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- Tags: Wellington
Stan Shaw's Experience with Comms. Flight
Stan Shaw's Memoir notes
Bomber Command
Tags: Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); FIDO; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Manston; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Stanley Shaw
Interview with an anonymous interviewee (An01137)
Behind Enemy Lines
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; Gneisenau; Hurricane; Me 110; memorial; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Marham; RAF Tangmere; Scharnhorst; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Gordon Catling
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 Syd Cooper. Two
Interview with Andy Andrews
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1663 HCU; aircrew; B-17; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; evading; FIDO; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 52; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; lynching; military living conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; Resistance; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Ronald Davies
Tags: 10 OTU; 101 Squadron; 28 OTU; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Ansty; RAF Blyton; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Wymeswold; Stearman; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Eddie Humes
Interview with Fred Tiller
Interview with Ken Turnham
"Fred" by Sylvia White (his cousin)
Tags: 101 Squadron; 620 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gneisenau; killed in action; mid-air collision; military ethos; RAF Penrhos; Scharnhorst; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Flashbacks 0 to 4
Flashback 1. Mentions first operation on 300 Squadron at RAF Faldingworth. Continues…
Some days in the life of a production test pilot
Oil's Well
Tags: B-24; bombing; Gee; Halifax; Ju 88; Pathfinders; sanitation; Wellington
Ted Neales' memoir
Two stories and a letter by Ted Neale
#2 Designated pilots-navigators or bomb aimers at Heaton Park then sent to Bridgnorth to await a ship to South…
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; military ethos; navigator; RAF Bridgnorth; training; Wellington
Ted Neale's training and early operational experiences
Letter from Ted Neale
Italian war memories
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; evading; fear; heirloom; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3; Wellington