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- Tags: Operation Exodus (1945)
Interview with Arthur Nicholson
Interview with Sidney Lawrence Davis
Tags: 619 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Silverstone; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; sport; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Graham Allen
Tags: 106 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 262; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Spitfire; Stirling; training
Two newspaper cuttings
Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Halifax; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; Tirpitz; V-1
Maurice Kemp list of operations
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; P-51; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Denis Francis Cockbill
Flight Lieutenant FC Jenkins
Interview with George Rex Armstrong
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
Interview with Frederick Arthur Bowman
Interview with Leslie Blakemore
Good Show Roger Squared
Tags: 1 Group; 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Manston; wireless operator
Interview with Rosemary Dorricott
Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Interview with Peter Watson
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 300 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; fear; Fw 190; Gee; grief; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; radar; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wyton; training
Interview with Charles McNally
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; heavy conversion unit; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; physical training; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; sport; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Alexander Lamb. Two
Tags: 15 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crash; crewing up; ground crew; Lancaster; Lincoln; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Memories of 405 Pathfinder Squadron and the last flight of HOMEBY S/L John Roberts
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 Graveley; RAF hospital Nocton Hall; RAF Wratting Common; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Bettie Bain
Interview with Donald Raymond Harris
W G Didcote’s South African Air Force observer’s or air gunner’s log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 186 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Coningsby; RAF Manby; RAF Millom; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington