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- Tags: civil defence
Interview with Charles Frederick Green
Tags: 1664 HCU; 24 OTU; 429 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Croft; RAF Dalcross; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Padgate; superstition; training; Whitley
Interview with Jack Brown Franklin
Tags: 109 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; crash; demobilisation; fitter engine; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Home Guard; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Marham; RAF Wyton; Spitfire
Interview with John Foster Thorp
Tags: 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; crewing up; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Irene Howard
Interview with Betty Hedges
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; civil defence; fear; home front; shelter; Spitfire; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Brian and Jenny Bailey
Interview with Laurie Richardson
Letter of thanks to Irene Green from the Chief Warden Civil Defence Service
Roy Gallop's Pass Certificate, Air Raid Precaution
Interview with a survivor of the bombing of Berlin
Interview with Frances Anne Cooper
Interview with James Burdin
Interview with Ronald George Doble
Tags: 1653 HCU; 21 OTU; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; displaced person; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dalcross; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Yatesbury; Scarecrow; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Bernard Charles Mabey
Tags: bombing; C-47; civil defence; demobilisation; dispersal; entertainment; faith; firefighting; fitter airframe; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; perimeter track; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Netheravon; RAF Waddington; sanitation; sport; Tiger force; training; York
Interview with Thomas Peter Payne. One
Interview with William Edwin Barnett
Interview with Rita Chapman
Interview with Percival Robert Court
Interview with Richard Hollis
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 BFTS; 50 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; civil defence; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; searchlight; training; Wellington
Interview with Honor Saunders
Interview with Doug Packman
Babies Anti-Gas Helmets
Evacuation Why and How?
Malcolm Staves' Fire Fighting Card
Tags: civil defence; firefighting; home front