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- Tags: crash
Interview with Susan Chapman
Interview with Fred Crawley DFC
Tags: 139 Squadron; 158 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; Gee; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); medical officer; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Blyton; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; superstition; target photograph; training
Interview with John Eppel
Tags: 18 OTU; 550 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; love and romance; navigator; operational training unit; perimeter track; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Killingholme; RAF West Freugh; RAF Worksop; Spitfire; training; Wellington
Interview with Colin Fraser
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crash; crewing up; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military service conditions; navigator; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF West Freugh; shot down; superstition; training; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Hugh Lorimer
Interview with Iris McClements. One
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Roy White
Interview with Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Sinclair Nutting
Tags: 405 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Fw 190; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Me 109; military discipline; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Manby; RAF Topcliffe; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Douglas Reed
Tags: 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; ground crew; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Upwood; take-off crash; target indicator; training; Wellington
Interview with Simson Reid
Interview with Sandy Saunders
Interview with Joe Shuttleworth
Interview with Jean Smith
Tags: 27 OTU; 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 Donald Solin
Interview with Jan Black. One
Tags: 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-Semitism; crash; demobilisation; fear; final resting place; Guinea Pig Club; Holocaust; killed in action; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; military service conditions; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Cosford; training; Wellington
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Interview with Harold Yeoman
Tags: 12 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; love and romance; medical officer; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; recruitment; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Bill Bailey
Interview with Thomas Waller
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; bombing; bombing up; crash; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; memorial; military living conditions; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; sanitation; Special Operations Executive; target indicator
Reg Jaques biography
Tiger Moth ground collision
Tags: crash; Tiger Moth; training
Tiger Moth ground collision
Tags: crash; Tiger Moth; training
Tiger Moth forced landing in the bush
Tags: crash; forced landing; Tiger Moth; training