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- Tags: RAF Skellingthorpe
Letter to Mrs S. Scrimshaw
Memoir by Arthur Hollis
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Distinguished Flying Cross; Harvard; Home Guard; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Oxford; pilot; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Turweston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Westcott; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
Interview with Wal Goodwin
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; displaced person; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Brenzett; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Jamie Barr
Tags: 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Gee; H2S; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington
Interview with Lesley Joseph Loosemoore
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Grand Slam; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 262; military service conditions; operational training unit; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; service vehicle; Stirling; Tallboy; training; Wellington
Interview with Murray Valentine
Interview with Stuart Michael Heaton
Interview with David Rose
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with John Harrison
Extract from Bernard Clark's diary
List of Gordon Catling's operations with 50 squadron
Interview with Ronald Marlow
Tags: 466 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Driffield; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Elizabeth Eady
Interview with John Firth
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; prisoner of war; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; training
Interview with Ken Johnson
Interview with Richard Hollis
Tags: 50 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; operational training unit; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training; Wellington
Lancaster VN-F at RAF Skellingthorpe
Interview with Les Rutherford. Three
Interview with Margaret Hourigan
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operations room; perimeter track; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; runway; service vehicle; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald. Two
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bombing; crash; decoy site; forced landing; Fw 190; ground personnel; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; military service conditions; operational training unit; perimeter track; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Jeff Gray
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; Halifax; Home Guard; Lancaster; memorial; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Norman Goodfellow
Interview with Robert Barnes. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Home Guard; Lancaster; memorial; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Torquay; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon