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- Tags: bombing
Interview with Eileen Widdowson
Interview with Bert Hammond. Two
Interview with Douglas Arthur Smith
Tags: 10 OTU; 158 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 19 OTU; 76 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lissett; RAF Riccall; RAF Shepherds Grove; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Frank Edwards
Frank talks of his evacuation to the countryside near Croxton Kerrial when he was nearly five. He was accompanied by his two brothers and initially…
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Ray Parke. Two
No 25 OTU 24.07.1942 Wellingtons T2701 and DV476
Interview with John Cox
Tags: 626 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; African heritage; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Wickenby; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with Peter Banting
Tags: 7 Squadron; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; fear; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; memorial; Mosquito; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Ronald Gard
Tags: 463 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; Lancaster; memorial; prisoner of war; RAF Barnham; RAF Bridlington; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Cyril Edwin Bailey
Interview with John Eric Hatherly Dean
Interview with Len Doward
Tags: 550 Squadron; 625 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bomb struck; bombing; Halifax; Harvard; Lancaster; pilot; training; Wellington
Interview with Harold Stanley Gardner
Interview with Janet Hughes, One
Interview with Sidney James Richards
Interview with Ken Souter
Tags: 43 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Martinet; Meteor; pilot; RAF Tangmere; training
David Philip Storey's operations
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Tags: 158 Squadron; 51 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Me 109; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Snaith; RAF Worksop; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Bomber Command flight engineer log
Tags: aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1
David Sanders personal record of operations
Tags: 189 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; fuelling; Lancaster; Me 109; RAF Strubby
Interview with William Paul Gould
Interview with Frederick Joseph Keith Martin
Tags: 300 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; crewing up; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; propaganda; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Calveley; RAF Cranfield; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Sandtoft; RAF South Cerney; RAF Ternhill; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wickenby; RAF Yatesbury; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Percival Trotman
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Flying Training School; forced landing; Initial Training Wing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley