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Information about Lancaster W4182 WS-B of 9 Squadron
Interview with a navigator from 101 Squadron
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; coping mechanism; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Wymeswold; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Andrew Gauld
Interview with Andy Andrews
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1663 HCU; aircrew; B-17; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; evading; FIDO; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 52; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; lynching; military living conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; Resistance; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Arthur Atkinson
Interview with Arthur Baxter Reid
Tags: 100 Group; 192 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; Ju 88; Scharnhorst; training; wireless operator
Interview with Arthur Sidney Woolf
Tags: 630 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; Dominie; evading; fear; final resting place; Guinea Pig Club; Lancaster; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Basil Charles Day
Interview with Bettie Bain
Interview with Bill Ballantyne
Interview with Charles and Margaret Ward
Interview with Charles Flint
Interview with Christopher George McVickers
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Hemswell; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Yatesbury; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Colin Cole
Interview with Colin Farr
Interview with Cyril Abbotts
Tags: 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; physical training; pilot; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carlisle; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Gamston; RAF Heaton Park; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; recruitment; sanitation; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Interview with David Berrie
Interview with Denis Francis Cockbill
Interview with Denis Kelly
Interview with Derek Carington Evans
After leaving school at the age of 14, Derek delivered books in and around Doncaster before going down to the Royal Air Force Recruitment Centre…
Tags: 18 OTU; 625 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military discipline; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Don Browning
Interview with Don Browning. Two
Interview with Douglas Arthur Smith
Tags: 10 OTU; 158 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 19 OTU; 76 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lissett; RAF Riccall; RAF Shepherds Grove; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Eric Clarke
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