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- Tags: RAF Syerston
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Interview with Kenneth Walter Prowse Symonds
Interview with Fred McCullough
Interview with Robert Whymark
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 149 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Hurricane; killed in action; Lancaster; missing in action; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Debden; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Manby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Syerston; RAF West Freugh; Wellington
Interview with Ernest James White
Tags: 44 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Botha; Cook’s tour; Lancaster; Lysander; memorial; military service conditions; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Graveley; RAF Morpeth; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; searchlight; Window
Interview with Archie Weir
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); faith; fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Betty Repton
Interview with Philip Peel
Interview with Ken Oatley
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); civil defence; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Sealand; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Mather
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; Proctor; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; wireless operator
Interview with David Jackson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 95 Squadron; aircrew; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; Sunderland; training; Victoria Cross
Interview with Robert Holman
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
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 Ken Fawcett
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Eddie Edmunds
Tags: 106 Squadron; 608 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; forced landing; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Mosquito; navigator; Oxford; pilot; RAF Downham Market; RAF Syerston; training; Wellington
Interview with Joseph Henry Cook
Tags: 630 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; fear; Fw 190; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 262; military ethos; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; propaganda; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Maurice Vivian Askew
Interview with Don Browning
Interview with Rex Alan Austin
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Scarecrow; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
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 Ray Worral
Interview with Arthur Emlyn Williams
Tags: 14 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; crash; fear; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Operational Training Unit; RAF Dalcross; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; training; Wellington