Browse Items (143 total)
- Tags: 75 Squadron
Operations board
Interview with Allan Joseph Couper
Interview with David Rayner Fox
Interview with Jack Meehan
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; ground personnel; intelligence officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Eddie Worsdale
Interview with Charles Frederick Green
Tags: 1664 HCU; 24 OTU; 429 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Croft; RAF Dalcross; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Padgate; superstition; training; Whitley
Des Horgan and crew on a Stirling
Tags: 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Māori; pilot; Stirling
Interview with Peter Banting
Tags: 7 Squadron; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; fear; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; memorial; Mosquito; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with John De Hoop
Interview with Basil Goldstraw
Interview with Thomas Charles Arthur Long
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crewing up; demobilisation; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; propaganda; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Mepal; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; training
Interview with Len McNamara
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; escaping; evading; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Langar; RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Ringway; RAF Woolfox Lodge; recruitment; training; Whitley
Interview with Peter Rowland Ruthven Neech
Interview with Hugh Parry. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 3 Group; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; guard room; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Me 163; military ethos; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; perception of bombing war; physical training; RAF Bridlington; RAF Mepal; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silloth; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Westcott; RAF Woolfox Lodge; reconnaissance photograph; Spitfire; training; Wellington
Interview with Muriel Blake
Interview with Hugh Parry. Two
Interview with Gerald Joseph Abrahams
Hugh Parry's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakley; RAF Pembrey; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Westcott; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; Wellington
List of operations and aircraft lost
Interview with Ralph Brumwell
Interview with Alan William Davis
Interview with Ron Flynn
Interview with Basil Goldstraw
Tags: 75 Squadron; Botha; ground crew; ground personnel; Ju 88; RAF Mepal; RAF Spilsby; Stirling; Tiger force
Interview with Jack Jarmy
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 218 Squadron; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Gee; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakley; RAF Shallufa; RAF Waterbeach; Shackleton; Stearman; Stirling; training; Wellington