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- Tags: ditching
Interview with Ken Done
Interview with Lawrence Henry di Placito. Two
Interview with Eric Coling
Interview with Ron Tomlin
Interview with William James Stoneman
Tags: 138 Squadron; 1664 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; animal; Anson; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; final resting place; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Magister; memorial; military service conditions; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Cardington; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with William Bryan
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; ditching; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; radar; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pocklington; Resistance; shot down; submarine; training
Elsham Wolds' Great Part in Bombing Campaign
Tags: 100 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 576 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); ditching; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Kirmington; RAF North Killingholme; rivalry; Wellington
Reg Woolgar's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; crash; ditching; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Hudson; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Martinet; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Foulsham; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Manby; RAF Peterborough; RAF Scampton; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Interview with Reg Woolgar
Tags: 10 OTU; 100 Group; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; ditching; entertainment; fear; FIDO; final resting place; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; Hampden; killed in action; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Foulsham; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; searchlight; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Request to kit out Sergeant Reg Woolgar
Tags: air sea rescue; crash; ditching; RAF Gosport
Letter to Mr Woolgar
Tags: air sea rescue; crash; ditching; missing in action; RAF Scampton