Browse Items (14 total)
- Tags: RAF Strubby
Interview with Bill Thomas
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; observer; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Bicester; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; target photograph; training; Wellington
David Sanders personal record of operations
Tags: 189 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; fuelling; Lancaster; Me 109; RAF Strubby
Interview with David Sanders
Derrick Allen's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 467 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; operational training unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spanhoe; RAF St Athan; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington
Bill Thomas memoir
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; ground personnel; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mine laying; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Wigtown; training; Wellington
Interview with David Brewster
David Sanders's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and, flight engineers
Interview with Sidney Lawrence Davis
Tags: 619 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Silverstone; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; sport; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Vernon Thomas Morgan
Interview with Arthur Pocklington
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force