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- Tags: bombing
Interview with Jo Lancaster. Two
Tags: 12 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 20 OTU; 22 OTU; 40 Squadron; aircrew; B-25; B-26; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crewing up; Grand Slam; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Alconbury; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Desford; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; recruitment; Spitfire; Tallboy; training; Walrus; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Jo Lancaster. One
Interview with John Philip Lambourn
He was classed as working in a reserved occupation, but joined the Air Training…
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; recruitment; Scarecrow; service vehicle; Stirling; target indicator; training
Interview with Dennis Kirk. Two
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Wilhelm Carl
Otto Kappel
Gottlieb Sunkel and August Lehnebach
Ludwig Heinemann and Karl M
Interview with Helga Wynne
Interview with Harold Kirby. One
Tags: 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; crash; crewing up; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mechanics airframe; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; York
Interview with Bob Frost. Two
Tags: 150 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; evading; RAF Snaith; Resistance
Interview with Eddy Smythe. Two
Interview with Harry Winter
Tags: 1659 HCU; 23 OTU; 427 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); civil defence; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Leeming; RAF Pershore; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; target indicator; the long march; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Joan Watson
Tags: bombing; crash; entertainment; evacuation; firefighting; home front; prisoner of war
Interview with Mary Stuart
Interview with Jan Black. Two
Tags: 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; crash; Defiant; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military ethos; Operational Training Unit; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Bramcote; RAF Cosford; RAF Evanton; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Mieczysław Stachiewicz
Interview with Doris Reddish
Interview with John Ormerod
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; FIDO; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator; York
Interview with John Norrington
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; demobilisation; faith; fear; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Sandtoft; RAF St Athan; recruitment; training
Interview with a navigator from 101 Squadron
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; coping mechanism; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Wymeswold; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Bill Moore. Two
Tags: 138 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; displaced person; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; observer; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Benson; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tuddenham; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Interview with Alan Mann
Interview with Bernard Charles Mabey
Tags: bombing; C-47; civil defence; demobilisation; dispersal; entertainment; faith; firefighting; fitter airframe; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; perimeter track; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Netheravon; RAF Waddington; sanitation; sport; Tiger force; training; York