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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1940"
205 Group Royal Air Force
Tags: bombing
Interview with Lawrence Larmer
Tags: 1658 HCU; 27 OTU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
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 Max Spence
Interview with Brian Robert Southwell
Tags: aircrew; B-24; Fw 190; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Lichfield; training
Interview with Harry Hughes
Tags: 102 Squadron; 3 Group; 6 Group; 692 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Anson; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; faith; Fw 190; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); incendiary device; Ju 88; Me 109; Me 110; Me 262; medical officer; meteorological officer; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); promotion; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Harwell; RAF Riccall; RAF Wombleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Sidney Knott
Tags: 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 582 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bombing; fear; ground personnel; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Manby; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Wellington
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Defiant; Dominie; entertainment; fear; Gee; Lancaster; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Madley; RAF Millom; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
My recollections of the War
Interview with George Patrick Smith-Leach
Interview with Ronald Roffey
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Bill Lucas. One
Flew 14…
Tags: 15 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); fear; grief; ground crew; H2S; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Honington; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Leslie Temple
Interview with Gordon Mellor. One
Interview with Alfred Huberman
Tags: 576 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; fear; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Master Bomber; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; physical training; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Wyton; training; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington
Battle of the Espero convoy. Part 8
Label reads “14”; signed by the author; caption reads “(8)…
Tags: arts and crafts
Battle of the Espero convoy. Part 9
Tags: arts and crafts
Battle of the Espero convoy. Part 10
Label reads “16”; signed by the author; caption reads “(10) … al 3o giorno del 36 uomini raccolti, soltanto 14 rimanevano…
Tags: arts and crafts
Battle of the Espero convoy. Part 11
Tags: arts and crafts
Battle of the Espero convoy. Part 12
Label reads “18”; signed by the author;…
Tags: arts and crafts
Battle of the Espero convoy. Part 13
Tags: arts and crafts
Battle of the Espero convoy. Part 14
Tags: arts and crafts
Interview with Charles Baron
Interview with Susan Jones
Tags: Anson; bombing; civil defence; firefighting; home front; Lancaster; Manchester; shelter