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- Tags: RAF Bridgnorth
If you can't take a joke...
Tags: 16 OTU; 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight mechanic; Flying Training School; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; H2S; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; mechanics engine; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranage; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hednesford; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Paignton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Silloth; RAF Silverstone; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Torquay; RAF Upper Heyford; RCAF Moncton; 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; 27 OTU; 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; searchlight; submarine; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Harold Mercer
Tags: 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; 77 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; entertainment; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Pembrey; RAF Rufforth; RAF Weston-super-Mare; service vehicle; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Frederick Joseph Keith Martin
Tags: 300 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; crewing up; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; 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; Flying Training School; 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: 14 OTU; 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: 1656 HCU; 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; 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 Fred Hooker. Two
Tags: 102 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dishforth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Stormy Down; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; training
Interview with Charles Flint
Interview with Ken Fawcett
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); civil defence; 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; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; fear; Fw 190; Initial Training Wing; 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: 1678 HCU; 26 OTU; 514 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; 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 Wing; RAF Woodbridge; training; Wellington
Interview with Sidney Borthwick
Interview with William Horace Shaw
Interview with Peter Rowland Ruthven Neech
Interview with Alfred Huberman
Tags: 576 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; fear; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Master Bomber; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; physical training; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Wyton; training; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington