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- Tags: Wellington
Interview with Herbert Adams
Tags: 467 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Anson; bombing; control caravan; Cook’s tour; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fuelling; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Lichfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; Schräge Musik; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Richard Murray Allen
Interview with John Derek "Bill" Bailey. Two
Towards the end of the war, Derek did various bomber instructor courses and became a bombing instructor at RAF Lossiemouth on Wellingtons for Free French aircrew…
Tags: 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb disposal; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Blyton; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Swinderby; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Eric Reginald Barton
Interview with Harvey Hayward Bawden
Tags: 150 Squadron; 153 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; mechanics engine; memorial; nose art; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; Wellington
Interview with Leslie Blakemore
Interview with Jeff Brown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-29; bombing; crewing up; Harvard; Lancaster; Meteor; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Marham; RAF Westcott; training; Wellington
Interview with John "Jack" Brown
Interview with Clarence Keith Bruhn
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; entertainment; Lancaster; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; recruitment; shot down; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Interview with James Calman
Interview with Keith Campbell. One
Interview with Gordon Catling
Interview with Sue Chaplin
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 Frank Colenso
Interview with Geoffrey Conacher
Interview with John Cooper
Interview with Syd Cooper. One
Interview with Syd Cooper. Two
Interview with John Cox
Tags: 626 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; African heritage; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Wickenby; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with George Eric Cromarty
Tags: 29 OTU; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); fear; final resting place; fuelling; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dalcross; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tangmere; sanitation; Stirling; training; Typhoon; Wellington