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- Tags: military ethos
Interview with an anonymous interviewee (An01137)
"Fred" by Sylvia White (his cousin)
Tags: 101 Squadron; 620 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gneisenau; killed in action; mid-air collision; military ethos; RAF Penrhos; Scharnhorst; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Sergeant Thomas Joseph McLean DFM
My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
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
Fifty years on
Interview with Doris Reddish
Interview with Geoffrey Robinson
Tags: 626 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; military ethos; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Wickenby; searchlight; Tiger force
Interview with Harold Kirby. Two
Tags: 156 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; military ethos; Pathfinders; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Waddington; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window
Interview with Harold Allen
Interview with Peter Offord Davies. Part One
Walter Morris - 1939/45 War Record
Tags: 166 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bomb struck; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military ethos; military living conditions; mine laying; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Kirkham; RAF Kirmington; RAF Manby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wittering; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Description of operational flying
RAF Poem
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; military ethos; recruitment
I abandon now
Tags: fear; military ethos; RAF Cosford; RAF Tuddenham
Ernest Probyn and Letter from Sir Arthur Harris
The letter is a morale booster to encourage his airmen.
RAF notebook
Teddy's Career in the RAFVR 9th September 1939 - 11th October 1941
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Defiant; ditching; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; meteorological officer; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; propaganda; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; sport; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator