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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942"
Interview with Richard Harrison
Interview with Bessie Birkby
Interview with Joan Ray
Joan suffered problems with her eyes in her early life and tells of the impact it had on her life, including problems with reading and writing.
She spent time in domestic service, working at…
Interview with Bob Lasham
Tags: 5 BFTS; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; African heritage; aircrew; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Cranfield; recruitment; searchlight; Stearman; training
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
Interview with Geoff Packham
On his return, Geoff…
Tags: 550 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; B-17; bale out; bombing; civil defence; Dulag Luft; evading; Horsa; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Sutton Bridge; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 1; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window
Interview with Sylvia Trapp
Special Order of the Day by Air Chief Marshall Sir A.T. Harris
Crew scrapbook
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; flight engineer; Lancaster; pilot
Service History of Benny Goodman
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; fuelling; Grand Slam; ground crew; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Martinet; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cardington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Flight Engineer, 420 Squadron RCF, Bomber Command, RAF WWII
My Journal
Tags: RAF Brize Norton; RAF Cardington; RAF Henlow
Interview with Bob Porteous
Tags: 622 Squadron; aircrew; Cook’s tour; entertainment; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Mildenhall; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Mollie Allen
Was it all a Dream
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 4 Group; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Intelligence Officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Lysander; Master Bomber; medical officer; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bicester; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Brampton; RAF Cosford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kimbolton; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Paignton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; searchlight; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Bill Thomas memoir
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 28 OTU; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Wigtown; training; Wellington
Interview with Herbert James Wylde
Interview with Philip Bates
Tags: 149 Squadron; 86 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; displaced person; Dulag Luft; entertainment; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lysander; Manchester; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Nissen hut; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Lakenheath; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; Resistance; Scarecrow; searchlight; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 4; Stirling; training; Window
Interview with Charles Frederick Green
Tags: 1664 HCU; 24 OTU; 429 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Croft; RAF Dalcross; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Padgate; superstition; training; Whitley
Interview with Joseph Wilson
Interview with Harry Harris
Tags: 105 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control caravan; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; Me 262; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; promotion; RAF Downham Market; RAF Elsham Wolds; searchlight; service vehicle; submarine; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with James McKenzie Leith
Interview with John Foster Thorp
Tags: 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; crewing up; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon