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- Tags: Lancaster
Interview with Harry Algar
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carnaby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Shackleton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Harry Basil Grant
Interview with Harry Fearns
Interview with Harry Harris
Tags: 105 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control caravan; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; Me 262; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; promotion; RAF Downham Market; RAF Elsham Wolds; Scarecrow; searchlight; service vehicle; submarine; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Harry Hooper
Interview with Harry Irons. One
Tags: 158 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Halifax; In the event of my death letter; intelligence officer; Ju 88; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Nissen hut; radar; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Driffield; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lissett; RAF Manby; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; Spitfire; training
Interview with Harry Irons. Two
Tags: 158 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Martinet; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Driffield; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lissett; RAF Waddington; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; strafing; superstition; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Harry James
Interview with Harry Parkins. One
Interview with Harry Parkins. Two
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; fear; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Kirkby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; searchlight; Stirling; superstition; training
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Defiant; Dominie; entertainment; fear; Gee; Lancaster; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Madley; RAF Millom; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Harvey Hayward Bawden
Tags: 150 Squadron; 153 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; mechanics engine; memorial; nose art; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; Wellington
Interview with Henry Leslie Shackleton
Interview with Henry Moss
Tags: 138 Squadron; 1669 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lysander; Martinet; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Langar; RAF Pembrey; RAF Tempsford; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Henry Townsley
Tags: 1661 HCU; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; Stirling; training
Interview with Herbert Adams
Tags: 467 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Anson; bombing; control caravan; Cook’s tour; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fuelling; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Lichfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; Schräge Musik; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Herbert James Wylde
Interview with Hilary Crozier
Interview with Hilda Ledger
Tags: home front; Lancaster; love and romance