Browse Items (140 total)
- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Northamptonshire"
Interview with Desmond Hawkins
Interview with Donald Raymond Harris
Tags: 625 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Halton; RAF Scampton; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
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
Interview with Geoff Payne
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 109; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Gerald McPherson
Tags: 15 Squadron; 186 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; faith; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Turweston; searchlight; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Ian Hawkins
Tags: 214 Squadron; 299 Squadron; aircrew; Harvard; Oxford; pilot; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Delfosse
Interview with Jack Linaker
Tags: 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crash; faith; Lancaster; Mosquito; RAF Bardney; training
Interview with Jack Smith
Tags: 189 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Yatesbury; Scarecrow; Stirling; training; wireless operator
Interview with Jack Webster
Tags: 12 OTU; 138 Squadron; 1668 HCU; 514 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bottesford; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Madley; RAF Tuddenham; training; wireless operator
Interview with James Albert Dellow
Tags: 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Interview with John James Smith
Interview with John Whitworth
Interview with Len Harper
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); faith; fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Maurice Kemp
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1653 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Coningsby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Walney Island; RAF Witchford; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Maurice William Marriott
Tags: 110 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 21 OTU; aircrew; Anson; C-47; crewing up; forced landing; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Harrogate; RAF Leicester East; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Rivers; training; Wellington
Interview with Philip James MBE
Interview with Ray Parke. One
Tags: 218 Squadron; African heritage; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); displaced person; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; P-51; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Methwold; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Reg Payne. Two
Interview with Ron Priest
Interview with Ronald Gard
Interview with Roy Hill
Interview with Tom Rogers
Interview with Walter Morris
Tags: 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; home front; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington