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- Tags: RAF Compton Bassett
- Type is exactly "Text. Memoir"
Sparks in the air - Jack Smith's wartime story
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 189 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bramcote; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Milltown; RAF Padgate; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Scarecrow; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Sparks in the air - Jack Smith's wartime story
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 189 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military living conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bramcote; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Milltown; RAF Padgate; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Peter Field - a memoir
Memoir notes - Bawtry and Grimsby
One WAAF's war
Tags: 100 Squadron; 214 Squadron; B-17; B-24; entertainment; ground personnel; Lancaster; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Bawtry; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Cranwell; RAF Grimsby; RAF Innsworth; RAF Oulton; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Swannington; sanitation; Stirling; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force