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- Tags: Stirling
Interview with Dennis Kelly
Interview with Tommy Knox
Interview with Lesley Joseph Loosemoore
Interview with Harry Hughes
Tags: 102 Squadron; 692 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; Gee; Halifax; Mosquito; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); Stirling; training
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
He starts by describing crewing up at Silverstone. His opinion of the Stirling was that it was awful on the ground and in the air.
His first operation was a second 'dickie' (an observer)…
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; He 111; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; mess; navigator; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Fred Young
Tags: 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Lancaster; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Melksham; RAF Oakington; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling
Interview with Bill Moore. One
Interview with Eric Brown.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Lancaster; Stirling
Interview with Alun Emlyn-Jones
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Anson; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; gremlin; Halifax; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military service conditions; pilot; radar; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; Spitfire; Stirling; training; Whitley; York
Interview with John Bagg
Interview with David Fraser
Interview with Joseph Musgrove
Tags: 102 Squadron; 214 Squadron; air gunner; animal; bale out; crewing up; Defiant; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; Halifax; operational training unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Madley; RAF Shenington; RAF Topcliffe; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; wireless operator
An anxious moment
Service History of Benny Goodman
First flight in a Stirling
Interview with Geoff Payne
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Me 109; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner