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- Tags: intelligence officer
Interview with James Albert Dellow
Tags: 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; forced landing; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
WO Donald Keith Fraser
Tags: 1 Group; 101 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 1668 HCU; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing up; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; perimeter track; petrol bowser; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Catfoss; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Sandtoft; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; runway; searchlight; service vehicle; Tiger force; Tirpitz; tractor; training; Window; wireless operator
Interview with John Tipton
Tags: 109 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Wyton; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Ralph Wild
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hurricane; intelligence officer; love and romance; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Weald; Spitfire; training
Interview with Eric Parker
Tags: 12 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; displaced person; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lincoln; Master Bomber; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Marham; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Jack Jarmy
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 218 Squadron; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Gee; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakley; RAF Shallufa; RAF Waterbeach; Shackleton; Stearman; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Ron Mayhill
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; military ethos; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Westcott; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington
Bomber Command Intelligence Digest No 15 - Saumur Tunnel
Four Bomber Command Intelligence Reports
Loose on the wind
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 4 Group; 578 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control tower; crash; crewing up; Defiant; faith; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; In the event of my death letter; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; Manchester; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); medical officer; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; observer; operations room; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
An account of the briefing for an operation to Essen
Tags: 100 Group; 3 Group; 4 Group; 51 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; briefing; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; incendiary device; intelligence officer; Lancaster; meteorological officer; Oboe; Pathfinders; propaganda; RAF Snaith; reconnaissance photograph; target indicator; target photograph; Window
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; ground personnel; Halifax; intelligence officer; Ju 88; Lancaster; 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 Ian Denver
Tags: 156 Squadron; 625 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancastrian; love and romance; Master Bomber; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Sandtoft; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Frank Dell
Interview with Bill Macrae
Tags: 148 Squadron; aircrew; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; Magister; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Lossiemouth; searchlight; training; Wellington; Whitley
Personal combat report
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A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; intelligence officer; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; padre; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Bert Turner
Tags: 1657 HCU; 196 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Me 262; medical officer; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF Keevil; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Tuddenham; shot down; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Interview with Jack Wakefield
Tags: 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crash; crewing up; Defiant; ground personnel; intelligence officer; love and romance; memorial; mess; military ethos; nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Harold Yeoman
Tags: 12 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; debriefing; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; Lancaster; love and romance; medical officer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; 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
Biography of Squadron Leader Lighton Verdon-Roe DFC RAFVR -156 (PFF) Squadron
Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Flying Training School; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; intelligence officer; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Breighton; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
My overseas service by Raymond Barrett
Bomber Command and Notes of Some of My Experiences During 1941-1945
Tags: 102 Squadron; 4 Group; 617 Squadron; 77 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Bismarck; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Elvington; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Jurby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; Schräge Musik; service vehicle; Stalag 4B; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stearman; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator
To war in a Stirling - the life and times of Flight Lieutenant Stanley Robert Grafton DFC RAFVR
Tags: 10 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1653 HCU; 26 OTU; 3 Group; 90 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; B-17; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing up; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fuelling; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; military service conditions; mine laying; nose art; observer; Operational Training Unit; petrol bowser; RAF Abingdon; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Watton; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wing; RAF Wratting Common; service vehicle; Stirling; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Wimpey Nights - the life and times of Pilot Officer Gerry Stone RAF
Tags: 115 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 20 OTU; 38 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing up; debriefing; final resting place; forced landing; ground personnel; Halifax; Harrow; intelligence officer; killed in action; Me 110; mine laying; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Alconbury; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; recruitment; Scharnhorst; service vehicle; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force