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Group Captain Frank Moreton Griggs DFC DFM (Rtd) as a pilot Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Nos 218, 214 and 109 Squadrons Royal Air Force (RAF) and No 404 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), North West Europe 1940-1944, interviewed by Kevin Dickson
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Maker: Griggs, Frank Morton Dickson, Kevin Alexander
Discusses prewar education, 26th Light Horse, Citizens Military Force (CMF); enlistment; training; embarkation; SS Oranje; Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS); aircraft Anson; convoys. A transcript of ...S01775
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Group Captain John Brook Hampshire DFC (Rtd) as a pilot in RAAF and USAAF bomber operations, South West Pacific Area 1943-1945, recorded for Lex McAulay
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Maker: Hampshire, John Brook Hampshire, John Brook
Hampshire speaks of his RAAF flying experience from enlistment to 1942; operational experience as a bomber pilot with No 6 (Bomber) Squadron RAAF on Lockheed Hudsons with 43rd Operational Group USAAF ...S00486
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Howard Charles Lester as a RAAF pilot officer pilot No 185 (Fighter) Squadron RAF, Malta 1942, as related by Ella Lester, recorded for Lex McAulay
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Maker: Lester, Ella Lester, Ella
Howard Charles Lester as a RAAF pilot officer pilot No 185 (Fighter) Squadron RAF, Malta 1942.S00487
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Kathleen Harrigan as a transport driver, Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force (WAAAF), 1942-1945, interviewed by Edie Swift
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Maker: Harrigan, Kathleen May Swift, Edith Steel
Kathleen Harrigan joined the WAAAF in 1942. She was posted to Bradfield Park in Sydney for training and then to Bundaburg, Queensland as a transport driver and later to Townsville.S05161
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Pilot Officer N E Skinner, wireless operator, 149 Squadron RAF, 28-29 November 1942, describes the action for which Flight Sergeant Rawdon Hume Middleton was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
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Maker: Skinner, Norman Edward British Broadcasting Corporation
Rawdon 'Ron' Middleton VC was the captain of Stirling Bomber "H" for Harry, 149 Squadron RAF on the night of 28-29 November 1942. The aircraft was en route to bomb the Fiat factory in Turin, Italy whe...S00097
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"Voices from Overseas", Flight Lieutenant Virgil Paul Brennan DFC DFM, RAAF
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Maker: Brennan, Virgil Paul
Flight Lieutenant Paul Brennan is interviewed in this Red Cross "Voices from Overseas" radio recording. He was a decorated war hero, winning the DFC and DSM. He served six months at Malta. He gives hi...S00433