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- Tags: bale out
Interview with Geoffrey Conacher
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-Semitism; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Lancaster; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Wellington
Interview with Gerald John Castleton
Interview with Keith Campbell. Two
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; superstition; the long march; training
Interview with Keith Campbell. One
Interview with Francis Shamus "Jim" Cahir
Interview with Clarence Keith Bruhn
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; entertainment; Lancaster; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; recruitment; shot down; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Interview with Harvey Hayward Bawden
Tags: 150 Squadron; 153 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; mechanics engine; memorial; nose art; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; Wellington
Interview with Stephen Granville Bacon
Wallet, photograph and story
Tags: bale out; crash; heirloom; killed in action; Stirling
Derrick Allen's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spanhoe; RAF St Athan; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington
interview with Derrick Allen's family
Interview with Langford William Green
Tags: 218 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; Lancaster; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Sandtoft; training
Accounts of actions leading to award of Conspicuous Gallantry medal and other congratulatory material
Derrick Allen citation for Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
The last flight of Lancaster DV396(B)
Tags: 467 Squadron; bale out; crash; Fw 190; Lancaster; shot down; superstition
Interview with John and Vera Casey
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb dump; bombing; Caterpillar Club; home front; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Stirling; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with Bob Frost. One
Tags: 12 OTU; 150 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; bale out; bombing; civil defence; crash; crewing up; de Jongh, Andree (1916 - 2007); evading; faith; ground personnel; heirloom; Lancaster; military ethos; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Evanton; RAF Snaith; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Ron Carr's Bale-out
The Pilgrimage of an English airman who in 1944 came down in the Spa region
467 Squadron RAAF Avro Lancaster sequence of landing
Tags: 467 Squadron; bale out; crash; Lancaster
Letters to Derrick Allen from the Caterpillar Club
Tags: bale out; Caterpillar Club; RAF Waddington
Interview with Ron Hemsworth
Tags: 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; fear; Halifax; military service conditions; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morpeth; RAF Swinderby; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6; superstition; Whitley
Ron Hemsworth's aircrew
Tags: bale out; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 6