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- Tags: childhood in wartime
Interview with Elizabeth Anne Tyler
Interview with Gwendolen Wadmore
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; love and romance; shelter; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Babies Anti-Gas Helmets
Evacuation Why and How?
Two part interview with Bob Panton
Part 1. Bob Panton was a child during the war. One day as his father was coming towards their house Bob saw three Dornier 17 come into view. Then out of the sun came six Spitfires and a battle started in front…
Interview with Nelson Nix
Interview with Tony Dyer
Interview with Rob Carter
Interview with Rosemary Lapham
Interview with Stuart Stephenson MBE
In the early 1970s the Lancaster PA474 was flown to RAF Waddington from RAF Henlow ostensibly to be a gate guardian. In 1973 the Lincolnshire Echo announced that it was to…
Tags: Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); childhood in wartime; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; perception of bombing war; petrol bowser; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Coltishall; RAF Coningsby; RAF Waddington; service vehicle; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Gordon Atkinson
Interview with Sidney and Una Ellis
Interview with Laura Hickey
Interview with Roy Berrill
After the Air Training Corps, Roy was called up to be a…
Interview with Jan Albone
Their farm was close to RAF Kirton in Lindsey which was used as a rest home for men from the Battle of Britain. They worked on…
Interview with Keith Toule
Interview with Geoff Brown
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his…
Interview with Gwendoline Thickett
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front
Interview with Gino Muratori
Interview with Benito Colonna
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Anthony Edward Mason
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; RAF Waddington; strafing
Interview with Dennis Brader
Tags: childhood in wartime; RAF Wickenby
Interview with Christopher Francis Allison
Part one.
Chris Allison served as a flight engineer. He answers questions from school children about what it was like to fly in a Lancaster.
Also taking part in this interview was Tony Bradley who was a child in Hull…
Interview with Reginald John Herring
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation; shelter