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- Tags: Nissen hut
Ein Shemer 1946
Tags: 32 Squadron; Nissen hut; service vehicle; sport
Ein Shemer 1946
Tags: animal; ground personnel; Nissen hut
Five airmen in front of a hut
Tags: ground personnel; Nissen hut; RAF Waddington
Group of airmen in front of a Nissen hut
Tags: ground personnel; Nissen hut
Group of armourers in front of a Nissen hut
Tags: ground personnel; Nissen hut
Airmen and women at a party
Group portrait
Tags: Nissen hut
WO Donald Keith Fraser
Tags: 1 Group; 101 Squadron; 1667 HCU; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing up; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; perimeter track; petrol bowser; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Catfoss; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; runway; searchlight; service vehicle; Tiger force; Tirpitz; tractor; training; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Donald Fraser. Two
20 trainee airmen
On the reverse 19 airmen have signed their names, some including addresses.
Tags: aircrew; Nissen hut; training
Interview with Margaret Helen Day
Interview with Lawrence Henry di Placito. One
Interview with Harry Hacker
Tags: 40 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Nissen hut; Red Cross; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Harry Harris
Tags: 105 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control caravan; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; Me 262; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; promotion; RAF Downham Market; RAF Elsham Wolds; searchlight; service vehicle; submarine; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; searchlight; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
Interview with Sam Price
Tags: 195 Squadron; 35 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; C-47; crewing up; faith; flight engineer; Gee; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Colerne; RAF Graveley; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Betty Repton
Royal Air Force Personnel
Tags: 192 Squadron; aircrew; ground personnel; Nissen hut; P-38; pilot; RAF Foulsham
Groups of Royal Air Force personnel
Tags: 192 Squadron; aircrew; Nissen hut; pilot
Groups of personnel
Tags: aircrew; animal; ground personnel; Nissen hut
Three airmen standing in front of a Nissen hut
Tags: 192 Squadron; aircrew; Nissen hut; observer; pilot
Corporal Everton and Leading Aircraftsman Edwards
Six chapters of wartime memories
'Based at Burn' Introduction by Jim Allen
One More Chalked Up
A Trip to Remember
Sabotage on 578 Squadron at Burn by Joe Dudley
Memories of 578 Squadron at Burn 1944 by Joe…
Tags: 4 Group; 578 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); faith; fear; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Burn; RAF Farnborough; RAF Woodbridge; submarine; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; wireless operator