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06-06-2008, 11:07 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: May 2008
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You're Top Poster: #74   | Hi Hi Been reading this site for a while and eventually got around to joining. My main interest is in recording the experiences of people who lived through the war. I did a few interviews for the BBC People's War site, but most of them have been for the Second World War Experience Centre collection in Leeds. I have recently started putting together a website which details oral history collections (and websites) in the UK which include WWII recordings - Recollections of WWII, which may be of interest to some members. It is far from complete though (there are a lot of collections out there!). I'd be really pleased to hear from anyone who has been involved in interviewing people about their wartime experiences or who can suggest collections/sites to be included on the site. |
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06-06-2008, 11:11 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Officers' Mess, RAF Elwick, Cambridgeshire
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You're Top Poster: #12  | Hi there mathsmal and welcome  I have interviewed my great uncle, Flight Lieutenant Frank Prebble, DFC, and also Flight Lieutenant Ernie Mawson, DFC, who were a bomb-aimer and pilot in Lancaster bombers.
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06-06-2008, 03:08 PM
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You're Top Poster: #104 | New boy. He He! 'New' boy, at 78 in two months!!! Hi, I was 9 when the war started and have some memories. Left school in '44had a job at Grimsby naval base HMS Beaver, a naval messenger, bell bottoms as well! Did National Service in the Royal Artillery Ack Ack regiment. Three months after demob, I was in the Royal Air force, square bashing at Bridgnorth, trade training at Melksham (electrical mech) posted to RAF Binbrook, joined 617 Squadron working on Avro Lincolns. Later on I went on the fitters course, 6 months. When I came back, we had Canberra's, beautiful aircraft. I now help my wife breeding miniature poodles and putting time in at the local Aviation Museum. Ken |
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06-06-2008, 03:16 PM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Hi Mathsmal, Welcome to the forum. Andy in West Oz will undoubtedly be in touch.
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06-06-2008, 06:21 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Hi mathsmal and welcome back Canberra
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07-06-2008, 06:49 AM
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Hi Mathsmal, Welcome to the forum. I think you idea of building up a oral history is great, far too often, people who may have valuable information are ignored by historians because they are not part of the great and the good.
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