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Interview Notes: 410364 Don McDonald, 578 and 466 Sqn Halifax pilot 1944-45
Tags: 466 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; Halifax; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Rufforth; training
Letter to Charles Hamilton's Mother
Tags: 85 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; missing in action; pilot; prisoner of war
Commissioning form
Tags: aircrew; pilot; promotion; RAF Wigsley
Pilot's and Flight Engineer's Notes - Lancaster
This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.
Pilot's and Flight Engineer's Notes - Lincoln
This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; Lincoln; pilot
Pilot's and Flight Engineer's Notes - Stirling
This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; pilot; Stirling
A Reminiscence of the Flying Characteristics of Many Old Type Aircraft
Tags: aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Defiant; Dominie; Fw 190; ground crew; Halifax; Harvard; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Magister; Manchester; Me 109; Mosquito; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Pembrey; RAF Prestwick; RAF West Freugh; Spitfire; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); York
Letter to Reg Wilson's Mother
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; pilot; prisoner of war
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Alan McInnes memoir
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Tags: 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Fw 190; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); ground personnel; H2S; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Lichfield; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wyton; Red Cross; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; target indicator; the long march; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Donald MacIntosh
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Bardney; Tirpitz
Interview with Charles Mears
Tags: 218 Squadron; 5 BFTS; African heritage; aircrew; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; crewing up; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; navigator; Oxford; pilot; propaganda; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF Methwold; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Woodbridge; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Bill Leckie. One
Interview with Bill Leckie.
Letter from Albert Evans to Mary and Bill Edwards
The Shooting Down of Allan Smith
The second part of the story is written by a German pilot who was involved in shooting down the damaged…
Notes of Interview with William Parry 9 Squadron Ground Crew
Interview with Rusty Waughman. One
Tags: 101 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; coping mechanism; faith; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mid-air collision; military ethos; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; superstition; target photograph; wireless operator
Interview with George Dunn
Tags: 10 Squadron; 20 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); civil defence; crewing up; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; military ethos; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Benny Goodman. One
Interview with Jo Lancaster. One
Interview with Phillip Winter
Interview with Alec Stuart Dixon
Interview with Harry Inkpen
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