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- Tags: bale out
New Zealand aircrew captured by elements of the Todt Organisation
Tags: arts and crafts; bale out; forced labour
Spitfire shot down by Kriegsmarine anti-aircraft fire
Label reads “243”; signed by the author;…
The day I reviewed the German army
Caterpillar club letter to George Reid Williamson
Tags: bale out; Caterpillar Club
Interview with Francesco and Maria Gigliola Rapozzi
Interview with Wilhelm Simonsohn
44 Squadron and the Wesserling Raid 21/22 June 1944
More war memories. The RAF bombing raids on Revigny
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; dispersal; Dulag Luft; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); padre; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; sanitation; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; Window
Ron Hemsworth's aircrew
Tags: bale out; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 6
Interview with Ron Hemsworth
Tags: 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; fear; Halifax; military service conditions; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morpeth; RAF Swinderby; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6; superstition; Whitley
Letters to Derrick Allen from the Caterpillar Club
Tags: bale out; Caterpillar Club; RAF Waddington
467 Squadron RAAF Avro Lancaster sequence of landing
Tags: 467 Squadron; bale out; crash; Lancaster
The Pilgrimage of an English airman who in 1944 came down in the Spa region
Ron Carr's Bale-out
Interview with Bob Frost. One
Tags: 12 OTU; 150 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; bale out; bombing; civil defence; crash; crewing up; de Jongh, Andree (1916 - 2007); evading; faith; ground personnel; heirloom; Lancaster; military ethos; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Evanton; RAF Snaith; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with John and Vera Casey
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb dump; bombing; Caterpillar Club; home front; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Stirling; Tiger force; Wellington
The last flight of Lancaster DV396(B)
Tags: 467 Squadron; bale out; crash; Fw 190; Lancaster; shot down; superstition
Derrick Allen citation for Conspicuous Gallantry Medal
Accounts of actions leading to award of Conspicuous Gallantry medal and other congratulatory material
Interview with Langford William Green
Tags: 218 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; Lancaster; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Sandtoft; training
interview with Derrick Allen's family
Derrick Allen's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spanhoe; RAF St Athan; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington
Wallet, photograph and story
Tags: bale out; crash; heirloom; killed in action; Stirling