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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1940"
Interview with Syd Grimes
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Behind Enemy Lines
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; Gneisenau; Hurricane; Me 110; memorial; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Marham; RAF Tangmere; Scharnhorst; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with John Albert Taplin
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; bombing; evading; ground personnel; Halifax; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Leeming; RAF Melbourne; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; the long march; training; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Jack Robson
Tags: civil defence; home front; Home Guard; radar; RAF Hucknall; searchlight; training; Window
Interview with Wanda Szuwalska
Interview with James Wright
Tags: 61 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; animal; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; final resting place; ground personnel; Lancaster; Me 109; medical officer; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Scone; RAF Skegness; RAF Upper Heyford; strafing; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Shefford Laundry
A memoir of life in the WAAF during the war
Tags: 105 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 2 Group; 427 Squadron; 429 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Leeming; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Audrey Hazel Baker
Interview with Bob Kemley
Interview with Eric Haynes
Tags: crash; ground personnel; Lancaster; training
Interview with Bernard Walter Culpin
460 Squadron unofficial history
Tags: 460 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton
Interview with Ron Davies
Biography of Squadron Leader Alastair G Lang DFC
Tags: 12 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Newton; RAF Warboys; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
History of Malta Dockyard During War
Tags: bombing
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 1668 HCU; 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Boston; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; final resting place; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; grief; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
The Avro Repair Organisation. Bracebridge Heath
Cadet 1935-1945 Peter D Stevenson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 5 Group; air sea rescue; animal; Blenheim; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crash; entertainment; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Grantham; RAF Harlaxton; RAF Northolt; RAF Syerston; sanitation; station headquarters; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Hans-Walter Bendzko
Peter Hattersley's Service Diary
Tags: 1 Group; 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; Battle; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; pilot; prisoner of war; 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 St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; Stalag Luft 3; training
Sam Saunders, Training in Canada
The text describes his early training then transfer to Canada learning on Ansons in the snow.
Photo 1 is Sam standing in the snow outside a hut.
Photo 2 is a ship.
Photo 3 is Sam and friend leaning on an…
Tags: aircrew; Anson; navigator; RAF Uxbridge; training