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- Tags: military ethos
Interview with James Flowers
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; fear; final resting place; Fw 190; Ju 88; love and romance; Master Bomber; Me 109; Me 262; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); P-51; Pathfinders; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; recruitment; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger force; Wellington
More than one liberty
Fifty years on
Letter to his wife from Herbert Gray.
A poem to Billy
This is why I joined the RAF
Ode to an air gunner
Interview with Charlie Darby
Tags: 100 Group; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; heavy conversion unit; 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 Bob Frost. One
Interview with Charles Philip Blackham
Interview with Ian Denver
Interview with Harold Kirby
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; Window
Interview with David Leicester
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; superstition; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Ted Mawdsley
Tags: 103 Squadron; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Catalina; dispersal; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; perception of bombing war; RAF Elsham Wolds; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Raymond Moore
Tags: 408 Squadron; 426 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; faith; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Brackla; RAF Cosford; RAF East Moor; RAF Halton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF St Athan; recruitment; sport; training
Interview with Douglas Reed
Tags: 156 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; ground crew; Halifax; Ju 88; 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 Peter Watson
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 300 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; fear; Fw 190; Gee; grief; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; radar; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wyton; training
Interview with Rusty Waughman. One
Interview with Ralph Wild
Interview with Arthur Spencer
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; ground crew; Master Bomber; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; target indicator; training; Ventura; Wellington; Window
Victory in Europe card
Interview with Margaret Hourigan
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operations room; perimeter track; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; runway; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Graham Allen
Tags: 106 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 262; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodbridge; runway; Spitfire; Stirling