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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1940"
Interview with Jack Hayley
Tags: 170 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 83 OTU; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; love and romance; Magister; Meteor; military living conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Defford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Madley; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Windrush; RCAF Estevan; Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Jack Robson
Tags: civil defence; home front; Home Guard; radar; RAF Hucknall; searchlight; training; Window
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; Intelligence Officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with James McKenzie Leith
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
Interview with Jan Albone
Their farm was close to RAF Kirton in Lindsey which was used as a rest home for men from the Battle of Britain. They worked on…
Interview with Janet Hughes, One
Interview with Jeremy Reade
Interview with Jim Copus. Two
Interview with Jim Penny. One
Tags: 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); crewing up; fear; grief; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; Oxford; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Blyton; RAF Bourn; RAF Shawbury; RAF Sleap; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; searchlight; shot down; Stearman; target indicator; training; Whitley
Interview with Jim Weston. One
Interview with Jo Lancaster. Two
Tags: 12 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 20 OTU; 22 OTU; 40 Squadron; aircrew; B-25; B-26; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crewing up; Grand Slam; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Alconbury; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; recruitment; Spitfire; Tallboy; training; Walrus; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Joan Ilma Massey
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
Tags: 29 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crash; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Morton Hall; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Johanna Heslam
Interview with John 'Snogger' Watkins
Tags: 205 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; Catalina; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; prisoner of war; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cardington; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; training; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
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 John Benjamin Beeching
Tags: 100 Group; 169 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Beaufighter; bombing; Gee; Mosquito; Oxford; P-51; pilot; radar; RAF Twinwood Farm; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with John Eppel
Tags: 18 OTU; 550 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perimeter track; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Killingholme; RAF West Freugh; RAF Worksop; searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington
Interview with John Joyner
Interview with John Philip Lambourn
He was classed as working in a reserved occupation, but joined the Air Training…
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; recruitment; Scarecrow; service vehicle; Stirling; target indicator; training
Interview with John Whitworth
Interview with Johnny Johnson. Two
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; operations room; RAF Scampton; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Joseph Musgrove
Tags: 102 Squadron; 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Defiant; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; Halifax; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Madley; RAF Shenington; RAF Staverton; RAF Topcliffe; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; wireless operator