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- Tags: faith
Interview with Rusty Waughman. One
Tags: 101 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; coping mechanism; faith; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; superstition; target photograph; wireless operator
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
RAF Binbrook chapel and bomb dump
Photograph 2 is of the interior of a chapel. Captioned 'Binbrook chapel of rest'.
Photographs 3, 5 and 6 are of two airmen standing next to large stockpiles of medium capacity bombs.
Photograph…
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 an eye-witness of Milan bombings
Interview with Speranza Piras
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; faith; home front; superstition
Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant A)
Tags: bombing; evacuation; faith; fear; home front; perception of bombing war; Pippo; round-up; shelter
Charles Godfrey baptism certificate
Tags: faith
Interview with Leontina Giovanetti
Interview with Charles Baron
Interview with Allan Stanley Coller
Interview with Ronald Davis
Tags: 49 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; faith; fitter airframe; Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; RAF Scampton; RAF Winthorpe; superstition; training
Interview with Alec Stuart Dixon
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 John Norrington
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; demobilisation; faith; fear; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Sandtoft; RAF St Athan; recruitment; training
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 Joe Stemp
Tags: 578 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); C-47; coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; faith; fear; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; navigator; recruitment; rivalry; superstition
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Doug Packman
Interview with Kenneth Trent
Tags: 576 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 625 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; FIDO; Grand Slam; Halifax; Lancaster; military discipline; Operation Dodge (1945); Oxford; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Woodhall Spa; recruitment; sanitation; take-off crash; Tallboy; training; Wellington