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- Tags: African heritage
Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Flight planning
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; operations room
Forces Preliminary course E.V.T. Sennen and Worth Matravers, Dorset, May - July 1946'
Three small photographs of 20 service personnel informally posed in front of a blast wall, wooden hut and base of an aerial tower in background.
Small head…
Georgia
Top middle - one single story house with cars parked in the drive.
Top right - a women wearing striped dress standing on open ground with trees to the left.
Bottom…
Group of airmen at dining table
Group of men and boys
Tags: African heritage
Group on a veranda
Tags: African heritage; Asian heritage
Group portrait at Eastbourne Navigation School
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; observer; training
Hockey team
Tags: African heritage; sport
Interview with Adriana Ventriglia
Interview with Bob Lasham
Tags: 5 BFTS; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; African heritage; aircrew; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Cranfield; recruitment; searchlight; Stearman; training
Interview with Carla Fantini
Interview with Charles Mears
Tags: 218 Squadron; 5 BFTS; African heritage; aircrew; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; crewing up; Gee; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; navigator; Oxford; padre; pilot; propaganda; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF Methwold; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Woodbridge; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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 D Jones
Interview with Danny Walker
After becoming a Junior Clerk at the Post Office in Jamaica, Danny arrived in England in 1944 was based in Filey in Yorkshire, where he…
Interview with Eddy Smythe. One
Interview with Eddy Smythe. Two
Interview with Eileen Widdowson
Interview with Emmanuel Alexis Elden
Interview with Hazel Carby
She also discusses her research into her…
Interview with Irmgard Schulz
Interview with J Ebanks
Interview with John Cox
Tags: 626 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; African heritage; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Wickenby; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington