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Maurice Stimpson's 1944 Diary
Interview with Philip Freeman
Interview with David Bowker
Tags: 103 Squadron; 150 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lysander; Magister; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Pershore; RAF Rufforth; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Stuart Boynton Interview
Interview with William Bryan
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; ditching; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; radar; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pocklington; Resistance; shot down; submarine; training
Interview with Jack Cranston
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; escaping; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; shot down; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Jim Penny. One
Tags: 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); crewing up; fear; grief; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; Oxford; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Blyton; RAF Bourn; RAF Shawbury; RAF Sleap; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; searchlight; shot down; Stearman; target indicator; training; Whitley
Interview with Ian Hawkins
Tags: 214 Squadron; 299 Squadron; aircrew; Harvard; Oxford; pilot; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Harry Hooper
Interview with William Neilson
Interview with Cyril Peters
Tags: 4 BFTS; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; British Flying Training School Program; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; military service conditions; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Elvington; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Manston; RAF Marston Moor; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
RAF 18 OTU Bromcote
Item 2 is a photograph of a Wellington in flight.
Item 3 is a sketch for a flight from Bromcote to Yorkshire (Gool), Carlisle, Isle of Man, North…
Chart of Central England
In the top corner is a photograph of an airman in the cockpit of his aircraft.
There is a yellow post…
Tags: aircrew; ditching; navigator; pilot; RAF Hemswell; RAF Wyton; Wellington
Operations Crew List and Wellingtons
Tags: 301 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Hemswell; Wellington
Chart of North West France
There is also a photograph of a pilot in a Wellington cockpit.
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; pilot; Wellington
Two Polish Airmen
Proposal for Mieczysław Stachiewicz to receive Virtuti Militari
Batiuszka Cywiński przy Wellingtonie
Item 2 is a photograph of a Wellington framed by the entrance to the hangar.
Item 3 is a photograph of Batiuszka Cywiński standing…
Interview with Henry Harris
Interview with Pat Rumfitt
Conversation with Hamish Mahaddie
Hamish Mahaddie, the recruiter for the Pathfinder Force recalls the life of Ian Willoughby Bazalgette VC who plagued him weekly for the opportunity to join the Pathfinders. He had been posted…