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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942"
205 Group Royal Air Force
Tags: bombing
Arthur Pearce - the aeroplane diary 1942
Tags: civil defence
Interview with Jack Bell
Interview with Francis Shamus "Jim" Cahir
Interview with Lawrence Larmer
Tags: 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 Jean Smith
Tags: aircrew; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); control caravan; control tower; crash; flight engineer; ground personnel; love and romance; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; runway; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 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 Dr Derry Derrington
Interview with Ronald Last
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; escaping; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; recruitment; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; 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 Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
Air Training Corps Flight Log
Tags: Lysander; Oxford; Tiger Moth; training
My recollections of the War
Interview with Charles Mears
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; ethnic or religious minorities; Gee; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military ethos; navigator; Oxford; pilot; propaganda; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF Methwold; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Woodbridge; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with George Thomson. One
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; crewing up; Dulag Luft; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); evading; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Lancaster; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mildenhall; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Wellington
Interview with Guido Toccacieli
Autobiography
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Interview with Leslie Temple
Interview with Harry Winter
Tags: 427 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Dulag Luft; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; prisoner of war; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Leeming; RAF Pershore; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; target indicator; the long march; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Eric Coling memoir
Tags: 16 OTU; 1660 HCU; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crewing up; ditching; Dulag Luft; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; mine laying; observer; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Kirmington; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; recruitment; training; V-2; Wellington; Window
Interview with Harry Inkpen
Tags: 162 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; FIDO; Horsa; Mosquito; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bourn; RAF South Cerney; submarine; superstition; training
Interview with David Fraser
Tags: 115 Squadron; air gunner; 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; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; training; Wellington