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- Tags: P-51
Interview with James Flowers
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; fear; final resting place; Fw 190; Ju 88; love and romance; Master Bomber; Me 109; Me 262; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); P-51; Pathfinders; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; recruitment; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with Cyril Abbotts
Tags: 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; physical training; pilot; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carlisle; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Gamston; RAF Heaton Park; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; recruitment; sanitation; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Les Rutherford's prisoner of war diary
Escape Photo
Bombing operations early 1945
Interview with Mary Ellis
F/Bomb Depot at St. Leu d'Esserent
RAF Hartford Bridge
Photograph 3 is the port side of a Boston 'D' with invasion…
Bomb aimers briefing 26 December 1944 - St Vith
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Master Bomber; Oboe; P-51; Spitfire; target indicator
Bomb aimers briefing 15 August 1944 - Gilze Rijen airfield
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
Denis Clyde-Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 1654 HCU; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; B-26; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Lysander; Manchester; mine laying; Mosquito; P-51; pilot; Proctor; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Honington; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Spitfire; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; Wellington; York
Interview with Ernie Patterson. One
He joined the Royal Air Force at the age of 19 in 1941, but whilst he was waiting to be called up, he was…
Tags: 635 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Catalina; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Dominie; fear; FIDO; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Downham Market; RAF Millom; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; superstition; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Interview with Hugh Parry. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 3 Group; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; guard room; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Me 163; military ethos; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; perception of bombing war; physical training; RAF Bridlington; RAF Mepal; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silloth; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Westcott; RAF Woolfox Lodge; reconnaissance photograph; Spitfire; training; Wellington
Note on loss of Hauptman Manfred Murer
Tags: killed in action; P-51; shot down
Die Kriegsflugzeuge der Feindmächte
Tags: B-17; B-24; B-25; Beaufighter; Blenheim; Boston; Catalina; Defiant; fuelling; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Hampden; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Mosquito; P-38; P-40; P-51; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Swordfish; Ventura; Walrus; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with John Benjamin Beeching
Tags: 100 Group; 169 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Beaufighter; bombing; Gee; Mosquito; Oxford; P-51; pilot; radar; RAF Twinwood Farm; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with William Joseph Longhurst
Interview with Leslie Grantham Lunn
Interview with Ray Parke. One
Tags: 218 Squadron; African heritage; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); displaced person; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; P-51; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Methwold; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Victor Stapley
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crewing up; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mechanics engine; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); P-51; radar; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; Stirling; Sunderland; training
Interview with John Henry Thomas
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; Fw 190; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Mosquito; P-47; P-51; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington