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- Tags: Lancaster finishing school
44 Squadron and the Wesserling Raid 21/22 June 1944
Sparks in the air - Jack Smith's wartime story
Tags: 189 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military living conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Bramcote; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Milltown; RAF Padgate; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Sparks in the air - Jack Smith's wartime story
Tags: 189 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; love and romance; military living conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Bramcote; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Milltown; RAF Padgate; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Arthur Atkins
Interview with Allan Joseph Couper
Interview with Lesley Joseph Loosemoore
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Grand Slam; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 262; military service conditions; operational training unit; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; service vehicle; Stirling; Tallboy; training; Wellington
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
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; ground personnel; He 111; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; 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; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Stuart Michael Heaton
Interview with Eric Varney
Interview with Bill Spence
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; ethnic or religious minorities; fear; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bowden; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Derek Carington Evans
Tags: 625 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military discipline; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
An interesting war
Tags: 462 Squadron; 614 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; evacuation; fear; Gee; ground crew; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; sanitation; superstition; training; Wellington; Window
Flight engineers notes for Lancaster
Service History of Benny Goodman
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fuelling; Grand Slam; ground crew; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Martinet; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); operational training unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cardington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Was it all a Dream
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Lysander; Master Bomber; medical officer; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; operational training unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bicester; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Cosford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kimbolton; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Bill Thomas memoir
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; ground personnel; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mine laying; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Wigtown; training; Wellington
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
Interview with Eric William Harrison
Tags: 195 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hullavington; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Locking; RAF Manby; RAF St Athan; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training
Interview with Bill Thomas
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aerial photograph; 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 Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Basil Ambrose
Tags: 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training
Interview with John Firth
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; prisoner of war; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; training
Interview with Jack Hayley
Tags: 170 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Dominie; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; love and romance; Magister; Meteor; military living conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Estevan; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Madley; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Benny Goodman. Two
Tags: 51 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Grand Slam; Halifax; Harvard; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Magister; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); perimeter track; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Leconfield; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; submarine; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Interview with John Philip Lambourn
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military ethos; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; recruitment; service vehicle; Stirling; target indicator; training