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- Tags: Spitfire
Interview with James Flowers
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; fear; final resting place; Fw 190; Ju 88; love and romance; Master Bomber; Me 109; Me 262; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); P-51; Pathfinders; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; recruitment; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger force; Wellington
Spitfire shot down by Kriegsmarine anti-aircraft fire
Label reads “243”; signed by the author;…
Interview with Mario Commisso
Training as a flight engineer on Lancasters
Canal, Wellington and Spitfire, C-47 and glider
Tags: C-47; Horsa; Spitfire; taxiway; Wellington
Squadron Leader Alistair Taylor DSO and bar DFC and 2 bars
Bottom left air-to-air view of the bottom of a reconnaissance spitfire with Invasion stripes. The camera openings can be seen in the rear…
F/Lt A. L. Taylor
Les Rutherford's prisoner of war diary
Bombing operations early 1945
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flypast, Elsham Wolds and Humber Bridge
Photograph 2 is an aerial oblique photograph of modern Elsham Wolds.
Photgraph 3 is an aerial oblique photograph of the Humber bridge.…
Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire, Parachute display
Photograph 2 is a parachute display. One parachutist is landing beside a smoke flare. He has an RAF ensign attached. There is a large attendance…
Tags: Hurricane; Lancaster; RAF Coningsby; Spitfire
A place to remember
Interview with Gerald John Castleton
Interview with Frank Colenso
Interview with Mary Ellis
Tags: Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; Anson; B-25; Blenheim; Catalina; Defiant; Halifax; Hampden; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Meteor; Oxford; P-51; pilot; RAF Hatfield; RAF White Waltham; Spitfire; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Typhoon; Walrus; Wellington
Interview with John Eppel
Tags: 18 OTU; 550 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perimeter track; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Killingholme; RAF West Freugh; RAF Worksop; searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington
Interview with Frederick Parker
Interview with Ralph Wild
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hurricane; intelligence officer; love and romance; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Weald; Spitfire; training
Interview with David Fraser
Tags: 115 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight mechanic; Gneisenau; ground crew; Harrow; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Evanton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 357; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; training; Wellington
Ken Hicks memories
Interview with Andrew Deytrikh
Interview with Jack Hayley
Tags: 170 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 83 OTU; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; love and romance; Magister; Meteor; military living conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Defford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Madley; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Windrush; RCAF Estevan; Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York