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- Tags: wireless operator / air gunner
Letter to Mrs Roy Ellis from 199 Squadron
Interview with Jack Bell
Interview with Dennis Kelly
Official RCAF Casualty Notification
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; He 111; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; mess; navigator; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Derek Carington Evans
Tags: 625 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military discipline; military service conditions; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
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 James Christian Mortensen
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Distinguished Flying Medal; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; military ethos; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bottesford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Madley; RAF Methwold; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Card from Canadian minister of national defence to Mr and Mrs E B Jensen
Sam McCron's Personal Details
Interview with Philip Batty
Tags: 226 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; RAF Bridlington; RAF Coningsby; RAF Madley; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wattisham; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Charlie Darby
Tags: 100 Group; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; heavy conversion unit; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Carnaby; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Driffield; RAF Foulsham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; sanitation; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Roy White
Interview with Peter Woodard
Tags: 100 Group; 102 Squadron; 192 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; Cook’s tour; crewing up; H2S; Halifax; Mosquito; operational training unit; P-38; RAF Dumfries; RAF Foulsham; Raf Mauripur; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shenington; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Irene Bradbury
Interview with David Kenneth McKenzie Dall
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; heavy conversion unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Walter Raymond Stevenson
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Reg Woolgar
Tags: 100 Group; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; ditching; entertainment; fear; FIDO; final resting place; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; Hampden; killed in action; mine laying; missing in action; operational training unit; RAF Foulsham; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Gordon Atkinson
Book 1, Commencing My Life in the R.A.F. up till the End of I.T.W.
Tags: aircrew; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; entertainment; faith; ground personnel; Hurricane; killed in action; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Spitfire; sport; training; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Henry Moss
Tags: 138 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Gee; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lysander; Martinet; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Langar; RAF Pembrey; RAF Tempsford; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner