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- Tags: RAF Linton on Ouse
John S Hitchcock DFC AFC
John S Hitchcock DFC AFC
John Mitchell's flying log book. One
Tags: 19 OTU; 58 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crash; forced landing; Operational Training Unit; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Driffield; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
John Mitchell - list of operations 1939-1940
John Louis Goldby Biography
Tags: 10 OTU; 38 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Ford; RAF Henlow; RAF Jurby; RAF Kenley; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Odiham; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Swinderby; RAF Topcliffe; Shackleton; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
John Alfred Wright's life story
Jack's life and service up to 1942
J.S. Hitchcock’s RAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Two
Tags: 10 OTU; 1658 HCU; 78 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Magister; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Hullavington; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Riccall; RAF Shallufa; RAF Upavon; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; training; Wellington; Whitley
J Oates’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 OTU; 1657 HCU; 1665 HCU; 196 Squadron; 81 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; crash; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Keevil; RAF Leicester East; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Millom; RAF Pocklington; RAF Sleap; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Tilstock; RAF Weathersfield; RAF Witchford; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Ted Stocker. Three
Although he wanted to be a pilot, Ted’s skills were needed as a flight engineer. He was…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Service Order; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military service conditions; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Halton; RAF Linton on Ouse; Shackleton; Stirling; Wellington
Interview with Ron Wade
Tags: 58 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; Ju 88; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morecambe; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Whitley
Interview with Ron Hemsworth
Tags: 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; fear; Halifax; military service conditions; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morpeth; RAF Swinderby; shot down; Stalag Luft 6; superstition; Whitley
Interview with Raymond Moore
Tags: 408 Squadron; 426 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; faith; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Brackla; RAF Cosford; RAF East Moor; RAF Halton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF St Athan; recruitment; searchlight; sport; training
Interview with Mary Ward. Two
Tags: aircrew; animal; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; grief; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; military service conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melksham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with John Louis Goldby
Tags: 640 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Hampden; Lancaster; mid-air collision; observer; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with James McKenzie Leith
Interview with Jack Kenneth Lyon
Interview with Helga Wynne and Gordon Atkinson
Interview with Hayden Philip Rose
Interview with Harold Yeoman
Tags: 12 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; love and romance; medical officer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; recruitment; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Gordon Atkinson
Interview with George Dunn
He tells of his experiences as ‘second…
Tags: 10 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 608 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Anson; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground crew; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; memorial; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Downham Market; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; RAF Upper Heyford; Spitfire; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Douglas Arthur Smith
Tags: 10 OTU; 158 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 19 OTU; 76 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lissett; RAF Riccall; RAF Shepherds Grove; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner