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- Tags: firefighting
My recollections of the War
Interview with Susan Jones
Tags: Anson; bombing; civil defence; firefighting; home front; Lancaster; Manchester; shelter
Interview with Irene Howard
Interview with Bernard Charles Mabey
Tags: bombing; C-47; civil defence; demobilisation; dispersal; entertainment; faith; firefighting; fitter airframe; flight mechanic; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; perimeter track; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Netheravon; RAF Waddington; sanitation; sport; Tiger force; training; York
Interview with Daphne Baptiste
Interview with Honor Saunders
Malcolm Staves' Fire Fighting Card
Tags: civil defence; firefighting; home front
Interview with Rob Carter
Release from National Fire Service Letter
Tags: civil defence; firefighting
A fire service memoir
Tags: bombing; final resting place; firefighting; heirloom
17 auxiliary firemen with fire pump
Tags: civil defence; firefighting; home front
Interview with Marina Zucco
Interview with Helmut Köhler
Interview with Sybil Green
JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RCAF Rivers; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Joan Watson
Tags: bombing; crash; entertainment; evacuation; firefighting; home front; prisoner of war
Letter to Douglas Hudson
Interview with Peter Swallow
Firemen on parade
Tags: firefighting
Interview with Sheena Staves
Interview with Heino Dirks
Tags: bombing; crash; firefighting; prisoner of war; Wellington
Interview with Hubert Draegert
Interview with Iris McClements. Two
Fire guard's pocket book pictures, diagrams and tables
Tom Payne
Tags: bombing; civil defence; evacuation; firefighting; home front; recruitment