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Hill Topics Vol. 1 No. 2 December 1943
The Flying Gopher September 1942
The Flying Gopher January 1943
Tags: aircrew; arts and crafts; entertainment; gremlin; Harvard; love and romance; sport; training
The Woodpecker, February 1944
Tags: arts and crafts; entertainment; sport; training
B. O. N. magazine - May 1943
B. O. N. magazine - July/August 1943
Keith Dexter first 15 colours
Tags: sport
Letter from Arthur Phillip Price to his mother
Interview with Steven Downes
The Woodpecker magazine - October 1943
Tags: arts and crafts; entertainment; sport; training
Alan McInnes memoir
He…
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 Tom and Gabi Wilson
Australian Red Cross Welcomes You
Tags: entertainment; Red Cross; sport
Interview with Geoff Payne
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 109; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Audrey Teasdale
Audrey was 23 when the war started and was conscripted on 15 December 1942 electing to join the WAAF. After her kitting…
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; animal; bombing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morecambe; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; sport; Stirling; strafing; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Union Jack newspaper 25 July 1945
Page 1 headline is: 'I SAW GENERAL SHOOT AT PRISONERS'.
Page 2 is given over to the forthcoming General…
Tags: bombing; entertainment; Holocaust; prisoner of war; sport
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon