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- Tags: RAF Bruntingthorpe
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Interview with Dougie Marsh
Part 1.
Doug Marsh was the son of a Royal Navy officer and moved around quite a bit as a child between Kent and Lincolnshire. When his father retired from the Navy his parents bought a fish and chip shop in Grimsby but…
Interview with Peter Zolty
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Pat Rumfitt
Interview with Ted Frost
Tags: 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Hendon; RAF Oakington; RAF Syerston; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington
Interview with Bert Mason
Interview with Harry Algar
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carnaby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Shackleton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Eric Hookings
Interview with Bill Spence
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; fear; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RCAF Bowden; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ken Johnson. Two
Interview with Reg Freeth
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 Don Southwell
Tags: 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
Interview with Bob Porteous
Tags: 622 Squadron; aircrew; Cook’s tour; entertainment; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Mildenhall; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with George Eric Cromarty
Tags: 29 OTU; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); fear; final resting place; fuelling; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dalcross; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tangmere; sanitation; Stirling; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Interview with John and Vera Casey
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb dump; bombing; Caterpillar Club; home front; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Stirling; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with Cyril Abbotts
Tags: 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; physical training; pilot; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carlisle; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Gamston; RAF Heaton Park; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; recruitment; sanitation; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator