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- Tags: entertainment
Interview with Audrey Teasdale
Audrey was 23 when the war started and was conscripted on 15 December 1942 electing to join the Women's Auxiliary Air…
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; animal; bombing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morecambe; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; sport; Stirling; strafing; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Basil Goldstraw
Interview with Bernard Bell
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
Interview with Bernie Harris. Two
Tags: 515 Squadron; 622 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); entertainment; faith; Flying Training School; Gee; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Holocaust; home front; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hixon; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Bessie Birkby
Interview with Betty Turner
Interview with Betty Welton
Interview with Bob Porteous
Tags: 622 Squadron; aircrew; Cook’s tour; entertainment; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Mildenhall; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Burckhard Kuck
Interview with Charles Baron
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 Clifford Watson. One
Interview with Colin Atkinson and Jean McEwan
Interview with Danny Walker
After becoming a Junior Clerk at the Post Office in Jamaica, Danny arrived in England in 1944 was based in Filey in Yorkshire, where he…
Interview with David Rose
Interview with Desmond O'Connell
Interview with Don Sutherland. Two
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; Battle; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Doris Reddish
Interview with Dorothy Lusby
Tags: bombing; entertainment; evacuation; home front; RAF Grimsby; shelter
Interview with Eileen Widdowson
Interview with Elizabeth Eady
Interview with Eric Wilkin
Tags: 115 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Oakington; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling