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- Tags: fear
Italian war memories
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; evading; fear; heirloom; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3; Wellington
Memories of 578 Squadron at Burn 1944
Tags: 578 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; fear; Gee; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; observer; operational training unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Burn; RAF Farnborough; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Six chapters of wartime memories
'Based at Burn' Introduction by Jim Allen
One More Chalked Up
A Trip to Remember
Sabotage on 578 Squadron at Burn by Joe Dudley
Memories of 578 Squadron at Burn 1944 by Joe…
Tags: 4 Group; 578 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); faith; fear; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; operational training unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Burn; RAF Farnborough; RAF Woodbridge; submarine; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; wireless operator
A Love Story by Grandad
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David Philip Storey's operations
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Tags: 158 Squadron; 51 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Me 109; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Snaith; RAF Worksop; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Interview with James Stanley Wilson
Interview with John Robert Watson
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; flight engineer; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mid-air collision; military ethos; Pathfinders; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Ouston; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; training; Wellington
Interview with Henry Wolfe Wagner. One
Interview with Gwendolen Wadmore
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; love and romance; shelter; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); faith; fear; ground crew; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Percival Trotman
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; forced landing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Ernie Tillbrook
Interview with Rex Statham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 158 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Woodbridge; Sunderland; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Seymour Owen Scott
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Defiant; Dominie; entertainment; fear; Gee; Lancaster; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Madley; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Jack Pragnell
Interview with Eric Peel
Interview with Ronald Needle
Interview with James Mulhall. Two
Interview with James Mulhall. One
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; fear; flight engineer; Hurricane; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Nissen hut; Oboe; prisoner of war; RAF Feltwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; submarine; the long march
Interview with Alfie Martin
Flying Stories by Paul Hilton
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'David Joseph's son Brian met Paul Hilton in the 1980's through work, and he was wearing a prisoner of war tie. In…
Tags: 35 Squadron; 58 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); dispersal; displaced person; Dulag Luft; fear; ground crew; Halifax; Ju 88; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Whitley