Extracts from Jack Crawford's diary
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Extracts from Jack Crawford's diary
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Starts with activities on 29/30 August 1944. Some details of first operation (on Koenigsberg [sic]) and daily activities. Mentions being attacked by fighters, seeing several going down in flames and flying over Sweden. Follows with accounts of operations to Le Havre, Darmstadt, Stuttgart, Boulogne, Kaiserslautern, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Walcheren, Vlissingen, Braunschweig and Harburg. Continues description of activities and operations to Trondheim, Munich, Heilbronn, Houffalize, Dortmund-Ems canal, Brux, Seigen, Karlsruhe, Dortmund-Ems again at Gravenhorst. Mentions seeing scarecrow bursts and that tour had been extended to 36 operations. Mentions losses on many operations and other activities.
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J Crawford and John Herbert, “Extracts from Jack Crawford's diary,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed August 12, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/61236.
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