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Wellingtons Over the Target
Photo 2 is a Wellington landing at night.
Photo 3 is a vertical aerial photograph with two Wellingtons. No detail is visible on the ground due to cloud and anti-aircraft fire.
Photo 4 is a…
Chart of North West France
There is also a photograph of a pilot in a Wellington cockpit.
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; pilot; Wellington
Proposal for Mieczysław Stachiewicz to receive Virtuti Militari
Batiuszka Cywiński przy Wellingtonie
Item 2 is a photograph of a Wellington framed by the entrance to the hangar.
Item 3 is a photograph of Batiuszka Cywiński standing…
Interview with Douglas "Jim" James
Interview with John Tait
Tags: 35 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); entertainment; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Lancaster; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald
Tags: 14 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; decoy site; Fw 190; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Peter Swallow
Interview with Reg Payne. Two
Interview with Colin Lloyd
Interview with Robert William Maggs
Interview with Dorothy Lusby
Tags: bombing; entertainment; evacuation; home front; RAF Grimsby; shelter
Interview with Betty May Pearson
Interview with Coby Van Riel
Interview with Robin Wright
Interview with Pat Rumfitt
Interview with Pat Harrison
Conversation with Hamish Mahaddie
Hamish Mahaddie, the recruiter for the Pathfinder Force recalls the life of Ian Willoughby Bazalgette VC who plagued him weekly for the opportunity to join the Pathfinders. He had been posted…
Interview with David Rayner Fox
Interview with Ivon Warmington
Letter to Dennis Raettig from his mother
Tags: bombing; evacuation
Letter to Dennis Raettig from his mother
Tags: animal; bombing; home front
Sortie navigation log
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; navigator