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- Tags: RAF Shawbury
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 Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Harry Parkins' flight engineer log book
Tags: 148 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); C-47; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; V-3; V-weapon
Station commander and staff at RAF Shawbury
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Shawbury
Interview with Derry Derrington
Tags: 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; love and romance; memorial; navigator; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Driffield; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF West Freugh; sanitation; training; V-1; Wellington