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- Tags: the long march
Interview with James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; searchlight; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
Interview with James Mulhall. Two
Interview with James William Birchall
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; lynching; Me 109; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Seighford; RAF Wickenby; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Interview with Jean Smith
Tags: 27 OTU; 3 Group; 5 Group; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); control caravan; control tower; crash; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); love and romance; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Fauld; RAF Lichfield; runway; service vehicle; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; superstition; the long march; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Joan Rosemary Macklin
Tags: bombing; home front; love and romance; prisoner of war; shelter; the long march; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with John Albert Taplin
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; bombing; evading; ground personnel; Halifax; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Leeming; RAF Melbourne; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; the long march; training; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with John Firth
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; prisoner of war; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; training
Interview with John Usher about Bob Burns
Suddenly the aircraft broke in…
Interview with Joseph Musgrove
Tags: 102 Squadron; 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Defiant; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; Halifax; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Madley; RAF Shenington; RAF Staverton; RAF Topcliffe; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; wireless operator
Interview with Keith Campbell. One
Interview with Keith Campbell. Two
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; superstition; the long march; training
Interview with Laurence Sidney Fisher
Interview with Lawrie Lawrence
Interview with Les Rutherford. Four
Interview with Les Rutherford. Three
Interview with Louis Makens
Tags: 196 Squadron; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; evading; Fw 190; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Lysander; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Sealand; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Witchford; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Max Barry
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; evading; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Waddington; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Norman Gregory
Tags: 101 Squadron; 28 OTU; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Dulag Luft; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster; Master Bomber; memorial; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Ansty; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Richard Curnock
Tags: 425 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; lynching; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dishforth; RAF Tholthorpe; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ron Tomlin
Interview with Ron Wade
Tags: 58 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; Ju 88; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morecambe; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Whitley
Interview with Ronald Gard
Tags: 463 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; Lancaster; memorial; prisoner of war; RAF Barnham; RAF Bridlington; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Indge
Interview with Ronald Last
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; escaping; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; recruitment; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Stan Instone
Tags: 1664 HCU; 419 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; strafing; the long march; training