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- Tags: military service conditions
Interview with David Butler
Interview with Peter Rowland Ruthven Neech
Interview with Laurence Harbutt
Interview with Winifred Barker
Interview with John Norrington
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; demobilisation; faith; fear; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Sandtoft; RAF St Athan; recruitment; training
Interview with William Hough
Tags: 1656 HCU; 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Worksop; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; searchlight; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
Interview with Seymour Owen Scott
Tags: 170 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; military service conditions; pilot; RAF Hemswell; searchlight; training