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- Tags: aircrew
Interview with Cyril Abbotts
Tags: 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; physical training; pilot; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carlisle; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Gamston; RAF Heaton Park; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; recruitment; sanitation; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
James Flowers
Tags: air gunner; aircrew
Seven aircrew in front of a Lancaster
L V Sharpe is second from the right.
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27 flight engineers at RAF Skellingthorpe
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; RAF Skellingthorpe
Interview with Leslie Temple
James and Eunice Flowers' wedding
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; love and romance
50 Squadron personnel in front of a Lancaster
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Lancaster
James Flowers
Tags: air gunner; aircrew
James Flowers air gunners course
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Tags: air gunner; aircrew; training
Henry James Flowers in Lancaster mid-upper turret
Arthur Smith
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Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer
Five personnel on a grassy bank
Tags: aircrew
Observer brevet and Stalag VIIIB identity tag
Tags: aircrew; observer; prisoner of war; Stalag 8B
Fred Young
Tags: aircrew; Pathfinders
Interview with Fred Young
Tags: 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Lancaster; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Melksham; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling
Des Hawkins' service history and list of operations
Tags: 44 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; mine laying; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Kirmington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Waddington; training; Wellington
Interview with Desmond Hawkins
Canadian observer giving a speech
Tags: aircrew; Guinea Pig Club; observer
Herbert Gray's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Stradishall; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-3; V-weapon
More war memories. The RAF bombing raids on Revigny
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; dispersal; Dulag Luft; H2S; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; sanitation; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; Window
Colin Cole and crew in front of a Lancaster
Nine airmen and one woman in a bar
Tags: aircrew; Nissen hut; pilot; RAF Binbrook
12 airmen
Tags: aircrew; navigator; pilot; RAF Binbrook; wireless operator