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- Tags: padre
Letter to David Donaldson from M H Edwards
Tags: ground personnel; padre; RAF Warboys
Interview with John Henry Thomas
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; Fw 190; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Mosquito; P-47; P-51; padre; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with George Patrick Smith-Leach
Interview with James Sampson
Interview with Hayden Philip Rose
Ian Archer Wynn memorial book
Letter from padre at RAF Binbrook to Mrs K Wynn
Letter from Padre RAF Binbrook to Mrs K Wynn
Tags: faith; ground personnel; missing in action; padre; RAF Binbrook
Interview with Gerard Norwood
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 Janet Hughes, One
Interview with Harry Hacker
An airman to his mother
Letter to Mrs Hobbs from RAF East Kirkby station padre
Interview with Lawrence Larmer
Tags: 1658 HCU; 27 OTU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; padre; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Charlie Darby
Tags: 100 Group; 1658 HCU; 21 OTU; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; padre; perception of bombing war; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Carnaby; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Driffield; RAF Foulsham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; sanitation; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
More war memories. The RAF bombing raids on Revigny
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; dispersal; Dulag Luft; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); padre; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; sanitation; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; Window
Tribute to a Pathfinder captain
Tags: 156 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing up; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; fear; flight engineer; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Me 110; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; padre; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; searchlight; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-1; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force