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- Tags: 61 Squadron
Interview with Ernest James White
Tags: 44 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Botha; Cook’s tour; Lancaster; Lysander; memorial; military service conditions; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Graveley; RAF Morpeth; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; searchlight; Window
Interview with Archie Weir
Interview with Murray Valentine
Interview with Ernest Townsend
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; fear; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; lynching; radar; sport; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Frank Stanney
Interview with Frank Stafford
Squadron operation honours, Spezia, 18/19 April 1943
Tags: 61 Squadron; arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Syerston
Hedley Madgett RAF Diary 1943
Interview with Ted Frost
Tags: 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Hendon; RAF Oakington; RAF Syerston; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington
Interview with Philip Freeman
Edward Allan McDonald's wartime memories
The second part describes the 'Skilling Follies', an aircrew who completed 25 operations from RAF Skellingthorpe.
The third part describes an…
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; briefing; crash; forced landing; Fw 190; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; shot down; take-off crash; training; Wellington
61 Squadron
Tags: 61 Squadron; RAF Waddington
Richard Vipond’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 1668 HCU; 514 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 85 OTU; 88 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Bottesford; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Jurby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF Waddington; RAF Waterbeach; Sunderland; training; Wellington
Frederick Caunter-Jackson Obituary
Certificate of Competence to undertake First Line serving
Tags: 61 Squadron; ground crew; ground personnel; Lincoln
Certificate of Competence to undertake First Line Servicing
Tags: 61 Squadron; ground crew; ground personnel; Lincoln
Lancasters on dispersal
Tags: 61 Squadron; dispersal; Lancaster
Large group of armourers in front of corrugated iron building
Interview with James Wright
Tags: 61 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; animal; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; final resting place; ground personnel; Lancaster; Me 109; medical officer; memorial; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Pathfinders; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; strafing; training; Wellington
Interview with Lesley Joseph Loosemoore
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Grand Slam; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; service vehicle; Stirling; Tallboy; training; Wellington
Interview with Peter Charles Hearmon
After RAF Padgate, Peter was selected as…
Tags: 61 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; fuelling; Gee; Harvard; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; perimeter track; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Chivenor; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Hullavington; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Upwood; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; training
Interview with Ken Johnson. Two
Interview with Ken Johnson. One
He had a spell at the Operational Training Unit,…