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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Wiltshire"
Interview with Ted Stocker. Two
An anxious moment
Interview with Eric William Harrison
Interview with Joy Joy. One
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; military living conditions; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mary Ward. Two
Tags: aircrew; animal; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; grief; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; military service conditions; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Jane Carrington
Interview with Ronald George Doble
Interview with Bernard Charles Mabey
Tags: bombing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Netheravon; RAF Waddington; sanitation; sport; training
Interview with Geoff Paine
Tags: 100 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cornell; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); Harvard; Oxford; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-); RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lyneham; RAF Oakington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Valley; RAF West Kirby; recruitment; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Interview with Ronald Mather
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; wireless operator
Letter to Eric Sanger's father
Tags: Lancaster; missing in action; Red Cross
Interview with Reg Woolgar
Tags: 100 Group; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; ditching; entertainment; fear; FIDO; final resting place; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; Hampden; killed in action; missing in action; operational training unit; RAF Foulsham; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Margret Young
Interview with Len Harper
Group of Trainee Pilots and Line of eight Tiger Moths
On the reverse 'Trainee pilots at No 3 F.T.S. Yatesbury. Phillip Winter – fourth from right in back row, Arthur Woolnough on his…
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with John Martin
Camera course notebook
Tags: gremlin; ground crew; ground personnel; superstition; training
Colin Cole's navigator's, air bomber's, air gunner's and flight engineer's flying log book
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Me 262; Operation Catechism; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Mona; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; submarine; Tiger force; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
11 operational training unit RAF Uphaven 1942
At the top each airman is named -
'Sgt Chapman Sgt Anderson Sgt Burton Sgt Lipton W/O Kellaway (Back row 3rd from right Kellaway became…
Stephen Dawson's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; B-25; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Boston; Defiant; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Mosquito; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; training; Wellington
Stephen Dawson's pilot's flying log book. Three
Tags: Anson; B-24; B-25; Beaufighter; bombing; Boston; C-47; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Hudson; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Mosquito; Oxford; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Ossington; Swordfish; training; Typhoon; York
Peter Hattersley's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; Harvard; Hudson; Lysander; navigator; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Upavon; RAF Waddington; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington