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- Tags: African heritage
Interview with Eileen Widdowson
Interview with Eddy Smythe. Two
Interview with Eddy Smythe. One
Interview with Danny Walker
After becoming a Junior Clerk at the Post Office in Jamaica, Danny arrived in England in 1944 was based in Filey in Yorkshire, where he…
Interview with D Jones
Interview with Cyril Abbotts
Tags: 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; physical training; pilot; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carlisle; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Gamston; RAF Heaton Park; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; recruitment; sanitation; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
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 Carla Fantini
Interview with Bob Lasham
Tags: 5 BFTS; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; African heritage; aircrew; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Cranfield; recruitment; searchlight; Stearman; training
Interview with Adriana Ventriglia
Hockey team
Tags: African heritage; sport
Group portrait at Eastbourne Navigation School
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; observer; training
Group on a veranda
Tags: African heritage; Asian heritage
Group of men and boys
Tags: African heritage
Group of airmen at dining table
Georgia
Top middle - one single story house with cars parked in the drive.
Top right - a women wearing striped dress standing on open ground with trees to the left.
Bottom…
Forces Preliminary course E.V.T. Sennen and Worth Matravers, Dorset, May - July 1946'
Three small photographs of 20 service personnel informally posed in front of a blast wall, wooden hut and base of an aerial tower in background.
Small head…
Flight planning
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; operations room
Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Family group
Tags: African heritage; animal
Eleven Airmen
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: African heritage; aircrew; bomb aimer; pilot
David Livingstone
Tags: African heritage; aircrew
Cricket team
Tags: African heritage; sport