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- Tags: recruitment
Your Place in the Air Crew Team
WW2 Service in the RAAF Robert Wylie Smith
Tags: Air Observers School; aircrew; recruitment; training
Women's Auxiliary Air Force - Notes for the Information of Candidates
Wimpey Nights - the life and times of Pilot Officer Gerry Stone RAF
Tags: 115 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 20 OTU; 38 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing up; debriefing; final resting place; forced landing; ground personnel; Halifax; Harrow; intelligence officer; killed in action; Me 110; mine laying; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Alconbury; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; recruitment; Scharnhorst; service vehicle; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
William Roy Peter Perry declaration by recruit
Tags: aircrew; recruitment
Welcome to RAF letter to Henry Moss
Tags: recruitment
Welcome message from Secretary of State for Air
Tags: aircrew; recruitment; training
Welcome letter from Secretary of State for Air
Tags: recruitment
Welcome letter from Secretary of State for Air
Tags: aircrew; recruitment
Welcome letter from Secretary of State for Air
Tags: recruitment
We shall fight on unconquerable
Water under the bridge
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 3 Group; 620 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; C-47; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Defiant; Do 217; Dominie; Dulag Luft; evading; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; Halifax; intelligence officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; meteorological officer; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; padre; Pathfinders; petrol bowser; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Marham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Penrhos; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Turweston; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Red Cross; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Schräge Musik; searchlight; service vehicle; Stirling; strafing; tractor; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
WAAF Application for Enrolment
The second completed by Jose.
Transcript of My life in the RAF
Transcript of conversations with Jack Bromfield
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1659 HCU; 21 OTU; 6 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crewing up; Dominie; Dulag Luft; evading; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cosford; RAF Dalton; RAF Evanton; RAF Ford; RAF Lissett; RAF Madley; RAF Melksham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Tom Payne
Tags: bombing; civil defence; evacuation; firefighting; home front; recruitment
To Candidates accepted for enlistment as Aircraft Crew in the RAF Volunteer Reserve
Tags: recruitment; training
Thomas Thomson Notice Paper
Tags: aircrew; RAF Coningsby; recruitment; wireless operator
This is why I joined the RAF
The memories of LAC Fred Perkins
Tags: aircrew; animal; B-24; Battle; bomb trolley; bombing up; Defiant; demobilisation; fitter airframe; fuelling; ground crew; Hurricane; military living conditions; military service conditions; observer; petrol bowser; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Defford; RAF Kirkham; RAF Padgate; recruitment; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport
The memoir of Eric William Scott
Tags: 142 Squadron; 205 Group; 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; Flying Training School; Harvard; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Blida; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Kairouan; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Watchfield; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; Stearman; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington