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- Tags: RAF Fiskerton
Interview with Doris Reddish
Interview with Frank Stafford
Interview with Geoffrey Charles Spencer
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; demobilisation; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Henlow; RAF Swinderby; Spitfire; Stirling; training; York
Interview with Harold Harvey
Interview with Harry Parkins. One
Interview with Jeff Brown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-29; bombing; crewing up; Harvard; Lancaster; Meteor; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Marham; RAF Westcott; training; Wellington
Interview with Kenneth Cook
Tags: 1 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Botha; crewing up; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Margaret Hodgin
Margaret was about eleven when…
Interview with Peter Zolty
Interview with Ronald Mather
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; Proctor; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; wireless operator
Interview with Roy Briggs
Tags: 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Dominie; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Initial Training Wing; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; training; wireless operator
Interview with Sidney James Richards
Interview with Thomas James Page
Tags: 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF St Athan; sport; training; Window
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
J D Harris’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 11 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; Cook’s tour; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Oakley; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
J Vasey’s pilot’s log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 57 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Church Lawford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Jeff Brown's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 11 OTU; 149 Squadron; 1668 HCU; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Martinet; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Bottesford; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Burn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dalcross; RAF Driffield; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Marham; RAF Oakley; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF Westcott; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Leonard Dorricott's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 1660 HCU; 1668 HCU; 460 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 81 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; 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 Sturgate; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tilstock; RAF Waddington; training; Whitley
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Tags: aircrew; home front; pilot; RAF Fiskerton