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- Tags: home front
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
Interview with Ferdi Righi
Interview with Livio Ponte
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; civil defence; evacuation; fear; home front; Pippo; shelter; shot down
Interview with Mario Commisso
Interview with Mario Miniussi
Interview with Gualtiero Silvio Cosolo
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; civil defence; home front; Pippo; Resistance; round-up; shelter
Interview with a survivor of the Karigador bombing
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; Resistance; strafing
Interview with Guido Di Blas and Ilario Bolletti
Interview with Stefania Vischi
Permit allowing Malcolm Staves to enter St Andrews, Hull
Tags: civil defence; home front
Letter to Kathleen Wynn from Rex and Rose Anley
Tags: home front; missing in action
Biography of Reg Miles
Tags: 346 Squadron; 347 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 6 Group; 77 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; crash; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; Fw 190; Gee; Grand Slam; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Hampden; hangar; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); home front; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 109; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Carnaby; RAF Dishforth; RAF East Moor; RAF Elvington; RAF Halton; RAF Langar; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Prestwick; RAF Shawbury; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Tilstock; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; searchlight; Second Tactical Air Force; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Interview with Thomas Aiden Davidson
Interview with John Battison
Tags: bombing; home front; propaganda; RAF Spilsby
The Evacuee
The first to Isleham and he was accompanied by his maternal grandparents and Alan from next door. There was no electricity, water or sewerage in the farmhouse. Gas was installed but never used. Lighting was by paraffin…
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; faith; home front; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Teresa Messali
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; civil defence; fear; home front; Pippo
Interview with Maurizio Ghiretti
Interview with Marialuigia Buffadossi
Interview with Sara Ventriglia
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; faith; fear; grief; Holocaust; home front; Pippo; shelter; strafing
Interview with Fausta Maggioni
Interview with Adriana Ventriglia
Interview with Giovanni Delfino
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; fear; home front; Resistance; shelter; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Carla Baietti
Tags: bombing; civil defence; fear; grief; home front; shelter
Interview with Speranza Piras
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; faith; home front; superstition
Interview with Giovanni Oderda
Tags: bombing; evacuation; home front; Resistance