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- Tags: physical training
Interview with Alfred Huberman
Tags: 576 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; 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; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; physical training; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Wyton; training; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Margaret Habberfield
Interview with Cyril Abbotts
Tags: 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; physical training; pilot; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carlisle; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Gamston; RAF Heaton Park; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; recruitment; sanitation; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Interview with George Haig
Interview with Hugh Parry. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 3 Group; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; guard room; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Me 163; military ethos; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; perception of bombing war; physical training; RAF Bridlington; RAF Mepal; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silloth; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Westcott; RAF Woolfox Lodge; reconnaissance photograph; Spitfire; training; Wellington
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Derrick Allen physical fitness test record card
Tags: physical training; training
No 10 NCOs physical training re-qualifying course
Tags: physical training; training
No 2 P.T. Re-qualifying Course
Tags: physical training; training
In my Younger Years
Form 1835A Physical Fitness Record.
Included is 'Achievement Scales' with annotations in the Good range.
Form 667B Flying clothing card.
Tags: aircrew; physical training; training
Physical Fitness Test Record Card
Ivor Cole's Physical Fitness Test Record Card
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Tags: entertainment; physical training; training
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
... just ... Chapters in a Life .. and some History
Tags: 10 Squadron; 4 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Botha; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Defiant; ditching; Dominie; Dulag Luft; entertainment; flight engineer; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lysander; Me 109; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; radar; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Cosford; RAF Hendon; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Padgate; RAF Sywell; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Yatesbury; Red Cross; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter from Jimmy Doughty to his sister Winnie
Interview with Charles McNally
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; physical training; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wroughton; sport; Tiger Moth; training
Leonard Dorricott's wartime letters to his parents
Interview with John Taylor
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); C-47; crewing up; demobilisation; entertainment; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; physical training; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; recruitment; rivalry; searchlight; Stirling; training; Wellington