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- Tags: grief
Letter from Mrs Payne, mother of Flight Sergeant Malcolm Payne, to Doris Weeks
Tags: final resting place; grief; killed in action
Interview with Jim Penny. One
Tags: 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); crewing up; fear; grief; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; Oxford; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Blyton; RAF Bourn; RAF Shawbury; RAF Sleap; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; searchlight; shot down; Stearman; target indicator; training; Whitley
Interview with Tom Coles
Tags: 158 Squadron; 4 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; grief; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Lissett; recruitment; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
To Isabel Bain from Commanding Officer no. 75 Squadron
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; grief; missing in action; RAF Mepal
Interview with John Whitworth
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 1668 HCU; 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Boston; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; final resting place; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; grief; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
A miraculous escape from certain death in world war 2
Letter to his mother from Rosemary Stapp, a girl friend of Hedley's in the United States
Tags: grief; love and romance; missing in action
Notes by Reg Payne
Interview with Margaret Horry
Tags: 106 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; grief; killed in action; memorial; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Metheringham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Wickenby; Tirpitz; wireless operator
Interview with Sara Ventriglia
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; faith; fear; grief; Holocaust; home front; Pippo; shelter; strafing
Interview with Carla Baietti
Tags: bombing; civil defence; fear; grief; home front; shelter
Interview with Penny Turner
Memory of Mailly-Le-Camp
Tags: 1 Group; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); debriefing; Gee; grief; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Woodhall Spa; target indicator
Interview with Ronald Davis
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); displaced person; faith; fitter airframe; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; RAF Halton; RAF Scampton; runway; training
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Elfriede, N
Grete G
Erich Thom and Karl B
Oskar Spieß
Still they seek those vanished aircrew. Work of R.A.F investigators
Obituaries of Edward Milling
Tags: grief; killed in action; missing in action