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- Tags: RAF Upwood
Interview with Douglas Stanley Smith
Tags: 207 Squadron; 88 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; Boston; crash; Lancaster; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Upwood; Tiger Moth; training; York
Interview with Fred Crawley DFC
Tags: 139 Squadron; 158 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; Gee; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); medical officer; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Blyton; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; superstition; target photograph; training
Interview with Iain Urquhart Robertson
Interview with Jim Penny. One
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); crewing up; fear; grief; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military ethos; Oxford; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Blyton; RAF Bourn; RAF Shawbury; RAF Sleap; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; shot down; Stearman; target indicator; training; Whitley
Interview with Margaret Habberfield
Interview with Roy Briggs
Tags: air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; wireless operator
Interview with Rupert Noye
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crewing up; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Home Guard; Lancaster; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; submarine; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Thomas Waller
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; bombing; bombing up; crash; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; memorial; military living conditions; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; sanitation; Special Operations Executive; target indicator
Interview with Tom Sayer
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Medal; Halifax; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Horsa; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Eval; RAF Upwood; Stearman; submarine; training; Whitley
Invitation to RAF Upwood Social and Dance
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; RAF Upwood; training
James A Penny’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Halifax; Harvard; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Bourn; RAF Shawbury; RAF Sleap; RAF Upwood; Stearman; Whitley
John Dent flying logbook
Tags: 148 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; RAF Aston Down; RAF Mepal; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Spilsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Upwood; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training
John Robert Watson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Rascal’s flying log book for aircrew mascot
Tags: 635 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Proctor; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; RAF Yatesbury; superstition; Wellington; Whitley
Roy Briggs' flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 576 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Catterick; RAF Cranwell; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Graveley; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Seighford; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Stephen Dawson's pilot's flying logbook. One
Telegram from Bill Eyles to LACW M F Witnall [sic]
Tags: RAF Upwood
The war memoirs of 1096366 Cpl T Waller
Tags: 109 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb dump; demobilisation; final resting place; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; Lancaster; medical officer; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington; Whitley
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Upwood; training
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; navigator; RAF Upwood; training; wireless operator
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; navigator; RAF Upwood; training