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- Tags: Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
Interview with Bill Thomas
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; observer; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Bicester; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; target photograph; training; Wellington
Interview with Charles and Margaret Ward
Interview with Desmond Hawkins
Interview with Fred Crawley DFC.
Tags: 139 Squadron; 158 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; Gee; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); medical officer; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Blyton; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; superstition; target photograph; training
Interview with Fred Young
Tags: 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Lancaster; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Melksham; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling
Interview with James Thomas Bateman.
Interview with John Tait
Tags: 35 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); entertainment; Lancaster; military living conditions; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Johnny Johnson.Three
Interview with Les Rutherford. One
Interview with Mark Johnson
Interview with Muriel Stoves
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); faith; home front; pilot
Interview with Peter Bellingham
Interview with Priscilla Henwood
Interview with Ronald Davis
Interview with Ronald Davis
Interview with Stanley Ernest Jeffrey
Interview with Thomas Charles Arthur Long
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; demobilisation; Home Guard; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; propaganda; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Mepal; recruitment; training
Interview with Tom Coles
Tags: 158 Squadron; 4 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; demobilisation; fear; grief; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Lissett; recruitment; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Jim Tyrie's Wartime Log. Two
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
He gives a vivid description of dinghy drill, which was very funny to watch, but got on well with his own swimming and went on to Girvan where he describes what they did on…