Browse Items (389 total)
- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1940"
Interview with David Fraser
Tags: 115 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight mechanic; Gneisenau; ground crew; Harrow; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Evanton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Dirk Bosch
Interview with Don Browning
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Douglas Frank Newham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Botha; C-47; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Kirmington; RAF Melbourne; RAF Warboys; rivalry; Schräge Musik; training; Wellington; Whitley; York
Interview with Douglas Stanley Smith
Tags: 207 Squadron; 88 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; Boston; crash; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Upwood; Tiger Moth; training; York
Interview with Dr James Hendrie Burt. One
Interview with Dr Marjorie Birch
Interview with Edith Taylor
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald
Tags: 14 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; decoy site; Fw 190; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Eric Haynes
Tags: crash; ground personnel; Lancaster; training
Interview with Eric Hookings
Interview with Eric Horsham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; Master Bomber; military living conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Eric Taylor
Interview with Ernest Groeger
Interview with Frank Colenso
Interview with Frank Dell
Tags: 692 Squadron; aircrew; evading; Intelligence Officer; Mosquito; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Graveley; Resistance; shot down; training; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Fred Logan
Interview with Frederick Ball
Interview with Günther Rall
Interview with Geoff Brown
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his…
Interview with Geoffrey Whittle
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 27 OTU; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); briefing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gee; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Operational Training Unit; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF West Freugh; training; Wellington
Interview with George Hextell
Interview with George Mackie
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 214 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; memorial; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Cranfield; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington