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- Tags: Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Postgram from 5 Group Headquarters to Officer Commanding 617 Squadron
Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group
Interview with Jean Smith
Interview with Herbert Tinning
Interview with Wal Goodwin
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; displaced person; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Brenzett; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Rita Brooks
Alice Omerod's record of Douglas Hudson's operations
Normandy landings
Interview with Bob Lasham
Interview with Charles Frederick Green
Tags: 429 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; H2S; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Padgate; superstition; training
Interview with Ronald Marlow
Tags: 466 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Driffield; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; superstition; training