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Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
He starts by describing crewing up at Silverstone. His opinion of the Stirling was that it was awful on the ground and in the air.
His first operation was a second 'dickie' (an observer)…
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; He 111; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; mess; navigator; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Focke-Wulf TA 152 and TA 154
Photo 2 and 3 are of the TA 154 seen from the port then starboard sides.
Tags: Fw 190
Focke-Wulf 190
A row of Focke-Wulf 191 A3s
A front side starboard view of the front half of a Focke-Wulf 191.
Tags: Fw 190
Focke-Wulf 187
Photo 2 is a Focke-Wulf 187 flying
Photo 3 is Focke-Wulf 187 D-ORHP on the ground
Photo 4 is a Focke-Wulf 190 flying side view from slightly under.
Photo 5 is a Focke-Wulf 190 flying port side…
Tags: Fw 190
The Kriegie June 2001
Tags: 10 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; B-24; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; escaping; flight engineer; Fw 190; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; medical officer; memorial; mess; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; operational training unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Jurby; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lyneham; RAF Melbourne; RAF St Athan; RAF Uxbridge; Red Cross; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
The Kriegie November 2011
Tags: 103 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 220 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; Boston; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; escaping; Fw 190; Hudson; Lancaster; memorial; mess; navigator; P-51; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Attlebridge; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Leeming; RAF Waddington; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
The Kriegie June 1995
Tags: 106 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Beaufighter; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; escaping; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; George Cross; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; memorial; Military Cross; prisoner of war; RAF Alconbury; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Honington; Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; the long march; Victoria Cross; wireless operator
Book 2, Commencing my Flying Training and my Adventures up till the time of Leaving England
Procedures and Life of an Air Gunner with a Lancaster Squadron
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; meteorological officer; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Tirpitz; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; operational training unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Spitfire; Wellington; Window
Interview with James Stanley Wilson
Interview with John Alan Ottewell
Interview with James Mulhall. Two.
Interview with Charles Mears
Interview with Louis Makens
Tags: 196 Squadron; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; evading; Fw 190; Halifax; mine laying; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Witchford; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Peter Liddle
Jack Warner's account of first ten operations
Edward Allan McDonald's wartime memories
The second part describes the 'Skilling Follies', an aircrew who completed 25 operations from RAF Skellingthorpe.
The third part describes an…
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald. Two
Interview with Stanley Bradford
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
Interview with Bert Turner
Tags: 196 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; ethnic or religious minorities; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; heavy conversion unit; Me 262; medical officer; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Tuddenham; shot down; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training