2 25 350 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2633/52525/LTurnerLA189027v1.1.pdf 5e6a8ec55e05dfdab1ccc67675400b66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Turner, Leslie Arthur Description An account of the resource Five items. An oral history interview with Leslie Arthur Turner (b. 1922, 189027 Royal Air Force), his log book, and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 10 Squadron. Post war he served as an air traffic controller in India. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Robert and Angie Lee and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-01-29 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Turner, LA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Leslie Turner's flying log book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LTurnerLA189027v1 Description An account of the resource L A Turner’s Flying Log Book from 20 April 1943 to 22 July 1944 detailing training and operations as a bomb aimer. He was stationed at Grahamstown (44 Air School), RAF Forres (No. 19 Operational Training Unit), RAF Marston Moor (No. 1652 Conversion Unit), RAF Melbourne (No. 10 Squadron). Aircraft in which flown: Anson, Oxford, Whitley, Halifax. Records 33 completed operations (15 day, 18 night) on the following targets in Belgium, France, Germany and Netherlands: Thiverny, Nucourt, Caen, Bottrop, May-sur-Orne, Dijon, Tirlemont, Brest, Sterkrade, Lumbres, Soesterberg, Le Havre, Kattegat (minelaying), Munster, Gelsenkirchen, Kiel, Boulogne, Dusseldorf, Calais, Essen, Cologne, Duisburg, Hagen, Bingen. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Harrison. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David Leitch Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Belgium France Germany Great Britain Netherlands South Africa Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea) England--Yorkshire France--Oise Scotland--Moray Belgium--Tienen France--Boulogne-sur-Mer France--Brest France--Caen France--Calais France--Dijon France--Le Havre France--Lumbres France--May-sur-Orne France--Nucourt Germany--Bingen (Rhineland-Palatinate) Germany--Bottrop Germany--Cologne Germany--Duisburg Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Essen Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg) Germany--Kiel Germany--Münster in Westfalen Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf) Netherlands--Soesterberg Scotland--Forres South Africa--Makhanda France--Thiverny France--Pas-de-Calais Germany--Ruhr (Region) Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943 1944-07-12 1944-07-15 1944-07-16 1944-07-18 1944-08-07 1944-08-08 1944-08-10 1944-08-11 1944-08-14 1944-08-15 1944-08-17 1944-08-18 1944-08-19 1944-08-25 1944-08-26 1944-09-01 1944-09-03 1944-09-10 1944-09-11 1944-09-12 1944-09-13 1944-09-15 1944-09-16 1944-09-17 1944-09-23 1944-09-25 1944-09-26 1944-10-04 1944-10-23 1944-10-28 1944-11-06 1944-11-21 1944-11-22 1944-11-28 1944-11-30 1944-12-02 1944-12-03 1944-12-12 1944-12-18 1944-12-22 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 10 Squadron 1652 HCU 19 OTU aircrew Anson bomb aimer bombing bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944) Halifax Halifax Mk 2 Halifax Mk 3 Heavy Conversion Unit Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) Operational Training Unit Oxford RAF Forres RAF Marston Moor RAF Melbourne tactical support for Normandy troops training Whitley https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2909/52465/LWearsKB631597v1.pdf 1f20077435e630ea2f695eab3f930bd1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wears, Kenneth Wear, K B Description An account of the resource Two items. The collection concerns Kenneth Wears (631597 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book and a photograph. He flew operations as a wireless operator/air gunner with 78, 38 and 8 Squadrons. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by David Gordon Clarke and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-05-02 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Wears, KB Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource K B Wears’ RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LWearsKB631597v1 Description An account of the resource K B Wears’ RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 2 July 1940 to 12 January 1945, detailing training, operations and instructional duties as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner. He was stationed at RAF Jurby (No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School), RAF Upwood (No. 17 Operational Training Unit), RAF Dishforth (No. 78 Squadron), RAF Berka (No. 38 Squadron), RAF Ballah (No. 13 Air Gunners School), RAF Ein Shemer (No. 78 Operational Training Unit), and RAF Khormaksar (No. 8 Squadron). Aircraft in which flown: Battle, Blenheim, Anson, Whitley, Wellington. Records 16 night operations with 78 Squadron on the following targets in Germany, France and Poland: Politz, Ruhland, Bordeaux, Kiel, Lorient, Dunkirk, Calais, Cologne, Duisburg, Schwerte, Bremen. Pilots on operations with 78 squadron: Sergeant Holden, Sergeant Cooke, Sergeant Thorpe, Flight Lieutenant Lawrence, Wing Commander Robinson, Sergeant Jepson, Pilot Officer Cant, Sergeant Hutchin. Also records 40 operations (36 night, 4 day) with 38 Squadron, including anti-shipping and anti-submarine operations and the following named targets in Greece, Tunisia, Italy, Libya and Yugoslavia: Salamis, Sirte, Tunis, Heraklion, Palermo, Messina, Taranto, Pantelleria, Sousse, Enfidaville, Catania. Pilots on operations with 38 Squadron: Flight Lieutenant Cant, Sergeant Dunmore. Also records 12 operations with 8 Squadron, no named targets, including convoy escort, anti-submarine patrols and sea rescue search. Pilots on operations with 8 Squadron: Flying Officer Moore, Flight Lieutenant Spencer, and Flying Officer Tweddle. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David Leitch Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Egypt France Germany Great Britain Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man Greece Israel Italy Libya Mediterranean Sea Poland Tunisia Yemen (Republic) Yugoslavia Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--English Channel England--Cambridgeshire England--Yorkshire Germany--Ruhr (Region) France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France--Calais France--Dunkerque France--Lorient Germany--Bremen Germany--Cologne Germany--Duisburg Germany--Kiel Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Schwerte Greece--Ērakleion Greece--Salamis Island Israel--Ḥaderah Italy--Catania Italy--Messina Italy--Palermo Italy--Pantelleria Island Italy--Taranto Libya--Banghāzī Libya--Surt Mediterranean Sea--Aegean Sea Mediterranean Sea--Gulf of Sidra Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie) Tunisia--Sahel Tunisia--Sūsah Tunisia--Tunis Yemen (Republic)--Aden Tunisia--Enfidha Germany--Ruhland France--Pas-de-Calais North Africa Yemen (Republic) Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940-11-13 1940-11-14 1940-11-19 1940-11-20 1940-11-22 1940-11-23 1940-11-29 1940-11-30 1940-12-08 1940-12-09 1940-12-13 1940-12-28 1941-01-09 1941-01-13 1941-03-18 1941-03-19 1941-05-16 1941-05-17 1941-05-27 1941-05-28 1941-06-11 1941-06-12 1941-06-13 1941-06-16 1941-06-17 1941-06-18 1941-06-19 1941-06-20 1941-06-21 1943-06-07 1943-06-09 1943-06-22 1943-06-23 1943-06-29 1943-06-30 1943-07-02 1943-07-03 1943-07-04 1943-07-05 1943-07-09 1943-07-11 1943-07-17 1943-07-21 1943-07-25 1943-07-29 1943-08-07 1943-08-12 1943-08-14 1943-08-15 1943-08-24 1943-08-26 1943-08-28 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-06 1943-09-08 1943-09-09 1943-09-11 1943-09-15 1943-09-17 1943-09-18 1943-09-22 1943-09-26 1943-09-28 1943-09-29 1943-09-30 1944-08-05 1944-08-18 1944-08-25 1944-08-26 1944-08-31 1944-09-06 1944-09-12 1944-09-14 1944-09-17 1945-01-03 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 17 OTU 205 Group 38 Squadron 78 Squadron 8 Squadron air gunner Air Gunnery School aircrew Anson Battle Blenheim bombing Bombing and Gunnery School Operational Training Unit RAF Dishforth RAF Jurby RAF Khormaksar RAF Upwood training Wellington Whitley wireless operator / air gunner https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2810/51948/LSewerinS704459v2.pdf 5f28a4c0f4b6b8e42ce13f5b725affdf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sewerin, Stanislaw Description An account of the resource An oral history interview with Peter Sewerin about his father Stanislaw Sewerin (b. 1915, 704459 Royal Air Force). The collection also contains his log books, an <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2907">album</a>, and miscellaneous documents. He flew operations as a pilot with 300 Squadron. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Peter Sewerin and catalogued by Jan Johnstone. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-09-16 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sewerin, S Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stanislaw Sewerin's Pilots Flying Log Book. Two Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LSewerinS704459v2 Description An account of the resource Pilots Flying Log Book for Warrant Officer Stanislaw Sewerin covering 19 July 1944 to 16 July 1948 detailing day and night training flights and operations with: 18 Officer Training Unit, 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit and 300 Squadron. The period 29 June 1948 to 16 July 1948 details training undertaken with a Pilots Refresher Flying Unit at RAF Finningley. Sergeant Sewerin flew 18 operational sorties, three of which are described as Spam dropping, two as transport of prisoners of war and one that was transporting supplies. In addition, the log book reports seven 'Dodge' flights. Aircraft flown were Wellington, Lancaster and Oxford. Pilots flown with: Pilot Officer Stephani, Flying Officer Dziedzic, Flight Lieutenant Nowak, Flight Lieutenant Sancewicz, Warrant Officer Kazimierczak, Flight Sergeant Nowocin, Flight Sergeant Kalfas, Flight Sergeant Koziok, Warrant Officer Blachowicz, Warrant Officer Zablocki, Flying Officer Wareham, Flying Officer Oakeshott, Flight Lieutenant Kwapniewski, Warrant Officer Torunski, Flight Sergeant Kulesza, Flying Officer Pash, Squadron leader Fisher, Flight Lieutenant Dobbie, Flight Lieutenant Firmin, Flying Officer Price. Some pieces of paper with typed information in Polish have been pasted into the log book. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng pol Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English Review Oct 2024 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-03-08 1945-03-09 1945-03-11 1945-03-12 1945-03-15 1945-03-16 1945-03-17 1945-03-22 1945-03-23 1945-03-25 1945-04-09 1945-04-10 1945-04-14 1945-04-15 1945-04-21 1945-04-22 1945-05-01 1945-05-04 1945-05-07 1945-05-10 1945-05-11 1945-08-15 1945-08-17 1945-08-28 1945-10-10 1945-10-11 1945-11-26 1945-11-27 1945-11-28 1945-12-13 1946-01-04 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Cambridgeshire England--Gloucestershire England--Lincolnshire England--Shropshire England--Surrey England--Wiltshire England--Yorkshire Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany--Berlin Germany--Bochum Germany--Bremen Germany--Dortmund Germany--Essen Germany--Hannover Germany--Helgoland Germany--Kassel Germany--Kiel Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Potsdam Italy Italy--Pomigliano d'Arco Netherlands Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 1662 HCU 18 OTU 300 Squadron aircrew Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster Operation Dodge (1945) Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945) Operational Training Unit Oxford pilot prisoner of war RAF Aston Down RAF Blyton RAF Cosford RAF Dishforth RAF Dunsfold RAF Faldingworth RAF Finningley RAF Glatton RAF Ludford Magna RAF Skipton on Swale RAF Sturgate RAF Wickenby RAF Wroughton training Wellington Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Terras, Robert Wallace Description An account of the resource 35 items. The collection concerns Robert Wallace(1050292 Royal Air Force) and contains documents, memorabilia and photographs. He served as a Flight Mechanic, Air Frames on 83 Squadron at RAF Wyton. The collection digitised by Melisa Terras 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-05-03 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Terras, RW Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Individual history of Avro Lancaster B Mk1 R5868/7325M Description An account of the resource Complete history of the aircraft from 1942 to placement in RAF Museum. Delivered to 83 Squadron at RAF Scampton. Lists all flights with crews and provides details of operations and other sorties. First operation was on 8/9 July 1942. Was founder member of Pathfinder Force at RAF Wyton. Moved to 467 Squadron at RAF Bottesford in September 1943. Flew on 100th operation on 11/12 May 1944. Provides many detailed descriptions of operations. Last of 137 total operations was flown on 23 April 1945. Flew prisoner of war repatriation flights and took Cook's tour over Germany. Continues with post war history until arrival at the RAF Museum. This item is available only at the University of Lincoln. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource A Simpson Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942-06 1942-07 1942-08 1942-09 1942-10 1942-11 1942-12 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1956 1958 1959 1960 1961 1970 1972 1973 1982-08 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Manchester England--Lincolnshire Germany Germany--Wilhelmshaven Poland Poland--Gdańsk France France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Germany--Essen Germany--Duisburg Germany--Hamburg Germany--Osnabrück Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate) Germany--Flensburg Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Bremen Germany--Krefeld Germany--Aachen Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany--Kiel Italy Italy--Genoa Italy--Turin Germany--Munich Germany--Berlin France--Lorient Italy--Milan Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Cologne France--Saint-Nazaire Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Dortmund Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Wuppertal Germany--Münster in Westfalen Germany--Bochum France--Montchanin Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr England--Leicestershire Germany--Hannover Germany--Munich France--Modane England--Yorkshire Germany--Leipzig Germany--Schweinfurt Germany--Augsburg France--Paris Germany--Braunschweig France--Mailly-le-Camp France--Sablé-sur-Sarthe France--Lille France--Cherbourg Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Belgium Belgium--Leopoldsburg France--Nantes France--Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes) France--Argentan France--Rennes France--Poitiers France--Somme France--Vitry-le-François France--Saint-Leu-d'Esserent France--Caen Germany--Euskirchen (Kreis) Poland--Gdynia Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie) Germany--Rheydt Germany--Mittelland Canal Germany--Merseburg Czech Republic Czech Republic--Most (Okres) Germany--Siegen Germany--Karlsruhe Germany--Würzburg Germany--Leipzig Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia) Netherlands Netherlands--IJmuiden Czech Republic--Plzeň Belgium--Brussels Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Ruhr (Region) France--Reims Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Thirty page printed document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MTerras1050292-150302-01 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 467 Squadron 8 Group 83 Squadron bombing Cook’s tour Fw 190 Ju 88 Lancaster Lancaster Mk 1 mine laying Mosquito Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) Operation Exodus (1945) Pathfinders RAF Bottesford RAF Coningsby RAF Fulbeck RAF Metheringham RAF Scampton RAF Tholthorpe RAF Waddington RAF Wroughton RAF Wyton V-weapon https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/474/51037/SClydeSmithD39856v10011.2.pdf fa5ffa5245dad6f0c1060828375e4618 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clyde-Smith, Denis Clyde-Smith, D Description An account of the resource Collection contains 34 items and concerns Squadron Leader Denis Clyde-Smith Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross, who joined the Royal Air Force and trained as a pilot in 1937. He flew in the anti aircraft cooperation role including remotely piloted Queen Bee aircraft before serving on Battle aircraft on 32 Squadron. He completed operational tours on Wellington with 115 and 218 Squadrons and Wellington and Lancaster with 9 Squadron after which he went to the aircraft and armament experimental establishment at Boscombe Down. The collection consists of two logbooks, aircraft histories of some of the aircraft he flew, photographs of people and aircraft, newspaper articles, a long memoir of his service and gallantry award certificate. