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- Tags: training
Interview with Gordon Mellor. One
Interview with Phillip Winter
Interview with Alfred Huberman
Tags: 576 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; fear; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Master Bomber; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; physical training; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Wyton; training; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Frederick Limer
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Gee; guard room; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; mess; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Methwold; RAF Staverton; RCAF Fingal; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Bill Moore. One
Tags: 138 Squadron; 161 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; Catalina; flight engineer; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; navigator; observer; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; RAF Benson; RAF Desborough; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tuddenham; reconnaissance photograph; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Interview with Sidney Borthwick
Eric Coling memoir
Tags: 16 OTU; 1660 HCU; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crewing up; ditching; Dulag Luft; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; mine laying; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Kirmington; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; recruitment; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Interview with Charles Baron
Interview with William Bullock
Interview with Alec Stuart Dixon
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Raymond Isherwood
Tags: aircrew; C-47; navigator; training; Wellington
Interview with Geoffrey Lenthall
Interview with Harry Inkpen
Charles Martin Allen by Mrs Anne Phillips
Tags: 1652 HCU; 4 Group; 51 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Andreas; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Snaith; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Alun Emlyn-Jones
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Anson; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; gremlin; Halifax; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military service conditions; pilot; radar; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; Spitfire; Stirling; training; Whitley; York
Interview with Eric Varney
Interview with Frank Tolley
Tags: 625 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; final resting place; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Kelstern; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Window
Interview with David Fraser
Tags: 115 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight mechanic; Gneisenau; ground crew; Harrow; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Evanton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 357; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Harry Irons. One
Tags: 158 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Halifax; In the event of my death letter; intelligence officer; Ju 88; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Nissen hut; radar; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Driffield; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lissett; RAF Manby; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; Spitfire; training
Interview with Richard Harrison
Interview with Frederick Ball
Interview with Bessie Birkby
Interview with Ernie Patterson. One
He joined the Royal Air Force at the age of 19 in 1941, but whilst he was waiting to be called up, he was…
Tags: 635 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Catalina; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Dominie; fear; FIDO; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Downham Market; RAF Millom; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; superstition; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Interview with Bill Spence
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; fear; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington