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- Tags: 463 Squadron
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 Frank Mottershead
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Wal Goodwin
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; displaced person; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Brenzett; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Hugh Rogers
Interview with Eric Evans
Tags: 463 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 110; military service conditions; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Padgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
The Exploits of Warrant Officer Arthur Pritchard
Tags: 463 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); crash; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
Interview with Elizabeth Eady
Interview with Margaret Hourigan
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operations room; perimeter track; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; runway; service vehicle; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Harry Algar
Tags: 149 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carnaby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Shackleton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Horace Burchett
Posted to 463 Squadron at Waddington, still with the…
Interview with Ronald Gard
Details of tour
Tonsberg
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; navigator; Window
Walter John Smith’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Lindholme; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training
M R Barry air gunner Logbook
Keith Bruhn's flying log book for observers, air gunners and wireless operators
Clarence Keith Bruhn’s flying log book for observers, air gunners and wireless operators
Ronald Gard’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Walter Goodwin’s pilots flying log book
Frank Mottershead’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Hampden; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; operational training unit; RAF Lichfield; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Bob Leedham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 86 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Halton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF St Athan; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wratting Common; Scharnhorst; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; training; Window