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John Clyde-Smith and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-09-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Clyde-Smith, D Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reminiscences of service in the Royal Air Force - 1937 to 1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource D Clyde-Smith Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1937-05-10 1938 1939 1940-10 1941 1941-03 1942-06-01 1942-11-18 1937-09-27 1941-03-03 1941-06-21 1941-07-03 1942-05-30 1942-10-25 1942-11-01 1942-11-16 1937-07 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941-03-03 1941-06-21 1941-07-03 1942-05-30 1942-10-25 1942-11-01 1942-11-16 1938-05-10 1939-12-10 1940-12-10 1941-07-04 1943-02-09 1943-05-10 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Northamptonshire England--Northampton England--Dorset England--Christchurch (Dorset) England--Isle of Wight England--Buckinghamshire England--Somerset England--Hampshire England--Manchester England--Oxfordshire England--Devon England--Plymouth Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway Scotland--Stranraer England--Norfolk Germany Germany--Hannover England--West Sussex Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany--Kiel Germany--Cologne France France--Saint-Nazaire Germany--Bremen Italy Italy--Milan Italy--Turin Italy--Genoa Italy--Naples Egypt Egypt--Cairo Sudan Sudan--Khartoum Kenya Kenya--Nairobi Zimbabwe Zimbabwe--Bulawayo South Africa South Africa--Cape Town Zambia Zambia--Ndola Zimbabwe--Harare England--Poole (Dorset) Germany--Berlin France--Lorient Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Netherlands Netherlands--Amsterdam Germany--Münster in Westfalen Germany--Ruhr (Region) North Africa England--Cornwall (County) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Memoir Photograph Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 29 printed sheets Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SClydeSmithD39856v10011 Description An account of the resource Starts with joining on short service commission and covers, in great detail, his pilot training activities, including a crash landing during a cross country. After receiving his wings award, he moves to trials work, target towing and aircraft ferrying. After a short time on Fairy Battle he was posted to sea planes. In 1940 he moved to Wellington conversion and then to operations on 115 Squadron. He gives his account of flying and operations, including diversion due to bad weather over England, and the loss of 42 aircraft that night. He tells of life at RAF Marham and problems of extreme cold when flying. Comments on German defences, bomber tactics, problems with dinghies and ditching and discipline. He mentions moving to 218 Squadron and comments on Wellington Mk II. He relates a story of an operation to Kiel and the end of first operational tour. He goes on to describe a training tour, including involvement in 1,000 bomber operation to Cologne. He provides history of 9 Squadron and covers his posting as flight commander to that squadron. He writes of operations to Bremen, Saint Nazaire, where his aircraft was hit and damaged by anti-aircraft fire resulting in a crash landing at RAF Abingdon. He goes on to describe Wellington fuel system and hospitalisation for an eye injury. He writes of conversion to Lancaster and comments on aircrafts good points and mentions attacks on Italian targets. He covers his aircraft's "Zola" nose art and the end of the second tour. He relates subsequent loss of his aircraft and navigator who had not completed his tour. He gives a good description of bombing tactics and start of pathfinders and target marking. He writes about his subsequent postings as a test pilot and trips through Africa. Appendixes include: transcripts from newspaper reports about his crash while training; seven letters home which cover his operations and activities on his first operational tour (Berlin, Hamburg), Cologne, operations to Italy, press reports, and Royal visit. Included is a transcript of The Times newspaper article which describes actions by Denis and his rear gunner, P/O F G Chalk, when attacked by Me 110. Concludes with service history and marriage announcement. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maureen Clarke 115 Squadron 218 Squadron 27 OTU 3 Group 5 Group 9 Squadron air gunner aircrew anti-aircraft fire bale out Battle bombing bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) crash crewing up Distinguished Flying Cross Distinguished Service Order forced landing ground personnel Halifax Lancaster Magister Me 110 military living conditions nose art Operational Training Unit Pathfinders pilot prisoner of war RAF Abingdon RAF Benson RAF Farnborough RAF Harwell RAF Henlow RAF Lichfield RAF Marham RAF Ringway RAF Sealand RAF Sywell RAF Tangmere RAF Weston Zoyland Stranraer Sunderland Swordfish Tallboy Tiger Moth training V-2 V-weapon Walrus Wellington Women’s Auxiliary Air Force https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2868/50844/SBondS-WensleyRv10014.pdf da8f2f9f187e340b88e09bb708ce4ca0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wensley, Richard Description An account of the resource 14 items. Collection concerns Warrant Officer Richard Wensley who flew operations as a Stirling flight engineer on 90 Squadron. His aircraft was shot down on an SOE operation in March 1944 after which he evaded until liberated by allied ground forces. Collection contains a memoir, photographs, documents and his flying log book. 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-WensleyRv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sergeant Richard Wensley Description An account of the resource Starts by stating that one of the most hazardous operations flown by bomber command were lone aircraft flying supplies to support resistance forces in occupied Europe. He recounts Richard Wensley's early life, joining ATC, training as a flight engineer. He describes his arrival as he joined 90 Squadron at RAF Wratting Common in June 1943 and mentions crewing up and changing crew due to pilot's propensity to turn back. He relates a little of first operations to Nuremburg, Turin and mine laying. His squadron then switch to supplying resistance forces, as Stirling unsuitable for main bombing operations. He describes, in detail, their 14th operation where they were hit by anti-aircraft fire and crash landed in France. Then follows a detailed description of activities while evading. All were successful apart from the rear gunner who was captured. Four of the crew made their way back to England but Richard Wensley and Norman Cartwright remained hidden on a farm where they worked and were joined by other evaders. He describes the other evaders and French helpers and mentions the capture of two evaders by gestapo. Finally, the rest were liberated by allied forces and returned to England. He relates career after the war, that he never contacted any of his crew and visited the village where he stayed in France. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-06 1944-05-26 1944-09-02 1944-08-27 1944-06-15 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Cambridgeshire Germany Germany--Nuremberg Italy Italy--Turin Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea France France--Abbeville England--Suffolk France--Longpré-les-Corps-Saints France--Pas-de-Calais Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal Air Force. Transport Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Memoir Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Four page printed document Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-WensleyRv10014 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maureen Clarke 242 Squadron 90 Squadron air gunner aircrew anti-aircraft fire bomb aimer bombing crash flight engineer Halifax mine laying navigator pilot RAF St Athan RAF Stoney Cross RAF Tuddenham RAF Wratting Common Special Operations Executive Stirling training V-1 V-weapon wireless operator York https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2868/50843/SBondS-WensleyRv10013.pdf e200e304c4fe6e9803dabaef08678fbe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wensley, Richard Description An account of the resource 14 items. Collection concerns Warrant Officer Richard Wensley who flew operations as a Stirling flight engineer on 90 Squadron. His aircraft was shot down on an SOE operation in March 1944 after which he evaded until liberated by allied ground forces. Collection contains a memoir, photographs, documents and his flying log book. 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-WensleyRv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Wensley’s Royal Air Force Flight Engineers Flying Log Book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal Air Force. Transport Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Multi-page printed book with handwritten entries Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-WensleyRv10013 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Description An account of the resource Richard Wensley’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book as Flight Engineer from 27th June 1943 until 28th September 1946. Posted to 1657 Conversion Unit and then 214 Squadron for operations. In November 1943 posted back to 1657 Conversion Unit. Operational posting to 90 Squadron. On the 5th March 1944 his aircraft was shot down, crash landing near Abbeville, but he survived. In February 1945 flying with 242 Squadron, Transport Command and then 46 Squadron in November. In April 1946 back to 242 Squadron. Served at RAF Stradishall, RAF Chedburgh, RAF Tuddenham, RAF Stoney Cross, RAF Merryfield. Aircraft flown were Stirling, York. Carried out 12 night bombing and mine-laying operations with 214 Squadron to Nuremberg, Turin, Peenemunde, Berlin, Montluçon, Modane, Hannover, Baltic Sea, Frankfurt and Bremen. His pilot was Pilot Officer Welch. With 90 Squadron he flew 11 night bombing and mine-laying operations to The Frisian Islands, the Gironde, Cherbourg, Kiel Bay, the Kattegat. He also flew 2 special duties operations at night to the South of France. It was n the last of these that he was shot down. His pilot was Warrant Officer Edinborough. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-23 1943-08-31 1943-09-15 1943-09-16 1943-09-17 1943-09-22 1943-09-27 1943-09-28 1943-10-02 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1943-10-08 1943-10-09 1944-01-02 1944-01-03 1944-01-04 1944-01-05 1944-01-20 1944-01-21 1944-01-25 1944-01-27 1944-02-08 1944-02-09 1944-02-19 1944-02-20 1944-02-22 1944-02-24 1944-02-25 1944-02-26 1944-03-04 1944-03-05 1945 1946 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Hampshire England--Somerset England--Suffolk Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea) Atlantic Ocean--Kiel Bay Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Berlin Germany--Bremen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Hannover Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Italy Italy--Turin Netherlands France France--Abbeville France--Cherbourg France--Gironde France--Modane France--Montluçon Europe--Frisian Islands Europe--Frisian Islands Europe--Frisian Islands Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nick Cornwell-Smith 1657 HCU 214 Squadron 242 Squadron 46 Squadron 90 Squadron aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) crash flight engineer Heavy Conversion Unit mine laying missing in action RAF Chedburgh RAF Merryfield RAF Stoney Cross RAF Stradishall RAF Tuddenham shot down Stirling training York https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2866/50815/SBondS-WelshGv10001.2.pdf 656794dcd69cd4b330c524b69af977f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Welsh, Graham Description An account of the resource Two items. Collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Graham Welsh who flew operations as a Wellington navigator on 9 Squadron until crash landing in Belgium and then a prisoner of war. Collection contains a response to questions 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-WelshGv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Graham Welsh - answers to questions Description An account of the resource He starts with a brief service history, including training and a move after 40 Squadron, to fill vacancy on 9 Squadron Wellington. He names his pilots and squadron pathfinder roll. He failed to return from 30th operation on first 1000 bomber operation and was made prisoner of war after crash landing in Belgium. He was involved in great escape from Stalag Luft 3. He describes squadron task as pathfinders during first 1000 bomber operation May 30/31 1942.He continues with an account of engine failure on return from previously mentioned operation and pilot's incapacitation, then eventual crash with loss of some crew. He then provides commentary on several incidents of being attacked by fighters on three occasions. The next involved him flying the aircraft, while both pilots were in the rear of the aircraft. He then provides an account of being shot at by a flak-ship while mine laying. The last involved him reporting to the MO that three crew, including the pilot, were suffering from exhaustion and unfit to fly. They were sent on leave and their CO was removed from command. He mentioned his involvement in the great escape from Stalag Luft 3. He recalls names of his crew and provides short answers to questions, including how he was captured and reports on injuries to other surviving crew. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1939 1940 1941 1942 1942-05-30 1944 1945 1941-10-23 1941-11-01 1942-03-28 1942-05-27 1941-10 1946-01 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Cumbria England--Oxfordshire England--Gloucester Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway England--Cambridgeshire Germany Germany--Cologne Germany--Kiel Atlantic Ocean--Baltic sea Germany--Sylt Germany--Lübeck Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Poland Poland--Żagań Germany--Ruhr (Region) Europe--Frisian Islands Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource G Welash Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Memoir Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three page printed document Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-WelshGv10001 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maureen Clarke 40 Squadron 9 Squadron air gunner Air Observers School aircrew bombing Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) crash Flying Training School Gee mine laying navigator Operational Training Unit Pathfinders pilot prisoner of war RAF Benson RAF Brize Norton RAF Carlisle RAF Dumfries RAF Staverton RAF Wittering searchlight Stalag Luft 3 training Wellington wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2733/50501/BRobertsRFKittridgeAv1.1.pdf 59672b5a49de85bb72fcf94c67117c17 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Roberts, Roly Reginald Frederick Roberts Description An account of the resource 24 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Roly Roberts (b.1917 566679 Royal Air Force) and contains correspondence, documents, and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 49 Squadron and was killed 31 August 1940. The collection was licensed to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Anthony Kitterage and catalogued by Lynn Corigan. Additional information on Roly Roberts is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/119933/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-03-11 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Roberts, RF Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sergeant Reginald Frederick (Roly) Roberts Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Andrew Kitteridge Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal Air Force. Fighter Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Personal research Photograph Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Egypt France Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Great Britain Middle East--Palestine Netherlands Norway England--Buckinghamshire England--Cambridge England--Lincolnshire England--London England--Shropshire France--Charleville-Mézières France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France--Pauillac (Gironde) France--Tergnier (Canton) Germany--Diepholz Germany--Duisburg Germany--Kiel Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony) Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Hannover Germany--Helgoland Germany--Kiel Germany--Lübeck Germany--Magdeburg Germany--Wismar Netherlands--Amsterdam Netherlands--Rotterdam Wales--Glamorgan Wales--Gwynedd Germany--Dortmund-Ems canal Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden North Africa Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940-06-04 1940-06-05 1940-06-06 1940-06-07 1940-06-12 1940-06-13 1940-06-14 1940-06-17 1940-06-18 1940-06-21 1940-06-22 1940-06-23 1940-06-24 1940-06-26 1940-06-27 1940-06-30 1940-07-01 1940-07-05 1940-07-06 1940-07-08 1940-07-09 1940-07-18 1940-07-19 1940-07-20 1940-07-21 1940-07-29 1940-07-30 1940-08-03 1940-08-04 1940-08-06 1940-08-07 1940-08-12 1940-08-13 1940-08-14 1940-08-15 1940-07-17 1940-07-18 1940-08-21 1940-08-22 1940-08-27 1940-08-28 1940-08-30 1940-08-31 Description An account of the resource Describes enlisting in the aircraft apprentice scheme, recruitment and training. He flew 23 operations, one as wireless operator/air gunner, 12 as navigator/bomb aimer and ten as pilot. Pilots were Squadron Leader Allen, Sergeant Stretton, Pilot Officer Campbell and Pilot Officer Parker. Operations were to Frankfurt, Heligoland, Charleville, Kiel, Fargniers, Dollbergen, Bohmte, Diepholz, Wismar, Schiphol Aerodrome, Rotterdam, Dortmund, Travemunde, Duisburg, Oslo fjord, Kattegut, Dortmund-Ems-Canal, Bordeaux, Pauillac, Essen, Emden and Magdeburg. Includes the awarding of the first Victoria Cross to a member of Roly's squadron and the circumstances leading to Roly's death in a flying accident. A map of the operations Roly to took part in, him in uniform with sergeant's insignia and civilian clothes, aircraft in flight, the crest of 49 Squadron and the headstone marking Roly's grave are included. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Ten printed sheets Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context BRobertsRFKitteridgeAv1 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. 106 Squadron 16 OTU 49 Squadron 5 Group 66 Squadron 76 Squadron 83 Squadron air gunner Air Observers School aircrew Anson Battle bomb aimer bomb trolley bombing Bombing and Gunnery School briefing crash entertainment final resting place fitter airframe fitter engine Flying Training School Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944) Gneisenau ground crew ground personnel Hampden Harrow killed in action mine laying navigator Operational Training Unit Oxford pilot promotion RAF Duxford RAF Finningley RAF Halton RAF Penrhos RAF Scampton RAF Shawbury RAF Stormy Down RAF Upper Heyford recruitment training Victoria Cross Wellington Whitley wireless operator wireless operator / air gunner Women’s Auxiliary Air Force https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2753/50370/AMuhlTG19770430-0002.mp3 3d143f808c00731d5bb169f4663aba48 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2753/50370/AMuhlTG19770430-0001.jpg 51d92bfbac52ada523d7a11cdbb1c797 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Muhl, Trevor George Description An account of the resource 12 items. The collection concerns Trevor George Muhl DFC (b. 1920, 659000 Royal Air Force) and contains recordings featuring Arthur Harris and Lady Wallis from the RAF Bomber Command reunion dinner and Barnes Wallis's birthday in 1977, as well as copies of Tee Emm and photographs. