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- Tags: bale out
Interview with Ronald Last
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; escaping; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; recruitment; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Peter Liddle
Interview with Peter Thompson
Interview with Louis Makens
Tags: 196 Squadron; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; evading; Fw 190; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Lysander; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Sealand; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Witchford; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Alfie Martin
Interview with James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; searchlight; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
Interview with Arthur Nicholson
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; RAF St Athan; RAF Usworth; sanitation; shot down; training
Interview with Geoff Packham
On his return, Geoff…
Tags: 550 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; B-17; bale out; bombing; civil defence; Dulag Luft; evading; Horsa; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Sutton Bridge; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 1; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window
Interview with Betty May Pearson
Interview with Carolyn Pritchard
Interview with Sidney James Richards
Interview with Hayden Philip Rose
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 Eddy Smythe. One
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 George Thomson. One
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); evading; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Lancaster; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mildenhall; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Wellington
Interview with George Thomson. Two
Interview with Ernest Townsend
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; fear; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; lynching; radar; sport; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Percival Trotman
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Flying Training School; forced landing; Initial Training Wing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Kenneth William Trueman
Tags: 640 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; crewing up; evading; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Intelligence Officer; lack of moral fibre; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Leconfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; Resistance; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Henry Wolfe Wagner. Two
Ernest Smith's pilot’s flying log book. One
Tags: 14 OTU; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; 30 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Flying Training School; Hampden; Magister; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upper Heyford; training; Wellington
Interview with John Martin
Tags: 14 OTU; 166 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Italian war memories
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; evading; fear; heirloom; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3; Wellington
Parachute jump
Tags: bale out