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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Stuttgart"
Arthur Pearce Diary 1944
Arthur Pearce Air Force Diary 1945
Tags: bombing
Interview with Rita Brooks
Alice Omerod's record of Douglas Hudson's operations
Interview with George Holmes
Interview with Gordon Topham
They Refused to Fly
A second article titled 'Norton Camp, Sheffield' is about a punishment camp where the writer was sent after cycling…
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; 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 Wyton; sport; Stirling; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Ronald Marlow
Tags: 466 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Driffield; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; superstition; training
Interview with Bill Thomas
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; observer; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Bicester; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; target photograph; training; Wellington
Charles Godfrey's operations notes
Interview with Victor Stapley
Interview with Colin Deverell
Interview with Ray Parke
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); displaced person; ethnic or religious minorities; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; military service conditions; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Pragnell
Interview with Douglas Arthur Smith
Details of tour
Tags: 463 Squadron; RAF Waddington
WO Donald Keith Fraser
Tags: 1 Group; 101 Squadron; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing up; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; fuelling; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; perception of bombing war; petrol bowser; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Catfoss; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; Tiger force; Tirpitz; tractor; training; Window; wireless operator
Operations order 25 May 1944
Operations order 19 October 1944
Gordon Cruickshank life on squadrons 1940-1944.
Tags: 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Pathfinders; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
G Cruickshank Memoir
Joined Army – 4th Queen's Own Hussars on 2nd January 1936.
Joined RAF 1938 and trained as balloon operator then applied as air gunner, arriving at RAF Swinderby in December 1941. Took part in 50…
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Abingdon; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
Interview with Thomas Charles Arthur Long
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; demobilisation; Home Guard; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; propaganda; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Mepal; recruitment; training