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- Tags: Oxford
Memoir by Arthur Hollis
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; 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; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Arthur Atkins
Interview with Ernest Cutts
Interview with David Leicester
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; superstition; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Lachie McBean
Interview with John McCredie
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
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
Air Training Corps Flight Log
Tags: Lysander; Oxford; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Charles Mears
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; ethnic or religious minorities; Gee; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military ethos; navigator; Oxford; pilot; propaganda; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF Methwold; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Woodbridge; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Bill Leckie.
Interview with George Dunn
Tags: 10 Squadron; 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; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Phillip Winter
Interview with Harry Inkpen
Tags: 162 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; FIDO; Horsa; Mosquito; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bourn; RAF South Cerney; submarine; superstition; training
Interview with Douglas Robinson
Tags: 158 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; forced landing; Gee; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; submarine; Sunderland; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Geoff Packham
Tags: 550 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; bale out; bombing; civil defence; Dulag Luft; evading; Horsa; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Stormy Down; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 1; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Laurence Larmer's Royal Australian Air Force flying log book
B Openshaw sight log book
Interview with Eric Reginald Barton
Interview with Herbert James Wylde
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; service vehicle; submarine; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Derek Jones
Arthur Hollis: flying instructors' school report
Tags: aircrew; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Westcott; training