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- Tags: prisoner of war
Interview with Ken Macdonald
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1667 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; fear; final resting place; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Wickenby; RAF Worksop; sanitation; Stalag 3A; training; Wellington
Interview with Ernest Davenport
Letter from Commander Jessel
JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RCAF Rivers; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Six chapters of wartime memories
'Based at Burn' Introduction by Jim Allen
One More Chalked Up
A Trip to Remember
Sabotage on 578 Squadron at Burn by Joe Dudley
Memories of 578 Squadron at Burn 1944 by Joe…
Tags: 4 Group; 578 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); faith; fear; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Burn; RAF Farnborough; RAF Woodbridge; submarine; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; wireless operator
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Postcard to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Letter to Paddy Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Prisoner of war postcards to Jim Cahir's family
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Memoirs of Jim Cahir
Letter to Spike from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Mary Egan from Jim Cahir
Tags: aircrew; bale out; C-47; Dulag Luft; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war; shot down; sport
Letter to Mary Egan from Jim Cahir
Postcard to Miss A Tyrie from Jim Tyrie
Tags: aircrew; pilot; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1