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Interview with Dennis Swains

In 1936, Dennis went to Dr Challoner’s Grammar School in Amersham, where an Air Training Corps was formed. At seventeen, he got a job with the North British and Mercantile Insurance company. He visited Halton with the Air Training Corps each…

Tags: air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; crewing up; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; memorial; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dalcross; RAF Lindholme; RAF Stanton Harcourt; sanitation; training; Wellington

Trainees at Scarborough

Head and shoulders portrait group photograph of D Swains with two other aircrew cadets, captioned “Scarborough – June 1944” with handwritten details of the individuals.

Tags: aircrew; killed in action; training