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- Tags: military ethos
Biography of Reg Miles
Tags: 346 Squadron; 347 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 6 Group; 77 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb aimer; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; crash; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; Fw 190; Gee; Grand Slam; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Hampden; hangar; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); home front; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 109; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Carnaby; RAF Dishforth; RAF East Moor; RAF Elvington; RAF Halton; RAF Langar; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Prestwick; RAF Shawbury; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Tilstock; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; searchlight; Second Tactical Air Force; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Interview with Jeff Mackay
Memories of WWII
Tags: 115 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; Dominie; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; promotion; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with David Fellowes. Two
Tags: 1656 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Finningley; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hixon; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
A miraculous escape from certain death in world war 2
Ops are on. Maximum effort
Interview with Pauline Alexander
Interview with Bert Hammond. Two
Letter from Air Commodore A.C.H. Sharpe to Leonard Cheshire
Letter from Group Captain D D Christie to Air Commodore Sharpe
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flying Officer A Hickman
Letter from Leonard Cheshire to Air Commodore A C H Sharpe
Letter from Leonard Cheshire to Squadron Leader Noel Vincent
Letter from Leonard Cheshire to Flying Officer R A Stult
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flying Officer F N Lawrence
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flight Lieutenant H Goodwin
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Sergeant Thomas Joseph McLean DFM
From Andrew to Isabel's Aunts Mary and Margaret
Tags: aircrew; fear; military ethos; RAF Mepal
From Andrew to Mr Williamson
Tags: aircrew; military ethos; RAF Mepal
Eichenlaubträger Generalfeldmarschall Paulus an die Deutsche Wehrmacht und das Deutsche Volk
Tags: military ethos; prisoner of war; propaganda
Two stories and a letter by Ted Neale
#2 Designated pilots-navigators or bomb aimers at Heaton Park then sent to Bridgnorth to await a ship to South…
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; military ethos; navigator; RAF Bridgnorth; training; Wellington
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; military ethos; RAF Upwood; training
Interview with John Robert Watson
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; flight engineer; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mid-air collision; military ethos; Pathfinders; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Ouston; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; searchlight; training; Wellington
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); faith; fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington