Browse Items (28 total)
- Tags: RAF Rufforth
Interview with David Bowker
Tags: 103 Squadron; 150 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lysander; Magister; military living conditions; military service conditions; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-); RAF Cardington; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Pershore; RAF Rufforth; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Andy Andrews’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Cyril Barton VC
Letter 2 is from Cyril to his mother, dated 18th July 1943. He writes six pages explaining he is about to undertake his first operation. He explains how his estate is to be spent…
Cyril J Barton’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
David Philip Storey's operations
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Tags: 158 Squadron; 51 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Me 109; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Snaith; RAF Worksop; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
David Storey's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Dennis Raettig's wartime memoir
Tags: 104 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; animal; B-24; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; incendiary device; mechanics engine; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Driffield; RAF East Moor; RAF Harwell; RAF Leeming; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; runway; take-off crash; tractor; training; Wellington; Whitley
George C Dunn’s pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 10 Squadron; 76 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oxford; pilot; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Downham Market; RAF Driffield; RAF Finningley; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Henry Pollock’s navigator’s, air bombers and air gunner’s flying log book
Homer Lawson's Biography
Homer Lawson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Interview with Alun Emlyn-Jones
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Anson; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; gremlin; Halifax; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military service conditions; pilot; radar; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; Spitfire; Stirling; training; Whitley; York
Interview with Andy Andrews
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; evading; FIDO; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Ju 52; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; lynching; military living conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; Resistance; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with George Dunn
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); civil defence; crewing up; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; military ethos; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with George Dunn
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 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; Wellington
Interview with Gerald John Castleton
Interview with Harold Mercer
Interview with Henry Pollock
Tags: 78 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Rufforth; training; Whitley
Interview with Hugh Lorimer
Interview with Janet Hughes, One
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; briefing; Gee; Halifax; mine laying; navigator; RAF Kinloss; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; training