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- Tags: mess
Letter from Alan North to Joan Strong
He describes trips to Bocholt, Germany and Orleans.
Letter from Alan North to Joan Strong
Tags: 98 Squadron; entertainment; mess
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: 98 Squadron; aircrew; mess
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: 98 Squadron; aircrew; mess
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; mess; navigator; pilot; RAF Warboys
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Letter from Alan North to his parents
He has been doing a lot of flying.
Tags: aircrew; mess; RAF Bishops Court; training
Letter from Alan North to his parents
Tags: aircrew; mess; RAF Bishops Court; training
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
RAF Gatwick Christmas 1944 Menu and Programme of Events
Tags: entertainment; mess
Interview with Herbert Tinning
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; fitter airframe; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; Schräge Musik; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Max Spence
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Alan Pugh
Tags: 17 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; fear; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Worksop; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Frank Mottershead
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; Battle; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Lachie McBean
Interview with David Leicester
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; searchlight; superstition; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Lawrence Larmer
Tags: 1658 HCU; 27 OTU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Christmas Card and menu 1945
Tags: mess
Letter from 408 Squadron to John Taplin's Parents
15 Squadron Battle Order 9th April 1945
Tags: 15 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; flight engineer; mess; navigator; pilot; wireless operator