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Interview with Richard William Lambert
Tags: 101 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; entertainment; flight engineer; ground crew; Initial Training Wing; pilot; RAF Cosford; RAF Credenhill; RAF Hednesford; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Lindholme; RAF Locking; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Ternhill; RAF Thorney Island; Tiger Moth; training
JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RCAF Rivers; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
A Love Story by Grandad
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Jim Allen's 1944 Diary
Tags: 578 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); crash; entertainment; faith; Gee; ground personnel; love and romance; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Rufforth; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter to Kathlyn and Uncle Gerard
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: entertainment
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Postcard to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; entertainment; navigator; pilot; wireless operator