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- Tags: flight engineer
Interview with George Rex Armstrong
Interview with the family of John Edward Ayres
John was a flight engineer with 427 Squadron. He was born at Westcliff-on-Sea and volunteered for the Royal Air Force when he received a letter from Bomber Command. He had joined the Air…
Interview with Charles Philip Blackham
Interview with Thomas Carroll
Tags: 100 Squadron; 626 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 109; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); promotion; RAF Grimsby; RAF Lindholme; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; searchlight; superstition; training
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 James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; searchlight; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
Letter from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Letter from Ken Barnett to Bessie
Tags: aircrew; B-24; flight engineer; Lancaster; RAF St Athan
Memories of WWII
Tags: 115 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; Dominie; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; promotion; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; training; Wellington; wireless operator
A daylight to the Dortmund-Ems canal and return, a navigator's account
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; Distinguished Service Order; evading; flight engineer; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; shot down; Stirling; target indicator; Victoria Cross; wireless operator
Notes on Munich 6 September 1943
Letter to B Luke from L Ward
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer
Interview with Philip James MBE
Bill Burnett's Biography
H Jack Lazenby DFC
Tags: 1654 HCU; 20 OTU; 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); briefing; Catalina; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; flight engineer; flight mechanic; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 110; Me 262; mechanics engine; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Benson; RAF Bourn; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Colerne; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Elvington; RAF Fairford; RAF Halton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melton Mowbray; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Pershore; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Swinderby; RAF Talbenny; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Valley; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wing; recruitment; Resistance; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Night Fighter Attack - My Experience
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Ju 88; Lancaster; pilot
Letter to Jose from Leslie Hay
Tags: 49 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; final resting place; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; memorial; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Woodbridge; Stalag Luft 3; target indicator
Leslie Alfred Davies and crew
Tags: 10 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 50 Squadron; 6 BFTS; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); British Flying Training School Program; C-47; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Me 262; memorial; military service conditions; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; petrol bowser; pilot; RAF Banff; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; reconnaissance photograph; service vehicle; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
James Inward
William Warburton Sgt Flight Engineer RAF
Tags: 101 Squadron; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; mid-air collision; navigator; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; wireless operator
And then there were seven
Interview with Graham Allen
Tags: 106 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 262; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Spitfire; Stirling; training
Interview with Syd Marshall
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1667 HCU; aircrew; crewing up; FIDO; flight engineer; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Sandtoft; RAF St Athan; training
Interview with Bert Turner
Tags: 1657 HCU; 196 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Me 262; medical officer; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF Keevil; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Tuddenham; shot down; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training