Hunter, Heath (Oral history)

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British NCO pilot trained in GB, US and Canada, 1943-1945

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REEL 1 Recollections of background in Murton and Billingham, 1921-1940: family background and social circumstances; education and sporting activities; recreations; air raid alarm on outbreak of war, 3/9/1939; Anderson shelter; damage to house during German air raid, 26/6/1949; moving house; work as trainee buyer in Supply Division, Imperial Chemical Industries, Norton, 1941-1943; background to volunteering to join RAF and attending Air Crew Receiving entre, Padgate, 3/1942, including interview and selection as possible navigator. Training with Air Training Corps, Stockton Grammar School, 2/1942-1/1943: uniform; Morse code training; aircraft recognition; theory of flight; drill; summer camp at Thornaby airfield including flight in Avro Anson and anti-aircraft fire. REEL 2 Continues: summer camp at Thornaby airfield; call up for RAF, ca 1/1943. Period at Air Crew Reception Centre, Lords Cricket Ground, St John's Wood, London, 1/1943-2/1943: reception; kitting out; haircut; apartment accommodation; pay parade; food rations; question of bromide in tea; drill; effect of vaccinations. Recollections of period with No 17 Initial Training Wing, Scarborough, ca 2/1943-5/1943: hotel accommodation; training on Browning machine gun; clay pigeon training; theoretical navigational training; guard duty; question of weapons training; aircraft recognition; teetotalism; relationship with recruits and instructors; hospitalisation with German measles. Recollection of trials as possible pilot on Tiger Moth at Grading School, Derby, ca 6/1943-7/1943: school billets; air familiarisation flight; method of taking off. REEL 3 Continues: aircraft controls and instruments; methods of recovery from spin and landing; tests to analyse progress and first solo after 12 hours; passing for training as pilot. Period at Heaton Park, Manchester, ca 7/1943-8/1943: minimal duties; billets. Voyage aboard Andes to New York, US, 10/1943: VD cases; canteen duties; hammocks; question of seasickness; U-Boat threat. Period at Monckton Camp, Canada, 10/1943-12/1943: train journey; guard duty and case of accidental shooting; minimal duties; food rations. Recollections of period flying Cornell Monoplane at Elementary Flying Training School, de Winton airfield, Calgary, Alberta, US, ca 12/1943-2/1944: train journey; hut accommodation; nature of Cornell Monoplane. REEL 4 Continues: 'circuits and bumps'; cross country flights and navigation methods; aerobatics including looping and rolling; relationship with flying instructors; winter weather; blind instrument flying; Link Flying Trainer. Period with holding unit at Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2/1944-9/1944: temporary suspension of flying training'; gardening duties and making footpaths; personal morale. Recollections of period flying Anson with Service Flying Training School, Claresholm, Canada, 9/1944-11/1944: nature of Anson; winter conditions and clearing snow from runway; flying training programme; bombing simulator; cross country flights; instructor killed low flying; low flying exercises and story of pilot accidentally landing on lake; practice emergency landings; question of selection as bomber pilot; final test and passing out as sergeant pilot; stories of leave in Hollywood, Los Angeles, US, ca 1/1944. REEL 5 Continues: stories of leave in Hollywood, Los Angeles, US, ca 1/1944, including train journey, unofficial flight in US aircraft, visit to Salt Lake City, bus journey, meeting VIPs during visit to Hollywood Canteen and return journey;. Period at Monckton Camp, 11/1944-12/1944. Voyage aboard Queen Elizabeth to GB, 12/1944: conditions; relationship with US soldiers> Period at Harrogate, 12/1944-5/1945: US food rations on train journey; minimal duties; reactions to approach of end of war; attending engineering course. Period flying Wellington with Operational Training Unit, Moreton in Marsh, 5/1945-6/1945: nature of Wellington; method of forming crew; cross country flights; relationship with crew; prior VE Day celebrations, 8/5/1945; question of Far East posting. Period flying Lancaster with Heavy Conversion Unit, North Luffenham, ca 7/1945-8/1945: nature of Lancaster; practice bombing; 'corkscrew' evasive manoeuvre. REEL 6 Continues: reactions to VJ Day, 15/8/1945; desire to remain in RAF; leave and question of being classed as AWOL. Various postings in RAF. 1945-1946: decision to remain in RAF; period as engineering instructor on Mosquito at Cottesmere; various movements and flying Tiger Moth; reactions to compulsory demobilisation, 1/1946. Post-war career: review of career in oil industry; attitude to service in RAF.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Hart, Peter M (Recorder)
Hunter, Heath (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2009-02
Dimensions: whole: Duration 180, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 32389

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