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- Tags: escaping
Interview with Len McNamara
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; escaping; evading; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Langar; RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Ringway; RAF Woolfox Lodge; recruitment; training; Whitley
Interview with John Cuthbert
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; escaping; evading; fear; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Metheringham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wainfleet; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Interview with Jack Cranston
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; escaping; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; shot down; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Royston Clarke and Diane Clarke
He joined Bomber Command after seeing the bombing of Coventry.
Robert tells about bailing out and being manhandled by the local inhabitants before…
Tags: animal; bale out; bombing; childhood in wartime; crash; escaping; evading; Lancaster; lynching; Resistance; shelter; shot down; Wellington
Escape and evasion warning against giving information document
Tags: 635 Squadron; escaping; evading
Interview with Pat Hickton
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-Semitism; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Lancaster; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Wellington
Interview with Stephen Granville Bacon
Interview with Jack Bell
Les Rutherford's prisoner of war diary
Interview with Ron Hemsworth
Tags: 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; fear; Halifax; military service conditions; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morpeth; RAF Swinderby; shot down; Stalag Luft 6; superstition; Whitley
F30 Would Be Escapees Recaptured. Stalag Luft 1. 4
Tags: escaping; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
B54 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
B53 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
B52 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
B51 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
B50 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
B49 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
B48 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
B47 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan 42
B46 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan. 42
B45 Funeral of Sgt. J. C. Shaw. Stalag Luft 1. Jan. 42
Tags: escaping; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1