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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1945-05"
Interview with Jack Kenneth Lyon
Interview with Jeff Brown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-29; bombing; crewing up; Harvard; Lancaster; Meteor; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Marham; RAF Westcott; training; Wellington
Interview with Johannes Onderwater
Interview with John Louis Goldby
Tags: 640 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Hampden; Lancaster; mid-air collision; observer; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Joyce Victoria Clayton
Interview with Lillian Grundy
Interview with Maurice Roberts
Interview with Mieczyslaw Maryszczak
Interview with Nora Hailey
Interview with Peter John Peck
Interview with Peter Offord Davies. Part One
Interview with Philip Batty
Tags: 226 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridlington; RAF Coningsby; RAF Madley; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wattisham; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Raymond George Goss
Interview with Raymond Isherwood
Tags: aircrew; C-47; navigator; training; Wellington
Interview with Richard Murray Allen
Interview with Robert Forsyth
Interview with Roland Spencer Williams
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Mepal; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakley; RAF Padgate; RAF Westcott; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with Ron Harrison
Interview with Ron Wade
Tags: 58 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; Ju 88; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morecambe; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Whitley
Interview with Sheila Wilmet
Tags: bomb dump; bombing; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; meteorological officer; military living conditions; Nissen hut; perception of bombing war; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Langar; RAF Spilsby; shelter; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Taff Owen
Tags: 153 Squadron; 27 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; demobilisation; Dominie; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Scampton; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; searchlight; submarine; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with the family of John Edward Ayres
John was a flight engineer with 427 Squadron. He was born at Westcliff-on-Sea and volunteered for the Royal Air Force when he received a letter from Bomber Command. He had joined the Air…