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- Tags: demobilisation
Ernest Smith's Service and Release Book
Tags: demobilisation
No 102 personnel dispersal centre Royal Air Force Cardington arrival folder
Henry Ansell's service and release book
Tags: aircrew; demobilisation; Pathfinders
James Banks Statement of Service and Certificate of Discharge
Tags: demobilisation; recruitment
Cyril Abbotts' service and release book
Tags: demobilisation; RAF Waddington
Look Before You Leap
For Your Guidance
This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.
Tags: demobilisation
Royal Air Force Journal
Letter to James Banks from the Air Ministry
Tags: demobilisation; recruitment
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
George Griffiths memoir
Interview with Mieczyslaw Maryszczak
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); faith; fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Iris Done
Interview with Rex Statham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 158 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Alness; RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Woodbridge; Scarecrow; Sunderland; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Richard Curnock
Tags: 425 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; lynching; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dishforth; RAF Tholthorpe; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
The memories of LAC Fred Perkins
Tags: aircrew; animal; B-24; Battle; bomb trolley; bombing up; Defiant; demobilisation; fitter airframe; fuelling; ground crew; Hurricane; military living conditions; military service conditions; observer; petrol bowser; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Defford; RAF Kirkham; RAF Padgate; recruitment; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport
Equipment Receipt, Jose Hayhurst
Interview with Ron Saunders
Interview with Harold Stanley Gardner
Interview with Taff Owen
Tags: 153 Squadron; 27 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; demobilisation; Dominie; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Scampton; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; searchlight; submarine; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Jack Cook
Tags: 100 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 14 OTU; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Dominie; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kirkham; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Shallufa; RAF Silloth; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner