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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1940"
Interview with William Neilson
Interview with George Hextell
Interview with Ian Hawkins
Tags: 214 Squadron; 299 Squadron; aircrew; Harvard; Oxford; pilot; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
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 Harold Harvey
Interview with Philip Freeman
Interview with Priscilla Henwood
In…
Leslie Manser's Diary
Tags: aircrew; bombing; entertainment; home front; pilot; training
Interview with Graham Allen
Tags: 106 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 262; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Spitfire; Stirling; training
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Mervyn Adder diary 1940
Tags: bombing; home front; sport
Letter to his mother from Leslie Mellor Tetley
Ken Hicks memories
Interview with Günther Rall
Interview with Robert Whymark
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 149 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Hurricane; killed in action; Lancaster; missing in action; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Debden; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Manby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Syerston; RAF West Freugh; Wellington
Interview with Johanna Heslam
Interview with Cyril Bristow Adams
Interview with Ken Hayton
An account of John Joyner's time in the RAF
Post war his squadron took part in the repatriation of Army personnel from Italy and his unit was in India at around the time…
Interview with Gillie Street
Interview with Bill Macrae
Interview with Frank Dell
Tags: 692 Squadron; aircrew; evading; Intelligence Officer; Mosquito; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Graveley; Resistance; shot down; training; V-2; V-weapon