton; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with John Wakeford Quine
Tags: 170 Squadron; 582 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bomb dump; bombing; Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crewing up; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Harrogate; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Peplow; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Frederick Harold Shepherd
Tags: 15 Squadron; 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Flying Training School; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; propaganda; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Marham; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Letter from Harold Gorton to Grace Morgan
Tags: aircrew; home front; love and romance; pilot; RAF Cranfield
History of Lancaster B.III ED 945
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 617 Squadron; bombing; bouncing bomb; crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); target indicator; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Roy Chadwick at Scampton RAF Station on the Night of the Dam Buster Raid
Turn down an empty glass
Letter to Roy Chadwick from Ministry of Supply
Letter to Roy Chadwick from Barnes Wallis
I am a designer
Roy Chadwick funeral order of service
Telegram to Mrs J H Wilson
Tags: missing in action
Letter to Mrs J. H. Wilson from 7 Squadron
Letter to Mrs Wilson from Margaret Wright
Tags: faith; missing in action
Interview with Freda Dakin
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter