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- Tags: RAF Bruntingthorpe
Richard Starkey’s flying log book for pilots
John Derek Bolton’s Pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 162 Squadron; 455 Squadron; 571 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; bombing; C-47; Defiant; Hampden; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Mosquito; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bourn; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cranwell; RAF Downham Market; RAF Finningley; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington; Whitley
Don Southwell in flying kit
Interview with Pat Rumfitt
Harold Blow’s pilots flying log book
Interview with Ted Frost
Tags: 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; operational training unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Hendon; RAF Oakington; RAF Syerston; Special Operations Executive; Wellington
Interview with Bill Spence
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; ethnic or religious minorities; fear; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bowden; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ken Johnson
Reg Freeth's South African Air Force observers or air gunners log book
Interview with Reg Freeth
Roy Briggs' flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 576 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Catterick; RAF Cranwell; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Graveley; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Seighford; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with John Tait
Tags: 35 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); entertainment; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Lancaster; military living conditions; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
Interview with Bob Porteous
Tags: 622 Squadron; aircrew; Cook’s tour; entertainment; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Mildenhall; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with George Eric Cromarty
Tags: 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); fear; final resting place; fuelling; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; sanitation; Stirling; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Leonard Green’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing up; Dominie; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Manby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigtown; Wellington; wireless operator
Andy Anderson's flying log book for pilots (incomplete)
Tags: 106 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; RAF Warboys; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with John and Vera Casey
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb dump; bombing; Caterpillar Club; home front; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Stirling; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with Cyril Abbotts
Tags: 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; demobilisation; ethnic or religious minorities; fear; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; P-51; physical training; pilot; promotion; RAF Bowden; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Estevan; RAF Gamston; RAF St Athan; RAF Wigsley; recruitment; sanitation; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator