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[…]Gilbert: yes, I had two sets of wings.John Taylor: Why two sets.Jimmy Gilbert: You graduated as an American naval aviator, they called them and as an RAF pilot so you were allowed to wear two. It was quite funny, Outside the Stage Door Canteen there was a huge American marine with stripes down here […]
[…]p;           Well, he was a lawyer and he went back to... or he’d been over here with the RAF and he’d gone back to open, start a practice. I arrived one day and left the next day. I waspersuaded back, so I was there for three and a half ye[…]
[…]at lasted a bit better, that was the one about the bomber command which was written by John Wooldridge, who actually was a composer, but he was an ex-RAF man, as indeed Aubrey Baring was, and I remember we got a lot of Lincoln planes out of their cocoons – it was at the time when you could still do […]
[…]d this tremendous noise and thought it was a thunderstorm but within half an hour while we were still in bed though we very quickly got up, every aircraft on the aerodrome that we were supposed to be defending was bombed out of existence. Not one of them ever took off. And we were absolutely flabber[…]
[…]And so I started and I got the Lord Mayor. I rang the Air Officer Commanding Northern Command, invited him and his wife and I got the band, the local RAF band for free, to play outside. I did this whole great thing out of a £10.00 budget, most of the budget, incidentally, went on - I had gold emboss[…]
[…]ction. We were no heating. We weren't allowed any heating. Any sort, we weren't allowed to open a proper door open, but there was no to be no forced drafts. And the amplifiers were the size of wardrobes. And I remember the valves, they were enormous. And the store will glow with a brilliant light. B[…]
[…]to its own. Was that after the war?A After the war. Now after the war, all the service people were members, that was all organised, you know, all the RAF and the - well all the services.Q What was it - the army...A Army and Phil Leacox stayed with us because he was billeted in Wembley, he stayed wit[…]
[…]for - they had to put in every three months for reserve occupation. So of course - forgot mine and forgot the other two - one of them ended up in the RAF! So anyway MOI said, "If these people were important to you, you wouldn't forget to apply for them," so of course that was it. Now they'd got thei[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 101[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1989-09-25Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Norman FisherTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: Copyright of the foll[…]
