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- Tags: wireless operator
Interview with Peter Woodard
Tags: 100 Group; 102 Squadron; 192 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; Cook’s tour; crewing up; H2S; Halifax; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; P-38; RAF Dumfries; RAF Foulsham; Raf Mauripur; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shenington; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Pip Smith
Interview with Reg Payne. Two
Interview with Reg Spencer
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Desborough; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Yatesbury; service vehicle; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Rex Alan Austin
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Scarecrow; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Rex John Arnett
Tags: 100 Group; 223 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; B-25; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crewing up; entertainment; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Manston; RAF Oulton; shot down; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Richard Franklin
Interview with Richard Murray Allen
Interview with Rita Brooks
Tags: 12 Squadron; 460 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Binbrook; RAF Kenley; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wickenby; Tiger force; training; wireless operator
Interview with Robert Boocock
Interview with Robert Lewis
Interview with Ron Saunders
Interview with Ronald Indge
Interview with Ronald Mather
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; Proctor; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; wireless operator
Interview with Roy Briggs
Tags: 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Dominie; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Initial Training Wing; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; training; wireless operator
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 Sidney Lawrence Davis
Tags: 619 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Silverstone; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; searchlight; sport; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Stella Jones
Interview with Steven Downes
Interview with Steven Ellams
Interview with Syd Grimes
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator