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- Collection: Watson, Clifford
Interview with Clifford Watson. One
Interview with Clifford Watson. Two
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Catalina; Ju 88; RAF Farnborough; RAF Horsham St Faith; training
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Bircotes; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
DFC award letter to Cliff Watson
Award promulgated in the London Gazette dated 7th December 1945
Airwoman
Photo 2 is the same woman dressed in a sidcot suit outside a Nissen hut.
Tags: aircrew; Nissen hut
24 Air Gunner Course
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; training
Reg Whellams
Photo 2 is a full length portrait of the same man, annotated '(9, Forster Rd Walthamstow)'.
Page marked '16a'
Clifford Watson, airmen and civilians
Photo 2 - an airman identified as Bill Willoughby, Navigator at Wimpey port gun position.
Photo 3 - Bill Willoughby…
Clifford Watson, civilians, airmen and a Wellington
Photo 2 is an airman with a camera. He is smoking a pipe and he is standing on snow.
Photo 3 is five airmen seated on steps in front of a wooden building. Three men are…
Tags: 150 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; pilot; Wellington
Wedding day and Clifford and Hilda Watson
Photo 2 is Sergeant Clifford Watson in flying kit.
Photo 3 is Clifford and Hilda…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; love and romance
Target Photos, Alghero and Pantelleria
Photo 2 is Pantelleria taken from 7000'…
Clifford and Hilda Watson and friends
Photo 2 is of two men in civilian clothes by a river…
Tags: aircrew
Clifford Watson, his mother and members of his crew
Photo 2 is Hilda Watson with two civilians, annotated 'Hilda with the skipper and bomb aimer'. Behind is the Thames and a road…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; pilot
Clifford and Hilda Watson
Photo 2 is Clifford Watson in uniform leaning on a tree stump
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; love and romance
Spud bashing
Flight Lieutenant Maxted, Warrant Officer Foolkes and Flying Officer Watson
Photo 2 is three airmen sitting on a 400 lb bomb on a trailer,…
Seven airmen and crashed Lancaster PB610
Photo 2 shows the damaged wing and fuselage of Lancaster 9J-O.
Photo 3 is an airman standing beside a damaged aircraft engine on a trolley.
Photo 4 is two airmen standing…
Tags: 227 Squadron; aircrew; crash; Lancaster
Flying Officer Ted Foster, Clifford Watson and Pete Foulkes
Photo 2 is a head and shoulders portrait of Clifford Watson. He is wearing dress…
Flying Officer Cheale, Flying Officer Bates, Warrant Officer Pete Foolkes, Squadron Leader Chester and Flying Officer Foster
Photo 3 is a half length portrait of an airman in…
Ted Foster DFM and Lancasters in flight
Stirling landing, Blida and Lancasters on ground
Photo 2 is three airmen sitting outside a wooden building, annotated 'Blida 1943 April 150 Sqdn Sgt Willoughby (Nav O), Chadderton…