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- Tags: air gunner
Battle Order 5th March 1945
Operations order 25 January 1944
Stormy Down Leave Pass
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; RAF Stormy Down; training
Letter to Mrs J. H. Wilson from 7 Squadron
75 Squadron Battle Order
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flying Officer A Hickman
Notification of death - Ivor Fraser
Tags: 144 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; killed in action
Arthur Pearce - the aeroplane diary 1943
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; civil defence; RAF Bishops Court
Arthur Pearce Diary 1944
Interview with Francis Shamus "Jim" Cahir.
Interview with Ernest Cutts
Interview with Gerald McPherson
Tags: 186 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crewing up; faith; Gee; RAF Stradishall; superstition; training
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
Interview with Lesley Joseph Loosemoore
Interview with Sidney Knott
Interview with Sir Fitzroy Augier.
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