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- Tags: shot down
Interview with Les Rutherford. Four
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald. Two
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bombing; crash; decoy site; forced landing; Fw 190; ground personnel; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perimeter track; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ronald Indge
Interview with Maarten Koudÿs
Interview with Laura Hickey
Interview with Rex John Arnett
Tags: 100 Group; 223 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; B-25; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crewing up; entertainment; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Manston; RAF Oulton; shot down; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
One man in his time
Interview with Andrew Carswell
Interview with Louis Makens
Tags: 196 Squadron; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; evading; Fw 190; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Lysander; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Sealand; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Witchford; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Douglas Arthur Smith
Tags: 10 OTU; 158 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 19 OTU; 76 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lissett; RAF Riccall; RAF Shepherds Grove; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with John Cox
Tags: 626 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; African heritage; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Wickenby; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with Fred Hooker. One
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; briefing; crewing up; debriefing; Dulag Luft; faith; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; perimeter track; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dishforth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Stormy Down; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Gard
Tags: 463 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; Lancaster; memorial; prisoner of war; RAF Barnham; RAF Bridlington; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Lawrence Henry di Placito. One
Interview with Janet Hughes. Two
Interview with Lawrie Lawrence
Interview with Peter Liddle
Interview with Mike Cope
Interview with Peter Thompson
Interview with James William Birchall
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; lynching; Me 109; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Seighford; RAF Valley; RAF Wickenby; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Interview with James Albert Dellow
Tags: 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; forced landing; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
The last flight of Lancaster DV396(B)
Tags: 467 Squadron; bale out; crash; Fw 190; Lancaster; shot down; superstition