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- Tags: strafing
Water under the bridge
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 3 Group; 620 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Defiant; Do 217; Dominie; Dulag Luft; evading; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; Halifax; 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; Pathfinders; petrol bowser; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Marham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Turweston; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Red Cross; service vehicle; Stirling; strafing; tractor; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Alberto Buvoli
Interview with Guido Toccacieli
Laconia incident. Part 9
Tags: arts and crafts; strafing
Interview with John Harrison
Interview with Joseph Musgrove
Tags: 102 Squadron; 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; crewing up; Defiant; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; Halifax; mine laying; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Madley; RAF Shenington; RAF Topcliffe; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; wireless operator
Interview with Douglas Robinson
Tags: 158 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; forced landing; Gee; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; submarine; Sunderland; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ron Wade
Tags: 58 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; Ju 88; Nissen hut; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Morecambe; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Whitley
Interview with Stan Instone
Tags: 419 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; strafing; the long march; training
Interview with Elizabeth Anne Tyler
Interview with Ada Breschi
Tags: bombing; evacuation; strafing
Interview with Gino Muratori
Interview with Louis Makens
Tags: 196 Squadron; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; evading; Fw 190; Halifax; mine laying; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Witchford; shot down; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; strafing; the long march; training; Wellington
Interview with James William Birchall
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bale out; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; lynching; Me 109; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Seighford; RAF Wickenby; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington
Dick Curnock's Wartime Log
My War Story
Tags: 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; lynching; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elvington; RAF Gaydon; RAF Inverness; RAF Manston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Red Cross; sanitation; service vehicle; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Paolo Bottani
Interview with Guido Dell’Era
Interview with Franco Nocchieri
Tags: animal; bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; Pippo; Resistance; strafing
Interview with Angela Bianchi
Interview with three survivors of the Po valley bombings
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; Pippo; Resistance; strafing
Interview with Tullio Magnani
Interview with Andreino Pagano
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; Pippo; strafing