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- Tags: RAF Bottesford
Lancaster LM311 PO-L
The second part of…
Interview with Richard Murray Allen
Interview with Jeff Brown
Interview with Steven Downes
Interview with Lachie McBean
Leonard Dorricott's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 460 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Commodore; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Harrow; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bottesford; RAF Breighton; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Lindholme; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tilstock; training; Whitley
Interview with Kenneth Shelton Green
He trained as an engineer after he was unable to fly due to eye…
Interview with Peter Fitt
Tags: 467 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); briefing; crewing up; fear; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; operational training unit; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Donald Keith Fraser, One
Interview with Peter Stevenson
Richard Vipond’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 514 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Bottesford; RAF Lindholme; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; RAF Waterbeach; Sunderland; training; Wellington
WO Donald Keith Fraser
Tags: 1 Group; 101 Squadron; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing up; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; perimeter track; petrol bowser; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Catfoss; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; runway; service vehicle; Tiger force; Tirpitz; tractor; training; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Alan William Davis
Interview with Ralph Freeman
Interview with William Paul Gould
Interview with Sidney Knott
Tags: 467 Squadron; 582 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bombing; fear; ground personnel; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Manby; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Wellington
Cadet 1935-1945 Peter D Stevenson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 5 Group; air sea rescue; animal; Blenheim; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crash; entertainment; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Syerston; sanitation; station headquarters; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Sylvia Fraser
There are occasional interjections by…
Tags: home front; love and romance; RAF Bottesford
Interview with John William Squires
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; crash; Lancaster; memorial; RAF Bottesford
Interview with James Christian Mortensen
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Distinguished Flying Medal; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military ethos; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bottesford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Madley; RAF Methwold; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Jack Webster
Tags: 138 Squadron; 514 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Bottesford; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Madley; RAF Tuddenham; training; wireless operator
Jeff Brown's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Interview with Sheila Wilmet
Tags: bomb dump; bombing; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; meteorological officer; military living conditions; Nissen hut; perception of bombing war; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Langar; RAF Spilsby; shelter; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; operational training unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Spitfire; training; Wellington; Window
Procedures and Life of an Air Gunner with a Lancaster Squadron
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; meteorological officer; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force