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- Tags: mess
Interview with Frederick Limer
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Gee; guard room; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; mess; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Methwold; RAF Staverton; RCAF Fingal; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Herbert Tinning
Tags: 27 OTU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; Schräge Musik; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; ground personnel; intelligence officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
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 Lachie McBean
Interview with Laurence Harbutt
Interview with Lawrence Larmer
Tags: 1658 HCU; 27 OTU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; padre; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; intelligence officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melksham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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 Max Spence
Interview with Oscar Goodall
Invitation to MRAF Sir Arthur Harris Memorial Dinner
Invitations to Three Officers Mess Events
Tags: 1 Group; aircrew; entertainment; mess; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Scampton
Jack at RAF Padgate
Second is of Jack in civilian clothes standing in front of house, reverse captioned 'Padgate, Warrington…
Tags: mess; RAF Padgate
John Joyner's scrap book
Many of the entries are post war and a number refer…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; entertainment; flight engineer; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training; wireless operator
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Kai Tak, Hong Kong
Second is of Jack with individual and building entrance in background, reverse captioned,…
Tags: mess
Kuching, Borneo
Second is Jack standing in the entrance to a building with an individual, reverse…
Tags: mess; military living conditions
Lancaster JB139 Dark Victor
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Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Lancaster; mess; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; Spitfire; Tallboy; target indicator; target photograph; V-1; wireless operator
Large group of airmen in a bar
Tags: mess; military living conditions