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Training Female Experience Black Experience Flying Teenage Experience Travel Parenthood Deployment Terrorism Leave Pets Religion BAME Experience POW Death Asian Experience LGBT Experience Achievement Technology Duty Injury Bravery Joining up Plane spotting Life on base Friendship Disability Career Hobbies Sport Weather Failure Defense Inspiration Jewish Experience

Technology

Aircraft Technologies
- British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3
- Folland Gnat F.1
- Boeing-Vertol Chinook HC.1
- Vickers Wellington (Mark unknown)
- Panavia Tornado GR.1
- Sepecat Jaguar GR.3A
- Lockheed-Martin F-35B Lightning II
- Westland Sea King (Mark unknown)
- Lockheed Hercules C.1
- Avro Lancaster (Mark unknown)
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- Hawker-Siddeley Harrier GR.3
- Lockheed-Martin F-35C Lightning II
- Panavia Tornado Series
- Supermarine Spitfire (Mark unknown)
- Avro Lincoln (Mark unknown)
- Avro Lincoln (Mark unknown)
- General Dynamics F-111 (Mark unknown)
- Short Belfast
- Handley Page Hampden Series
- Bristol Blenheim Mk. IV
- Vickers Wellington Mk. IC
- British Aircraft Corporation Lightning T.5
- Westland Sea King HAR.3
- Sopwith 2F.1 Camel
- Supermarine Spitfire (Mark unknown)
- De Havilland D.H.9A (Mark unknown)
- Avro Lancaster Series
- Hawker-Siddeley Harrier (Mark unknown)
- Avro York (Mark unknown)
- Douglas Dakota (Mark unknown)
- Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon
- Messerschmitt Me 262B (Mark unknown)
- Handley Page Halifax (Mark unknown)
- Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a
- Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (Mark unknown)
- Handley Page Victor Series
- Sopwith 1½ Strutter
- Bristol Blenheim Mk. IF
- Isaacs Spitfire
- North American Mustang (Mark unknown)
- Avro Lancaster (Mark unknown)
- Westland Sea King Series
- British Aircraft Corporation TSR.2
- Bristol Beaufighter (Mark unknown)
- English Electric Canberra Series
- Panavia Tornado (Mark unknown)
- Hawker-Siddeley Harrier GR.1
- Hawker Hurricane (Mark unknown)
- Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (Mark unknown)
- Bristol Blenheim (Mark unknown)
- Vickers Wellington Mk. I
- Handley Page Hampden (Mark unknown)
- Handley Page Hampden Mk. I
- Handley Page Halifax GR.V
- Handley Page Hastings Series
- Short Sunderland (Mark unknown)
- Lockheed Hercules Series (RAF)
- Sepecat Jaguar
- Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4
- Blackburn B-101 Beverley
- Vickers Vimy Series
- De Havilland D.H.71 Tiger Moth
- De Havilland Mosquito Series
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (Mark unknown)
- British Aircraft Corporation Jet Provost (Mark unknown)
- McDonnell Douglas Phantom (Mark unknown)
- Avro Lancaster Mk. I (Special)
- Avro Lancaster Mk. I (Special)
- Handley Page Halifax Mk. II
- Handley Page Halifax Series
- Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Series
- Boeing-Vertol Chinook Series (RAF)
- Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan B.2
- Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan B.2
- Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan Series
- Westland Wessex (Helicopter) Series
UAV Technologies
- Dornier Argus
Vehicle Technologies
- Burnham Class Destroyer

RAF Ranks

Air Marshal Air Marshal Aircraftwoman Class II Flight Lieutenant Clerk 1st Class Squadron Leader Acting Squadron Leader Captain Senior Aircraftman Warrant Officer Flight Sergeant Flight Officer Sergeant First Lieutenant Aircraftman Class I Cadet Warrant Officer Chief Technician Lieutenant Colonel Senior Aircraftwoman Major Corporal Warrant Officer Group Captain Flight Sergeant Wing Commander Flight Lieutenant Second Lieutenant Major General Air Commodore Chief Technician Pilot Officer Pilot Officer Sergeant Pilot Leading Aircraftwoman Flying Officer Sergeant Sergeant Squadron Leader Pilot II General Flying Officer Air Chief Marshal Flight Sergeant

Units

112 Squadron Bomber Command 1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit 1 (LAA) Wing, RAF Regiment 5003 Airfield Construction Squadron 50 Squadron 144 Squadron 230 Squadron 15 Bomb Disposal Squad 54 Squadron 602 Squadron 271 Squadron 37 Squadron, RAF Regiment 158 Squadron 149 Squadron 1402 Meteorological Flight 172 Squadron 203 Squadron 504 Squadron 320 Maintenance Unit 26 Wing 1 Squadron, RAF Regiment 148 Squadron 11 Operational Training Unit 13 Bomb Disposal Section 4 Squadron Far East Air Force Queen's Colour Squadron, RAF Regiment 11 Squadron RAF Odiham Station Flight 514 Squadron 166 Squadron Royal Air Force Training Base, Leuchars 138 Squadron 221 Squadron RAF Police 355 Squadron 18 Squadron

