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- Tags: control tower
Port Albert apron with two Ansons
Tags: Anson; control tower; hangar; training
Interview with Arthur Atkins
Ghosts will be laid to rest
Elsham Wolds
Tags: control tower; mess; RAF Elsham Wolds
Interview with Jean Smith
Tags: aircrew; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); control caravan; control tower; crash; flight engineer; ground personnel; love and romance; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; runway; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control tower; coping mechanism; crewing up; dispersal; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; forced landing; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; heavy conversion unit; heirloom; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Me 109; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; nose art; operational training unit; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; recruitment; sanitation; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melksham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Control tower, crashed aircraft and fire practice
Photograph 3 and 4 are of the remains of crashed aircraft.
Photograph 5 is of a man in a shirt and tie with a hose laying out foam from a hose.
Photograph 6 is of the same man being…
Tags: control tower; firefighting
Inside Binbrook control tower
Photograph 2 is of an airman with a very pistol raised.
Photograph 3 is of an airwoman is working at a desk, with an airman standing behind her. On the wall is a map of Great Britain and an airfield…
Interview with Margaret Hourigan
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operations room; perimeter track; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; runway; service vehicle; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Dennis Brett
Daphne Brownlie Interview
She tells of the hours she and her colleagues worked and also what life was like on the base, including her…
Interview with F N Larard
RAF Skellingthorpe
Don Falgate in control tower
Five Canadian Tiger Moths lined up on airfield
Tags: aircrew; control tower; pilot; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Margaret Saint
Interview with Maureen and Sidney Stevens
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; control tower; crewing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; RAF Wigsley; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Wellington O-KJ
Ray Charlton Memoir
V Group News, February 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; civil defence; control tower; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; H2S; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Scampton; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
Tiger Moths and a Harvard
Tags: control tower; hangar; Harvard; Tiger Moth; training
Medicine Hat
Tags: control tower; hangar; Oxford
Oxfords
Tags: control tower; hangar; Oxford