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- Tags: Stearman
Interview with Jack Hayley
Tags: 170 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 83 OTU; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; love and romance; Magister; Meteor; military living conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Defford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Madley; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Windrush; RCAF Estevan; Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Tom Sayer
Tags: 10 OTU; 102 Squadron; 81 OTU; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Medal; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Eval; RAF Upwood; Stearman; submarine; training; Whitley
Tom Sayer's Royal Canadian Air Force pilot's flying log book. Book one
Tags: 10 OTU; 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 17 OTU; 620 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 81 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Fairford; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Leconfield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Ossington; RAF Pocklington; RAF Ringway; RAF Sleap; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; Stearman; Stirling; submarine; training; Whitley
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 82 OTU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control tower; coping mechanism; crewing up; dispersal; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; forced landing; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Me 109; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Desborough; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; recruitment; sanitation; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Kenneth Cook
Tags: 1 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Botha; crewing up; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Window