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- Tags: bombing
Malcolm Staves Diary
Interview with Graham Allen
Tags: 106 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 262; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Spitfire; Stirling; training
Interview with John Taylor
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); C-47; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; physical training; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; recruitment; rivalry; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington
Leslie Manser's Diary
Tags: aircrew; bombing; entertainment; home front; pilot; training
Interview with Ettore Raffin
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; Pippo; round-up; strafing
Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant B)
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; fear; home front; Pippo; round-up; shelter; strafing
Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant A)
Tags: bombing; evacuation; faith; fear; home front; perception of bombing war; Pippo; round-up; shelter
Interview with Priscilla Henwood
Margaret Dixon's account of her early life and service in the Women's' Auxiliary Air Force
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Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; entertainment; evacuation; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF Hednesford; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Metheringham; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Flight Sergeant Raymond Keating
Tags: 156 Squadron; bombing; killed in action; Lancaster; Pathfinders; sport
Chemnitz
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
The Story of Flight Lieutenant John J Blair, DFC
John was born in 1919 to a poor…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 4 Group; 78 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; medical officer; mid-air collision; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Kinloss; RAF Oakington; RAF Pocklington; RAF Tangmere; RCAF Moncton; searchlight; sport; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Koblenz - Marshalling Yards
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Kastrop-Rauxel Syn Oil Plant
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Dortmund Syn Oil Plant
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Heinsberg Tactical - Siegfreid Line
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Homberg Syn Oil Plant
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Homberg Syn Oil Plant
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Oberhausen
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Merseberg - Leuna Oil Plant
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Duisberg Marshalling Yards
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Navigational Computation
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Siegen - Communications
Trier- Communications Tactical
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach
Trier - Tactical
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Waterbeach