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- Tags: bombing
Interview with Joan Rosemary Macklin
Tags: bombing; home front; love and romance; prisoner of war; shelter; the long march; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with George Mackie
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 214 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; memorial; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Cranfield; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Donald MacIntosh
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Bardney; Schräge Musik; Tirpitz
Interview with Peter Lovatt
Tags: 100 Group; 223 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; bombing; RAF Oulton; training; Window
Interview with Colin Lloyd
Interview with Kenneth Lindley
Squadron operation honours, Spezia, 18/19 April 1943
Tags: 61 Squadron; arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Syerston
Cadet 1935-1945 Peter D Stevenson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 5 Group; air sea rescue; animal; Blenheim; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crash; entertainment; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Grantham; RAF Harlaxton; RAF Northolt; RAF Syerston; sanitation; station headquarters; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Hedley Madgett RAF Diary 1943
Pilot Officer H R Madgett award of Distinguished Flying Medal
Coastline
Interview with Jack Linaker
Tags: 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crash; faith; Lancaster; Mosquito; RAF Bardney; training
Interview with Ronald Last
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; escaping; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; recruitment; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Wally Lashbrook
Interview with Sidney Knott
Tags: 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 582 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bombing; debriefing; fear; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Manby; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Wellington
Interview with Dave Knight
Interview with Kenneth Killeen
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 83 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 410; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Peplow; RAF Torquay; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Interview with Edward George Key
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing up; crash; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; Stirling; training
Interview with Anthony William Kent
Interview with Bob Kemley
Interview with Joy Joy. One
Interview with Mark Johnson
Tags: 102 Squadron; 103 Squadron; African heritage; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; military ethos; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kinloss; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RCAF Moncton; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; training; Whitley