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- Tags: training
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Interview with Tony Snook
Tags: 115 Squadron; 28 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Beaufighter; bombing; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Langar; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Witchford; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Interview with Frank Stafford
Interview with Frank Stanney
Interview with Victor Stapley
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crewing up; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; mechanics engine; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); P-51; radar; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; Stirling; Sunderland; training
Interview with Rex Statham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 158 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Alness; RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Woodbridge; Scarecrow; Sunderland; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Bernard Sterry and Cecilia Pearson
Interview with Maureen and Sidney Stevens
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; control tower; crewing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; RAF Wigsley; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Peter Steward
Interview with Maurice Stoneman
Tags: 57 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; ditching; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mess; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; training
Interview with James Swaffield
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Military Cross; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Swinderby; training
Interview with Dennis Swains
Interview with Eric Horsham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; Master Bomber; military living conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Bessie Thomas
Interview with John Henry Thomas
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; Fw 190; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Mosquito; P-47; P-51; padre; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Peter Thomas
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Methwold; RAF Paignton; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Sam Thompson
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Interview with John Foster Thorp
Tags: 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; crewing up; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Fred Tiller
Interview with John Tipton
Tags: 109 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Wyton; superstition; training; Wellington