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- Tags: recruitment
The memoir of Eric William Scott
Tags: 142 Squadron; 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 Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Watchfield; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stearman; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Ernest Cutts' memoir
National Service letter for Dennis Raettig to attend medical
Tags: recruitment
National service (armed forces) acts medical questions
Tags: recruitment
My life in the RAF - chapter 1,2 and 3
Transcript of My life in 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
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve notice paper
Tags: recruitment
The Boy from Augusta by Frank J Allnutt
Interview with Bill Bailey
Tags: 31 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; crash; crewing up; forced landing; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; medical officer; memorial; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Aqir; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dalcross; recruitment; Resistance; training; Wellington
Interview with Don Crossley
Tags: 100 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Anson; B-29; bombing; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Grimsby; RAF Sandtoft; recruitment; Tiger force; training; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Interview with Mieczyslaw Maryszczak
Interview with Thomas Charles Arthur Long
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crewing up; demobilisation; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; propaganda; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Mepal; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; training
Interview with John Green
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; bomb disposal; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; shot down; training; Wellington
Letter to James Banks from the Air Ministry
Tags: demobilisation; recruitment
Conditions of entry and service in the pilot section of the Royal Air Force reserve
RAF volunteer reserve (wireless operator/air gunner section) notes for the information of candidates
Royal Air Force volunteer reserve form of application for enlistment for five years' service for flying duties
Tags: recruitment; training
Conditions of entry and service in the aircraft crew selection (air observers)
Tags: aircrew; navigator; observer; recruitment
A Guide for Airmen on joining the RAF
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; recruitment