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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1945-04"
Barney Thompson's wartime log
Alexander Lamb's Operational Diary
Interview with Dave Fellowes
Tags: 1656 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 262; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; taxiway; training; Wellington
Interview with Bernie Harris. One
The American vanguard attacks a bridge on the Rhine
Tags: arts and crafts; bombing
How we took the good news from Grosse Tychow to Fallingbostel
Tags: animal; fear; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 4; the long march
Interview with Irene Bradbury
Interview with Jack Cook
Tags: 100 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 14 OTU; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Dominie; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kirkham; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Shallufa; RAF Silloth; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Richard Murray Allen
Wartime log
Special Order of the Day
Extracts from George Royall's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Geoffrey North account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
Geoffrey North rewritten account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
Interview with Roland Spencer Williams
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Mepal; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakley; RAF Padgate; RAF Westcott; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with John Green
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; bomb disposal; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; shot down; training; Wellington
Telegram to David Geach's parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Nachrichten für die Truppe
The prisoner of war, Vol 3, No. 36, April 1945
The Prisoner of War March 1945
The Prisoner of War, April 1945
Bernard Ross' observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 1665 HCU; 296 Squadron; 297 Squadron; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Blenheim; Halifax; Hamilcar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Earls Colne; RAF Hurn; RAF Penrhos; RAF Seighford; RAF Thruxton; RAF Tilstock; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Letter from Hank Cooper to Norman Donaldson
463 & 467 Squadron Notes on Ops
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 5 Group; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cook’s tour; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; RAF Waddington; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy
Whereabouts of British paratroopers captured at Montebello
Tags: Resistance