Turle, William James (Oral history)

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Object description

British civilian pilot served with Air Transport Auxiliary in GB, 1940-1945

Content description

REEL 1 Background in Boscombe and Bournemouth, GB, 1904-1939: family; education; employment as mechanic; work as steward on ocean liners during Prohibition in United States of America; learning to fly at Christchurch Airfield with Civil Air Guard, 1935-1936. Aspects of period as NCO with Royal Air Force in GB, 1939-1940: call-up for service with Royal Air Force, 1939; attitude to being made instructor on Link Trainer; obtaining discharge from Royal Air Force. Recollections of period as pilot with Air Transport Auxiliary in GB, 1940-1945: joining Air Transport Auxiliary at ATA White Waltham, 1940; initial role as air gunner on Avro Anson; problems of not wearing uniforms on Royal Air Force stations, 1940; issue of uniform; method of obtaining maps and pilots notes; encounter with German aircraft during ferry flight; training to fly different categories of aircraft; opinion of training; arrival of American pilots; punishment for drinking. REEL 2 Continues: role as night duty officer; presence of ex-Royal Air Force pilots in Air Transport Auxiliary; loss of ex-Royal Air Force pilot flying Bristol Beaufighter; classification of pilots; problems with weather conditions; question of poor meteorological information; duties as test pilot at Bristol Aircraft Company; incident of problem with Supermarine Spitfire engine; confidence in ground crews; problems with duty officer during forced landing in Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle; taxiing accident in Hawker Hurricane at Cardiff; priority flights; conversion course onto four engined aircraft; flying hours; status of Air Transport Auxiliary pilots with Royal Air Force; attitude to loss of pilots; fate of nervous pilot; leave periods; ferrying passengers. REEL 3 Continues: American reaction to his navigating without maps; memories of Amy Johnston, 1941; opinion of female pilots; flights to North West Europe; treatment of German civilians by French Army troops in occupied Germany; sight of devastated German cities; ferrying former French prisoners of war; ferrying collaborators to Isle of Man; ferrying fuel and engines; brief encounter with German aircraft over west of GB; leaving Air Transport Auxiliary; return to civilian life; attitude to having served with Air Transport Auxiliary during Second World War.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Stovold, Jan R (Recorder)
Turle, William James (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1987-05-05
Dimensions: whole: Duration 90, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 9803

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Turle, William James
Johnson, Amy
Air Transport Auxiliary
British Government, Civil Air Guard
Aircraft Company, Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd
Associated places

England, United Kingdom
Boscombe, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Wales, United Kingdom
Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Isle of Man, United Kingdom
Germany
Associated subjects

Aircraft, British: Bristol Beaufighter
Aircraft, British: Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle
Associated themes

Air Operations, 1939-1945: Air Transport Auxiliary, 1939-1945

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