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Sandy Saunders' pilots flying log book
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; pilot; Tiger Moth; training
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 Bruce Minnitt
Interview with Vernon Thomas Morgan
Interview with Norman Neilson
Tags: 103 Squadron; 582 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); flight engineer; Lancaster; memorial; military discipline; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Little Staughton; submarine; training
Interview with William Neilson
Target Wesel
On the second sheet a complete aircrew list of each aircraft.
On a third sheet is…
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fuelling; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; pilot; RAF Spilsby
Neville Petts and crew
Additional information about this item was…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; flight engineer; observer; pilot
Interview with Philip Peel
Interview with Jim Penny. Two
Interview with Cyril Peters
Tags: 4 BFTS; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; British Flying Training School Program; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; military service conditions; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Elvington; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Manston; RAF Marston Moor; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
207 Squadron Pilots May 1945
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; pilot
Malcolm Staves and crew
Interview with Seymour Owen Scott
Tags: 170 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; military service conditions; pilot; RAF Hemswell; searchlight; training
Interview with Frances Elizabeth Secker
Elizabeth has clear memories of…
Interview with Henry Leslie Shackleton
Interview with Jack Edward Simmonds
Interview with Lester Simms
Interview with Timothy Sindall
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Interview with Albert Smith
Tags: 170 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); entertainment; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military discipline; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF St Athan; searchlight; training
Citation for Distinguished Flying Medal for three members of 226 Squadron
Interview with Maureen and Sidney Stevens
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; control tower; crewing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; RAF Wigsley; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Muriel Stoves
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); faith; home front; pilot
Interview with Eric Horsham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; Master Bomber; military living conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator