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- Tags: ground crew
Interview with Ted Stocker. Three
Although he wanted to be a pilot, Ted’s skills were needed as a flight engineer. He was…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Service Order; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military service conditions; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Halton; RAF Linton on Ouse; Shackleton; Stirling; Wellington
Interview with Ted Stocker. Two
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military service conditions; Oboe; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Halton; target indicator
Interview with Thomas Fisher
Interview with Thomas James Page
Tags: 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF St Athan; sport; training; Window
Interview with Thomas Marchant
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; flight engineer; ground crew; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancastrian; Master Bomber; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Dishforth; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; training; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Thomas Waller
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; bombing; bombing up; crash; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; memorial; military living conditions; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; sanitation; Special Operations Executive; target indicator
Interview with Vera Clachers
Interview with Victor Harding
Interview with Victor Stapley
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crewing up; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; mechanics engine; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); P-51; radar; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; Stirling; Sunderland; training
Interview with Vivian David Williams
Tags: Advanced Flying Unit; fitter engine; Flying Training School; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Hurricane; Lancaster; mechanics engine; military service conditions; RAF Calveley; RAF Cosford; RAF Grantham; RAF Hednesford; RAF Henlow; RAF Hixon; RAF Hooton Park; RAF Kemble; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF North Weald; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Watton; searchlight; training; York
Interview with William Arthur Coulton
Tags: 115 Squadron; 208 Squadron; 32 Squadron; dispersal; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Newmarket; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Witchford; service vehicle; Spitfire; tractor; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with William Bryan
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; ditching; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; radar; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pocklington; Resistance; shot down; submarine; training
Interview with William Bullock
Interview with William Joseph Longhurst
Interview with William Taylor
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Italy
Second is of Jack and nine other individuals, captioned 'March 1945, promoted Sergeant, Brindisi'.
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; promotion
Italy
Third is of Jack and another individual on a beach, the reverse captioned 'Brindisi,…
Tags: ground crew
J for Jonny are in disgrace
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; sanitation
Jack and his mother
Second is of a sailor, upper torso, studio background,
Third is of woman wheeling a pram with a park background.
Fourth is formal portrait…
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel
Jack at Brindisi
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax
Jack Culkin at RAF Halton
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; RAF Halton; training
Jack presented with Bar to L.S.G.C.
Tags: 18 Squadron; ground crew; ground personnel
Jack wearing topee
Tags: ground crew; love and romance; RAF Aqir