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- Tags: RAF Swinderby
Interview with Alan Morgan
Interview with Arthur Spencer
Tags: 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 Woodhall Spa; Resistance; target indicator; training; Ventura; Wellington; Window
Interview with Basil Ambrose
Tags: 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; ethnic or religious minorities; 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 Bowden; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; 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; 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 North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; 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 -); Harvard; incendiary device; Oxford; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lyneham; RAF Oakington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Valley; RAF West Kirby; 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 Swinderby; Spitfire; Stirling; training; York
Interview with George Charles Culling
Interview with George Crooks
Interview with George Eric Cromarty
Tags: 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; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; sanitation; Stirling; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; 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
Interview with Harry Algar
Tags: 149 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carnaby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Shackleton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Henry Townsley
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; 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 Jim Wildes
Interview with John Cuthbert
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; Stirling; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; York