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- Tags: Defiant
Training as a flight engineer on Lancasters
Interview with Stephen Granville Bacon
Interview with Syd Cooper. One
Interview with Syd Cooper. Two
Interview with Mary Ellis
Interview with Ernest Frederick Gardiner
Interview with Rupert Noye
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crewing up; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Home Guard; Lancaster; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; submarine; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Luftwaffe and RAF Aircraft
Stephen Dawson's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; B-25; B-26; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Boston; Defiant; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Mosquito; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; training; Wellington
Charles Godfey's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 37 Squadron; 635 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Defiant; Dominie; evading; Hampden; Lancaster; Martinet; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Blyton; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Downham Market; RAF Graveley; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ingham; RAF Leconfield; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Newmarket; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF St Eval; RAF Sywell; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Warboys; RAF Westcott; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington
Interview with Jan Black. Two
Interview with Joseph Musgrove
Tags: 102 Squadron; 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; crewing up; Defiant; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; Halifax; mine laying; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Madley; RAF Shenington; RAF Topcliffe; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; wireless operator
Cartoon notebook
Tags: animal; Anson; arts and crafts; Beaufighter; Defiant; Do 18; Fw 190; ground personnel; Horsa; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Martinet; Me 163; medical officer; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Oxford; P-47; Spitfire; Stirling; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Die Kriegsflugzeuge der Feindmächte
Tags: B-17; B-24; B-25; Beaufighter; Blenheim; Boston; Catalina; Defiant; fuelling; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Hampden; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Mosquito; P-38; P-40; P-51; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Swordfish; Ventura; Walrus; Wellington; Whitley
William George Briley's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Interview with Ron Dawson
Tags: 429 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Defiant; evading; Halifax; Resistance; shot down; training; Whitley
Interview with Reg Dunbar
Interview with Steven Ellams
Interview with Reginald Lunn
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Defiant; Dominie; entertainment; fear; Gee; Lancaster; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Madley; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
H O Cannon’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 37 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Defiant; Lincoln; RAF Hemswell; RAF Upwood; Wellington
Ted Neale's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Defiant; Hudson; navigator; training; Wellington
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force