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- Tags: Wellington
Interview with Robert William Maggs
Interview with Peter Thomas
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Methwold; RAF Paignton; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with David Rayner Fox
Interview with Pat Hickton
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; ground personnel; intelligence officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Eddie Worsdale
Norm George Smith video interview
Norman Powell service history
Interview with Jack Meehan
Interview with Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Tom Coles
Tags: 158 Squadron; 4 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; grief; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Lissett; recruitment; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Bob Hughes
Tags: 149 Squadron; 23 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; Botha; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lysander; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Pershore; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Anthony William Kent
Interview with Gerard Norwood
Interview with Audrey Poynter
Letter to JH Bird from Commander 236 Wing
Tags: 104 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Pathfinders; Wellington
Oliver Gomersal history
Tags: 621 Squadron; aircrew; observer; RAF Silloth; submarine; Wellington
Search for survivors of SS Tarifa in the Indian Ocean
Tags: 621 Squadron; Wellington
Interview with John Whitworth
Interview with Frank Colenso
Interview with Ernest Frederick Gardiner
Interview with Alfred Marshall
Interview with Harold Yeoman
Tags: 12 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; debriefing; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; Lancaster; love and romance; medical officer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; recruitment; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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
Bomber Harris fact sheet
Tags: 1 Group; 2 Group; 210 Squadron; 3 Group; 31 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; B-17; B-24; B-25; Battle; Blenheim; Boston; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Manchester; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Stirling; Ventura; Wellington; Whitley