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- Tags: bomb aimer
Battle Order 5th March 1945
Letter to Mrs J. H. Wilson from 7 Squadron
Interview with Keith Campbell. Two
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; 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
Interview with Allan Joseph Couper
Interview with Lawrence Larmer
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Joe Stemp
Tags: 578 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); C-47; coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; faith; fear; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; navigator; recruitment; rivalry; superstition
Interview with Ronald Last
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; escaping; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; recruitment; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
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 John Richard Bell
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Grand Slam; Lancaster; Tallboy; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Johnny Johnson. One
Interview with Rusty Waughman. One
Interview with Benny Goodman. One
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Grand Slam; ground crew; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; submarine; Tallboy; Tirpitz
Interview with Mary Stopes-Roe
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 Frank Tolley
Tags: 625 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; final resting place; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Kelstern; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Window
Interview with Bill Spence
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; ethnic or religious minorities; fear; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bowden; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ron Tomlin
Crew scrapbook
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; flight engineer; Lancaster; pilot
Extract from Bernard Clark's diary
Extract from Bernard Clark's diary
They Refused to Fly
A second article titled 'Norton Camp, Sheffield' is about a punishment camp where the writer was sent after cycling…
Was it all a Dream
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Lancaster; Lincoln; medical officer; memorial; mine laying; Mosquito; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bicester; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Cosford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kimbolton; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Tiger force; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Bill Thomas memoir
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; ground personnel; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mine laying; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Wigtown; training; Wellington