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- Tags: evading
Interview with Ron Dawson
Tags: 429 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Defiant; evading; Halifax; Resistance; shot down; training; Whitley
Interview with Bruce Cunningham
Tags: 11 OTU; 514 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Dulag Luft; evading; fear; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; memorial; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Westcott; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Harrison Stanley Cammish
Halifax E Easy
Top, Halifax bomber, ladder present against port wing at least two ground crew present.
Upper-mid-left photograph,…
Tags: aircrew; evading; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; nose art
Evaded Capture in Denmark and letter and telegram to Roy Maddock-Lyon's parents advising him he was safe
Item 2 is a letter from the Air Ministry advising his parents that he is safe in Sweden. It is captioned 'RAF Letter…
Tags: 10 Squadron; bale out; evading; Halifax; RAF Melbourne; shot down
Report on crash of aircraft of 10 Squadron in Denmark on the night of 14th/15th February 1945, and subsequent escape of certain members of the crew to Sweden
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; crash; evading; flight engineer; Resistance; shot down
Roy Maddock-Lyon's Danish Identity Card and a map of Blockade Runners Flight Path
Item 2 is a sketch map of Scandanavia and Great Britain with four routes described as 'Blockade Runners'. Captioned…
Tags: evading; Resistance
Dr Syrach Larsen, Peter Bredsdorff and S/W Carl of Nesko
Photograph 2 is a street scene with a curved road, lamp posts and trees, captioned 'The road outside Dr Larsen's…
Tags: evading; Resistance
Johannes Helms and family, his house and Tollosse Railway Station
Photograph 2 is a house, trees, fields and a telegraph pole captioned…
Tags: evading
John Grayshan's body and the Sorensen's farmhouse
Photograph 2 is a close up of Johnny, captioned 'Johnny'.
Photograph 3…
Tags: aircrew; crash; evading; killed in action; pilot
Map of Holbaek and letter to Roy Maddock-Lyon's father reporting him missing
Item 2 is a letter to Roy Maddock-Lyon's father confirming that his son is missing.…
Roy Maddock-Lyon's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 1665 HCU; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; Cook’s tour; evading; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; mine laying; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Carnaby; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; shot down; training
Zones of France
Tags: evading
Interview with David Berrie
Interview with Max Barry
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; evading; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Waddington; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
The responsibilities of a prisoner of war
Tags: evading; prisoner of war
France, north Spain, part of Italy and Switzerland
Tags: evading
Interview with Bert Turner
Tags: 1657 HCU; 196 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Me 262; medical officer; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF Keevil; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Tuddenham; shot down; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Interview with Arthur Sidney Woolf
Tags: 630 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; Dominie; evading; fear; final resting place; Guinea Pig Club; Lancaster; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; Wellington; wireless operator