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- Tags: fear
Letter from Kenneth Gill to his wife
Memories of WWII
Tags: 115 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; Dominie; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; promotion; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Ettore Raffin
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; Pippo; round-up; strafing
Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant B)
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; fear; home front; Pippo; round-up; shelter; strafing
Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant A)
Tags: bombing; evacuation; faith; fear; home front; perception of bombing war; Pippo; round-up; shelter
Interview with James Flowers
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; fear; final resting place; Fw 190; Ju 88; love and romance; Master Bomber; Me 109; Me 262; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); P-51; Pathfinders; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; recruitment; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with Laurie Woods
Interview with Jim Penny. One
Tags: 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); crewing up; fear; grief; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; Oxford; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Blyton; RAF Bourn; RAF Shawbury; RAF Sleap; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; searchlight; shot down; Stearman; target indicator; training; Whitley
Interview with Thomas Marchant
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; flight engineer; ground crew; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancastrian; Master Bomber; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Dishforth; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; training; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Arthur Emlyn Williams
Interview with Arthur Emlyn Williams
Tags: 14 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; crash; fear; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Operational Training Unit; RAF Dalcross; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Ray Worral
Interview with Robert William Maggs
Interview with Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Tom Coles
Tags: 158 Squadron; 4 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; grief; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Lissett; recruitment; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Irmgard Schulz
Interview with Alfred Marshall
Interview with Lillian Margret Bailey
Interview with Ernie Tillbrook
Flying Stories by Paul Hilton
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'David Joseph's son Brian met Paul Hilton in the 1980's through work, and he was wearing a prisoner of war tie. In…
Tags: 35 Squadron; 58 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); dispersal; displaced person; Dulag Luft; fear; ground crew; Halifax; Ju 88; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Whitley
Interview with Donald Briggs
Tags: 156 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Harvard; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Master Bomber; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Halton; RAF Upwood; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Interview with Mariagrazia Sinigo Petrina
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; shelter
Interview with Annamaria De Manzano Vici
Interview with Liliana Kucic Podda
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; shelter; target indicator