About
Tony (Anthony Paul, A.P.) Kearns is a civilian historian to the Irish Air Corps and has spent over fifty years researching and writing about the organisation. He researches the history of the Air Corps and military aviation in Ireland with a special emphasis on Ireland during the Emergency period. He discusses the bombing of Campile and the bombing of the North Strand during the Emergency. He also discusses various personalities that have served in the Air Corps as well as some of the former Luftwaffe pilots and crews that he got to know through the course of his research. A series of interviews were conducted with Tony Kearns in 2016 and 2017 for the Military Archives Oral History Project.
