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- Tags: final resting place
Army history of cadet Ensign Margaret Pratt and Sergeant Charles Ward
Interview with Philip Bates
Tags: 149 Squadron; 86 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; displaced person; Dulag Luft; entertainment; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lysander; Manchester; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Nissen hut; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Lakenheath; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; Resistance; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; shot down; sport; Stalag 4B; Stirling; training; Window
Interview with Harvey Hayward Bawden
Tags: 150 Squadron; 153 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; mechanics engine; memorial; nose art; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; Wellington
Interview with Francis Shamus "Jim" Cahir
Interview with Sue Chaplin
Interview with Susan Chapman
Interview with Mike Chatterton
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-Semitism; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Lancaster; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Wellington
Interview with Geoffrey Conacher
Interview with John Cox
Tags: 626 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; African heritage; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; final resting place; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Wickenby; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; training; Wellington
Interview with George Eric Cromarty
Tags: 29 OTU; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); fear; final resting place; fuelling; ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dalcross; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tangmere; sanitation; Stirling; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Interview with Harry Irons. Two
Tags: 158 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Martinet; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Driffield; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lissett; RAF Waddington; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; strafing; superstition; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Alexander Elliott Jenkins
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; final resting place; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Binbrook; shot down; Tiger force; training; Victory in Europe Day (8 May 1945); Window
Interview with Ken Macdonald
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1667 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; fear; final resting place; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Wickenby; RAF Worksop; sanitation; Stalag 3A; training; Wellington
Interview with Len Manning
Interview with Johannes Onderwater
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 Andover; RAF Bramcote; RAF Cosford; searchlight; training; Warsaw airlift (4 August - 28 September 1944); Wellington
Interview with Jim Wright. Two
Flowers in front of tombstone
The war memoirs of 1096366 Cpl T Waller
Tags: 109 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb dump; demobilisation; final resting place; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; Lancaster; medical officer; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Kirkham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington; Whitley
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
Interview with Frank Tolley
Tags: 625 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; final resting place; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Kelstern; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Window
English airman's grave
Reg Jaques biography
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; intelligence officer; 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