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- Tags: Lancaster
Interview with Ronald Davis
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); displaced person; faith; fitter airframe; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; RAF Halton; RAF Scampton; runway; training
Interview with Ronald Davis
Tags: 49 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; faith; fitter airframe; Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; RAF Scampton; RAF Winthorpe; superstition; training
Interview with Ronald Gard
Tags: 463 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; Lancaster; memorial; prisoner of war; RAF Barnham; RAF Bridlington; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald George Doble
Tags: 1653 HCU; 21 OTU; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; displaced person; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dalcross; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Yatesbury; Scarecrow; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Marlow
Tags: 14 OTU; 466 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Driffield; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Mather
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; Proctor; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; wireless operator
Interview with Ronald Needle
Interview with Ronald Rodgers
Interview with Rosemary Lapham
Interview with Roy Briggs
Tags: 30 OTU; 576 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); civil defence; Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Dominie; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Seighford; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; recruitment; Stirling; training; wireless operator
Interview with Roy Hill
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
Interview with Rupert Noye
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; civil defence; crewing up; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Home Guard; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; submarine; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Rusty Waughman. One
Tags: 101 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; coping mechanism; faith; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; superstition; target photograph; wireless operator
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 82 OTU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control tower; coping mechanism; crewing up; dispersal; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; forced landing; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Me 109; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Desborough; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; recruitment; sanitation; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Sam Thompson
He was…
Interview with Seymour Owen Scott
Tags: 170 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; military service conditions; pilot; RAF Hemswell; searchlight; training
Interview with Sidney Bunce
Tags: 115 Squadron; 195 Squadron; demobilisation; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; medical officer; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Kirkham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Sidney Knott
Tags: 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 582 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bombing; debriefing; fear; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Manby; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Wellington
Interview with Sidney Lawrence Davis
Tags: 619 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Silverstone; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; searchlight; sport; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Stan Instone
Tags: 1664 HCU; 419 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; strafing; the long march; training