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- Tags: 205 Group
To war in a Wimpy - the life and times of Flight Sergeant Ron Williams RAF
Chapter 1 - early life, enlistment and training.
Chapter 2 - operational training. Describes activities during training OTU including naming his crew and flying out to…
Tags: 150 Squadron; 205 Group; 21 OTU; 216 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; Boston; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; hangar; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Padgate; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wigtown; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Norman Powell service history
205 Group Royal Air Force Battle Honours
The memoir of Eric William Scott
Tags: 142 Squadron; 205 Group; 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; Flying Training School; Harvard; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Blida; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Kairouan; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Watchfield; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; Stearman; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
The Lens 1944 Christmas Number
Tags: 205 Group; aircrew; arts and crafts; entertainment; gremlin
Operations - Pardubice Oil Refinery
Tags: 205 Group; 37 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Wellington
Letter from Ted Neale
Oil's Well
Tags: 205 Group; B-24; bombing; Gee; Halifax; Ju 88; Pathfinders; sanitation; Wellington
Interview with Harry Hacker
Interview with William Horace Shaw
Interview with William George Briley
Tags: 205 Group; 40 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; mine laying; navigator; training; Wellington
An interesting war
Tags: 205 Group; 462 Squadron; 614 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; evacuation; fear; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); sanitation; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Arthur Spencer
Tags: 16 OTU; 205 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; ground crew; Master Bomber; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; searchlight; target indicator; training; Ventura; Wellington; Window
Interview with Bill Bailey
Tags: 205 Group; 31 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; crash; crewing up; forced landing; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; medical officer; memorial; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Aqir; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dalcross; recruitment; Resistance; training; Wellington
Interview with Geoff Golledge
Five aircrew in front of a Wellington
Tags: 205 Group; aircrew; Wellington
Interview with Jim Auton
Tags: 205 Group; animal; B-24; bombing; coping mechanism; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Amendola; RAF Ansty; RAF Benson; sanitation; superstition; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Warsaw airlift (4 August - 28 September 1944)