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                <text>14 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer James T Pickford DFM ( 743068  then 175421 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ) and contains his log book, correspondence, documents, objects and photographs.&#13;
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He flew in operations in Fighter Command Blenheim aircraft as a gunner in 1940 (has Battle of Britain clasp) before transferring to Bomber Command where he flew 51 complete operations on two tours as an air gunner with 207 Squadron.&#13;
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The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Geoffrey Pickford and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.</text>
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                <text>This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.</text>
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              <text>This stone was unlaid cartoon drawing - Munich</text>
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              <text>Two men standing in front of ruins with 'this stone was unlaid at Munich by 207 Squadron: F/Lt Pattinson, P/O Williams, Sgt Roberts, Sgt Ball, Sgt Eatock, F./Sgt Pickford, F/Sgt Barrett on 19/20 Sept 1942'.</text>
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