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- Tags: bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Interview with Gordon Topham
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb dump; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bouncing bomb; flight engineer; Halifax; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Bridlington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Interview with Harry Algar
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carnaby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Shackleton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Jacqueline Assheton
Arthur Loudon's flying log book for navigators
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Gamston; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mona; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Seighford; RAF Wickenby; training; Wellington
Twenty third operation Dresden
Interview with Ingrid Dennull
Kenneth Pope's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Interview with Gerald Joseph Abrahams
Interview with George Rex Armstrong
Interview with Tom Rogers
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
George Holmes sortie record sheet 83 Squadron
Russia Storms at 1945 Raid
Interview with Denis Francis Cockbill
Interview with Martin Edwards
Interview with Ken Fawcett
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Pauline Ferdinando
Interview with Ian Henderson
Interview with Harry Hughes
Tags: 102 Squadron; 3 Group; 6 Group; 692 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Anson; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; faith; Fw 190; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); incendiary device; Ju 88; Me 109; Me 110; Me 262; medical officer; meteorological officer; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); promotion; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Harwell; RAF Riccall; RAF Wombleton; RCAF Rivers; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Robert William Maggs
Malcolm Staves, 207 Squadron Veteran
Tags: 106 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 207 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); entertainment; Lancaster; memorial; Operation Dodge (1945); Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF Madley; RAF Metheringham; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; wireless operator
Interview with Ken Marshall
Interview with Ronald Mather
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; Proctor; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; wireless operator
Interview with Christopher George McVickers
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Hemswell; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Yatesbury; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Norman Neilson
Tags: 103 Squadron; 582 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); flight engineer; Lancaster; memorial; military discipline; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Little Staughton; submarine; training