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- Tags: home front
1943 Diary
Tags: bombing; entertainment; home front
Letter to all members of civil defence messenger service
Tags: civil defence; home front
Letter to his wife from Herbert Gray
Interview with Mollie Allen
Interview with Philip Bates
Tags: 149 Squadron; 86 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; displaced person; Dulag Luft; entertainment; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lysander; Manchester; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Nissen hut; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Lakenheath; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; Resistance; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 4; Stirling; training; Window
Interview with Jack Brown Franklin
After the Local…
Tags: 109 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; crash; demobilisation; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Home Guard; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Marham; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; training
Interview with Lillian Grundy
Interview with Irene Howard
Interview with Heather Hindley
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter
Interview with Jean Culkin
Interview with Freda Dakin
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter
Interview with Eileen Handley and Dennis Bush
Tags: bombing; crash; evacuation; home front; RAF Waddington
Interview with Betty Hedges
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; civil defence; fear; home front; shelter; Spitfire; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Brian and Jenny Bailey
Interview with Jack and Jean Howes
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter