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Interview with Harold Yeoman
Harold Yeoman volunteered for the RAF hoping to become an air gunner and was surprised to find he would be trained as a pilot. He describes a crash landing in a Wellington returning from an operation to Cherbourg and being sent to Essen twice within…
Tags: 12 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; love and romance; medical officer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; recruitment; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
For C.R.W
Dedicated to C.R.W, killed March 7 1944 in an aircraft accident. Contrasts the pain of death with the serenity of afterlife.
Tags: arts and crafts; RAF Tuddenham
Poem
Reminisces the moment when his frightened heart was awakened by love, comparing that to the first breath of Heaven.
This is our night
Contrasts hopelessness, loneliest and death with the joy of love.
Armourer
Poem about armourer loading bombs but would not be there when they were dropped.
Silent song
Three verse poem about song lying asleep in him but love would fire it.
Tags: arts and crafts; RAF Tuddenham
The fullness of living
Sub titled (a prayer before action). Four verse poem about flying and death close at hand and how beautiful was life.
Tags: arts and crafts; fear; love and romance; RAF Tuddenham
If I should ever die
Six verse poem of instructions should he die.
Transmutation
Poem abut thinking of loved one at the end of the day.