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- Tags: pilot
Interview with Eddie Edmunds
Tags: 106 Squadron; 608 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; forced landing; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Mosquito; navigator; Oxford; pilot; RAF Downham Market; RAF Syerston; training; Wellington
Interview with Megan Edwards
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 Norman George Smith
Letter concerning third batch of Ceylonese joining the RAF
Tags: aircrew; Asian heritage; C-47; ground personnel; Harvard; navigator; pilot; RAF Kenley; recruitment; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Jean Kilbey
Tags: 156 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Warboys
Report of Stirling Aircraft No W7546T which crash landed 11th September 1942
Sotonian's D.S.O. won over Germany
Tags: aircrew; Distinguished Service Order; pilot
Reported missing
The Air Training Corps: A Wartime Experience
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; final resting place; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Magister; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Battle-Axe Blenheims
Interview with Jeff Brown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-29; bombing; crewing up; Harvard; Lancaster; Meteor; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Marham; RAF Westcott; training; Wellington
Interview with Albert Smith
Tags: 170 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); entertainment; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military discipline; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF St Athan; searchlight; training
Interview with Jim Weston. One
Letter from Tom Wadeson to Jean Wadeson
The lucky crew
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; military living conditions; mine laying; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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Flashback 1. Mentions first operation on 300 Squadron at RAF Faldingworth. Continues…
Some days in the life of a production test pilot
The Algerian Affair and On
Pilot's Flying Log Sheet
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; pilot; Tiger Moth; training
Poem for a Rear Gunner and A Gunner's Vow
Tags: 624 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; navigator; pilot
Letter from Terry Ford to his family
Tags: aircrew; pilot; Tiger Moth; training