Blyth, Thomas Sidley
Title
Blyth, Thomas Sidley
T S Blyth
Description
Twenty-one items. The collection concerns Thomas Sidley Blyth (b. 1913, Royal Air Force) and contains a mascot, documents and pictures as well as Peter Galan's, log book and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 51 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Ronald Blyth and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Ronald Blyth and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Date
2017-05-16
Publisher
IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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Identifier
Blyth, TS
Collection Items
Thumbnail portraits of Peter Galan
Four thumbnail portraits of a man in various different civilian clothes.
Peter Galan's wedding
Bride and groom (in RAF uniform) along with three other airmen, one with pilot's brevet standing in the doorway of a house. Another man wearing civilian suit standing on the left. Captioned 'Wedding of P/O Galan'.
Airman looking out of cockpit of a Halifax
View of front fuselage of a Halifax with fox nose art and eight bomb symbols, with an airman wearing side cap looking out of cockpit window.
Seven aircrew
Seven airmen wearing tunics with brevet and side caps. Four sitting and three standing behind. Captioned 'Seated left to right, P/O F McLelland, F/O G Russell, F/L T.S. Blyth, P/O P Galan, Standing left to right, Sgt N Chappell, F/Sgt J Littlejohns,…
Five aircrew
Five airmen wearing parachute harnesses standing in line in front of the fuselage of a bomber. Captioned 'From L to R, Sgt P Galan, P/O C Russell, F/O T Blyth, Sgt F Littlejohns, ?'.
Five airmen
Five airmen, four in shirtsleeves and one wearing tunic standing in front of a Halifax with fox nose art.
Seven aircrew
Seven airmen wearing battledress with brevets and side caps standing in line in front of a Halifax with fox nose art.
View looking up at pilot
View from below looking up and an airman wearing side cap sitting in the left hand seat in cockpit.
Pilot Officer Peter R Galan
Head and shoulder portrait of an RAF officer wearing tunic with navigator brevet and peaked cap. Captioned 'P/O Peter R Galan, nav, 51 Sqn'.
Squadron Leader Thomas Sydley Blyth
Full face portrait of a man wearing civilian jacket and ties with pipe. Captioned 'Sq/Ldr Thomas Sidley Blyth, 51 Squadron pilot, 1961'.
51 Squadron and 20 Operational Training Unit badges
Squadron crest cloth badges for 51 Squadron and 20 Operational Training Unit.
Glasgow pilot wins DFC
Account of actions of acting Flight Lieutenant Thomas Blyth during attack on Frankfurt resulting in award of Distinguished Flying Cross. Includes b/w full face photograph and some biographical details.
Observer (navigator) cartoons
A number of cartoon drawings featuring observers - the brains of the bomber crew who takes the aircraft, crew and payload to where it will do the most good. It includes cartoons of a secretary, Albert Einstein and Adolf Hitler.
Squadron Leader T S Blyth's decorations
Letter from Buckingham Palace and six mounted decorations. Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Force Cross, 1939–1945 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Defence medal and War Medal 1939–1945.
Peter Galan's (Thomas Blyth's navigator) - navigators flying log book
Peter Galan’s Flying Log Book from 2 May 1943 to 26/27 March 1944, detailing training and operations as a navigator. His pilots on operations were Flying Officer Blyth and Flight Sergeant Foster. Based at RAF Abingdon (No. 10 Operational Training…
Newspaper cutting - more two-way blows on Germany
One single article covering with three separate columns. Headlines - RAF double attack on Schweinfurt, Regensburg plane works devastated, Big British forces out last night. Accounts of attack by British and Italian based American heavy bombers on…
Bombing of Germany
Headline - Stuttgart badly hit, factories ablaze. Internal headlines - hard-pressed Germans, feeling the strain including some pilot accounts. Bombs in centre - fires joined into one, pilots account of fires. Eluded fighter, another would not fire,…
Map showing routes of operations
Map from east of England to Germany with routes to numerous targets including Hamburg, Hanover, Magdeburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Duisburg, Essen, Kassel, Cologne, Aachen, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Stuttgart and Paris. A table at bottom right list bomb loads…
Collection Tree
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