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- Tags: RAF Upper Heyford
Interview with William Cooke
Tells of his spell of guard duty on board a troop ship, and losing one of the people he was showing…
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bomb struck; crash; demobilisation; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; radar; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; training; Wellington
Interview with Arthur Spencer
Tags: 16 OTU; 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
The Offensive Phase
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 169 Squadron; 171 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crash; Defiant; Do 217; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; Me 410; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Downham Market; RAF Farnborough; RAF Foulsham; RAF Little Snoring; RAF North Creake; RAF Northolt; RAF Oulton; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swannington; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; Scharnhorst; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; Tirpitz; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Telegram to Mr H A Bower
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; RAF Upper Heyford
Telegram to MR H A Bower
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; RAF Upper Heyford
Interview with James Wright
Tags: 61 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; animal; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; final resting place; ground personnel; Lancaster; Me 109; medical officer; memorial; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Pathfinders; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; strafing; training; Wellington
Postcard from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: RAF Halton; RAF Upper Heyford
Postcard from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: RAF Upper Heyford
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: RAF Upper Heyford
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to Harry
Letter from Bill Akrill to Ros and Harry
Tags: entertainment; RAF Upper Heyford; training
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Continuing letter on following day, they have no started their…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Provides a detailed description of his and others experiences…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his sister
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to Mary
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his family
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his aunt
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Describes his crew in…
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother and all
They have been working very hard and have managed to get a day off tomorrow. Expecting to go into Oxford and go to a theatre in the…