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- Tags: 75 Squadron
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; ground personnel; intelligence officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with James Lamb
Interview with James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; searchlight; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
Interview with James Mulhall. Two
Interview with John De Hoop
Interview with Lawrence Clark Rogers
Interview with Len McNamara
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; escaping; evading; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Langar; RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Ringway; RAF Woolfox Lodge; recruitment; training; Whitley
Interview with Muriel Blake
Interview with Neil Ramsey
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 Peter Rowland Ruthven Neech
Interview with Peter Rowland Ruthven Neech. Two
Interview with Ralph Brumwell
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 Ron Flynn
Interview with Ron Mayhill
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; military ethos; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Westcott; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington
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
Ken Hook's decorations
Ken Hook's RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book. One
Tags: 12 OTU; 13 OTU; 1651 HCU; 49 Squadron; 75 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Martinet; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dalcross; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Manby; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wittering; Stirling; training; Wellington
Ken Hook's RAF service
Koblenz
Koblenz, flight engineer and Lancaster
Photo 1 is a target photograph of a night attack on Koblenz. All detail is obscured by target indicators and incendiaries.
Photo 2 is Terry's flight engineer seen from the bomb aimer's position.
Photo 3 is a…
Koln-Gremberg
Krefeld
It is annotated: "3B" and captioned: "2735 MEP. 11.1.45//7" 20,000' 130º 1514 KREFELD A 1HC4000IN, 12MC500DT, 4GP250DT. C.37SECS F/S O'MALLEY K.75.".
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