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- Tags: RAF Skellingthorpe
Interview with Frank Mouritz
Interview with Frank Stanney
Interview with George Crooks
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Gordon Catling
Interview with Graham Allen
Tags: 106 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 262; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Spitfire; Stirling; training
Interview with Harrison Stanley Cammish
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 Jamie (Jim) Barr
Tags: 12 OTU; 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 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 Colerne; RAF Gatow; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wyton; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with Jeff Gray
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); civil defence; crewing up; Halifax; Home Guard; Lancaster; memorial; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Scarecrow; searchlight; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
Tags: 29 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crash; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Morton Hall; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with John and Vera Casey
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb dump; bombing; Caterpillar Club; home front; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Stirling; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with John Firth
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; prisoner of war; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with John Harrison
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1660 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Dulag Luft; fear; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; lynching; Operation Exodus (1945); prisoner of war; RAF Dalcross; RAF Metheringham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; training; Typhoon
Interview with John Tait
Tags: 35 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); entertainment; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Lancaster; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with John Taylor
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); C-47; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; physical training; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; recruitment; rivalry; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Keith Toule
Interview with Ken Johnson. One
He had a spell at the Operational Training Unit,…
Interview with Ken Johnson. Two
Interview with Kenneth Shelton Green
He trained as an engineer after he was unable to fly due to eye…
Interview with Les Rutherford
Interview with Les Rutherford. One
Interview with Les Rutherford. Three
Interview with Lesley Joseph Loosemoore
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Grand Slam; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; service vehicle; Stirling; Tallboy; training; Wellington
Interview with Margaret Hourigan
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operations room; perimeter track; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; runway; service vehicle; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force