RAF Stations

RAF Sutton Coldfield RAF Bruggen MCU RAF Gibraltar RAF Biggin Hill RAF Compton Bassett RAF Gütersloh RAF Cottesmore RAF Scampton RAF El Adem RAF Akrotiri RAF Wilmslow RAF Boscombe Down RAF Duxford RAF Aldergrove RAF Finningley RAF Kenley RAF Wing RAF Wittering RAF Gibraltar RAF Spittlegate RAF Coningsby RAF Halton RAF Brize Norton RAF Bridgnorth RAF Cranwell RAF Eastleigh RAF Honington RAF Driffield RAF Cosford RAF Oakington RAF Waddington RAF Blackpool RAF Lindholme RAF Benson RAF Colerne RAF Warmwell RAF Burtonwood RAF Warboys RAF Lossiemouth RAF Kai Tak RAF Squire's Gate RAF Ascension Island

Military Events

Black Buck, 1982 Dieppe Raid, 1942 Allied Attacks on V weapons installations, Peenemunde, 1943-1944 Chastise, 1943 Escapes from Germany, 1939-1945 British Ground Operations In Iraq, 2003 to date Gulf War, 1990-1991 Battle of Britain, 1940 Occupation of France, 1940-1944 Cold War, 1946-1989 Lancaster Attack on Tirpitz, October 1944 Herrick, 2002-2014 Malaya Campaign, 1941-1945 Battle of Arnhem, 1944 Attack on Ceylon, 1942 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Catechism, 1944 Varsity, 1945 Occupation of Czechoslovakia, 1940-1945 Operation Desert Fox, 1998 Operations in Afghanistan, 2001 to date Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 Falklands Conflict, 1982 Bombing of Germany, 1939-1945 Blitz, The, 1940-1941 Allied Air Operations Over Iraq, 2003 Battle of Dunkirk, 1940 Allied Air Operations Over Iraq, 1991-2003 Battle of Atlantic, 1939-1945 Bombing of United Kingdom, 1939-1945 France Campaigns, 1939-1945 Telic, 2003 Bosnia War, 1993 to date Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949 Blockade of Berlin, 1948-1949 Attacks on France, 1939-1945 Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Attacks on Belgium, 1939-45 D-Day, 6 June 1944 Manna, 1945 (Netherlands) Invasion of Poland, 1939 Fall of Java, March 1942 Exodus, 1945 Liberation of Burma, 1944-1945

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I was grounded, that saved my life
Part 3 Flying operations over Germany
Covered in coal!
Terrible Retribution
Fighting for humanity
Four Lancasters went down that night, and only our crew survived
Steven Bacon
My father was very uneasy about being made a hero
Minnie Driver
We unloaded twelve tons in just over three minutes
Brian Conway
Stalin realised he wasn't going to succeed
Brian Conway
The will to succeed
Dr. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.
The Russians had cut off everything
Aldon Ferguson
The MIGs were looking for a reason to shoot us down
Peter Pilkington
We were doing something with a purpose
Dr. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.
I was shot at by a guy with a hunting rifle
Ed Smith
The German's acted as if they'd won the war
Ralph Levy
Go out on a raid and see for yourself!
Maurice Bennet
I don't want to worry you, but we only have ten minutes fuel remaining
Maurice Bennett
Only four of the crew came back
Keith Palmer
If they could cross the Rhine their war was won ...
RAF Film Production Unit, 1945
There was a certain amount of tampering with the rules
Ian Thomas
My mother always hoped that I'd be able to thank you one day
Vera Mitchrich
I was just a kid off the farm, but I'd heard all about the RAF
Gail Halvorsen
Nearly seventy people lost their lives
Brian Conway
We slept under the wings
Brian Conway
It had been set up to breed a super race
Brian Conway
The Germans would steal coal
Brian Conway
You realise that you've saved peoples' lives
Brian Conway
It wasn’t that they were bombing people they were bombing places.
Charlotte Barratt
The first confrontation of The Cold War
Dr. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.
Stalwart leaders and stout-hearted soldiers
Dr. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.
The West Berliners were going to be starved out
Dr. Harold E. Raugh, Jr
Nobody has that many planes anymore
Dr. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.
Someday we'll have enough food. But if we lose our freedom we'll never get it back
Gail Halvorsen
The Soviets desperately wanted us out of Berlin
Aldon Ferguson
Your parachutes are frightening the chickens!
Mercedes Simon
It was an air controller's nightmare
Dr. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.

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