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- Tags: military service conditions
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from 4 Group
Christmas Card from Arthur Hollis to his wife
Memoir by Arthur Hollis
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; Harvard; Home Guard; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Oxford; pilot; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Turweston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Westcott; Tiger force; training; Wellington
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 Colin Fraser
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crash; crewing up; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military service conditions; navigator; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF West Freugh; shot down; superstition; training; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Lachie McBean
Interview with Donald McDonald
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; entertainment; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; mess; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Frank Mottershead
Interview with Jean Smith
Tags: bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); control caravan; control tower; crash; flight engineer; ground personnel; love and romance; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; runway; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Don Southwell
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Max Spence
Interview with Herbert Tinning
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; coping mechanism; crewing up; fitter airframe; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); perception of bombing war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Jamie Barr
Tags: 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Gee; H2S; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington
Interview with Lesley Joseph Loosemoore
Interview with an Anonymous Interviewee
Tags: 222 Squadron; 419 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; coping mechanism; crash; evacuation; faith; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; memorial; military service conditions; operational training unit; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; Spitfire; training
Interview with Ronald Last
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; escaping; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; recruitment; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Dave Fellowes
Tags: 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 262; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; operational training unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; taxiway; training; Wellington
Interview with Rusty Waughman. One
Interview with Ted Stocker. Two
Interview with Murray Valentine
Interview with David Fellowes. Two
Interview with Stuart Michael Heaton
Interview with Alfred Huberman
Tags: 576 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; fear; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Master Bomber; military ethos; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; physical training; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Wyton; V-3; Wellington
Interview with Geoffrey Lenthall
Interview with Alun Emlyn-Jones
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Anson; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; gremlin; Halifax; Hurricane; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military service conditions; pilot; radar; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; Spitfire; Stirling; training; Whitley; York