Interview with Ernest Frederick Bambridge

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British officer served as pilot with 60 Sqdn, 3rd Tactical Air Force, RAF in India and Burma, 11/1943-5/1944

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REEL 1 Background in West Norwood, GB, 1921-1939: family; education; employment. Aspects of period as civilian in London, 1939-1941: reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1940; sheltering from German Air Force bombing of London Docks, 9/1940; nature of sheltering from German Air Force bombing including entertainment in shelters. Aspects of training as pilot with Royal Air Force in GB and United States of America, 1941-1942: volunteering for Royal Air Force, 1941; flying training in Phoenix, United States of America, 7/1941-12/1941; contrast in discipline between Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force; hospitality of American civilians; contact with United States Naval Constuction Battalions (Seebees); return to GB, 12/1941; question of height a pilot should be and request to be removed from bombing training. Aspects of period as pilot with Royal Air Force in Egypt and India, 1942-1943: journey to Egypt via Takoradi, Gold Coast. REEL 2 Continues: lack of role in Egypt, 2/1943-4/1943; members of his Bristol Blenheim crew; joining 60 Sqdn; conversion from Bristol Blenheim to Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC in Madras, summer 1943. Recollections of operations with 60 Sqdn, 3rd Tactical Air Force in India and Burma, 11/1943-5/1944: operations from RAF Agartala, India, 11/1943-3/1944; operations on Imphal Plain, India; operations from RAF Silchar, India, 20/3/1944- 4/5/1944; Imperial Japanese Army troops' skill at camouflaging themselves from air; conduct of ground attacks; weather conditions and their effects in Assam, India. REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of period as instructor with Jungle Self-Preservation School, Mahabaleshwar, India, 12/1944-5/1945: role and duties; instructional methods.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Bambridge, Ernest Frederick (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1999-12-04
Dimensions: whole: Duration 65, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 19910

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