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- Tags: the long march
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Andrew Wiseman
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Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Stalag 3A; the long march
Behind Enemy Lines
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; Gneisenau; Hurricane; Me 110; memorial; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Marham; RAF Tangmere; Scharnhorst; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
Bob Burns - the hundred mile walk (Stalag Luft VII to Berlin) with saxophone and clarinet
Bob Burns (1525609)
Bob Burns information re saxophone and clarinet
David Joseph; World War II RAF Pilot and Prisoner of War
Details of prisoners of war forced trek from Luft VII Bankau to Luckenwalde
Display case
Educational work
Eric Hookings's life story book 2
Eric Sanger's prisoner of war logbook
Evacuation of Bankau Luft
Fred Hooker's notes after being shotdown
Geoffrey North account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
Geoffrey North rewritten account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
George, Jack and Dave
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; the long march
Henry Wagner's life story. Part one
Tags: 51 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; briefing; C-47; Caterpillar Club; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Dulag Luft; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; killed in action; Master Bomber; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; missing in action; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; target indicator; target photograph; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley; Window
How we took the good news from Grosse Tychow to Fallingbostel
Tags: animal; fear; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 4; the long march
Interview with Angas Hughes
Interview with Bill Hallett
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. One
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-Semitism; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Lancaster; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Wellington
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Two
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