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- Tags: crewing up
Interview with Lawrence Penn
Interview with Donald Solin
Interview with Peter Watson
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 300 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; fear; Fw 190; Gee; grief; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; radar; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wyton; searchlight; training
JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RCAF Rivers; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
My Time in the Royal Air Force 1942-1955
Tags: 11 OTU; 1668 HCU; 207 Squadron; 3 Group; 514 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cornell; crewing up; Dominie; flight engineer; Flying Training School; hangar; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bottesford; RAF Greenock; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marham; RAF Methwold; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Spilsby; RAF Sywell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Westcott; recruitment; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Jim Tease DFC
Tags: 24 OTU; 420 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Dishforth; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Tholthorpe; target indicator; training; wireless operator
Interview with Harvey Hayward Bawden
Tags: 150 Squadron; 153 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; mechanics engine; memorial; nose art; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; Wellington
Interview with Don Browning
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
Interview with Bill Macrae
Interview with Frederick Arthur Bowman
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
An account of John Joyner's time in the RAF
Post war his squadron took part in the repatriation of Army personnel from Italy and his unit was in India at around the time…
Interview with George Rex Armstrong
Interview with Henry Wolfe Wagner. One
Interview with Thomas Carroll
Tags: 100 Squadron; 626 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 109; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); promotion; RAF Grimsby; RAF Lindholme; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; searchlight; superstition; training
Interview with Ron Dawson
Tags: 429 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Defiant; evading; Halifax; Resistance; shot down; training; Whitley
Interview with John Holtham
Interview with James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; searchlight; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
Keith Campbell's prisoner of war diary
Letter from Dec Dexter to Phyllis Dexter
Tags: aircrew; crewing up; pilot; RAF Hixon; training
Keith Ganney's After Lunch Speech
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
The Surprising Details of a Few Years of World War 2 1939-1945
Tags: 218 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Desborough; RAF Shepherds Grove; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator