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- Tags: 617 Squadron
Interview with Jamie Barr
Tags: 12 OTU; 1661 HCU; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington
Interview with John 'Snogger' Watkins
Tags: 205 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; Catalina; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; prisoner of war; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cardington; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; training; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with John Bell
Interview with John James Smith
Interview with John Langston
Interview with John Richard Bell
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Grand Slam; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Tallboy; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Johnny Johnson. One
Interview with Johnny Johnson. Two
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; operations room; RAF Scampton; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Johnny Johnson.Three
Interview with Ken Hayton
Interview with Ken Oatley
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); civil defence; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Sealand; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Kenneth Cook
Tags: 1 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Botha; crewing up; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Kenneth George McVicar
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Lancaster; Stirling; Tallboy; training
Interview with Kenneth Trent
Tags: 576 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 625 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; FIDO; Grand Slam; Halifax; Lancaster; military discipline; Operation Dodge (1945); Oxford; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Woodhall Spa; recruitment; sanitation; take-off crash; Tallboy; training; Wellington
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 Mary Stopes-Roe
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bouncing bomb; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); childhood in wartime; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Grand Slam; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Tallboy; Tirpitz; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
Interview with Maureen and Sidney Stevens
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; control tower; crewing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; RAF Wigsley; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mervyn Jones
Tags: 106 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Swinderby; RAF Yatesbury; searchlight; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Murray Valentine
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. One
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. Three
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. Two
Interview with Reg Woolgar
Tags: 10 OTU; 100 Group; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; ditching; entertainment; fear; FIDO; final resting place; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; Hampden; killed in action; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Foulsham; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; searchlight; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Richard William Lambert
Tags: 101 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; entertainment; flight engineer; ground crew; Initial Training Wing; pilot; RAF Cosford; RAF Credenhill; RAF Hednesford; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Lindholme; RAF Locking; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Ternhill; RAF Thorney Island; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Robert Woodhouse
Tags: 14 OTU; 207 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Evanton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Spilsby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; runway; submarine; Tiger force; training; wireless operator / air gunner