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  • Creator is exactly "Victor Douglas Knox"

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Notes including Douglas' service numbers and qualification for the award of flying badge.

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Douglas requests papers relating to his commissioning into the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-40.pdf
Personal notes including on a conference, civilian witness and injury reports, long range navigational aids, Squadron merges and moves, officer responsibilities, runway conditions and downgrading of files.

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-39.pdf
Douglas' notes on accidents and operational duties. Includes 'to do' lists, suggested alterations to logs, operational failures, lists of missing, injured and killed.Additional information on Gordon Leslie Hyde is available via the IBCC Losses…

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-24.pdf
A collection personal notes including language, trips taken, operations, living conditions and screening. Includes an announcement of the wedding of Patricia Anne Moore Wiggett to Flying Officer James Crockett Davidson.

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-20.pdf
Armament notes and diagrams, of Leading Aircraftman V D Knox, covering aircraft sighting, bullet trails, theory of bombing, gunnery, pyrotechnics, engines, night flying, forced landings, cockpit drill and fuel systems.

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-19.pdf
Leading Aircraftman V D Knox's notes and diagrams covering, navigation, meteorology, maps and charts, compasses, system of lights, time and aids to navigation.

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Navigation examination paper for Leading Aircraftman Knox with examiner's comments.

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-04.pdf
Douglas' notes, diagrams and calculations pertaining to navigation. Includes details of a practice flight.

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Stamped 'RAF Censor 56' Douglas sends Christmas greetings to his parents, gran and Aunt Ada. He hopes that the next year will bring victory and peace.

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Stamped 'RAF Censor 937' Douglas wishes his parents a happy Christmas and describes his day including what he has eaten, parade, and attending a service in the church tent. Douglas describes the tradition of officers serving the airmen and mess…

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Stamped 'RAF Censor 56' Douglas write to his parents and comments on the state of the post and missing some letters from home. He says he had attended a concert party and an inferior show by ENSA.

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-25.pdf
Douglas records aircraft incidents including accidents, causes and fatalities with particular reference to the emergency landing ground at RAF Carnaby.Additional information on Sgt Jesse Cotton is available on the IBCC Losses Database.

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YKnoxVD63842v2.pdf
Covering the period 2 February to 11 May 1944 Douglas records aircraft incidents including accidents, causes and fatalities.Additional information on Flying Officer Hugh Barkley is available via the IBCC Losses Database.

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YKnoxVD63842v1.pdf
After completing 46 sorties Douglas is screened and describes his time in a transit camp and sailing back to England. Douglas also comments men he has served with, the state of hostilities and how he spent his leisure time on his immediate return.

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SKnoxVD63842v10036.pdf
He won a competition in 1932, the prize being a flight in Sir Alan Cobbams flying Circus. Interest began in 1938 - made an enquiry to join the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) but was advised they were only taking older men.
At the…

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Writing to Douglas Margaret encloses a copy of a letter Douglas had sent whilst he was serving in Egypt in which he describes the country, flying and family matters.

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List of dates and targets of Douglas' 45 operations totalling 326.50 hours.

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A list of costings for items of uniform including badges, slacks, caps and gloves totalling £36.10.4. Douglas thinks he will need further items and asks for an order of six pairs of black cashmere socks be made and says that people can be told that…

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A list of 42 operational targets undertaken by Douglas Knox to, Berlin, Hamburg, Kiel, Bremen, Emden, Cologne, Essen, Brest, Frankfurt, Ostend, Dunkirk, Stettin, Wilhelmshaven, Tobruk, Cretan Aerodromes and Battle Area.

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Handwritten note detailing steps to be taken in the organisation of a bombing raid.

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SKnoxVD63842v10037.pdf
Douglas describes his experiences at RAF Croft before moving to RAF Middleton-St-George. He talks of operations undertaken including one to Berlin in severe weather. Douglas references his crew; observer/navigator Jim Davidson; flight engineer George…

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