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Angela Muhl and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023-09-29 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Muhl, TG Transcribed audio recording A resource consisting primarily of recorded human voice. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [Excerpt from film played] Other: Mr Chairman, Sir Ralph, my lords, ladies and gentlemen, pray silence for Marshall of The Royal Air Force, Mr Arthur T Harris, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross, the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, an officer of the Most Excellent Order the British Empire. Air Force Cross, Doctor of Laws, Commander in chief Bomber Command from 1942 to 1945. Your distinguished guest of honour. [applause] - 145 AH: Mr Chairman, members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen and not forgetting our two m’lords [laughter] I want to thank you all for the marvellous reception you’ve given to me tonight and if I went much further on that theme I don’t think I would really be able to control my feelings. All I can say is I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. And now I’ll go on from there to tell you that as you probably know I’m old, gaga and garrulous. I’ve got a lot to say which I think you ought to hear unless you’ve heard it before. But I realise that a lot of you came a long way and have got a long way to go. Therefore, if any of you have to get up and leave I can assure you I won’t be either put off or put out. So please take that as what I really mean. I won’t be a bit worried if you have to go because I know why for one reason or another. You know the work our crews did in Bomber Command and whenever I speak of the bomber strategic offensive I couple with it fifty fifty our gallant American friends of the 8th United States Air Force. [applause] Whenever I think of what they achieved I realise that you have never really been given adequate recognition of what you all did. As a matter of fact you have on many occasions been the object of the type of author or the type of journalist who knows perfectly well that where he couldn’t find a market for the ordinary tripe he’s capable of they could always tell a good sneer or a good smear. Here. Here. [applause] But I get my facts straight from the horse’s mouth. I don’t go digging around at the other end of the animal where those people like themselves. [applause] And we have some very fine horses running for us. Ranging from the most senior American commander to the most senior British commanders and oddly enough the most senior German commanders in the last war. You no doubt most of you heard of Albert Speer who was not a dyed in the wool Nazi anyhow to start with. He was a brilliant young architect and he got tied up with Hitler because Hitler liked drawing pictures with his assistance of the magnificent buildings they were going to erect at the end of a victorious war in order to usher in the beginning of the thousand-year Reich which thanks largely to you fellows never materialised. Now, Albert Speer as you know was imprisoned for twenty years. A matter of opinion, I think unjustly for doing his damndest to defend his own country. But when he came out of the prison he wrote two books. He’s been kind enough to send me copies of both those books and he’s inscribed them and as well as the inscriptions he has repeated in the letterpress of the book what he said in those inscriptions. And in his own words he has said that of all the war books he has ever read and he’s read a lot of them the effect of the strategic bombing of Germany was always underestimated. He goes on to say and these are his own words written in his own hand as well as repeated in the book that the strategic bombing of Germany was the greatest lost battle for Germany of the whole of the war. Greater than all their losses in all their retreats from Russia and in the surrender of their armies at Stalingrad. He then goes on to develop the reason why he makes those statements. Starting right back in June ’42 when we had barely started getting going with about an eighth of the size of force we required and the Americans were just beginning to bring their force over here there was a meeting amongst the high ups in Germany as to whether or not they would do this, that and the other thing. And when it came to the question of whether they would develop the atom bomb and don’t forget that before the war the Germans were ahead of everybody in that particular nefarious pursuit. When it came to that question, luckily for us and the world at large Hitler dismissed it. He said he’d have nothing to do with it because it was all Jew science. Well, that was a very lucky decision. But Albert Speer comments in his book apropos of that decision at that very early date. Now, he was glad because he couldn’t possibly have spared the enormous amount of skilled and semi-skilled and unskilled labour for any such ambitious project as the manufacture of the atom bomb from the necessity of using those people to repair the bomb damage to the German armament industry. Well, that was in June ’42 and of course that damage went on crescendo after that. His next statement might be of interest to you was that he reckons as Minister of Armament which he’d then became that by the end of 1943 when we were really getting going with about a quarter of the force we’d asked for and the Americans had really got going with their Mustang escort fighters that we had already deprived the German Armies on the Russian front, by bomb damage to industry of ten thousand of their bigger calibre of guns and six thousand of their heaviest and medium heavy tanks. Well, that was by the subscription towards the war. All done by the strategic bombing. But he goes much further than that and I tell you he made that remark about the bomber strategic offensive being the greatest lost battle of all for Germany and he goes on to explain why. The eight point eight centimetre dual purpose anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun was probably the most useful gun that the Germans possessed and as the armament for instance of the Tiger and Panther tanks it was the only gun, mobile gun capable of competing with the very heavy frontal armament of the Russian tanks. No less than twenty thousand of those guns had to be taken away from the German Army on all their fronts, kept away from them and scattered all over Germany because of the unpredictability of where the strategic bombers were going to strike next. Speer said that that reduced the anti-tank ability of the German forces on all their fronts by half. Well, when you realise that no Army on either side ever advanced a yard without their armoured spearheads first busting a way through the defence you can realise what it meant when the bombers, the strategic bombers cut their anti-tank defences by half. He goes on to say that that requirement of being prepared to defend every German city and every German vital factory against the possibility and unpredicted probability of bombing of any one of those particular places meant the stationing all over Germany of hundreds of thousands of men who should have been in the forces. Field marshal Erhard Milch who commanded the German anti-aircraft defences said he had nine hundred thousand fit, he stressed the word fit men in his anti-aircraft command alone. When he said fit he means they were fit to be up in the front line of the German Armies on the various fronts and not kicking their heels around Germany waiting for the strategic bombers and wondering where they were going to strike next. Well, if you know of any individual Army on the Allied side which throughout the war deprived the German Armies of well over a million men and half their anti-tank abilities I would personally be very obliged for the information. [applause] Now, when Erhard Milch said he had nine hundred thousand men you can certainly add to that another two or three hundred thousand fit men who because they were skilled tradesmen had to be retained in Germany and not called up for Army service because their skills were required to keep the Nazi machine ticking over in the repair of bomb damage. I mean men like electricians, plumbers, railway workers, people who ran the oil manufacturing plants and so on and so forth. So there you get that enormous subtraction from German strength both in artillery and in manpower which was caused by the strategic bombers and by nobody else. Now, as I’ve said you don’t seem to have got adequate credit for that anyhow in this country but you certainly get it from the people who were immediately concerned such as Eisenhower, Monty, and the German leaders that I have mentioned. Albert Speer, General Sepp Dietrich etcetera etcetera. What Eisenhower had to say about you was this. Twenty five years after the war the Americans released a lot of stuff from their top secret archives. Amongst them letters exchanged between General Marshall the head of the American Army and General Eisenhower. And in this one particular letter Marshall refers to the fact that the joint chiefs of staff in America had decided that our invasion of Europe was going so well that the time had arrived to take away the direct command of the British bombers and the American bombers from Eisenhower and return it to the heads of their own respective services Sir Charles Portal and General Arnold because those two heads of services had other theatres of war to compete with as well as Europe. In Eisenhower’s reply and I have a copy of his reply he said, ‘Although Marshal expressed his apprehensions that that would result in Eisenhower getting less support from Bomber Command than he’d been used to Eisenhower said he had no such fears. And his actual words were that he had come to regard the British Bomber Command as one of the most effective parts of his entire organisation always seeking and finding and using new ways for their particular type of aircraft to be of assistance in forwarding the progress of the armies on the ground. But that was a pretty good recommendation from that source but we have others. You know Monty. You’ve probably heard of was not by any means given to praising idly. But I have heard Monty say on two occasions, both were vast public banquets given to him once in this city and once in Cape Town. I’ve heard him say that he regarded the British bombers as having been the greatest of all in the destruction of the German, the German Armies as a whole. Now, that was pretty good coming from a soldier and not given to praising others lightly. On the other hand I have seen articles written by one, in particular by a man described as a very well-known military correspondent in which he made two remarks. He said all that Bomber Command ever did was to raise better obstacles in front of the progress of our Armies than the Germans could have done themselves. That was one remark. The other remark he made was that we took no part whatsoever in the Battle of the Ardennes where the Germans as you know nearly broke through the Allied lines. Well, whether you like to believe that or not is a matter for your personal tastes but I would say this that although that fellow said that we had raised these appalling obstacles in front of our own Army I would agree to this extent. That our grade one prized boffin, dear old Barnes Wallis who I’m so sorry is not able to be here tonight but I hope you will send him your best wishes. [applause] If he had have come here I would have recommended that after this dinner you would have, should have debagged him for grave dereliction of duty in not designing the one urgent requirement of the Army which I’m sure he could have done with half an hour and the back of an envelope. And that was a bomb that made a self-filling crater but yawned, but yawned deep and wide to embarrass and trap the enemy but automatically filled it up as soon as it sensed the approaching footfall of an Allied soldier. [laughter – applause] Now, let’s take the statement that you fellows took no part in the battle of the Ardennes whereas you recall in its last frantic effort by the Germans to break through our lines was just held up on the verge of a breakthrough by what? By the Allied general on the spot. This is history as it’s made firing off at a hitherto unheard of or unexpected secret weapon. Thinking that his position was hopeless the Germans demanded his surrender and he fired off this weapon which was a rather mild four letter word. And that is history as she is wrote. But when you come down to brass tacks and find out what really happened to stop that offensive you’ll find that Hitler as soon as that offensive began to be held up he told Albert Speer to get up to the front and tell the general on the spot, Sepp Dietrick that he was to go on at all costs. At any costs. He was not to stop. Speer relates in great detail his tremendous difficulties in getting up to the front at all. The Ardennes country, a terribly difficult country, almost most impossible even for tracked vehicles to cross country. Only two very comparatively poor and precipitous road routes through it and everybody, especially the French were saying oh the Germans would never come through there. So it was quite lightly defended. And they said that in spite of the fact that this was the third occasion that the Germans had come through since 1870. Well, Speer relates his tremendous difficulties in getting up there at all. He said that sometimes he only made good a mile in an hour struggle and you can bet as Hitler’s representative that he would have been pushed, pulled and carried fire and all around and over and above any obstacles that existed finally arrives at the headquarters of the advanced armoured force on which the whole offensive depended. Their job was to break through the join between the American and the British Canadian Armies, turn sharp to the right northwards and drive the 21st British Canadian Army Group into the sea again for another Dunkirk. And there they were held up solid by that rude American general who made that remark which apparently forced those tough Germans who had fought through all that way regardless of shot and shell rock back on their heels, turnabout, burst into tears and go home to complain to mother about that rude man. That is how history is written. [applause] Well, when Speer eventually got to Sepp Dietrich’s headquarters he encountered the one German general who dared even mildly half answer back Hitler. The reason being that he’d started his career as Hitler’s private chauffeur in the early days of Nazidom and he had once very unfortunately for us and everybody saved Hitler from being assassinated. So he could mildly answer back and Speer relates how he said to Sepp Dietrich, ‘The fuehrer’s orders are that you’re to go on at once at all costs. You’re not to stop.’ And the answer he got was not a four letter word even like the one the American general used. But just a statement to the effect, ‘Go on? How can we go on. We have no ammunition left and all our supply lines have been cut by air attack.’ Well, that of course was a fairly potent reason for not going on with an offensive. And who cut his supply lines? You fellows cut it and nobody else. And the reason it was you and nobody else was that in the atrocious weather that existed over those critical days and nights all our bases on the continent were almost permanently shut down. The American bases in East Anglia were shut down to an extent where they couldn’t use their ordinary formation escorted daylight tactics but you fellows, you crews would get off in any muck and murk even if they couldn’t see as one cockney gunner once remarked to me, ‘You couldn’t see your hand in front of your bloody face.’ [laughter – applause] He said they’d get off under those conditions provided there was somewhere to get down in the morning and luckily where one base went out the other came in and so on and so forth. At the end of the Operations Room in Bomber Command I don’t know if any of you have seen it. Some of you have. But there was a map of the British Isles, a big one. Every base was marked with one little red bulb and one little green bulb showing whether the base was out or in. That map over those critical days and nights was behaving like a Christmas tree in a hurricane but you fellows did that job. And Speer gives a very informative account of what he called his nocturnal discussion with Sepp Dietrich that night. He said, as they sat there listening to the unending roar of heavy four engine bombers overhead in the fog and the crash of bombs behind them and Sepp Dietrich remarked to him, ‘You know, people don’t understand that not even the best troops,’ meaning his own troops of course and they were picked troops, ‘Can stand this mass bombing. One experience of it and they lose all their fighting spirit.’ And Speer’s concluding remarks to that conversation was, ‘What a scene of German military impotence. We’d no defences anywhere.’ Well, you know what happened after that? Monty attacking in the north with the 21st Army Group and some borrowed Americans and Georgie Patton the famous cavalry leader with the American armoured force attacking in the south sent those weeping Bosch back to where they came from and a lot further on as well. Well, now that remark of Sepp Dietrich was not patent to him by a long way. Shortly after our invasion got established in France Romel remarked to his superiors, ‘If you can’t stop the bombing we cannot win and it’s no good going on because all we get by going on is to lose another city every night. It’s make peace or drop the atom bomb if you’ve got it.’ Well, of course, I’ve told you why they hadn’t got it. He was not the only fellow who had made that remark by a long way. As our Armies advanced along the north coast of France they urgently required the use of the Channel Ports such as Le Havre, Boulogne and Calais etcetera. Those ports were manned by twenty thousand German soldiers not only sworn to do or die but under a master who they knew very well would see that they died if they didn’t do. What happened to them? We were asked to mass bomb the defences so as we could get our fellows into those ports. They all surrendered. Twenty thousand troops with a total loss of a hundred and fifty casualties to our Army thanks entirely to the massed bombing. And in the pocket diary of a senior German commander who surrendered at Boulogne were written the words, “Can anybody survive this carpet bombing? Sometimes one is driven to despair when at the mercy of the Royal Air Force without any protection. It seems that all fighting is in vain and all losses are in vain.’ Well, there you are. One after another the German generals said the same thing. Now, when it comes to our side and the American side what Eisenhower I told you thought of us but after the bombing that did so much in the battle of the Ardennes he sent me a thank you message. And I replied thanking him for his message and I said that message had been passed to the crews responsible and I finished my signal by saying, ‘You know by now you can always depend on my lads for anything short of the impossible.’ [recording interrupted] [unclear] relates how that signal of mine was circulating around Eisenhower’s headquarters and scrolled across my signal in Eisenhower’s handwriting were the words, “God damn it.” You know in the American language that’s all one word. “God damn it. They’ve already achieved the impossible.’ Now there’s a famous military — [applause] There is a so-called famous military correspondent saying that Bomber Command did nothing but make infernal nuisance of themselves where our Armies were concerned on the Continent and their commander in chief saying that you fellows achieved the impossible on behalf of the Armies. Who’d you like to believe? Well, I’ve got very little more to say except that quite apart from the fact that those facts I’ve given you indicated beyond doubt agreement with Albert Speer’s statement that the strategic bombing of Germany was the greatest of all their losses in the war. I would say you also scored the biggest air victory of the war because you did what Boom said was the one thing you had to do to defeat an enemy. Drive him on the defensive. And you certainly did that. Over the last year or two of the war the Germans did nothing with their Air Force which had been the major cause of their easy sweep right across Europe, Poland, everywhere else at the beginning of the war and their easy victories. But they did nothing over the last year or two of the war but make fighters and train fighter pilots in a despairing effort which failed in its object to protect the Fatherland from the strategic bombers. And that was a fact. That effect of that was firstly that it put an entire stop to the bombing of this country. It’s quite true they started off with these comic rockets and things. Well, you know the V-2 rockets for instance. The thing that created quite a bit of alarm and despondency. The maximum possible production of those V-2 rockets was a thousand a month. A thousand a month and it took five thousand of them to carry as much explosive as one attack by the strategic American and British bombers. So they are the comparative values. Now, and I’ve told you I think you won certainly one of the major ground battles. What I’ve told you about Albert Speer certainly one of the major air battles in driving them entirely on the defensive. What you’ve never been given any credit for you certainly won the major Naval battles of the European war. Who said so? Speer again. I have written, I have read an account by a so-called expert Naval correspondent who said in the whole of the war Bomber Command only sank one submarine. What does Albert Speer say? He was responsible for the production of submarines and everything else. This simple sentence in one of his books. “We would have kept to our promised output of submarines for Admiral Dӧnitz’s U-boat war if the bombers had not destroyed a third of them in the ports.” Well, who was right? The Navy who wanted to pinch all our Lancasters to go looking for haystacks all over the Atlantic, looking for needles in the haystack or we who said the place to get the submarines was where they came from and not where they went to. [applause] But that was only the beginning of the Naval war. The German admiral in charge of the training of U-boat crews in the Baltic wrote a letter in which he said, “Without trained U-boat crews you cannot have a U-boat offensive and I can’t train crews if you can’t keep these damned air laid mines away from my training ground.” Well, they couldn’t keep them away although the major expensive effort by the German Navy during the war was timed to counter the thirty thousand tons of mines that you fellows laid in waters approaching every port that the Germans used from the Baltic through the whole of the North Sea coast and down to the Bay of Biscay. And it would be quite certain that apart from the other wreckage they caused those mines certainly accounted for quite a number of other submarines who disappeared. If my German pronunciation is right, I’m not very good at it, spurlos versank. Disappeared. Sunk without trace. And those mines incidentally coupled with the bombing virtually annihilated the German merchant marine on which they depended for the import of vital ores from Scandinavia for their basic industries. And the Swedes who also were forced to participate in that trade when they realised towards the concluding stages of the war that the German pistol in the back of their neck was no longer a serious threat they withdrew what was left of their merchant marine from the same trade sooner than put up with traditional losses of men and ships. So that’s what you achieved in the Naval War but that was by no means all. Few people realise that at the beginning of the war the Navy, the German Navy had a high seas fleet. They had a high seas fleet consisting of about seventeen absolutely super battle wagons ranging all the way from the big fellas, the Tirpitz and the Bismark, Willie Tait finished off the Tirpitz with his merry boys. The Tirpitz and the Bismark all the way down through the heavy armoured, heavy battle cruisers and the pocket battleships etcetera. Sixteen or seventeen of them. What happened to them? Do you ever hear? No. Well, I’ll tell you now what happened to them. The Navy sank three of them. The Fleet Air Arm sank one. That’s what? Four. I have to add up on my fingers in my old age. The Norwegian shore defences sank one during the invasion of Norway. That’s five isn’t it? The Russian Navy did so much damage to one that it was out of action for nearly the whole of the war. That’s six. Bomber Command kept two out of action by repeated damage so much during the war that they would never really have been available for anything in nature of a fleet action. That’s two more gone. Where have we got to? That’s nine. Bomber Command sank six and really hardly got a thank you for it. So there you are. What happened? There were two left. The Prinz Eugen and the Nuremberg and in the closing stages of the war they were lying outside Copenhagen. Cold meat to the big bombs that Willie Tait and Co were just putting on their machines. And I happened to be out of my office for five minutes, occasionally I had to leave my office for five minutes. My deputy commander had taken a half day off. One of six half days he took off during the entire war either to attend to his own business or have his business attended to him and my Naval liaison officer was an absolutely first-class fellow and was the utmost assistance to us with the mining. When I got back to my office there he was all of a tremble and he said I had to countermand the attack on the Eugen and the Nuremberg. I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Orders from the admiralty.’ Well, of course you couldn’t blame the lad. To a Naval officer an order from the Admiralty is one above a direct command by the almighty. So he’d done it and there he was all of a tremble and by then it was too late to turn the bombers back again. But those two ships were cold meat and the fact that they escaped enabled them rather spitefully to expend most of their ammunition on bombarding around Copenhagen doing quite a lot of damage and killing a lot of our Danish friends and would-be Allies. Well, take into account what we did to the submarines and don’t forget and I’ve forgotten to tell you that when the destruction in the port came absolutely intolerable the Germans had a bright idea. They’d prefabricate their submarines inland. Send a huge section down to the port so there’d only be a few days or weeks being buttoned together rather than many months being built from the keel upwards and destroyed in the process by the bombing. But that didn’t work either because the pre-fabricated sections were too big to go by rail or road. They could only go by canal which was exactly why the strategic bombers, American and British kept on busting up the two canals concerned, the Mitteland Canal and the Dortmund Ems with the result that those prefabrication sections, the deliveries of them to the ports quickly sank from a maximum of a hundred and twenty sections in one month to a few handfuls and to zero. Well, I hope I’ve told you enough about your share in the Air War and the Naval War and in the Land War and nobody can take that away from you because as I say it’s all from the horse’s mouth. From the leading Germans to the leading Americans and the leading British. Even Lord Alanbrooke, the head of the Army who was no friend of the Air Force always making inordinate demands on what was, what we should do for them. He admitted in his private diaries which were published after the war by Sir Arthur Bryant, he referred to the brilliant skill of the bombers and the outstanding assistance they gave to the Army during the invasion. Well, when you consider that our invasion of France consisted to thirty seven divisions large, with a large contingent of green and inexperienced troops and the experience in the first war the soldiers always said, ‘Well, if you want any chance of success in the attack you must be two to one advantage in numbers and material over the enemy.’ There was thirty seven division chased sixty German divisions clean across Europe from the Atlantic to the Elbe totally destroyed the German Army of a half a million men. The 7th Army. Captured tens of thousand of prisoners, all their equipment and beat them down to unconditional surrender at Lüneburg Heath. And that was largely due to two things. The Germans lack of anti-tank defences and the complete not air superiority but absolute air supremacy of our fellows over on the continent thanks to the fact that the bombers had forced the German Air Force to expend nearly all its effort on a failed attempt to defend their own country. Thank you for listening to me. And thank you — [applause] I just want to add, I just want to add one word and that is my grateful thanks not only for all you people coming all this distance that you have come in your numbers to give me this marvellous party but also to the committee, especially Ray [unclear] and his merry men who started the whole business. You owe them, I think thanks for what I’m sure you will feel has been a quite jolly meeting of all the old lags once more. [applause] Other: My lords, ladies and gentlemen thank you so much. That concludes the speeches. Please stand and allow your distinguished guest of honour and the chairman and the guests of the top table to retire first. Thank you. [applause] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bomber Command reunion dinner Description An account of the resource Arthur Harris speaks about the reduction of frontline soldiers available to the Germany army, due to the redirection of men to anti-aircraft defences and repairs to the German armament industry, as a result of bombing by the RAF and the 8th USAAF. He describes the importance of the cutting of the supply lines to the German army in the Battle of the Ardennes, the mass bombing of the Channel ports in support of allied troops, minelaying operations and targeting of the Mittelland and Dortmund Ems canals, to restrict transportation of prefabricated submarine parts. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Bob O'Dell Description An account of the resource Completed 13 operations on 408 Squadron. Comments that he did not complete his tour as the war ended. Mentions first operation was to Bremen and last to Heligoland. Comments on his Canadian crew and mentions names and ranks, Covers his training starting as pilot and then as no longer required was selected as a flight engineer. Outlines his training and then crewing up. Goes on to describe his post war career with posting to India, after his crew returned to Canada. Talks about flying the Halifax, List his crew and tables all his operations. Includes contemporary colour photograph of Bob O'Dell. 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For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. 1664 HCU 408 Squadron 6 Group air gunner aircrew bomb aimer bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945) flight engineer Halifax Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster navigator Oxford pilot RAF Boscombe Down RAF Dalton RAF Dishforth RAF Heaton Park RAF Kenley RAF Linton on Ouse RAF Locking RAF St Athan Tiger Moth training wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2828/50186/SBondS-MilliganTv10004.1.pdf caca9bf1f095e1431eee56278132ba18 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Milligan, Edward Description An account of the resource Five items. Collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Edward Milligan who flew operations as a Lancaster bomb aimer on 460 Squadron. Collection contains data extracted from his log book and photographs. 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-MilliganTv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The log-books of Ted Milligan RAF 152506 Description An account of the resource Starts with a list containing personal details and a list of postings. Mentions Wellington conversion and heavy conversion unit before joining 460 Squadron at RAF Binbrook. Mentions that he did 33 operations crewed with P/O Lyall J Notley RAAF. Then follows a list with brief descriptions of his operations and aircraft lost. 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For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. 1667 HCU 21 OTU 30 OTU 460 Squadron Advanced Flying Unit aircrew bomb aimer bombing bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944) bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944) Flying Training School forced landing Heavy Conversion Unit Initial Training Wing Lancaster mine laying Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) Operational Training Unit RAF Acaster Malbis RAF Binbrook RAF Blyton RAF Bottesford RAF Cardington RAF Carnaby RAF Hixon RAF Moreton in the Marsh RAF Sandtoft RAF Wigtown tactical support for Normandy troops Tiger Moth training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2413/50166/BOlenynEOlenynEv1.pdf f334d06f3402ffabf17f46f4b549e7c6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Olenyn, Eugeniesz Description An account of the resource 20 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Eugeniesz Olenyn (b. 1914, Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, biography and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 305 Squadron before becoming a prisoner of war. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Krystyna Thompson and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-03-28 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Olenyn, E Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gen's Story Eugeniusz Olenyn autobiography Description An account of the resource An autobiography of Eugeniusz Olenyn's life. The first part of the memoir talks of the many trials Genek went through both in attempting to rejoin his Polish Air Force unit and, once the Germans overran the country, escape to England. Ganek landed in Oxford where he experienced his first taste of fish and chip together with tea containing milk. He left Oxford after dinner to travel to Blackpool where the Polish Air Force were based. Here he was re-equipped, swore on the Bible and received his British nationalisation after which he was promoted to LAC as a member of the Polish Air Force. Genek crewed up at 105 Squadron RAF Syerston. He describes the movements of the aircrew from the pre-raid meeting to landing back at base afterwards and talk in detail of his first eight operations. Genek became a POW on an operation Bremen. He explains how his plane was hit, his parachuting out, and how he was captured. Genek recounts the conditions in the many camps where he stayed. Genek explains about the contents of Red Cross parcels and how they were distributed amongst the men. Genek describes the long march and the POW repatriation process. Genek was sent to the permanent Polish Air Force station at Dunholme Lodge. He talks for the problems of accessing his back-pay and life in the camp and the attraction of Blackpool for the Polish airmen, it was here he met the lady who would become his wife. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eugeniusz Olenyn Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 69 printed pages Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context BOlenynEOlenynEv1 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. 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Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Memoir Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Pending review Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maureen Clarke Claire Campbell 105 Squadron 106 Squadron air gunner aircrew Anson anti-aircraft fire bale out Battle bombing C-47 Dulag Luft entertainment escaping ground crew hangar Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) killed in action love and romance Magister mess Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945) navigator observer pilot prisoner of war RAF Bramcote RAF Carlisle RAF Dunholme Lodge RAF Henlow RAF Hucknall RAF Swinderby RAF Syerston Red Cross searchlight sport Stalag Luft 3 Stalag Luft 5 training Wellington wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2754/49927/LLeighJL746703v1.1.pdf f84ec847f0c8b82e8c431f2acaa18afd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Leigh, John Lewis John Lewis Levy Description An account of the resource 101 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer John Lewis Leigh (1912 - 1943, 135451 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, documents, and photographs in three albums. <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2817">Album one</a> contains photographs taken during his training. <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2818">Album two</a> contains photographs of his service. <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2819">Album three</a> contains photographs of his pre war civilian life and his service life. He flew operations as a wireless operator / air gunner with 150 and 180 Squadrons and was killed 22 January 1943. