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- Tags: RAF Binbrook
Interview with Colin Fraser
Tags: 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crash; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Fairoaks; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF West Freugh; searchlight; shot down; superstition; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Darwin Evans
Interview with Dave Fellowes
Tags: 1656 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 262; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; taxiway; training; Wellington
Interview with David Fellowes. Two
Tags: 1656 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Finningley; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hixon; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Douglas "Jim" James
Interview with Ernest Truman
Interview with F N Larard
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; control tower; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mess; perception of bombing war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Dalcross; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Frederick James Bark
Interview with Gerard Norwood
Interview with Glenn Atkins
Tags: 44 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-29; Lincoln; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Scampton
Interview with Harold Kirby. One
Tags: 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; crash; crewing up; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mechanics airframe; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; York
Interview with Harold Kirby. Two
Tags: 156 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; military ethos; Pathfinders; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Waddington; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window
Interview with Jeff Mackay
Interview with John Cooper
Interview with John Foster Thorp
Tags: 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; crewing up; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Leslie Robert Pearson
Interview with Max Spence
Interview with Pauline Ferdinando
Interview with Percival Trotman
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Flying Training School; forced landing; Initial Training Wing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Peter Liddle
Interview with Ralph Freeman
Interview with Rita Brooks
Tags: 12 Squadron; 460 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Binbrook; RAF Kenley; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wickenby; Tiger force; training; wireless operator
Interview with Ronald Rodgers
James Wrigley's flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1656 HCU; 19 OTU; 199 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 81 OTU; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Dominie; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Tilstock; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Jo Lancaster’s pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 12 Squadron; 20 OTU; 22 OTU; 28 OTU; 40 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Flying Training School; Halifax; Lancaster; Magister; Martinet; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Binbrook; RAF Desford; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Sealand; RAF Sywell; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upavon; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wymeswold; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley