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- Tags: entertainment
Hill Topics Vol. 1 No. 2 December 1943
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from officer of 4 Group
The Flying Gopher September 1942
The Flying Gopher January 1943
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; entertainment; gremlin; Harvard; love and romance; sport; training
The Woodpecker, February 1944
Tags: arts and crafts; entertainment; sport; training
B. O. N. magazine - July/August 1943
73rd Squadron Graduation Banquet & Dance
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; training; wireless operator
No 8 (B) Christmas Dinner Menu 1933
"On Active Service" with the British Expeditionary Force
Tags: entertainment
Letter from Ron Witty to his mother, father and siblings
Tags: entertainment; training
Letter from Ron Witty to his mother, father and siblings
Tags: entertainment; training
Letter from Ron Witty to his mother, father and siblings
Tags: entertainment; training
Letter from Ron Witty to his mother, father and siblings
Interview with Arthur Atkins
Interview with Clarence Keith Bruhn
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; entertainment; Lancaster; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; recruitment; shot down; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Interview with Steven Downes
Interview with Lachie McBean
Interview with John McCredie
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; Battle; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Joe Stemp
Tags: 578 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); C-47; coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; faith; fear; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; navigator; recruitment; rivalry; superstition
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Defiant; Dominie; entertainment; fear; Gee; Lancaster; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Madley; RAF Millom; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
The Woodpecker magazine - October 1943
Tags: arts and crafts; entertainment; ground personnel; padre; sport; training
RAF Gatwick Christmas 1944 Menu and Programme of Events
Tags: entertainment; mess
Alan McInnes memoir
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Tags: 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Fw 190; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); ground personnel; H2S; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Lichfield; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wyton; Red Cross; shot down; sport; Stalag 357; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; target indicator; the long march; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
William North's 1940 diary
Tags: bombing; entertainment; home front; Home Guard