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- Tags: Intelligence Officer
Details of attack on Cologne
Notes on RAF Foulsham
Tags: 192 Squadron; crash; Halifax; Intelligence Officer; Mosquito; RAF Foulsham; Window
Interview with David Leicester
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; searchlight; superstition; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Harry Hughes
Tags: 102 Squadron; 3 Group; 6 Group; 692 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Anson; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; faith; Fw 190; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); incendiary device; Intelligence Officer; Ju 88; Me 109; Me 110; Me 262; medical officer; meteorological officer; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); promotion; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Harwell; RAF Riccall; RAF Wombleton; RCAF Rivers; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Sidney Knott
Tags: 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 582 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bombing; fear; ground personnel; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Manby; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Wellington
Interview with George Dunn
Tags: 10 Squadron; 20 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); civil defence; crewing up; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Intelligence Officer; military ethos; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
An interesting war
Tags: 462 Squadron; 614 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; evacuation; fear; Gee; ground crew; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; sanitation; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington; Window
Was it all a Dream
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 4 Group; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Intelligence Officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Lysander; Master Bomber; medical officer; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bicester; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Brampton; RAF Cosford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kimbolton; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Paignton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; searchlight; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; Intelligence Officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melksham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mary Ward. Two
Tags: aircrew; animal; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; grief; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; heirloom; Intelligence Officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; military service conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Thomas James Page
Tags: 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF St Athan; sport; training; Window
Interview with Donald Fraser. Two
Interview with Kenneth William Trueman
Tags: 640 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; crewing up; evading; final resting place; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Intelligence Officer; lack of moral fibre; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Leconfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; Resistance; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; shot down; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Martin Arthur Catty
Tags: 3 Group; 514 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; entertainment; evacuation; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Manchester; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waterbeach; sanitation; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Bert Mason
Interview with Janet Hughes, One
WO Donald Keith Fraser
Tags: 1 Group; 101 Squadron; 1667 HCU; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing up; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; perimeter track; petrol bowser; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Catfoss; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; runway; searchlight; service vehicle; Tiger force; Tirpitz; tractor; training; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Ralph Wild
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hurricane; Intelligence Officer; love and romance; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Weald; Spitfire; training
Interview with Eric Parker
Tags: 12 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; displaced person; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lincoln; Master Bomber; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Marham; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Jack Jarmy
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 218 Squadron; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Intelligence Officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakley; RAF Shallufa; RAF Waterbeach; Shackleton; Stearman; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Ron Mayhill
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Westcott; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington
Four Bomber Command Intelligence Reports
Tags: bombing; Intelligence Officer
Loose on the wind
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 4 Group; 578 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control tower; crash; crewing up; Defiant; faith; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; In the event of my death letter; Intelligence Officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; Manchester; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); medical officer; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; observer; operations room; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
An account of the briefing for an operation to Essen
Tags: 100 Group; 3 Group; 4 Group; 51 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; briefing; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; incendiary device; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; meteorological officer; Oboe; Pathfinders; propaganda; RAF Snaith; reconnaissance photograph; target indicator; target photograph; Window
Interview with Douglas Reed
Tags: 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; ground crew; Halifax; Intelligence Officer; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Upwood; take-off crash; target indicator; training; Wellington