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- Tags: ground crew
Interview with Thomas Fisher
Interview with Basil Goldstraw
Tags: 75 Squadron; Botha; ground crew; ground personnel; Ju 88; RAF Mepal; RAF Spilsby; Stirling; Tiger force
No 617 Squadron and the operation to breach the dams
Interview with Neil Harris
Tags: 50 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hudson; Lincoln; love and romance; Master Bomber; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Burn; RAF Halton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Rufforth; RAF Waddington; RCAF Rivers; Tiger force; training
Interview with George Hextell
Interview with Harry Hodgson
Interview with Robert Holman
Interview with Ronald Huntley
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
Interview with David Jackson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 95 Squadron; aircrew; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; Sunderland; training; Victoria Cross
Interview with Alan Jury
Interview with Alexander Lamb. Two
Tags: 14 OTU; 15 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crash; crewing up; ground crew; Lancaster; Lincoln; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Wellington
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 James Lamb
Sid Bunce with 115 Squadron ground crew
Sid Bunce's Service and Release Form
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel
Interview with William Joseph Longhurst
Interview with Reginald Lunn
Interview with George Mackie
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 214 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; memorial; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Cranfield; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Service History of Benny Goodman
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; fuelling; Grand Slam; ground crew; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Martinet; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cardington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Flying Stories by Paul Hilton
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'David Joseph's son Brian met Paul Hilton in the 1980's through work, and he was wearing a prisoner of war tie. In…
Tags: 35 Squadron; 58 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); dispersal; displaced person; Dulag Luft; fear; ground crew; Halifax; Ju 88; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Whitley
Ian Archer Wynn diary
Lancasters and aircrew
Bottom is the rear of an air-to air view of a Lancaster captioned 'Lancaster EM-A in which we flew on…