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- Tags: RAF Bridgnorth
Interview with Donald Raymond Harris
Form for purchasing handkerchiefs
Two stories and a letter by Ted Neale
#2 Designated pilots-navigators or bomb aimers at Heaton Park then sent to Bridgnorth to await a ship to South…
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; military ethos; navigator; RAF Bridgnorth; Wellington
If you can't take a joke...
Tags: 622 Squadron; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; H2S; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 109; mechanics engine; military service conditions; Oxford; perception of bombing war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranage; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hednesford; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Paignton; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Silloth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Torquay; RAF Upper Heyford; sanitation; Stirling; strafing; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Kenneth White
Tags: 169 Squadron; 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bombing; memorial; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Oulton; training; Window
Interview with Fred Tiller
Interview with Dennis Swains
Malcolm Staves Diary
Interview with Betty Repton
Interview with Taff Owen
Tags: 153 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; demobilisation; Dominie; Gee; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Scampton; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; submarine; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Harold Mercer
Interview with Frederick Joseph Keith Martin
Tags: 300 Squadron; 626 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; crewing up; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; propaganda; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Calveley; RAF Cranfield; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Sandtoft; RAF South Cerney; RAF Ternhill; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wickenby; RAF Yatesbury; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Ken Marshall
Malcolm Staves' Post Office Savings Bank Book
Tags: aircrew; RAF Bridgnorth
Malcolm Staves, 207 Squadron Veteran
Tags: 106 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 207 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); entertainment; Lancaster; memorial; Operation Dodge (1945); Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF Madley; RAF Metheringham; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; wireless operator
Service History of Benny Goodman
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fuelling; Grand Slam; ground crew; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Martinet; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); operational training unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cardington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
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
Interview with William Hough
Tags: 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 262; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Worksop; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Charles Flint
Interview with Ken Fawcett
Tags: 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crash; ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Iris Done
Interview with Joseph Henry Cook
Tags: 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; fear; Fw 190; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 109; Me 262; military ethos; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; propaganda; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Bert Hammond. One
Tags: 514 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Boston; forced landing; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Manby; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Woodbridge; training; Wellington