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- Tags: Home Guard
Interview with Ken Fawcett
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Robert Barnes. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Home Guard; Lancaster; memorial; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Torquay; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Maurice Snowball
Interview with Eric Taylor
Interview with Jeff Gray
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); civil defence; crewing up; Halifax; Home Guard; Lancaster; memorial; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Scarecrow; searchlight; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Kenneth Edgar Neve
Tags: ground personnel; Home Guard; Swordfish; Walrus
Interview with Jan Albone
Their farm was close to RAF Kirton in Lindsey which was used as a rest home for men from the Battle of Britain. They worked on…
Interview with Dennis Kirk. Two
Interview with Dennis Kirk. One
Interview with Doug Packman
Interview with Richard Hollis
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 BFTS; 50 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; civil defence; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; searchlight; training; Wellington
Interview with William Edwin Barnett
Interview with James Burdin
Interview with Frances Anne Cooper
Interview with John Foster Thorp
Tags: 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; crewing up; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Brown Franklin
Tags: 109 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; crash; demobilisation; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Home Guard; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Marham; RAF Wyton; Spitfire
Interview with Jill Saunders
Interview with Richard Harrison
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Harry Winter
Tags: 1659 HCU; 23 OTU; 427 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); civil defence; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Leeming; RAF Pershore; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; target indicator; the long march; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with George Dunn
Tags: 10 Squadron; 20 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); civil defence; crewing up; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; military ethos; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Frank Gerald Bassett
Memoir by Arthur Hollis
Tags: 5 BFTS; 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; British Flying Training School Program; civil defence; Distinguished Flying Cross; Harvard; Home Guard; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Oxford; pilot; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Turweston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Westcott; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Wellington