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- Tags: perimeter track
On take off
Mulheim/Essen airfield
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour; perimeter track; runway
Morlaix airfield
Leonard Cheshire on a bicycle
Lancasters lined up on perimeter track
Lancasters in the snow
Lancasters
Tags: Lancaster; perimeter track; runway; taxiway
Lancasters
Tags: Lancaster; perimeter track; runway; taxiway
Lancaster Paintings
Lancaster over RAF St Mawgan
Kelly Field
J S Ross’s pilots flying log book. One
Interview with William Joseph Longhurst
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 82 OTU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control tower; coping mechanism; crewing up; dispersal; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; forced landing; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Me 109; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Desborough; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; recruitment; sanitation; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ron Baker
Interview with Peter Charles Hearmon
After RAF Padgate, Peter was selected as…
Tags: 61 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; fuelling; Gee; Harvard; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; perimeter track; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Chivenor; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Hullavington; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Upwood; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; training
Interview with Percival Robert Court
Interview with Margaret Hourigan
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operations room; perimeter track; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; runway; service vehicle; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Les Rutherford. Three
Interview with John Eppel
Tags: 18 OTU; 550 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perimeter track; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Killingholme; RAF West Freugh; RAF Worksop; searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington
Interview with Fred Hooker. One
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; briefing; crewing up; debriefing; Dulag Luft; faith; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; perimeter track; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dishforth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Stormy Down; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald. Two
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bombing; crash; decoy site; forced landing; Fw 190; ground personnel; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perimeter track; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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 Benny Goodman. Two
Tags: 51 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Grand Slam; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Magister; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); perimeter track; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Leconfield; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; submarine; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington