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- Tags: Tiger force
Interview with Basil Goldstraw
Tags: 75 Squadron; Botha; ground crew; ground personnel; Ju 88; RAF Mepal; RAF Spilsby; Stirling; Tiger force
Interview with Dave Knight
Interview with Francis Neville Selwood
Colin Cole's navigator's, air bomber's, air gunner's and flight engineer's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Me 262; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Guzzle; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Mona; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; submarine; Tiger force; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator
W J Martin's flying log book
Tags: 1651 HCU; 1660 HCU; 1668 HCU; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
In Bomber Command
Wigsley 1654 HCU
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Interview with John Derek "Bill" Bailey. Two
Towards the end of the war, Derek did various bomber instructor courses and became a bombing instructor at RAF Lossiemouth on Wellingtons for Free French aircrew…
Tags: 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb disposal; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Blyton; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Swinderby; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with John Derek "Bill" Bailey. One
Tags: 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; crewing up; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lysander; Master Bomber; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Swinderby; RAF Torquay; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Bob Leedham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 86 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Halton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF St Athan; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wratting Common; Scharnhorst; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Maurice Roberts
Interview with Robert Woodhouse
Tags: 14 OTU; 207 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Evanton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Spilsby; RAF Wigsley; runway; submarine; Tiger force; training; wireless operator / air gunner
History of 115 (B) Squadron
Interview with Ronald Rodgers
Interview with Colin Cole
Bill Burnett's Biography
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
Interview with John and Vera Casey
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb dump; bombing; Caterpillar Club; home front; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Stirling; Tiger force; Wellington
Interview with Sidney Lawrence Davis
Tags: 619 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Silverstone; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; searchlight; sport; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Maurice Hatch
Tags: 630 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; navigator; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Coningsby; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Colin Cole
Interview with John Plendeleith
Interview with Kenneth Cook
Tags: 1 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Botha; crewing up; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Herbert Adams
Tags: 467 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Anson; bombing; control caravan; Cook’s tour; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fuelling; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Lichfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Alexander Elliott Jenkins
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; final resting place; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Binbrook; shot down; Tiger force; training