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Interview with Jan Black
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; love and romance; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military service conditions; perception of bombing war; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Cosford; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Hendon; RAF Ingham; Spitfire; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1678 HCU; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Andreas; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Navigation log and charts for operation to Chapelle Notre Dame
Hamburg operation and combat report
Tags: 431 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Ju 88; pilot; wireless operator
Letter from Leonard Cheshire to Wing Commander J Collier
Letter from Leonard Cheshire to Barnes Wallis
Letter to Barnes Wallis from Leonard Cheshire
Letter from Leonard Cheshire to Barnes Wallis
Peenemünde
George Dunn's log book extract
Tags: aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Hurricane; Mosquito; Oxford; P-51; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Blood-Red Pall over the Heart of Nazi Germany
The day I reviewed the German army
1st Allied Airplane Crashed in Haute-Marne, Bomber Halifax Mk II DT515
Tags: 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; escaping; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Linton on Ouse; Resistance; wireless operator
George Thomas Hagues’ diary
Tags: 625 Squadron; 83 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Harold Beech. One
Interview with Thomas Charles Arthur Long
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crewing up; demobilisation; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; propaganda; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Mepal; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; training
Interview with Walter Morris
Tags: 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; home front; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Adriano Landini
Interview with Marina Zucco
Interview with Giglio Mazzi
Interview with Hugh Parry. Two
Interview with John Benjamin Beeching
Tags: 100 Group; 169 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Beaufighter; bombing; Gee; Mosquito; Oxford; P-51; pilot; radar; RAF Twinwood Farm; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Ralph Brumwell
Interview with Bruce Cunningham
Tags: 11 OTU; 514 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Dulag Luft; evading; fear; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; memorial; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Westcott; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; training; Wellington