Browse Items (2 total)

Collection: Hildreth, Jeff

Sort by:

Interview with Jeff Hildreth

Jeff Hildreth grew up in a colliery village where his father was a miner. When he left school he started working at a tailor’s shop. He didn’t enjoy working in the shop and was happy to volunteer for the RAF and was accepted for to train as a…

Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; Fw 190; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Dunholme Lodge; wireless operator

Interview with Jeff Hildreth

Jeff Hildreth was born in Huntwood, Derbyshire and studied Electrical Engineering at Worksop Technical College before joining the Air Training Corp, before eventually joining the Royal Air Force as a Wireless Operator.
He did his training at…

Tags: 100 Squadron; 170 Squadron; 18 OTU; aircrew; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Yatesbury; training; wireless operator

Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2