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- Tags: RAF Swinderby
Handley Page Hampden No 50 Squadron Lindholme and Swinderby
Top - pilot wearing heavy jacket and flying helmet in the opened cockpit of a Hampden. Caption 'Sergeant Pilot'.
Middle - two aircrew and two ground crew…
Harold Southgate and crew
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Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Swinderby
Harold Wilson's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Service Medal; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Jurby; RAF Manby; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Middleton St George; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; training; Wellington
Ian Archer Wynn diary
Interview with Alan "Jock" Richardson. One
Tags: 120 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 70 OTU; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Cornell; flight engineer; forced landing; Harvard; Hudson; Lancaster; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Aldergrove; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leuchars; RAF Marham; RAF Penrhos; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; Shackleton; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Alan Morgan
Interview with Arthur Emlyn Williams
Interview with Arthur Emlyn Williams
Tags: 14 OTU; 50 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; crash; fear; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Operational Training Unit; RAF Dalcross; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Arthur Spencer
Tags: 16 OTU; 205 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; ground crew; Master Bomber; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; searchlight; target indicator; training; Ventura; Wellington; Window
Interview with Basil Ambrose
Tags: 1660 HCU; 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training
Interview with Betty May Pearson
Interview with Bill Spence
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; fear; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Bob Leedham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 86 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Halton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF St Athan; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wratting Common; Scharnhorst; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-Semitism; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Lancaster; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Wellington
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Two
Interview with Cyril Bristow Adams
Interview with Freda Fairweather
Interview with Geoff Paine
Tags: 100 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cornell; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Flying Training School; Harvard; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Oxford; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Ansty; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lyneham; RAF Oakington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Valley; recruitment; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Interview with Geoffrey Charles Spencer
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; demobilisation; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Henlow; RAF Swinderby; Spitfire; Stirling; training; York
Interview with George Charles Culling
Interview with George Crooks
Interview with George Eric Cromarty
Tags: 29 OTU; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); fear; final resting place; fuelling; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dalcross; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tangmere; sanitation; Stirling; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Gordon Catling
Interview with Graham Allen
Tags: 106 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 262; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Spitfire; Stirling; training