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- Tags: RAF East Kirkby
- Type is exactly "Sound"
Interview with Lindsay Hibbard
Tags: 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Keith Ganney
Tags: 17 OTU; 57 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; entertainment; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; love and romance; Me 109; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Penrhos; RAF Silverstone; Tiger Moth; training
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 Mike Chatterton
Interview with Ray Charlton
Interview with David Brewster
Interview with Harry Parkins. Two
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; fear; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Kirkby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; searchlight; Stirling; superstition; training
Interview with Harry Parkins. One
Interview with Fred Young
Tags: 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Lancaster; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Melksham; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling
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