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Interview with Queenie Hall.
Queenie 'Robbie' Hall was born in Suffolk and had wanted to join the WRNS while under age; she bluffed her way into the RAF instead. She describes volunteering, her recruitment and training. At first she worked in kitchens but remustered as a clerk…
Interview with Roger Rogers. Two
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Roger Rogers’ real name was Joseph Clement Augustine Rogers but was renamed by his crew as Roger. Although he was in a Reserved Occupation he was determined to join the RAF having been fascinated by aviation since childhood. He lied about his age to…
Interview with Roger Rogers. One
‘Roger’ Rogers trained as a rear gunner. On one operation he saw what he describes as a salmon in the sky above their aircraft. This was the reflection of fires below on the metal of the German aircraft. As it manoeuvred to attack Roger managed to…
Interview with Jeff Brown. Four
At the end of the war Jeff found himself posted to Germany working as an equipper which didn’t interest him at all. He retrained as an armourer but he really wanted to continue to fly. He successfully re-mustered as a pilot and went to Canada for…
Interview with Jeff Brown. Three
Jeff Brown flew on a wide variety of aircraft during his career in the RAF. While flying in a Wellington they flew in a thundercloud and fell from twelve thousand feet to four thousand feet out of control.
Interview with Jeff Brown. Two
Jeff Brown took part in the Operation Manna flights and was honoured by the Dutch people many years afterwards. The low flying over the drop-zones left a lasting impression on Jeff. He also describes metal falling off his aircraft during an impromptu…
Interview with Jeff Brown. One
Jeff Brown was working as an apprentice electrician before he volunteered for the RAF. He had always had a fascination for aircraft and wanted to fly. He trained as a wireless operator air gunner. He was then streamlined into straight air gunner…
Interview with Reginald Walter Jordan. Three.
Liberator pilot Reg Jordan flew with 356 Squadron on the Burma Campaign. Returning from one operation his rear gunner recognised a Japanese fighter beside them performing acrobatics. This was part of a decoy operation as the other Japanese fighters…
Interview with Reginald Walter Jordan. Two.
Reginald Jordan trained as a pilot in Canada before being posted to RAF Hampstead Norris. In this interview he describes his first impression of the RAF selection procedure and his first flights with his squadrons. His first operation was leaflet…
Interview with Reginald Walter Jordan. One.
Reg Jordan volunteered for the RAF on his eighteenth birthday. He initially thought he would apply as a gunner but was trained as a pilot in Canada before being posted to his operational squadron. His first operation was leaflet dropping over…
Interview with Harry Hacker. Two
Description of a painting of dropping supplies as partisans waved to the crew.
Interview with Harry Hacker. One
Harry Hacker was in a Reserved Occupation with the Post Office when he and his friend volunteered for the RAF. He had lived through the Liverpool Blitz. He trained as a bomb aimer and was sent to South Africa to complete his training. While enroute…
Interview with Calton Younger
Calton Younger discussed his experiences as a prisoner of war with a producer who was hoping to make a film about the life of Dixie Deans.
Interview with Kathleen Mary 'Molly' Deans
Molly Deans was the wife of James ‘Dixie’ Deans who was the leader of several prisoner of war camps after he was shot down in September 1940. She describes the struggle to find out what had happened to him after he was posted as missing. She received…
Interview with John Dominy and Peter Thomas MP
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Radio interview with Ron Mogg, Dixie Deans, Peter Thomas and Cyril Aynsley following the publication of, “The Sergeant Escapers” written by Ron Mogg. General conversation about the democratic make up of the prisoner of war camps they were held in,…
Interview with Dixie Deans. Three
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Part 1 – interview with Dixie Deans detailing his attempts to get to the British front line to inform them POWs were in the area where the RAF were bombing and to desist from the action.
Part 2 – a radio interview with John Bristow about how he…
Part 2 – a radio interview with John Bristow about how he…
Interview with Dixie Deans. Two
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Dixie Dean was shot down over the German/Dutch border and became a prisoner of war. He was elected as camp leader at the first prisoner of war camp which was a post he maintained at all further camps where he was held. He sent/received coded messages…
Interview with Dixie Deans. One
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James ‘Dixie’ Deans joined the RAF in 1936 as a direct entry pilot. He trained at White Waltham and Abu Suweir. At the outbreak of war he flew Whitleys from Linton on Ouse. His aircraft was struck over Berlin and although he managed to get to the…
Dixie on the march
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James ‘Dixie’ Deans was captain of a Whitley bomber when after twenty five operations he was shot down on the 10th of September 1940 and became a prisoner of war. He was imprisoned initially at Stalag Luft 1 where he became Camp Leader. He then moved…
Interview with Mark Kosky
Mark Kosky joined the ATC as a young man because he had a great interest in flying. He joined the RAFVR at the age of seventeen upon the outbreak of war. His mother was a Londoner and his father was Polish and Mark was raised in the city in the…
Interview with Harry Richardson
Harry describes his early life and operations on Wellingtons with 149 Squadron and then on Liberators in the Far East with 59 Squadron.
Interview with Samuel Adolphus Jordon
Samuel Jordon grew up in British Guiana and volunteered for the Air Force when he was 18. He discusses his journey to the UK, his training and work as a clerk.
While training at RAF Melksham the war ended. He was then posted to the Number 1 School…
While training at RAF Melksham the war ended. He was then posted to the Number 1 School…
Interview with Carolin Richter
Carolin Richter discusses the Flightpath of Friendship, the memorial in the woods at Katzenelnbogen, and the relationship between Bomber Command navigator Arthur Lee and German soldier Rudi Balzer.
J Humphries audio memoir
J Humphreys trained as a wireless operator before being posted to 640 Squadron at RAF Leconfield. In this recording he recounts being attacked and his aircraft being severely damaged. They managed to return to the UK flying only about fifty yards…
Interview with W Pilling
W Pilling trained as a gunner before joining 102 Squadron at RAF Pocklington. During a training flight he jumped out of a burning Whitley. While at his first squadron he flew with several crews and when he no longer flew with them they had a tendency…