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- Tags: childhood in wartime
Interview with Liliana Kucic Podda
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; shelter; target indicator
Interview with Hans-Walter Bendzko
Interview with Benito Colonna
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Gavino Pala
Interview with Kenneth Angus
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 Roy Eric Davidson
He left school at the age of 15 and went to work for Lincoln City Council in the Pension department and was called up for National Service in 1951, doing basic training at RAF…
Interview with Heather Hindley
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter
Interview with Rosemary Lapham
Interview with Mary Stuart
Interview with Sybil Green
Interview with Helga Wynne
Interview with Stuart Stephenson MBE
In the early 1970s the Lancaster PA474 was flown to RAF Waddington from RAF Henlow ostensibly to be a gate guardian. In 1973 the Lincolnshire Echo announced that it was to…
Tags: Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); childhood in wartime; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; perception of bombing war; petrol bowser; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Coltishall; RAF Coningsby; RAF Waddington; service vehicle; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Roy Monk
Interview with Ken and Diana Odell
Interview with Thomas Peter Payne. One
Interview with Barry Smith
In 1948, Barry was…