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- Tags: searchlight
Greetings 1941 from Jim
Tags: arts and crafts; bombing; searchlight; Whitley
Bringing a damaged bomber back from Wilhelmshaven
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; propaganda; searchlight
Stephen Dawson's memoir notebook
Interview with Jack Robson
Tags: civil defence; home front; Home Guard; radar; RAF Hucknall; searchlight; training; Window
Interview with Frank Simpson
Interview with Ken Beard
Interview with Albert Smith
Tags: 170 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); entertainment; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military discipline; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF St Athan; searchlight; training
The lucky crew
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; military living conditions; mine laying; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
Ted Neales' memoir
Interview with Geoffrey Robinson
Tags: 626 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; military ethos; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Wickenby; searchlight; Tiger force
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-Semitism; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Lancaster; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Wellington
Interview with Harry Irons. Two
Tags: 158 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Martinet; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Driffield; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lissett; RAF Waddington; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; strafing; superstition; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Jan Black. One
Tags: 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-Semitism; crash; demobilisation; fear; final resting place; Guinea Pig Club; Holocaust; killed in action; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Andover; RAF Bramcote; RAF Cosford; searchlight; training; Warsaw airlift (4 August - 28 September 1944); Wellington
Memoirs of Flt/Sgt William Brookes, 78 Squadron, RAF Breighton
Tags: 78 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; fear; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Breighton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Padgate; recruitment; searchlight; superstition; training; wireless operator / air gunner
World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington; Window
The Bombers
Tags: arts and crafts; bombing; propaganda; searchlight; Whitley
Interview with Christoph Wagner Brausewetter
Interview with Margherita Franco
Interview with Renato Maldarelli
Day raid on Danzig. U-boat yards bombed. 1,700 miles through storms
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Lancaster; searchlight; submarine