Browse Items (3663 total)
- Tags: Lancaster
Interview with Tom Walker
Interview with Tommy Knox
Interview with Tony Adams
Interview with Tony Coulson
Tags: 138 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crash; Lancaster; love and romance; RAF Tempsford; Stirling
Interview with Tony Gerard
Tags: 7 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bridlington; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Valley; RAF Weston-super-Mare; Stirling; training
Interview with Tony Snook
Tags: 115 Squadron; 28 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Beaufighter; bombing; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Andreas; RAF Langar; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Witchford; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Vernon Thomas Morgan
Interview with Vic Farmer
Interview with Victor Harding
Interview with Victor Stapley
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crewing up; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; mechanics engine; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); P-51; radar; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; Stirling; Sunderland; training
Interview with Vivian David Williams
Tags: Advanced Flying Unit; fitter engine; Flying Training School; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Hurricane; Lancaster; mechanics engine; military service conditions; RAF Calveley; RAF Cosford; RAF Grantham; RAF Hednesford; RAF Henlow; RAF Hixon; RAF Hooton Park; RAF Kemble; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF North Weald; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Watton; searchlight; training; York
Interview with Wal Goodwin
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; displaced person; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Haverfordwest; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Walter Morris
Tags: 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; home front; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Wilhelm Simonsohn
Interview with William Anderson
Tags: 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; recruitment; searchlight; training; York
Interview with William Arthur Coulton
Tags: 115 Squadron; 208 Squadron; 32 Squadron; dispersal; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Newmarket; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Witchford; service vehicle; Spitfire; tractor; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with William Bullock
Interview with William Cooke
Tells of his spell of guard duty on board a troop ship, and losing one of the people he was showing…
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bomb struck; crash; demobilisation; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; radar; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; training; Wellington
Interview with William Edwin Barnett
Interview with William Hough
Tags: 1656 HCU; 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Worksop; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with William Neilson
Interview with William Taylor
Introduction
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Skellingthorpe
Istres and Marseilles
Photo 3 is a postcard of the Marseilles Stock Exchange.
Photo 4 is F/O TC Walsh with Lancasters in the background.
Photo 5 is an airmen sitting on a wall by the sea. He is identified as F/Lt…