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- Tags: Pathfinders
Letter from C G Barry to her mother
Letter from C G Barry to her mother and photographs
The Exploits of Warrant Officer Arthur Pritchard
Tags: 463 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); crash; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
Interview with Norman Edward Wilkins
Interview with Roger Calvert
Interview with Peter Jones
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Pathfinders; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Oakington; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; Stirling; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Jim Copus. Two
Interview with Bill Lucas. Two
Tags: 139 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 19 OTU; 20 OTU; 9 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Kinloss; RAF Torquay; RAF Upwood; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Dick Maywood
Tags: 608 Squadron; 692 Squadron; 8 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Beaufighter; Bolingbroke; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Gee; Initial Training Wing; Master Bomber; Me 262; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Oxford; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Banff; RAF Blyton; RAF Credenhill; RAF Desford; RAF Downham Market; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; sanitation; Schräge Musik; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with John Wakeford Quine
Tags: 170 Squadron; 582 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bomb dump; bombing; Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crewing up; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Harrogate; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Peplow; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Mark Johnson
Tags: 102 Squadron; 103 Squadron; African heritage; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; military ethos; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kinloss; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RCAF Moncton; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; training; Whitley
Interview with Jim Penny. Two
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
Interview with Henry Townsley
Tags: 1661 HCU; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; Stirling; training
Interview with John Robert Watson
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; flight engineer; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mid-air collision; military ethos; Pathfinders; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Ouston; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; searchlight; training; Wellington
Interview with Henry Leslie Shackleton
Interview with Frederick Harold Shepherd
Tags: 15 Squadron; 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Flying Training School; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; propaganda; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Marham; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Award of La Croix du Combattant de L'Europe
Path Finder badge certificate
Note to Robert Wareing from Air Vice Marshall D Bennett
Gordon Babbage's award of Path Finder Force Badge
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Tags: Pathfinders
Gordon Babbage's award of the Path Finder Force Badge
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: Pathfinders