Interview with Edward Stanley Haysler

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British schoolboy and civilian in GB, 1939-1942; naval airman trained as pilot with Fleet Air Arm in GB and United States of America, 1942-1945; served with 846 Naval Air Sqdn, Fleet Air Arm in GB, 1945

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REEL 1 Background in Sydenham and Beckenham, GB, 1924-1939: family; education; attitude towards school's Officer Training Corps; ; early interest in aviation and membership of Air Training Corps. Aspects of period as schoolboy in GB, 1939-1942: awareness of political situation in Europe; memories of outbreak of Second World War, 3/9/1939; evacuation. REEL 2 Continues: role of school's Officer Training Corps with Home Guard; evacuation to Cornwall; employment; membership of rescue squad of Air Raid Precautions. Recollections of training with Fleet Air Arm in GB and United States of America, 1942-1945: selection interview at Admiralty, London; training at HMS St Vincent, Gosport; in transit at Aircrew Dispersal Centre, RAF at RAF Heaton Park; embarkation on board HMT Aquitania at Liverpool. REEL 3 Continues: arrival at RCAF Monkton, Canada; change of training base to Naval Air Station St Louis, United States of America; amusing story relating to discipline; opinion of his instructor and Boeing PT-17 Stearman; sequence of instruction including air-to-air gunnery; armament on Grumman Avenger; first deck landing on aircraft carrier; return to GB. Aspects of period as pilot with 846 Naval Air Sqdn, Fleet Air Arm in GB, 1945: reaction to dropping of atomic bombs on Japan, 8/1945; interior of Grumman Avenger. REEL 4 Continues: leave at end of Second World War, 8/1945. Aspects of period with Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in GB, 1949-1956: obtaining commission with Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 1949; reasons for not participating in Berlin Airlift; attitude towards training with Fleet Air Arm.

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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)
McDonough, Richard (Recorder)
Haysler, Edward Stanley (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2013-06-04
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 33895

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Interview with Edward Stanley Haysler

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