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- Tags: observer
Half a Life, Half Remembered
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 2 Group; 3 Group; 311 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 7 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harrow; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; incendiary device; Lancaster; love and romance; Magister; Manchester; Me 109; Me 110; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; observer; Operational Training Unit; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; radar; RAF Benson; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Catterick; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Debden; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Grantham; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Honington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manston; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF Sealand; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; RAF Warmwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Halifax Mk 2 with aircrew and ground crew
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; observer; pilot
Handley Page Heyford
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; observer; training
Harry Redgrave's Funeral
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; observer
Henry Pollock with 20 Men and One Woman
Tags: aircrew; observer; pilot; RAF Shawbury
Henry William Amner Collett's diary
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; observer
Homer Lawson and three airmen
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; flight engineer; observer; pilot
Homer Lawson DFC
Photo 1 is a head and shoulders image of Homer Lawson in khaki, wearing an observer's brevet. It is annotated 'With all my Fondest Love Harold xxx'.
Photo 2 is a group of ten trainees arranged in two rows.
Photo 3…
In front of a pyramid
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; observer; pilot
Interview with Alan George Buxton
Alan was posted to Bradfield Park for training and…
Tags: 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Wigtown; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; submarine; superstition; Tallboy; training; Wellington
Interview with Alan Payne
Tags: 630 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 109; military living conditions; mine laying; Nissen hut; observer; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Torquay; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; Scarecrow; superstition; target photograph; training; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Alfie Martin
Interview with Archie Weir
Interview with Bill Moore. One
Tags: 138 Squadron; 161 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; Catalina; flight engineer; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; navigator; observer; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; RAF Benson; RAF Desborough; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tuddenham; reconnaissance photograph; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Interview with Bill Moore. Two
Tags: 138 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; displaced person; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; observer; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Benson; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tuddenham; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Interview with Bill Thomas
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; observer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Bicester; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Sywell; Schräge Musik; target photograph; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Bob Smith
Tags: 15 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Gee; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mildenhall; RAF West Freugh; recruitment; searchlight; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Douglas Frank Newham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Botha; C-47; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Kirmington; RAF Melbourne; RAF Warboys; rivalry; Schräge Musik; training; Wellington; Whitley; York
Interview with Edward Cayhill
Interview with Eric Coling
Interview with Ernest Davenport
Interview with Ernest Truman
Interview with Frank Leatherdale
Tags: 115 Squadron; 220 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; B-29; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lincoln; Master Bomber; navigator; observer; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Waddington; RAF Witchford; searchlight; training
Interview with George Royall
Tags: 166 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; entertainment; fear; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; observer; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Kirmington; searchlight; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force