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- Tags: observer
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Book 2, Commencing my Flying Training and my Adventures up till the time of Leaving England
No 25 OTU 24.07.1942 Wellingtons T2701 and DV476
Interview with John Louis Goldby
Tags: 640 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Hampden; Lancaster; mid-air collision; observer; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Harry Foster
Derek Clare
Eric Arthur's diary
Life lost on operations
The memories of LAC Fred Perkins
Tags: aircrew; animal; B-24; Battle; bomb trolley; bombing up; Defiant; demobilisation; fitter airframe; fuelling; ground crew; Hurricane; military living conditions; military service conditions; observer; petrol bowser; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Defford; RAF Kirkham; RAF Padgate; recruitment; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport
John and Ursula Valentine
Neville Petts and crew
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Tags: air gunner; aircrew; flight engineer; observer; pilot
Interview with Eric Coling
Half a Life, Half Remembered
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 2 Group; 3 Group; 311 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 7 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harrow; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; incendiary device; Lancaster; love and romance; Magister; Manchester; Me 109; Me 110; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; observer; Operational Training Unit; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; radar; RAF Benson; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Catterick; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Debden; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Grantham; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Honington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manston; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF Sealand; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; RAF Warmwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with George Royall
Tags: 166 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; entertainment; fear; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; observer; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Kirmington; searchlight; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Thomas Charles Arthur Long
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crewing up; demobilisation; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; propaganda; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Mepal; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; training
Interview with Douglas Frank Newham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Botha; C-47; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Kirmington; RAF Melbourne; RAF Warboys; rivalry; Schräge Musik; training; Wellington; Whitley; York
Conditions of entry and service in the aircraft crew selection (air observers)
Tags: aircrew; navigator; observer; recruitment
Letter from Ministry of Defence to G Marshall
Three letters to Mrs Redgrave from the Royal Air Force
Letter 2 corrects Harry Redgrave's service to include his attendance at an Air Observer's course on a new Certificate of Discharge and…
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; observer; RAF Manby; training
Ted Neale's Service Record
Tags: 142 Squadron; 37 Squadron; aircrew; observer; pilot
Andrew Bain's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Edward King's RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 29 OTU; 82 OTU; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Ossington; RAF Prestwick; RAF Riccall; RAF Stradishall; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; York