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- Tags: 617 Squadron
- Type is exactly "Sound"
Interview with Alma Leedham
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; animal; bomb dump; bomb trolley; bombing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; hangar; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; service vehicle; tractor; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. One
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. Two
Interview with Ralph Alfrado Ottey. Three
Interview with Horace Robertson
Interview with Richard William Lambert
Tags: 101 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; entertainment; flight engineer; ground crew; Initial Training Wing; pilot; RAF Cosford; RAF Credenhill; RAF Hednesford; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Lindholme; RAF Locking; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Ternhill; RAF Thorney Island; Tiger Moth; training
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
Interview with Ken Hayton
Interview with Edward Cayhill
Interview with Colin Cole
Interview with John Bell
Interview with James Flowers
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; fear; final resting place; Fw 190; Ju 88; love and romance; Master Bomber; Me 109; Me 262; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); P-51; Pathfinders; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; recruitment; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with Arthur Poore
Interview with Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Colin Cole
Interview with John James Smith
Interview with Kenneth George McVicar
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Lancaster; Stirling; Tallboy; training
Interview with Kenneth Cook
Tags: 1 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Botha; crewing up; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Syd Grimes
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Interview with John 'Snogger' Watkins
Tags: 205 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; Catalina; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; prisoner of war; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cardington; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; training; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Cyril Gosling
Tags: 49 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 617 Squadron; animal; bomb trolley; civil defence; crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Home Guard; Lancaster; Manchester; RAF Kirkham; RAF Scampton; service vehicle; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Ronald Davis
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); displaced person; faith; fitter airframe; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; RAF Halton; RAF Scampton; runway; training