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WAR - Frankfurt Revisited
Tags: aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; Lancaster; meteorological officer; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; searchlight; target indicator; target photograph; wireless operator
Extract from Bernard Clark's diary
Extract from Bernard Clark's diary
They Refused to Fly
A second article titled 'Norton Camp, Sheffield' is about a punishment camp where the writer was sent after cycling…
Letter from Bill Lord to his Sister
Tags: aircrew; bombing; propaganda; RAF Woodhall Spa
Day Bombers Follow 1000-plane Assault
On the reverse are adverts.
Bomber Command intelligence narrative of operations no 747
Interview with Stephen Granville Bacon
Interview with Philip Bates
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); displaced person; Dulag Luft; entertainment; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lysander; Manchester; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Nissen hut; prisoner of war; RAF Lakenheath; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; Resistance; Scarecrow; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training; Window
Interview with Harry Harris
Tags: 105 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control caravan; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; Me 262; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; promotion; RAF Downham Market; RAF Elsham Wolds; searchlight; service vehicle; submarine; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with James Christian Mortensen
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Distinguished Flying Medal; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bottesford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Madley; RAF Methwold; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
The Log
T Sgt John Dyer
Charles (Dick) Pattisson Pocket Diary 1942
Tags: 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; Beaufighter; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; entertainment; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; killed in action; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; missing in action; prisoner of war; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Croft; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; Stalag Luft 3; Wellington
A dedication to AVM Ekanayake Edward (Rohan) Amerasekera DFC & Bar, R.Cy.A.F
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Graveley; RAF Lissett; training; Whitley; wireless operator
AVM Ekanayake Edward (Rohan) Amerasekera DFC & Bar, R.Cy.A.F.
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Graveley; RAF Lissett; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Interview with Roy Briggs
Tags: 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Dominie; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Initial Training Wing; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; training; wireless operator
Interview with a survivor of the bombing of Berlin
Interview with Peter Jones
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Pathfinders; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Oakington; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; Stirling; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Alan Payne
Tags: 630 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 109; military living conditions; mine laying; Nissen hut; observer; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Torquay; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; Scarecrow; superstition; target photograph; training; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ken Hicks
Interview with John Ormerod
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; FIDO; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator; York