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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-04"
Keith Thompson's diary July 1942 to July 1943
John Russell and Joan Champkin's wedding
Tags: love and romance
John Mitchell - notes for memoire
Tags: 207 Squadron; bombing; forced landing; mine laying
James Gordon Bennet (Lucky Jim) Burnside - biography
Part 2 - war service of Flying Officer James Gordon Bennett Burnside flight engineer. Covers training as flight engineer. Then follows short descriptions. listing…
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Mosquito; RAF Balderton; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
Interview with Robert William Maggs
Interview with Reg Harrison
Tags: 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bombing; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; FIDO; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; love and romance; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Carnaby; RAF Croft; RAF Dishforth; RAF Gamston; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with James Albert Dellow
Tags: 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Interview with Geoffrey Robinson
Tags: 626 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; military ethos; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Wickenby; searchlight; Tiger force
Interview with Eddie Edmunds
Tags: 106 Squadron; 608 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; forced landing; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Mosquito; navigator; Oxford; pilot; RAF Downham Market; RAF Syerston; training; Wellington
Interview with Andrew Barron. One
Group Captain GF O'Brien AFC
A second identical copy has been damaged. On the front is annotated 'Group Captain GF…
Tags: ground personnel
Flight Sergeant Thomas Page
Tags: 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Lancaster; RAF Fiskerton
F9 "Home and Beauty." Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
F8 "Home and Beauty." Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
F8 "Home & Beauty" Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
F7 "Home and Beauty." Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
F6 "Home and Beauty." Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
F5 "Home and Beauty." Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
F5 "Home & Beauty" Stalag Luft 3. Apr.43
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
F4 "Home and Beauty." Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
F3 "Home and Beauty." Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
F2 "Home and Beauty." Stalag Luft 3. Apr. 43
F2 'Home and Beauty' Stalag Luft 3. Apr 43
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3