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- Tags: searchlight
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Ian Henderson's diary 1944
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; P-47; P-51; searchlight; shot down; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
In Bomber Command
In remembrance of S/Ldr Kenneth George Bickers DFC (Age 21)
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
Interview with an Anonymous Interviewee (An00086)
Tags: 222 Squadron; 419 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; coping mechanism; crash; evacuation; faith; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; memorial; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; searchlight; Spitfire; training
Interview with Angas Hughes
Interview with Arthur Atkins
Interview with Arthur Spencer
Tags: 16 OTU; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; ground crew; Master Bomber; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; searchlight; target indicator; training; Ventura; Wellington; Window
Interview with Bernard Walter Culpin
Interview with Bert Hammond. Two
Interview with Bert Mason
Interview with Bill Lucas. One
Tags: 15 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); fear; grief; ground crew; H2S; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Honington; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Bill Macrae
Tags: 148 Squadron; aircrew; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; Magister; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Lossiemouth; searchlight; training; Wellington; Whitley
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 Bob Smith
Tags: 15 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Gee; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mildenhall; RAF West Freugh; recruitment; searchlight; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-Semitism; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Lancaster; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Wellington
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 Charles Parker
Interview with Christoph Wagner Brausewetter
Interview with Colin Deverell
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; Mosquito; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wratting Common; recruitment; Resistance; searchlight; Stirling; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Colin Fraser
Tags: 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crash; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Fairoaks; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF West Freugh; searchlight; shot down; superstition; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with David Fraser
Tags: 115 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight mechanic; Gneisenau; ground crew; Harrow; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Evanton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 357; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with David Kenneth McKenzie Dall
Interview with David Leicester
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; forced landing; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; searchlight; superstition; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training