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- Tags: Halifax
Interview with Rex Statham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 158 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Alness; RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Woodbridge; Scarecrow; Sunderland; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Ted Stocker. Two
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military service conditions; Oboe; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Halton; target indicator
Interview with Eric Horsham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; Master Bomber; military living conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Interview with John Henry Thomas
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; Fw 190; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Mosquito; P-47; P-51; padre; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Peter Thomas
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Methwold; RAF Paignton; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Sam Thompson
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Interview with Ernie Tillbrook
Interview with Fred Tiller
Interview with Kenneth William Trueman
Tags: 640 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; crewing up; evading; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; intelligence officer; lack of moral fibre; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Leconfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; Resistance; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Ken Turnham
Interview with Arthur Vickers
Interview with Henry Wolfe Wagner. One
Interview with Stephen Walker
Interview with John Robert Watson
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; flight engineer; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mid-air collision; military ethos; Pathfinders; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Ouston; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; searchlight; training; Wellington
Interview with Lacey Peter Webb
Interview with Archie Weir
Interview with David Wilkie
Interview with Helga Wynne and Gordon Atkinson
Michael Beetham's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; pilot; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Desford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Morton Hall; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
David and the RAF
Tags: 100 Group; 149 Squadron; 15 OTU; 156 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 192 Squadron; 3 Group; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; forced landing; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; P-38; Pathfinders; pilot; propaganda; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Evanton; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Warboys; RAF West Raynham; target indicator; training; Wellington; Window
Ronald Bailey's flying log book
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1666 HCU; 425 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Lissett; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wombleton; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Letter from Hank Cooper to Norman Donaldson
Letter from David Donaldson to Air Historical Branch Air Ministry
Tags: 100 Group; 192 Squadron; bombing; Halifax; Lancaster