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- Tags: Red Cross
Interview with Fred Hooker. Two
Tags: 102 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dishforth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Stormy Down; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; training
Interview with Harry Hacker
Tags: 40 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Nissen hut; Red Cross; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Kenneth Lyon
Interview with James Douglas Hudson
Interview with Janet Hughes. Two
Interview with John Cox
Tags: 626 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; African heritage; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Wickenby; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with John Usher about Bob Burns
Suddenly the aircraft broke in to…
Interview with Joyce Exton Wallace. Five
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; Red Cross
Interview with Keith Campbell. Two
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; superstition; the long march; training
Interview with Laura Hickey
Interview with Les Rutherford
Interview with Max Barry
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; evading; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Waddington; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with Pat Rumfitt
Interview with Pauline Alexander
Interview with Richard Curnock
Tags: 425 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; lynching; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dishforth; RAF Tholthorpe; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ronald Gard
Interview with Ronald Indge
Upon leaving school, and unable to obtain employment in his chosen career, his father arranged a bound apprenticeship with a…
Interview with Stan Instone
Tags: 1664 HCU; 419 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; strafing; the long march; training
JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RCAF Rivers; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Jim Tyrie's Wartime Log. Two
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Dulag Luft; escaping; evacuation; fear; Lancaster; military living conditions; prisoner of war; Red Cross; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; the long march
Joan Layne's diary covering the period her husband Wally was a prisoner of war
John Martin's memoir
Tags: 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-29; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; demobilisation; Do 217; Dulag Luft; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; Lancastrian; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; sport; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Jozef Nogal's Wartime Log
Just Another Story
Tags: 12 OTU; 1678 HCU; 514 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight mechanic; Gee; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cardington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dumfries; RAF Foulsham; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; Red Cross; sport; Stalag 8B; strafing; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; Waffen-SS; Wellington