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- Tags: Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945)
Interview with William Paul Gould
Interview with William Hough
Tags: 1656 HCU; 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Worksop; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Tony Snook
Tags: 115 Squadron; 28 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Beaufighter; bombing; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Langar; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Witchford; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Tony Gerard
Tags: 7 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bridlington; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Valley; RAF Weston-super-Mare; Stirling; training
Interview with Thomas Carroll
Tags: 100 Squadron; 626 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 109; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); promotion; RAF Grimsby; RAF Lindholme; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; searchlight; superstition; training
Interview with Thea Warwick
Interview with Thea Coleman
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 Stella Jones
Interview with Sidney Borthwick
Interview with Sam Price
Tags: 195 Squadron; 35 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; C-47; crewing up; faith; flight engineer; Gee; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Colerne; RAF Graveley; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Roy Briggs
Tags: 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Dominie; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Initial Training Wing; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; training; wireless operator
Interview with Rosemary Dorricott
Interview with Roland Spencer Williams
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Mepal; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakley; RAF Padgate; RAF Westcott; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with Robert Forsyth
Interview with Richard Murray Allen
Interview with Reg Spencer
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Desborough; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Yatesbury; service vehicle; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Peter Watson
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 300 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; fear; Fw 190; Gee; grief; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; radar; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wyton; searchlight; training
Interview with Peter Thomas
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Methwold; RAF Paignton; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Peter John Peck
Interview with Peter Banting
Tags: 7 Squadron; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; fear; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; memorial; Mosquito; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Pauline Ferdinando
Interview with Oscar Goodall
Interview with Norman Neilson
Tags: 103 Squadron; 582 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); flight engineer; Lancaster; memorial; military discipline; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Little Staughton; submarine; training