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- Tags: service vehicle
Interview with Alma Leedham
Tags: 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; animal; bomb dump; bomb trolley; bombing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; hangar; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; service vehicle; tractor; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Audrey Hazel Baker
Interview with Bessie Birkby
Interview with Cecil Harry Chandler
Tags: 15 Squadron; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control caravan; crash; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF Woodbridge; sanitation; Schräge Musik; service vehicle; Stirling; training
Interview with Charles Bland
He tells of his training at Halton, and describes the different trades and his exams to become an Leading Aircraftsman 1st Class, where he…
Tags: Beaufighter; C-47; fitter airframe; fitter engine; ground crew; ground personnel; Meteor; military discipline; military service conditions; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Coningsby; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Waddington; RAF Worksop; service vehicle; Spitfire; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Interview with Cyril Gosling
Tags: 49 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 617 Squadron; animal; bomb trolley; civil defence; crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Home Guard; Lancaster; Manchester; RAF Kirkham; RAF Scampton; service vehicle; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Don Watson
Interview with Eric Peel
Interview with Frank Saunston
Interview with Harold Beech. One
Interview with Harold Mercer
Tags: 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; 77 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; entertainment; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Pembrey; RAF Rufforth; RAF Weston-super-Mare; service vehicle; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Harry Harris
Tags: 105 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control caravan; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Halifax; Lancaster; love and romance; Me 262; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; promotion; RAF Downham Market; RAF Elsham Wolds; searchlight; service vehicle; submarine; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Herbert Adams
Tags: 467 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Anson; bombing; control caravan; Cook’s tour; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fuelling; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; military living conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Lichfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; sanitation; Schräge Musik; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Hilary Robinson
Interview with Jean Smith
Tags: 27 OTU; 3 Group; 5 Group; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); control caravan; control tower; crash; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); 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; prisoner of war; RAF Fauld; RAF Lichfield; runway; service vehicle; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; superstition; the long march; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with John Philip Lambourn
He was classed as working in a reserved occupation, but joined the Air Training…
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; crewing up; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military ethos; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; recruitment; Scarecrow; service vehicle; Stirling; target indicator; training
Interview with Ken Johnson. One
He had a spell at the Operational Training Unit,…
Interview with Ken Johnson. Two
Interview with Kenneth Shelton Green
He trained as an engineer after he was unable to fly due to eye…
Interview with Lesley Joseph Loosemoore
Tags: 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; fear; Grand Slam; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; service vehicle; Stirling; Tallboy; training; Wellington
Interview with Lillian Margret Bailey
Interview with Margaret Hourigan
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; entertainment; faith; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; lack of moral fibre; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operations room; perimeter track; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; runway; service vehicle; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force