Lord, Jim

Title

Lord, Jim

Description

Two items. Collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Jim Lord who flew operations as a Lancaster pilot on 550 Squadron and Flying Officer John (Jock) Elliot who flew as his wireless operator. Collection consist of the transcript of a conversation with both and a photograph.

The collection was licensed to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dr Steve Bond and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

This collection was provided, in digital form, by a third-party organisation which used technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive.

Date

2022-01-18

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

SBondS-LordJv1

Collection Items

Seven aircrew in front a Lancaster
Seven aircrew wearing Mae West standing in line in front of a Lancaster. Aircraft has nose art of a cartoon spiv blowing smoke and moto "We Doodit". Submitted with caption 'Jim Lord & crew'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.

A conversation with Jim Lord and John Elliot
Gives brief service background of both. John Elliot tells of crewing up at 83 OTU and comments on crew members and going on to 1667 HCU). John Lord comments the the HCU Halifax were not good aircraft and both then relate a very unfortunate experience…
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