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- Tags: Distinguished Flying Cross
Air Heroism wins more awards
Lancashire men amongst D.F.C. awards
Douglas Hudson Distinguished Flying Cross
Interview with Geoff Green
Tags: 100 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 28 OTU; 625 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 262; military service conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; operations room; pilot; RAF Kelstern; searchlight; superstition; training; Whitley
Interview with John Louis Goldby
Tags: 640 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Hampden; Lancaster; mid-air collision; observer; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Ted Frost
Tags: 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Hendon; RAF Oakington; RAF Syerston; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington
Interview with Megan Edwards
Interview with Eddie Edmunds
Tags: 106 Squadron; 608 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; forced landing; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Mosquito; navigator; Oxford; pilot; RAF Downham Market; RAF Syerston; training; Wellington
Interview with James Albert Dellow
Tags: 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; forced landing; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Interview with John L Crabb
Interview with John David Pennington Cotter
Wing Commander Woodroffe
Before I was in the RAF by Reg Payne
Tags: 14 OTU; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; heirloom; Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; lynching; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Waddington; RAF Wittering; sanitation; superstition; training; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Warrant Officer 'Bill' Walker's crew
Sqn Ldr G G Whittle, DFM
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF West Freugh; shot down; training; Wellington
Sqn. Ldr Geoffrey Whittle, DFM RAF (Ret'd)
Tags: 101 Squadron; 27 OTU; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Lancaster; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Geoffrey Whittle's observers and air gunners flying log book. One
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 27 OTU; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Leeming; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Millom; RAF Paignton; RAF Upavon; RAF West Freugh; training; Walrus; Wellington; York
Fred Whybrow draft Obituary
Was it all a Dream
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 4 Group; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Lysander; Master Bomber; medical officer; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bicester; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Brampton; RAF Cosford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kimbolton; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Paignton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; searchlight; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force