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- Tags: crewing up
My Time in the Royal Air Force 1942-1955
Tags: 207 Squadron; 3 Group; 514 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cornell; crewing up; Dominie; flight engineer; hangar; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bottesford; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marham; RAF Methwold; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Spilsby; RAF Sywell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Westcott; recruitment; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
My experience as a prisoner of war in Germany 1943 - 1945
Tags: 428 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; navigator; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; Red Cross; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; training
Letter and transcript of telephone inteview
Tags: 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Athan; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; superstition; V-1; V-2; Window
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Diary of Neill Chapman, Bomb Aimer
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
The Kriegie November 2011
Tags: 103 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 220 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; Boston; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; escaping; Fw 190; Hudson; Lancaster; memorial; mess; navigator; P-51; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Attlebridge; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Leeming; RAF Waddington; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
My War Story
Dick started his training at Lords in London, Bridlington then Bridgnorth and…
Tags: 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cosford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elvington; RAF Gaydon; RAF Inverness; RAF Manston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Red Cross; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Philip Hopgood's Second World War Biography
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; RAF Catterick; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Graveley; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; wireless operator
Peter Hazeldene memoir
Flt Lt J B P 'Tuesday' Spencer, 20 years, Pilot from Greenside, Co Durham
Sgt W D E West, 21 years, Mid Upper Gunner, from Barking, Essex
Sgt H…
Book 5, Return to UK
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 196 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 623 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Catalina; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fear; flight engineer; Gee; Halifax; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; operational training unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Seighford; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Red Cross; sanitation; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Ron Mayhill
Interview with Tommy Knox
Interview with Donald Raymond Harris
Interview with Bert Hammond. Two
Interview with Bill Leckie. Two
Interview with Ernie Patterson. Two
Interview with Roland Spencer Williams
Interview with David Wilkie
Interview with Lacey Peter Webb
Interview with Henry Wolfe Wagner. One
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; faith; fear; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military living conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington