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- Tags: childhood in wartime
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 Helga Wynne
Interview with Sybil Green
Interview with Mary Stuart
Interview with Rosemary Lapham
Interview with Heather Hindley
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter
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 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 Kenneth Angus
Interview with Gavino Pala
Interview with Benito Colonna
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Hans-Walter Bendzko
Interview with Liliana Kucic Podda
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; shelter; target indicator
Interview with Luigi Cabrini
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; love and romance; Pippo; strafing
Interview with Marco Pederielli
Interview with a survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant C)
Interview with Carluccio Intropido
Interview with Celestino Chiesa
Interview with a survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant B)
A survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant A)
She remembers how she narrowly escaped an aircraft trying to…
Interview with Lidia Vendramin
Interview with Guido Toccacieli
Interview with Sandro Boiocchi
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; fear; home front; Pippo; Resistance; shot down
Interview with Annamaria De Manzano Vici
Interview with Mariagrazia Sinigo Petrina
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; shelter