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- Tags: bomb aimer
Interview with Les Rutherford. Four
Interview with John Ormerod
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; FIDO; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator; York
Interview with a navigator from 101 Squadron
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; coping mechanism; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Wymeswold; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Benny Goodman. One
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 John Derek "Bill" Bailey. One
Tags: 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 20 OTU; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; crewing up; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lysander; Master Bomber; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirkham; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Penrhos; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Swinderby; RAF Torquay; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Charles Godfrey's Pathfinder crew
Six aircrew in front of a Wellington
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; pilot; Wellington; wireless operator
Flight Lieutenant Mercer and crew
'March 1944 X for Xray
Dunholme Lodge
Bomber Command
Left to right
Isot Pratt. (mid upper) F/lt Mercer D.F.C. (pilot) Sgt Fallan (fit.…
Halifax 'U again' aircrew and ground crew
Bombs dropping onto B-24
Photograph 2 is the damaged B-24 on the ground showing the damage. Two crew are looking through the damaged areas.
The caption describes in some detail the events. The…
Tags: 37 Squadron; 70 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bomb aimer; bomb struck; pilot; wireless operator
Crew positions - B-24
Tags: 70 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bomb aimer; flight engineer; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Bombing leaders instruction signal 22 April 1944
Operations order 14 January 1944
Operations order 22 February 1944
Bomb aimers briefing 22 February 1944
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; H2S; target indicator; Window
Operations order 30 January 1944
Bomb aimers briefing 24 February 1944
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing
Bomb aimers briefing 24 February 1944 - Schweinfurt
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing
Operations order 25 February 1944
Bomb aimers briefing 25 February 1944
Bomb aimers briefing 25 February 1944 - Augsburg
Operations order 28 February 1944
Bomb aimers briefing 28 February 1944
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; H2S
Bomb aimers briefing 1 March 1944 - Stuttgart
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; H2S; Pathfinders; target indicator; Window