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- Tags: memorial
Interview with Bill Thomas
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; observer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Bicester; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Strubby; RAF Sywell; target photograph; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon
Tablet Perpetuating the Memory of Stan Hawes
Tags: memorial; missing in action
Castleford Grammar School War Memorial Service
Tags: killed in action; memorial
Interview with Irene Howard
Interview with Derry Derrington
Tags: 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; love and romance; memorial; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Driffield; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF West Freugh; sanitation; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Charlie Darby
Tags: 100 Group; 1658 HCU; 21 OTU; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Carnaby; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Driffield; RAF Foulsham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; sanitation; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Betty Bascombe
Interview with Sue Chaplin
Interview with Sandy Saunders
Tags: aircrew; bombing; C-47; crash; grief; Guinea Pig Club; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); memorial; pilot; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with George Dunn
He tells of his experiences as ‘second…
Tags: 10 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 608 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Anson; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground crew; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; memorial; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Downham Market; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; RAF Upper Heyford; Spitfire; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ken and Diana Odell
Interview with Donald Wallace
Interview with Jacqueline Assheton
Interview with William Edwin Barnett
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Raymond George Goss
Interview with David Jackson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 95 Squadron; aircrew; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; Sunderland; training; Victoria Cross
Interview with Andrzej Jeziorski
Tags: 301 Squadron; 304 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; memorial; pilot; radar; RAF Chivenor; RAF Manby; submarine; Wellington
Interview with Alan Jury
Interview with George Mackie
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 214 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; memorial; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Cranfield; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; searchlight; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington