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- Tags: mid-air collision
William Warburton Sgt Flight Engineer RAF
Tags: 101 Squadron; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; mid-air collision; navigator; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; wireless operator
Interview with Bill Ballantyne
The Story of Flight Lieutenant John J Blair, DFC
John was born in 1919 to a poor…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 4 Group; 78 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; ethnic or religious minorities; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; medical officer; mid-air collision; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Kinloss; RAF Oakington; RAF Pocklington; RAF Tangmere; sport; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Interview with John Robert Watson
Interview with Rex Statham
Interview with Ken Fawcett
Tags: 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; crash; ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; training; Wellington
Interview with Alan Avery Farr
Interview with John Ormerod
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; ethnic or religious minorities; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator; York
Interview with a navigator from 101 Squadron
Interview with Gilberto Martina
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; coping mechanism; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; H2S; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; mid-air collision; military living conditions; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Ludford Magna; sanitation; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Rusty Waughman. One
Interview with Dave Fellowes
Interview with Susan Chapman
Interview with Keith Campbell. Two
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; superstition; the long march
Interview with Keith Campbell. One
New museum in spotlight
Article 2 is a wartime memoir by Ivor Cole, 103 Squadron.
Article 3 describes some of the exhibits at the new Hendon museum.
Harry Parkins' flight engineer log book
Tags: 148 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); C-47; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; V-3; V-weapon