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosalind Marshall and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Additional information on John Lewis Leigh is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/216537/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-03-17 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Leigh, JL Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource J K Leigh’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book Description An account of the resource Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for J K Leigh, wireless operator/air gunner, covering the period from 25 April 1939 to 27 December 1941. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Volunteer Reserve RAF Stapleford Abbots, 4 Air Observer School RAF West Freugh, 601 Squadron Auxiliary Air Force RAF Biggin Hill and RAF Tangmere, 16 Operational Training Unit RAF Upper Heyford, 1 Electrical & Wireless School RAF Cranwell, 12 Operational Training Unit RAF Benson and RAF Penrhos, 150 Squadron RAF Newton and RAF Snaith, 10 Signals Recruit Centre Blackpool, 2 Electrical & Wireless School RAF Yatesbury, 11 Operational Training Unit RAF Bassingbourn. Aircraft flown in were Hart, Hind, Demon, Heyford, Blenheim, Valentia, Rapide, Battle, Dominie, Wellington and Proctor. He flew a total of 27 operations with 150 Squadron.1 Daylight, 26 night. Targets were Boulogne, Calais, Bielefeld, Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Brest, Mönchengladbach, Hannover, Mannheim, Berlin, Kiel, Karlsruhe, Le Havre, Bremen, Dusseldorf and Cherbourg. His pilots on operations were Sergeant Walkinshaw, Sergeant Skrender, Pilot Officer Simpson, Sergeant Hughes, Flight Lieutenant Griffiths, Sergeant Birkes, Squadron Leader Olney, Sergeant Dick and Sergeant Bradshaw. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Germany Great Britain Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--English Channel England--Cambridgeshire England--Essex England--Lancashire England--Lincolnshire England--London England--Nottinghamshire England--Oxfordshire England--West Sussex England--Wiltshire England--Yorkshire France--Boulogne-Sur-Mer France--Brest France--Calais France--Cherbourg France--Le Havre Germany--Berlin Germany--Bielefeld Germany--Bremen Germany--Cologne Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Karlsruhe Germany--Kiel Germany--Mannheim Germany--Mönchengladbach Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway Wales--Gwynedd Germany--Ruhr (Region) France--Pas-de-Calais Germany--Ruhr (Region) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LLeighJL746703v1 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1939 1940-08-01 1940-08-17 1940-08-24 1941-07-07 1941-07-08 1941-07-09 1941-07-10 1941-07-11 1941-07-16 1941-07-17 1941-07-21 1941-07-22 1941-07-24 1941-08-08 1941-08-09 1941-08-11 1941-08-12 1941-08-14 1941-08-15 1941-08-29 1941-08-30 1941-09-02 1941-09-03 1941-09-07 1941-09-08 1941-09-11 1941-09-12 1941-09-13 1941-09-14 1941-09-16 1941-09-17 1941-09-20 1941-09-21 1941-09-30 1941-10-01 1941-10-10 1941-10-11 1941-10-12 1941-10-13 1941-10-14 1941-10-24 1941-10-25 1941-11-01 1941-11-02 1941-11-07 1941-11-08 1941-11-25 1941-11-26 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 11 OTU 12 OTU 150 Squadron 16 OTU 601 Squadron air gunner Air Observers School aircrew B-24 Battle Blenheim bombing crash Dominie forced landing observer Operational Training Unit Proctor RAF Bassingbourn RAF Benson RAF Biggin Hill RAF Cranwell RAF Newton RAF Penrhos RAF Snaith RAF Stapleford Tawney RAF Tangmere RAF Upper Heyford RAF Wainfleet RAF West Freugh RAF Yatesbury training Wellington wireless operator / air gunner https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2779/49229/SBondS-ElliottJv10020.MP3 f20768914fbf734d85df610e3fb53211 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2779/49229/SBondS-ElliottJv10035.pdf 855b22d0c11f668f5b07209883ace0a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elliot, J Description An account of the resource 36 items. Collection concerns Flying Officer John (Jock) Elliot who flew as a wireless operator in Lancaster on 550 Squadron. Collection contains his flying log book, a memoir, an oral history interview, transcript of a discussion with John Elliot and his pilot Flight Lieutenant Jim Lord DFC, documents and photographs. 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-ElliottJv1 Transcribed audio recording A resource consisting primarily of recorded human voice. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document JE: Yes. I think a lot of things as I’ve said before are fresh in my memory, very fresh and some things are blurred, you know. You can’t remember a lot of names of people particularly on the courses I was on, you know. That’s the thing. I mean we did so many courses. I mean as you know the wireless ops training was one of the longest of the lot of the aircrew and consequently you did a lot of courses and met a lot of people. But I can’t remember many of the names of any of the people who were on it you know. SB: No. JE: So that’s one thing about it. But as far as the squadron operations are concerned again some are clear but it’s a question of the memory. SB: Yes. Well, let’s, let’s start with the 12th of July ’44, Revigny when you bailed out. JE: Right. Yes. SB: So can you just talk me through that op as far as you remember it? I mean when did you first realise that there was going to be a problem getting back? JE: Well, only that it started off as any normal op starts of course. The briefing was fairly straightforward. It was going to be a fairly longish one into the east border of France really. It was a railway marshalling yard I think. it was an area where all the German troops were congregated and it was essential to make an effort to break that up if we could. And so it didn’t seem to be a particularly difficult one except that we had to get out. We met some flak across the way. A light flak across the way and it became obvious that we were running into cloud and it was going to be, might be a little bit difficult to find the target. SB: Right. JE: And in fact, what happened was we spotted a gap in the cloud as we came up to the target area. The bomb aimer, Guss he spotted a gap in the cloud, made for it, selected his aiming point and we actually bombed through that point at the time. And just after that we got a radio call from base to abort the mission because — SB: Right. JE: The target was obscured. SB: Oh right. JE: By that time we’d turned on our way back and we ran into quite a bit of light aircraft flak and we had some damage to one engine which caused a slight fuel leak actually and we had to feather that engine. So we came back on, on three engines. Not too much of a problem except that we came across the Channel and that would be around about early hours of the morning I suppose and it was reasonably clear. Now, the thing was that as we approached the English coast we could see that it was thick fog. SB: Right. JE: We made for Killingholme, got round the circuit and we were informed to be diverted but on the radio. Again, I picked up the messages to say that we were diverted to, first of all I think it was an airfield called Hethel. SB: Yes. JE: We got there, still couldn’t see a thing. Absolute blanket of cloud, thick fog and then Jim said, ‘Well, look, you know this is getting a bit ridiculous. We are obviously getting a bit short of fuel by now.’ Could have been. We had been losing fuel and Ken had been organising the fuel supply to the aircraft. The flight engineer. So we decided to make for Woodbridge because we knew that that was a long runway and we might stand a chance. More of a chance of getting down there. SB: Right. JE: So, we set course for that. Again, we couldn’t see a thing. Absolutely thick cloud. We were down to about five hundred feet at one stage. Approaching the runway we couldn’t see the runway at all. By this time Ken said to Jack, ‘Look, this is getting a bit, a bit thin now.’ And Jack said, well Jim said, ‘Well, we’d better bale out I think.’ There was nothing, not much more we could do about it actually. So, we sort of got up to about three thousand feet and James said, ‘Ok chaps. Bale out.’ So [laughs] I can remember this, taking our helmet off to make sure that you didn’t get your cables knotted on top of your throat because that often happened. When the parachute opens, the pack goes up over your head and sometimes the base of the pack can catch your chin and if you’ve got wireless cords on, you know, cables on, the intercom cable and whatever it could catch your neck. That absolutely did happen on a few occasions. So, the thing to do was to make sure you took your helmet off. That was the first thing. This was a fairly organised bail out. I mean we had time to think about it. SB: Yes. JE: Which is probably [laughs] not all that good an idea really when you realise that you have been comfortable inside a piece of equipment which had been taking you around the sky for a while. Then you’ve suddenly got to leave it. And the other thing I recalled afterwards was Bob Sebaski the Canadian navigator. He was a very very precise chap indeed. Everything was done exactly accordingly to the book. With his navigation if Jim veered a degree off course Jim, Jack err Bob would pull him back and say, ‘You’re off course, Jack. You’re off course.’ So Bob being very precise we’d been told that it was advisable if you had time to empty your bladder before leaving, before bailing out because the harness goes up in the crutch and you get a sudden jerk. It can be a bit [pause] Now, Bob takes advantage of that. He’d got a can [laughs] He uses the can and he stands the can very carefully on the navigator’s table before he went out the front to make sure it didn’t get spilled. I mean this is something that all of us recall to this day. SB: Yeah. JE: And Bob himself remembered it of course all the years. He’s gone now. Anyway, we went out in an orderly fashion and the bomb aimer went. They were all ready. He went out first. Ken the flight engineer went out. Then Bob Sebaski went out. I followed Bob and then behind me would be the mid-upper gunner and the rear gunner. Sometimes with baling out operations I understand that rear gunners occasionally rotated their turret ninety degrees. SB: Yeah. JE: And went out through the back door. SB: Yes. JE: But in this case I think Bob err Jack Schomberg came up through the fuselage. SB: Right. JE: Anyway, I clipped my parachute on the two dog clips and went through the front, down into the nose, saw that hatch was about an eighteen inch gap and the thing was that sit on the edge you see, put your knees out and as the slipstream caught your shins you did a forward roll out of the, out of the hatch. SB: Right. JE: Which I did. To this day I don’t understand how I did it because I’m not particularly short. Looking at it now, looking at the size of that hatch I still don’t know how I did it. But anyway the thing I remember most of all was the sudden silence after what must have been about nine, eight or nine hours of flying with four Merlins or three Merlins on the way back bashing away at your ears all the time. I recall seeing the aircraft with my peripheral vision. I remember seeing the aircraft move off to the, to the starboard and disappear. After that it was a complete blank because it was thick fog, there was no sensation whatever of falling when I came out of the aircraft because I couldn’t see the ground. SB: Right. JE: And I did the usual. Pulled the ripcord. They say count to ten but you see question of count one ten and pull the rip cord and the first feeling I had was that it hadn’t work. Obviously it takes a few seconds for the pilot’s chute to open which then opens the main chute and then the base of the pack goes above your head and you are hung by the harness after that. Anyway, it did open. I looked up and I saw this lovely piece of white silk up there. SB: Yeah. JE: And then just floated down and very pleased of course that it had opened but still no sensation of falling. I still couldn’t see the ground. SB: Was it still dark at this point? JE: This would be about, about 6.15 in the morning. SB: Oh, ok. JE: Dawn. SB: Yeah. JE: Dawn, you see. SB: Yeah. JE: And coming down and I thought fine and then I suddenly began to realise I couldn’t see the ground. Where the hell was I going to land? We could have been anywhere. We knew we were over land because the aircraft was, Jim had actually afterwards he’d pointed the aircraft out to sea and put the automatic pilot on. He went out himself, and as soon as he went out the aircraft ran out of fuel and that landed in a field just outside Needham Market and went straight in. SB: Yeah. JE: Jim was knocked out. When the parachute opened it caught his shin and knocked him out. He doesn’t remember anything about the bale out at all until he hit. Until he came to on the ground. I came down and I just saw the ground at the last minute. I seemed to be right in the middle, in the middle of a wheat field. I tell you you’re supposed to sort of break the fall by bending your knees and doing a roll but I didn’t see the ground until I hit it and I sort of jarred my, jarred my back a bit. Twisted my knee a little bit but nothing to worry about and suddenly realised I was on the ground and in the middle of this wheat field. It was a bit bleak. I gathered the bits of the ‘chute together in my arms and I looked around and saw a farmhouse in the corner. So I walked across to the farmhouse. The first thing I remembered to do was to make sure my Mae West was open so when the farmer opened the door he could see I was RAF and not Luftwaffe. Anyway, I knocked on the door and the farmer opened the door. I explained what had happened and I said where was the nearest, did he know where the nearest Air Force Station was and he said it was RAF Wattisham. So he said, ‘I have the number for you so if you can phone through to the guardroom there they’ll arrange to pick you up. So, I was on the phone and he came up with a tumbler. A half-filled tumbler of whisky. SB: Welcome back to England. JE: It went down very well. Anyway, the thing was then that in about what, a matter of twenty minutes or so, a jeep came to pick us up, pick me up and it had already picked up Bob Sebaski on the way. I suppose the seven of us must have all landed within a fairly close area because we were all picked up fairly quickly and then taken to this RAF base, Wattisham. Which was in fact an American Air Force. P-38s were operating there. SB: Yeah. JE: And I can remember going to the control tower and reporting there and the Major with his feet stuck up on the desk and a cigar in his mouth [laughs] ‘Hi Bud,’ he says, and we explained what had happened. He said, ‘How long were you airborne?’ I said, ‘It must have been about eight or nine hours.’ He said, ‘Jesus.’ Anyway, the upshot of it was that we were all picked up and we were taken across to the sick bay there and given a thorough check over, a medical check and looked after royally. They really did look after us really well. We were there as I can remember overnight. Might have even been two days because the fog didn’t lift. SB: Right. JE: So they couldn’t send anything down to pick us up. In the end we had to leave by train from Ipswich to Kings Cross. Then we had to go across from Kings Cross to Euston to get the train to go back up to Lincoln. SB: Yeah. Yeah. JE: And I can remember walking across from King’s Cross to Euston seven of us, full flying kit, carrying our parachutes. Very gruff and you know scruffy looking being stopped by an MP, SP for being improperly dressed. SB: Oh really? JE: Jim and I, we didn’t often pull rank but we did pull rank on this guy and told him where to get off. Anyway, they had, they had reserved a compartment for us on the train first class because we had all of our gear and it so happened that Euston was very close to where I used to live. I used to live in Middlesex. In Kenton, Middlesex, and the train wasn’t due to go out until late in the afternoon or early evening so I took the opportunity to hop on a tube train and go home and have a hot bath. My mother was absolutely staggered when she saw me walking up the path with flying boots and my Mae West and all the rest of it [laughs] SB: Excellent. JE: And then I, I then came back and we got on the train and got back to base and I can remember one thing. The WAAFs that looked after Jim and I in our billet they hadn’t been told that we were safe and when we arrived back at the billet they were overcome really and very pleased to see us over there. Well, of course the first thing that we did was to head over to the parachute section and offer our thanks to the people who had packed our parachutes. SB: Yes. Yeah. JE: That was it really. SB: Yeah. So apart from Jim knocking himself out. JE: Yeah. SB: No other injuries? JE: No. None at all. I think, as far as I can remember from what Jim tells me he was taken to the site of the aircraft where it crashed to make sure that nothing had been, incriminating had been left lying around. In fact, there was nothing left of it actually and I think the police people took him there and brought him back and it wasn’t until nineteen what? [pause] ‘78/79 or in the early 80’s when the archaeology, Aviation Archaeology people were investigating an aircraft in a field in Needham Market and they identified the tail plane of our aircraft which was stuck up and the Monica aerial was removed from it and it was identified as our aircraft and that’s the one that was in the museum at [unclear] SB: Right. Right. Now, I saw you looking at the ORB. The squadron lost three aircraft that night. Now, I don’t, I don’t know if you know was that all from the same thing? Not being able to land or are you not sure? JE: I think there might have been some losses over, over the, over the target area. It was, it had been a pretty difficult operation. I think it wasn’t a successful one from the point of view of very few aircraft managed to find the target. I know we did but as I say I’m not, I don’t know who was lost on that from our squadron. SB: Right. Can we talk about the time you said when you were looking up through the astrodome? JE: Oh yes. SB: Was it a Halifax I think you said was above you? JE: Yes. SB: Can you just talk through that? JE: That was, that was one of the first daylight raids we did. If you recall just after D-Day, although the RAF had been concerned mainly with bombing at night and it was a night bombing force when after D-Day they suddenly had a big spate of [pause] well flying bombs and things and also we did a lot of support work for the Army when they were advancing towards you know up, coming up from Normandy. SB: Yes. JE: And it had been bombing the area before. But this particular trip we’d do it was a trip to just outside Paris. I am not too sure what [pause] I’m not sure about what the target was but it was outside Paris. SB: Right. JE: And we were at our normal bombing height of about twenty thousand feet. Normally there was a staggered height for waves of aircraft as they went in. Some went in at eighteen, some went at twenty, some twenty two and it was a clear sunny day and I was standing up in the astrodome. I’d just been listening out for the base recordings on the receiver and I went up into the astrodome to have a look and see what I could see and I happened to look up. We were on our bombing run because actually what Guss was giving Jim, his directions towards the target. The usual business of “Left. Left. Steady. Right.” And so on, and I looked up and I saw a Halifax. It was a Halifax. It could have been no more than about five hundred feet above us I should think and he was, his pilot was obviously receiving the same directions from his bomb aimer because the bomb doors were open. I suddenly saw a string of bombs cascading down. They seemed to be very very close to us and I realised. God. You know, this must be happening all the time at night and we never saw it. SB: Yeah. JE: And of course there were a lot of casualties from aircraft and bombs being hit from above. But that was one of the experiences which I suppose I can remember a feeling of, you know almost terror seeing that lot come down. SB: Sure. Were there other times that stick in your mind where you thought, ‘This is, this is pretty dodgy.’ Or — JE: Well, there was one occasion. I think the mid-upper gunner gave Jim some very quick instructions, ‘For Christ’s sake, Jim. Move!” Because another, at night this was, and another aircraft must have been passing over us at the time very close to us and we had to do a sudden dive to port to get out of the way. SB: Right. JE: I didn’t see that because most of the time at night I was in my cabin and I didn’t bother to look out. I was listening out on the radio and at the same time watching my radar screen, the Monica screen. That was what I was doing most of the time anyway. SB: Right. Right. Let’s go off ops for a minute and talk about the Phantom trip. JE: Oh yes. SB: The fighter affiliation. How did that come about? JE: Well, occasionally when there were no ops on or when there was for some reason the Squadron was stood down we used to do what they called fighter affiliation with either Spitfires, Spitfires or Hurricanes to get them used to the idea of attacking aircraft and liaising with Fighter Command. And it so happened at the time that a JU88 had landed fully equipped. The Luftwaffe pilot was either lost or didn’t realise where he was but he landed and this was one of the latest models of the JU88 with the full radar equipment on it. They decided at the time that it would be useful to use this for fighter affiliation work because it would give them some idea of what the JU88 was capable of and also what we could do with sort of any anti-fighter tactics we could use. So I had my Monica radar switched on and that was to detect aircraft approaching from the rear. It gave your gunners, I was able to give the gunners an idea of any approaching aircraft which were either hostile or if it, if it was in a bomber stream you would see a blip on the screen which was staying in the same place or a cluster of blips which meant they were moving at the same place. SB: Yeah. JE: And speed as we were. SB: Yeah. JE: If a smaller blip came in, coming in you could see that would be a night fighter attacking so you could give your gunners an indication of where the attack was coming from. Well, the outcome of that was that we realised, or the Eastern Radar people realised, that as soon as I switched my Monica on, that JU88 was able to home onto the signal. After that, Monica was scrapped. They didn’t use it anymore. They used what, what was used was Fishpond was the one that was after that. SB: Yes. Yeah. JE: That was towards the end of our tour. Right at the end. SB: Yes. Yes. Yes. That’s a question I’ll ask you about. We might have to dive into the logbook because 31st August ’44. JE: Yeah. SB: According to the ORB you did a daylight to [Angoville] I think in your book you say that was the same day you did the fighter affiliation. The 31st of August. JE: Well I can see. Let’s have a look and see [pause] We must have been stood down for that, I think. SB: Yes. JE: You’ve seen these photographs haven’t you? SB: Yes, I have. Yes. JE: I’ve got a question about one of those coming up later. SB: Right. Let’s have a quick look. JE: It’s inconceivable. SB: This where I’ve got to use this bloody thing. JE: Oh yes. Yes. [pause] JE: That’s the beginning. Interesting when you read a logbook. At the end of each month the flight commander used to have to sign it. The adjutant. You had to put your logbook in for checking and [pause] what date are we talking about? SB: The 31st August. JE: Yeah. According to me the 31st of August [pause] now why have I done that? That’s strange because I’ve got the 31st of August here. 1300 take-off. SB: Yeah. JE: BQ G-George. SB: Yeah. JE: Flying officer lord. Flying officer lord. Ops [Angoville] SB: Yeah. JE: Bad weather conditions. SB: Right. JE: And then the 30th of August which was the day before. SB: Ah. JE: So I must have put them in the wrong way round. SB: Ah ok. JE: So it was the day before that. SB: Right. JE: It was on the 30th of August. It was what was called a mock-up. Testing radar equipment with captured JU88 and that was with the Phantom. SB: Yes. How long was that sortie for, John? JE: Three hours and five minutes. SB: Oh right. Ok. JE: Isn’t it amazing? SB: Yes. Right. While you’ve got your logbook. JE: Yes. SB: There are quite a few I don’t know what the target was. JE: Right. SB: So the 2nd of July is the first one. JE: We’ll have to go back a bit haven’t we. 2nd of July. SB: Yes. JE: That would be [pause] Domleger. Duty carried out. That was our eighth trip. SB: Yes. JE: That’s it. Domleger. D O M L E G E R. What that was I don’t know. SB: Right. Was that, was that daylight or night? JE: Daylight. SB: Right. Then the 6th of July. JE: 6th of July. SB: Yeah. JE: That was [Neufchatel.] Again a daylight. SB: Right, and the next one is on the 8th of August. JE: 8th of August. Return to base. SB: Ah. JE: That would be aborted. SB: Ok. JE: That would be an abort, horrible. SB: Right. The 10th? JE: That was the one. Now, let’s that one there afterwards. Paris the 10th that was. SB: Yes. JE: The 10th of August. SB: Yes. JE: That would be the one when the Halifax was — SB: Right. JE: Dugny. D U G N Y. SB: Oh yes. JE: Paris. Moderate but accurate flak. Five hours ten minutes. That was a daylight. SB: Right. Ok. Then the next day. The 11th. JE: The 11th would be. You see, we didn’t half do them quickly. SB: You did. I know. JE: In fact, those daylights we did I’m not sure but we did two in one day. Anyway, the 11th of August. SB: Yes. JE: That was Douai. DOUAI. Very bad bombing results. SB: Right. JE: Very good bombing results. SB: Right. JE: Very good. And that was four hours thirty minutes. SB: Daylight again was it? JE: Daylight again. Yes. SB: Yeah. Yeah. And the 15th. JE: The 15th. That was again a daylight. Le Culot, Brussels. SB: Ah. JE: Airfield well pranged [laughs] and that was three hours twenty four minutes. SB: Right. JE: Then of course that was a succession of daylights. Then the day after that on the 16th. SB: Yeah. JE: We went to Stettin. SB: Yeah. JE: And that was a long one. That was eight hours twenty minutes. That was a night trip. SB: Right. Ok. Sorry, just going back to July. JE: Yes. SB: On the 7th. JE: Yes. SB: To Caen I think. Is that right? JE: 7th. SB: Yes. JE: Well it’s [Frontenay] actually. SB: Oh ok. JE: Diverted to Oakley. That was a night. SB: Ah. JE: Wait a minute. Now why is that? Yes. SB: Now, in the ORB it says you were damaged by flak on that op. JE: Yeah and returned. That’s right because the following day we returned to base. We were diverted to Oakley to land. SB: Right. JE: Because obviously we were having problems. SB: Right. JE: And we landed. That was landed at night actually. SB: Right. Ok. JE: Yes. It would be because we took off at [pause] that’s very strange. Why did I do that? 09.25 we took off. SB: Ah. JE: And yet it’s classified here as at night. SB: Oh strange. JE: No. I think that, I think I must have put that in the wrong place. SB: The 20th of July. According to the ORB that was the Kiel Canal. JE: 20th of July. SB: Yeah. [pause] JE: I can’t see anything for the 20th of July. SB: You’re number fourteen. On the 18th July, a daylight raid to [unclear]. JE: That was the 23rd of July. SB: Ah. Now, and I had difficulty reading the ORB in some places. The 23rd of July I had as Le Havre but that might have been a — JE: You see that day on the 23rd of July — SB: Yeah. JE: We took off at 11.30 and we did a formation practise, a daylight formation practice for twenty three minutes. SB: Oh right. JE: And then the same day. SB: Yeah. JE: At 22.50. SB: Yeah. JE: We took off and went to Kiel. SB: Right. JE: Yeah. SB: Ok. JE: Very heavy, very heavy flak. Target well pranged. SB: Right. Ok. The only other query I’ve got is your last one. JE: Yeah. SB: The 26th of September. Your book says that it was a daylight but I don’t know what the target was. JE: Cap Gris Nez. SB: Ah ok. JE: Ah, that’s right. I’ll tell you what happened there. We went on the 25th of September. The 25th of September but the mission was abandoned. SB: Right. JE: That was Calais. SB: Ah. Ok. JE: That was abandoned so they came back and on the following day went to the same place. Calais. And that was our last trip. SB: Right. JE: Cap Gris Nez. SB: Right. Ah ok. Now, the ORB says on the 25th of September. JE: Yeah. SB: You went to, ah well it says Sangatte so that’s Calais isn’t it? Yes. ok. Right. You had another aborted one apparently on the 23rd of September. JE: Yeah. The 23rd of September. That was to [unclear] on the Ruhr. That was an aborted op. SB: Right. Right. Ok, that answers that. It was Gee that was u/s apparently. JE: Yeah. SB: Yeah. Yeah. Ok. Now, when we come to the aircraft. JE: Yeah. SB: I know that can you just talk through the story about where did, ‘We Dood It,’ come from? Where did the name come from? How did you end up using, ‘We Dood It?’ JE: I think it was probably Ken Down. He coined it I think. He was a bit of a character was Ken. When we’d finished we had all the ops, all the bombs painted on the side of the aircraft and had our photograph taken and the ground crew actually painted the, “We Dood It” on. I can’t really remember who coined it. I think that it might have been Ken. Ken Down. SB: Right. JE: Or even Jim. It might have been Jim. SB: Right. Now — JE: We Dood It. SB: Ok. Now, I’ve got a puzzle about which aeroplane that is. Let me explain. We know it wasn’t the original George because that was the one you jumped out of. JE: That’s right. Yes. SB: But then you did something like ten or twelve ops in LM228 another G-George. JE: Well, that was, that would be the second one. SB: Yes. Second one. JE: Yeah. SB: Now, in your book, that is the one that you say was painted up as, “We Dood It.” JE: Yeah. SB: Right. But your last four ops were in different aeroplanes. PD319, and your last one was in PD321. JE: Eh? SB: Yeah. From the 20th — JE: Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute [pause] The end of August. SB: Yeah. JE: We were in BG G-George. SB: Yeah. JE: Then at the beginning of September we did two trips in PD319. SB: Yeah. JE: And NG132. SB: Oh right. JE: Now, how that. That, no. No. That wasn’t. They weren’t ops. SB: Right. JE: They were ferrying. SB: Right. JE: Ferrying aircraft from Elsham Wolds to base. SB: But then your 28th, 29th and 30th ops were in PD319 and the last one was in PD321. So the question is which aeroplane was painted up and had the thirty ops on it? JE: Well, unfortunately, my logbook doesn’t give the aircraft number. SB: Oh, I can tell you that because I looked it up in the ORB. JE: Because Jim would have that you see in his logbook. SB: I’ve got it. JE: You’ve got it. SB: Because it was in the ORB. Yes. JE: Yeah. But all these last the twenty, the 28th 29th and 30th were all done, according to me in BQG-George. SB: Yes. It was still BQG. JE: Yeah. SB: But it was a different air frame. Yes. Because the ORB is very specific about it. So you had BQG-George LM228. JE: Yes. SB: Which was the aircraft you used from your 13th to the 27th. JE: Yes. SB: So for the bulk of your ops. JE: Yeah. SB: And then your 28th was still in BQ-G but that was PD319. The 29th was PD319 and the 30th was PD321. Now, ORBs are not infallible. JE: No. SB: I have to say. JE: No. SB: So I rather suspect that the ORB is wrong and that you probably finished off in LM228 because the photograph. I mean, I can’t imagine you have thirty ops marked up there on “We Dood It” and I can’t imagine that somebody would have gone and painted up thirty bomb symbols on an aeroplane you weren’t using just for a photograph. JE: No. SB: So I think that the ORB is wrong. JE: Probably wrong. Yes. SB: Yeah. Ok. I think we can justifiably say that [pause] Right. What else did I want to ask you about? JE: Yeah. We did quite a lot of daylights actually. SB: Yeah. JE: Around about that time because we did a lot of flying bomb sites. SB: Right. Yeah. JE: That was at the time where they decided that because the flying-bomb sites were on the Pas de Calais and close to the north of France it was a very short trip. Sort of three hours or something like that. We used to go in at about eight thousand feet after identifying the target in daylight because they were just fields with ramps on. SB: Yes. JE: Very difficult to detect. SB: Yes. Yeah. JE: And they used to have to allocate one squadron to each flying bomb site I think and they said, you know this is simple. We were going and coming back and going and coming back. You’d have to do three of those to count as one op. SB: Oh really. JE: Yeah. SB: Ah. JE: And they suddenly realised they were losing so many aircraft on these low level ones through light flak that they went back to counting them as normal. One for one. SB: Right. What, when you say low level what altitude would you be flying? JE: About eight thousand feet. SB: Oh really. JE: Yeah. Because we used to go in at ten to twenty thousand. Twenty normally. SB: Yeah. JE: But in order to identify these ramps you had to go in low anyway. SB: Oh right. Yes, of course, yes. What was the longest trip you did? JE: Let me [pause] I think probably it was Stettin. SB: Right. JE: Let me have a quick look. Eight hours twenty. And there was another one to Rüsselsheim, Opel Works. That was eight hours. Eight hours. There are two long ones there. SB: Right. JE: Nine hours thirty. That would be [pause] where was that? Oh, no that would be the Revigny one. SB: Ah ok. JE: Because we were, you know, stooging about. SB: Trying to find somewhere to land. JE: Trying to find somewhere to land. That was nine hours thirty. SB: Right. JE: Where else? Seven hours to Saintes. SB: Right. JE: And — SB: Sterkrade. That must have been a fair — JE: Where is that? SB: Your second one on the 16th of June. JE: On the day of the 16th of June [pause] That’s strange you know. That wasn’t that long. SB: No. JE: No. It was a Ruhr. SB: Right. Right. JE: Four hours thirty nine. SB: Oh right. JE: That would have been our [pause] third, that would have been, that would be our second trip. SB: Yeah. Yeah. Right. JE: Yeah. Because Jim would have done one before us as his as a second pilot. SB: Right. JE: You see. SB: Right. JE: The aircraft, the captains of the aircraft were always taken on a, what they called a second dickie trip for experience and then he always did one more than the rest of the crew. SB: Right. JE: Because we started on the, we started on the Le Havre actually. SB: Yes. Yeah. JE: And that was on the 14th of June but Jim would have done one with Peter Nicholas, the Flight Commander, the day before. SB: Right. JE: But I wouldn’t have that in my — SB: No. No. No, ok. Just going back to looking at the squadron losses, the 16th June you’re at Sterkrade on the Ruhr. JE: Yeah. SB: There were three aircraft lost from your squadron. JE: Ah, wait a minute. We weren’t on. We weren’t in G-George then. SB: No. You’re right. You were in — JE: F-Fox. SB: F-Fox. Yes. JE: Yes. SB: I just wondered how aware were you of losses of other aircraft? Of crews not being there or — JE: I think the first indication of how hazardous it was going to be because I think we arrived at the squadron not long after the Nuremburg trip and that was where they lost ninety six. SB: Yeah. JE: Or ninety eight or something like that. SB: Yes. JE: It was horrendous. SB: Yes. JE: Everybody realised then it was. We were in a really dodgy situation. Yes. We knew of course aircraft on the Squadron and people who didn’t come back. But there was one occasion I think, what was it? Jim recalls it more than I do but a Canadian, Clarke he brought his crew back and a heavily damaged aircraft. He baled his crew out and attempted to land but failed. He avoided a village I think and crashed in a field. They reckon he ought have got a VC for it but he didn’t. Yeah. I think that was Clarke. SB: Right. JE: But those things again they must have been happening at the time but I can’t recall to this day much of what went on day by day to day on the squadron apart from getting into the aircraft and doing the air tests in the morning perhaps. Going to the flights to pick up the equipment to take out there, going to the briefings of course and when you went to the briefing the first indication you had of sort of where the target was when they pulled the curtain across the map and you saw where the red tape was. As soon as that went there was an ahhh in the room. Either that or a, ‘Thank God it’s only a short one,’ sort of thing but and again we had day to day things that I don’t recall. SB: I imagine you tended, well I imagine, I don’t know you must tell me, so when you were not flying did you tend to stick together as a crew? I mean, did you if you went out to the pub or something were you with the crew or — JE: Yes, we used to go out to the local pubs in North Killingholme. There were two pubs there and I can remember we used to go to, I think it was at Hemsworth we used to get marvellous fish and chips. SB: Yeah. JE: And again we used to go out sometimes as a crew but bear in mind that both Jim and myself were both commissioned therefore living alone. Living differently from the rest of the crew. They were in sergeant’s quarters. NCO’s quarters. Jim and I shared a billet in the officer’s quarters and perhaps we didn’t have so much contact with them as we might have done on the ground but I think we were so busy. We were pretty busy out, out, out. SB: Yeah. Yeah. JE: Flights were very close together. If you can remember we operated in the summer months and whereas a crew could take sometimes eight or nine months to complete its tour of operations in the winter when a lot of the trips were be scrubbed or cancelled or whatever — SB: Yeah. JE: Due to bad weather conditions we got through our tour very quickly. SB: You did. JE: And there couldn’t have been an awful lot of time to spend, you know outside the camp apart from when we went on leave. We used to get, we used to get seven days leave every, every six weeks I think. So there would be periods where we went on leave during the tour. SB: Right. Right. And you went home then did you? JE: Yeah. We went home. SB: Yeah. Yeah. JE: Yeah. But again I suppose it’s what you remember really more than anything else. You remember learning the job, doing the job and making sure you could do the job properly. Going out to the flights, getting you kit, getting the two accumulators for the wireless section which you had to take out to the aircraft because they were, they were acid accumulators for the, which you had to take out freshly out every day. Doing an air test to make sure the aircraft was serviceable. But a lot of the work looking after the radio equipment was done by the wireless mechanics. They would make sure the aircraft was tuned up to the right frequencies before you got into the aircraft. SB: Sure. Sure. Did you tend to see the same ground crew? Or did it vary? JE: As far as I remember it was the same ground crew the whole time. SB: Yes. Do you remember any of their names? JE: No. SB: No. JE: Not at all. SB: No. JE: Not at all. SB: Oh. Ok. JE: It was their aircraft. SB: Yes. JE: We just borrowed it from them. SB: Absolutely [laughs] and woe betide you if you didn’t bring it back. JE: That’s right. Yes. SB: So what about, let’s go to the end of the tour then? You’ve done your last op. How did you feel? Was it relieved? Pleased? JE: Relieved, I think. What happened on our last we had this thing where on our last op it was, I think it was aborted from what we thought was going to be our last op. SB: Yes. Yes. JE: We went and didn’t come back and didn’t go there. So what the idea was that in the Mess on your last trip you made sure there was a pail of beer left on the bar for when you came back and the crew that was on the last op they made, high tailed it for base so they were the first to land, went into the bar and got the beer lined up for everybody else who came in you see. Well, we did that and of course put the bar, the pail of beer on the bar but of course it wasn’t counted so we had to go back and do the same thing the following day. SB: [laughs] You must have been popular. JE: Oh dear, yeah. But again, relief. But I think as far as I can remember we went, we went on leave. We were sent on leave and came back to the squadron before being posted to where we were supposed to go and I think that was a moment where I felt possibly very depressed because we had been as a crew, the seven of us for what, eighteen months or so really training, operating and then suddenly these other six chaps who were with you all that time just dispersed. I felt completely [pause] well disorientated really. SB: Right. JE: I think that was the feeling about it. The fact that you’d lost touch with these chaps and you weren’t sure what was, what was going to be ahead. I remember that very clearly. It was like having six brothers as a crew. SB: Yeah. Yeah. How long was it before you came across any of them again after you split up? JE: Well, it would be the Spring of 1945. In fact, it would be, yes it would be spring ’44 when Jim Lord was married and I was his best man. SB: Ah. Right. JE: And I kept in touch with Jim all of the time pretty well. Even after the war he was, he moved to Leicester and I eventually moved up into the Bletchley, Milton Keynes area. I was still in touch with him occasionally. Not all the time because we were both busy having a career to build you see. Both had families to bring up. The rest of the crew just dispersed completely. The two, the two Canadians obviously went back to Canada. SB: Yeah. JE: And the others, Jack Shomberg, the Australian must have gone back to Australia. We never knew what happened to the mid-upper gunner. SB: Pat Sculley is that? JE: That’s Pat Sculley. SB: Pat Sculley. Yeah. JE: At that time Ken, Ken Down, we thought he came from Devon or Cornwall which was where he came from and apparently he went back to teaching or went to teaching but we didn’t know until later on when we met him that he actually moved back to Dartford in Kent and he was teaching there. So he became a schoolmaster. SB: Right. Right. JE: And we didn’t meet Ken, or we met Bob Sebaski. When would it be [pause] 1978. SB: Right. Right. JE: And then a couple of years after, Ken Down we met together in London. And that was the first time we met. We had reunions. SB: Right. What about Guss Vass? JE: We never saw him again. Ken and Bob Sebaski was in touch with him being Canadian but we didn’t meet him again. SB: Right. JE: And apparently he had health problems and eventually he died in the late 80’s or early 90’s I would think. SB: Right. Right. But — JE: We kept in touch with Bob Sebaski because Bob had come over for the annual reunions, squadron reunions at North Killingholme every year. Year after year. So we kept in touch with Bob. SB: Yeah. Yeah. But Jack Shomberg, you know nothing about? JE: No. No. SB: Right. JE: What happened was with Jack Shomberg, when I wrote my book I think I had occasion to, I think we must have been at a meeting of the Aircrew Association Beds and Bucks Branch where we had a visit from the Secretary of the Caterpillar Club and we mentioned that we hadn’t heard anything. I admitted we hadn’t heard anything of the crew and she said well she could find out through the Caterpillar Club of any, any correspondence that had taken place. She came back and she said that she had some communication from Jack Shomberg, the Australian in the 1990’s or the late 1980s. He was asking for his Caterpillar Club badge to be, or Caterpillar Club to be replaced and there was some correspondence between Jack Shomberg and the Caterpillar Club around about that time. So they had an address for him and a telephone number. We found out from the Caterpillar Club that actually Jack Shomberg died in 1991 so we weren’t able to get in touch with him but as soon as I wrote my book and we’d got this address and telephone number, Jim Lord phoned up the address in, I think it was in Queensland [pause] New South Wales, in Australia somewhere anyway, spoke to his widow — SB: Right. JE: And I sent a book, a copy of my book out to his widow and as soon as she received it she phoned us up on the Sunday morning to say that was the first time they ever knew what her husband had done during the war. SB: Good lord. Really? JE: Although she was in the Royal Australian Air Force she, they as a family didn’t know what Jack Shomberg had done. SB: Good grief. JE: So my book was a revelation to them. SB: Yes. Yeah. JE: Now, Jack Shomberg had a twin and his twin brother Charles was killed just before we started our tour of operations. So that might have been one of the reasons why he didn’t talk about it too much. SB: He was an Air Force man as well, was he? JE: Yes. He was killed. I forget. He was obviously buried in France. SB: Oh right. Right. JE: Because again after we had contact with Jack Shomberg’s family, his daughter and her husband visited us and they had a quick visit through here. They called upon us at about 12 o’clock at night. They were on their way down. We had two hours hectic session with them here and apparently they used to go to their uncle, that was Charles, their uncle’s grave in France. SB: Ah, right. Right. JE: And we didn’t know anything. Any of this at all. None of this. SB: Right. Well, I think I have exhausted everything I have wanted to ask you but is there anything else that we haven’t covered that you would like to cover? JE: I can’t really think about too much. One thing of course I do remember was when we actually crewed up. I went in first of all when I, when I volunteered for the RAF. My brother was called. He volunteered in 1939 and became a pilot and obviously I wanted to follow in his footsteps because I’d been in the Air Cadets, in the Air Training Corps as a Cadet in 1941 from my old school squadron and did some training with the Air Cadets. So I had a fair basis of Morse Code and drill and training before I went in the Air Force. Unfortunately, when I volunteered for aircrew I went for my medical and I was turned down because of my bad eyesight. My left eye was short sighted. So I had to go in as a ground staff wireless operator which disappointed me very much. It made my mother very pleased of course. SB: Yes. JE: By this time my brother was a fully qualified pilot but he was instructing the whole time. As soon as he qualified as a pilot he became trained as an instructor and he was instructing at AFUs, Advanced Flying Units from 1940 right the way through to 1944 on Ansons and Oxfords. SB: Oh right. JE: Now, when I went to, in the Air Force I went to Padgate first of all. Then was first basic training at ITW at Blackpool. Then I was sent from Blackpool down to Madley for radio course training to train as a ground staff wireless operator. Now, it was while I was down there at Madley and halfway through the course they relaxed the eye test for aircrew and any other than pilots were able to qualify as aircrew. So I immediately re-mustered and I persuaded another one of my friends, a close friend at the time, Cliff Crawley. He came in with me right through Blackpool and to Madley and he and I both re-mustered to aircrew and at the end of the radio, first radio course at Madley we were posted actually back to Blackpool of all places. And there both of us were posted as ground staff wireless operators which, which threw us completely. I think they were going to somewhere like Iceland or something like that but fortunately we pestered the adjutant there at Blackpool and said that we were re-mustered aircrew and he pulled us off the course. Then we waited for basic training for, for aircrew. I think we waited what [pause] now, let me try and think what happened there [pause] Yes. I was posted to Millom, I think. Or posted to Scotland. That’s right. After the first, after the first course at Madley I was sent up to Scotland for ground staff wireless work and it was while I was up in Scotland that we were attached to an Army base just north of Edinburgh and I was on a, in a hut there with just three of us there and we did ground staff radio. Air to ground radio. And after that I was sent back down to Madley I think. It’s a bit vague as to why that happened but I do know what we were re-mustered anyway. Anyway, we did training, aircrew radio operator training as aircrew wireless operators. Again, back to Madley and then after that of course we did AFUs. Advanced Flying Units and I went to, first of all Gloucester. A place called Staverton. SB: Yes. JE: Which was between Gloucester and Cheltenham. SB: Yes. JE: Did a week there and then were posted to a satellite airfield at Moreton Valance and that was where we did our AFU training on Ansons. SB: Ah right. JE: And that was about a five week, six week course I suppose. A very good course actually. We had an excellent instructor there who was a Sergeant when we started but he was promoted to Pilot Officer and he was a very good instructor. It was on that occasion I had a weekend off. I went to Greenham Common where my brother was flying and actually spent the weekend with him and flew with him in an Anson. SB: Oh excellent. Excellent. JE: After that AFU I was called to the office one day, headquarters AFU and for a Commissioning Board. Hadn’t had any indication of that at all but apparently I was selected for commissioning and told that at the end of our Operational Training course, or Operational Training Unit I would be commissioned. So, I went to, left AFU and went to Operational Training Unit at Peplow which was near Wellington. That was 83 OTU. Let’s have a look and see what we’ve got here. [pause] Peplow [pause] Ah that’s, that’s Number 6 AFU. SB: Right. JE: And Ansons. I must have done something like fifty five hours daylights on training and six hours fifty at night. WT exercises. SB: Right. JE: QDMs. Loop readings. Navigational aids. So on and so forth and that was from the 7th of September 1943 through to the 9th of October. SB: Right. JE: ’43. Then of course we were sent to [pause] yes. Peplow. SB: Yeah. JE: 12th of, 12th of November. 83 OTU we must have been sent, we must have been on leave then and of course it was there where we were sent to a huge hangar and told to get yourself sorted out. All the aircrew categories got together, you know, pilots navigators just put in a heap and told to sort ourselves out unlike any normal military organisation where you were told what to do. You were told you were going to be crewed up with so and so. They left you to sort yourselves out. SB: Yes. JE: Wandering around in this big hall with all these other people. That was where I met Jim. SB: Yes. Yes. JE: I said to Jim, ‘Are you looking for a wireless op?’ And then we met up with Bob of course and the others and that is how we crewed up. SB: Did you have Ken there though because a lot of people say — JE: No. SB: That the flight engineers joined later didn’t they? JE: That was you had, let’s see would we have had two. We must have only had one, one gunner. We must have only had one because we were on Wellingtons you see. SB: Ah. JE: And they would only have been — SB: Right. JE: Twin-engine aircraft. SB: Yes. JE: Now, whether we had two gunners and they took it in turns to fly in the rear turret that was probably what happened. And then after we did the [pause] That was quite a long session at Peplow. Went through to 31st of December [pause] Still Peplow I think. Yes. 30th of January. SB: Gosh yeah. JE: 31st of January was the last trip that we did in the Wellington, I think. No. February the 1st. High level bombing exercise. Ah, that’s right and then on the 1st of May, bloody hell what did we do all that time? It’s amazing when you look at this. 1st of February [pause] and then February. What were we doing all that time? SB: Yeah. JE: From [pause] we didn’t do any flying between the 1st of February until [pause] the 1st of May. SB: Good grief. Strange. JE: There’s something missing here. SB: So the 1st of May was HCU was it? JE: The 1st of May was Heavy Conversion Unit. SB: Yeah. JE: Yes. And then the 27th of May, Lancaster Finishing School at Hemswell and we only did what? A short time there. Familiarisation, fighter affiliation, circuits and landings, circuits and landings and overshoots. But that was, that was the Lancaster Finishing School. SB: Yeah. JE: And then we went to 550 Squadron. SB: Yeah. Where was the HCU? JE: That was at Sandtoft. SB: Oh right. Yes. JE: Prangtoft. SB: Prangtoft. Yes. Halifaxes. JE: Oh God. Well, they were clapped out Halifaxes. They were Merlin Halifaxes. Old aircraft. We, we very seldom came back on four engines. We did cross countries. Emergency landing at Halfpenny Green. That was when we came down on two engines at night. That was probably the hairiest thing we ever did. I don’t know how Jim got that down. He said we nearly had it that night. And the thing I recall about that trip was that of course these were summer months and the heating in these aircraft was [ducted] on the inside from the inner engines and on this trip we were doing a night cross country and one engine packed up and had to be feathered and the second inboard engine had to be, packed up and that was feathered. Of course, all the heat went off and I got cold [laughs] We had to make ourselves down to somewhere to find somewhere to land and we came down and located Halfpenny Green and that was an AFU. SB: Yes. JE: A very small airfield. SB: Yes. Yes. JE: We did three attempts to come in. we had to wait every time. They refused to let us in and then finally Jim said, ‘Look,’ he said, ‘This is stupid. I want to go in.’ And he went in on a red and the aircraft slewed at the end of the runway and landed up within about twenty yards of the control tower. How he got that down I don’t know. SB: Wow. JE: But he did a tremendous job getting that in. He got commended for that actually. SB: Did he? Yeah. Yeah. JE: But — SB: I take it that you didn’t go home in the same aeroplane then [laughs] Left it there did you? JE: Some, actually we, they did, they did pick us up from there in daylight. A flying officer came to pick us up I think. Yeah. So you know it was — SB: Yeah. JE: Some of these things you remember quite clearly but again at the, at OTU we were all sergeants of course and when we finished our course at OTU I went home on leave as a Sergeant and came back as a Pilot Officer and that of course was when I was separated from the rest of the crew. SB: Yeah. JE: I was a little bit concerned about it at the time because you know but I needn’t have worried about it because the others weren’t too bothered. Once you’re in the aircraft rank didn’t matter. SB: Right. Right. JE: I mean the captain, in a four-engine bomber or any any bomber for that matter the pilot was the captain of the aircraft whether he was a sergeant or whether he was a wing commander. SB: That’s right. Yeah. JE: So Jim was in charge. SB: Yeah. JE: And then Jim was commissioned anyway when he, after he got to the squadron. SB: Right. Right. I have thought of something else I wanted to ask you. About a month ago you went up to Coningsby and got back inside the Lanc. JE: Yeah. SB: What was that like? JE: Brilliant. Brilliant. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a photograph of me actually in my position because that bloody camera there we couldn’t get the flash to operate. We went there, pouring with rain, it was a horrible day but we got there nice and early and Yvonne Masters introduced us to first of all Emily Barrington, a sergeant who was in the RAF. She was waiting for training as a helicopter pilot and she looked after us. There were two, three other wireless operators, ex-wireless operators besides myself who were with us and we were taken behind the barrier into the aircraft and it was an ex-Squadron Leader, Stuart who looked after us. He took us into the aircraft and again I climbed up the steps, went past the mid-upper turret, past the rest bed, up over the lower, the rear spar and over the main spar and sat in my old seat there. The squadron leader, he was, I think he was more concerned about well he learned more, he was more interested in us, in what we did. He said, ‘You know more about this aircraft than I do obviously.’ A very nice chap he was actually. He took us around and I sat in the pilot’s seat and then went down into the bomb aimer’s position. Well, of course, that Lancaster there was dual controls. SB: Right. JE: So it had rudder pedals which went above where we went down into the, into the bomb bay in the bomb aimers position. But what they did was alter that so we could go down into it. SB: Right. JE: I got down into it alright and realised that Guss must have been on his stomach the whole bloody trip. There was nowhere to sit there. SB: No. JE: You just laid down there on a cushion across the, across the escape hatch where the bombing controls were and you just looked out through the front of the aircraft. SB: Yeah. Yeah. JE: So he must have been on his belly the whole day. The whole time. I spent a lot of time talking with, we all reminisced about our experiences in it. I stood up in the astrodome and looked through there. Had a look at the the direction-finding loop because we used to use that quite a bit for the wireless operator. Two things I think were the wireless operator’s nightmare. First of all forgetting to wind in the trailing aerial before you came to land and secondly when you were direction finding loop exercises giving a bearing for the navigator to come home on. What you had to do was to tune into a signal on a beacon which was your known location, homed onto that beacon and the loop you got a louder signal and when it was at the loudest pitch that was the bearing. A loop was on but if you got a reciprocal the signal was the same. Not quite so loud. Loud but not quite so loud and you had to make sure that it was the loudest one you could hear otherwise you would be doing, giving a final reciprocal course. SB: Yeah. JE: And that was a great help to the navigator because sometimes their equipment packed up and they got a bit bit lost. Quite often Bob used to ask me for a QDM so I could give him a bearing. Jim said many times we, I’ve got them back. SB: There is another thing. Another question has come to me. There is a lot of talk and mythology about so-called Scarecrows which I have read and heard people say that the Germans had some sort of weapon that could fire vastly explosive shells into the middle of a bomber formation and they became known as Scarecrows. But people have said no. That this is nonsense. What they were were bombers exploding when they were hit by flak. I mean, do you have reminiscences of anything like that? JE: Not really. No. I think what you have to remember is that unlike the rest of the crew Bob Sebaski and I had a different viewpoint. He says, we all say to this day or we said to this day when we all got together although there were seven of us all in the same aircraft each one of us all had a different viewpoint. When Bob and Ken and Jim read my book they all said the same thing. They realised that I had a different perspective to what they did. You’ve got to realise that the bomb aimer, the pilot, flight engineer and the two gunners were looking out all the time. Bob and I weren’t. We were in our cabin. SB: Yeah. Yeah. JE: Doing our, doing our work and I must say that on that trip to Kiel at night I pulled my window back, switched the light off and pulled my window curtain back and had a look. I looked out and I saw the flak coming up and that was when I got a bit frightened. I thought to myself, ‘God look at that lot there.’ I pulled the curtain back and I didn’t look out after that. I just didn’t look out and of course the rest of the boys saw it all the time. SB: Yeah. JE: But I don’t recall I mean they saw aircraft going down there is no doubt about that. SB: Yes. Yes. JE: But didn’t talk too much about it. SB: No. No. JE: Didn’t talk about it at all. SB: No. JE: I suppose we didn’t really. We were so focused on getting the job done. SB: Yeah. JE: I suppose we were lucky really in that we, we had our tour in the summer where we did a lot of daylights. There was one, one I remember I’ll see if we can pick it up [pause] An interesting one it was. Ah yes. That was, that was a long one. Eight, it was a daylight, eight hours. Eight hours O five and it was on our [pause] I can’t see it. Our seventeenth op. SB: Oh right. Yes. JE: Pauillac. SB: Yes. JE: No opposition whatever and the the flight details that we were given at the briefing were to go out in to daylight. We had to go out across the south coast, down to fifty feet in daylight. SB: Wow. JE: Fifty to a hundred feet across the Bay of Biscay. Right across the bay to avoid the radar obviously and then about ten miles outside the target climb to eight thousand feet. It was an oil refinery. Climb to eight thousand feet, bomb and then back down again. Everybody was you know, these aircraft, the pilot used love low, used to love that low level stuff and and we it was a beautiful clear day. We could look across the Bay of Biscay. We saw fishing vessels just almost a few feet below us. Absolutely clear. It was like a training operation. Up to the target, bombed, came back. No opposition whatsoever. SB: Wow. Goodness me. JE: And actually it says here we were diverted to Sandtoft for some reason. I don’t know why. Obviously the aircraft, we must have had some bad weather coming back. But we, that was a doddle that one. Apparently, about two days later they did exactly the same thing and they lost about thirty aircraft because of they’d got their defenced going then. SB: Right. Oh gosh. JE: But that was a Pauillac. That was a long very interesting one that. But you know things like that I can remember. SB: Right. That’s amazing. Thank you, John. JE: Is that — SB: That’s, that’s marvellous. What I’d like to do if you, if you’re happy can I photograph your logbook? JE: Yes. SB: Please. I’ve got, I have my camera with me. JE: Yeah. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interview with John Elliot Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 13 page printed document 01:23:59 audio recording Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending revision of OH transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-ElliottJv10020, SBondS-ElliottJv10035 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Description An account of the resource John describes an operation where all crew of his aircraft had to bale out, after all airfields in England were fog bound as they were running out of fuel. He goes on to describe an incident on an operation when he looked up out of astrodome to see a Halifax directly above them, dropping bombs which narrowly missed them. He describes wireless ops duty with "Monica" equipment. John goes on to relate fighter affiliation sorties with a Ju 88 which had landed by mistake in England, where they discovered the German aircraft could home in on "Monica" transmissions. Monica was discontinued for "Fish Pond". He discusses at length operations between July and September 1944, comparing log books to squadron operation record documents. He recalls where aircraft name "Wee Dood It" came from and which aircraft was actually painted with 30 operation symbols. John talks about his feelings about losses and describes some of their activities, daily life, on and off operations. He recalls that two of his crew were commissioned and the others in the sergeants mess. He describes his feelings on the completion of his tour and the dispersal of crew afterwards, and describes his attempt to re-contact crew members many years after the war. John describes, initially, having to train as ground radio operator due to an eyesight issue and, subsequently, being re-mustered as aircrew wireless, and then describes the period from training up to operations. He concludes with a description of a visit to the Battle of Britain memorial flight at RAF Coningsby to get in the Lancaster again. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Elliot S Bond Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1944-07-12 1944-07 1944-08 1944-09 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Great Britain England--Suffolk England--Needham Market England--Lincolnshire France--Paris France--Calais France--Pas-de-Calais France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray France--Douai Poland Poland--Szczecin Germany Germany--Neuss Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany--Kiel France--Lons-le-Saunier England--Gloucestershire England--Herefordshire England--Shropshire England--Lincolnshire Germany--Ruhr (Region) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011-09-07 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maureen Clarke 83 OTU aircrew anti-aircraft fire bale out bombing crash Halifax Ju 88 Lancaster Lancaster Finishing School military living conditions military service conditions Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) nose art Operational Training Unit P-38 radar RAF Hemswell RAF Madley RAF North Killingholme RAF Peplow RAF Staverton RAF Wattisham RAF Woodbridge training V-weapon Wellington wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2779/49228/SBondS-ElliottJv10019.pdf 43d48fe4100653cdf54fd81e332f7137 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elliot, J Description An account of the resource 36 items. Collection concerns Flying Officer John (Jock) Elliot who flew as a wireless operator in Lancaster on 550 Squadron. Collection contains his flying log book, a memoir, an oral history interview, transcript of a discussion with John Elliot and his pilot Flight Lieutenant Jim Lord DFC, documents and photographs. 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-ElliottJv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Elliot 550 Squadron operations Description An account of the resource Lists sorties including operations between June and September 1944. Table with aircraft (often their "We Dood It", target, day/night and time airborne with comments. Lists fate of aircraft and crew members. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1944-06 1944-07 1944-08 1944-09 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Atlantic Ocean--English Channel France--Le Havre Germany Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf) France--Pas-de-Calais France--Saintes France--Normandy France--Abbeville Region France--Orléans France--Caen Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany--Kiel France--Pauillac (Gironde) France--Paris France--Douai Belgium Belgium--Brussels Poland Poland--Szczecin Belgium--Ghent Germany--Rüsselsheim Netherlands Netherlands--Steenwijk France--Calais France--Trossy St. Maximin France Germany--Ruhr (Region) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Personal research Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Five page printed document Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-ElliottJv10019 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 550 Squadron air gunner aircrew bomb aimer bombing bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944) bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944) bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944) bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944) flight engineer navigator Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) pilot tactical support for Normandy troops V-1 V-2 V-weapon wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2773/49051/SBondS-DidwellNv10001-00040049.1.jpg dc3afce2a9f014ff5b9916b7dfcb5e42 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Didwell, N Didwell, N (Bond, S collection) Description An account of the resource 114 items. Corporal Norman Didwell served as ground crew on 99 Squadron at RAF Mildenhall from 1939 and then in the Middle East. Collection consists of documents and photographs of people, places and aircraft from the squadron's time in Great Britain, India and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-DidwellNv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Crashed Wellington Description An account of the resource Remains of a Wellington on grass bank with buildings in the background. Submitted with caption 'The wreckage of Plt Off R Willis's 99 Sqn R3170 shot down over Haarlem while on an operation to Kiel 6 July 1940 [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-07-06 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940-07-06 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Netherlands Netherlands--Haarlem Germany Germany--Kiel Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One b/w photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-DidwellNv10001-00040049 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 99 Squadron crash killed in action shot down Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2770/48888/SBondS-CookGv10001.pdf 7bc3055dc5ccc9ab3eb24ed8cf247878 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cook, G A Description An account of the resource Nineteen Items. Collection concerns Flying Officer George Arthur Cook who flew operations as a wireless operator on Hampden with 49 Squadron. Subsequently, retrained as wireless operator mechanic, he completed a further tour on Catalina with 205 Squadron in Ceylon. Collection consists of his flying log book, an oral history interview transcript, photographs and a certificate. 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-CookGv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Cook’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Multi-page printed book with handwritten entries Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. SBondS-CookGv10001 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Description An account of the resource George Cook’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 8th August 1940 until 4th September 1945. During this time trained as a wireless operator and air gunner. Initial training at No. 1 Electrical and Wireless School and No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School. After further training posted to 49 Squadron form operations in January 1941. January 1942 saw a posting to the Staff Flying Pool, Training Wing and then No. 10 Radio School in March 1943. May 1943 was posted to Coastal Operational Training Unit and then 302 Ferry Training Unit in November. Joined 205 Squadron for operations in the Far East. Returned to the UK in August/September 1945. Served at RAF Cranwell, RAF West Freugh, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Scampton, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Carew Cheriton, RAF Alness, RAF Oban, RAF Koggala. He flew 30 bombing and mine laying operations (3 day, 27 night) with 49 Squadron. His target included Hannover, Homberg, Berlin, Bremen, Brest, Kiel, Mannheim, Cologne, Lorient, Helgoland, Hamburg, Aachen, Frankfurt, Kiel Bay, Karlsruhe, Essen, Brunswick, Duisburg, Wilhelmshaven. His pilots on these operations were Flying Officer Fisher, Pilot Officers Mervin-Jones, Kerridge, Scorer, Pratt, Sergeants Eshelby, Merralls, Flint, Latty, Watt, and Wing Commander Stubbs. He flew 2 night bombing operations when posted to Training Wing to Cologne and Essen piloted by Pilot Officer Glenn. With 205 Squadron he flew 68 operations (19 day, 49 night). These included bombing, anti-ship and anti-submarine sweeps, convoy escort and meteorological flights. These were all in the Indian Ocean. His pilots were Squadron Leaders Melville-Jackson, Beckingsale, Wing Commander McClelland, Flight Lieutenants Hoare, Risk, and Lowden. On the 28th August 1941 we was wounded in the hand by anti-aircraft fire. His plane was attacked by a night-fighter on the night of 1st/2nd June 1942. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940 1941-02-10 1941-02-11 1941-02-15 1941-03-12 1941-03-13 1941-03-18 1941-04-06 1941-04-07 1941-04-08 1941-04-09 1941-04-10 1941-04-13 1941-05-04 1941-05-05 1941-05-12 1941-05-13 1941-05-16 1941-05-17 1941-05-25 1941-05-26 1941-06-10 1941-06-11 1941-06-16 1941-06-17 1941-06-18 1941-06-19 1941-06-28 1941-06-29 1941-07-05 1941-07-06 1941-07-16 1941-07-17 1941-07-20 1941-07-21 1941-07-23 1941-07-24 1941-07-25 1941-07-26 1941-07-28 1941-07-29 1941-08-02 1941-08-03 1941-08-05 1941-08-06 1941-08-07 1941-08-08 1941-08-14 1941-08-15 1941-08-17 1941-08-18 1941-08-26 1941-08-27 1941-08-28 1941-08-29 1941-12-16 1941-12-17 1942-05-30 1942-05-31 1942-06-01 1942-06-02 1943 1944-04-02 1944-04-03 1944-04-04 1944-04-05 1944-04-11 1944-04-17 1944-05-09 1944-05-13 1944-05-17 1944-05-18 1944-05-19 1944-05-25 1944-05-26 1944-05-27 1944-05-28 1944-06-01 1944-06-06 1944-06-09 1944-06-10 1944-06-12 1944-06-14 1944-06-16 1944-06-23 1944-06-24 1944-07-14 1944-07-27 1944-08-02 1944-08-06 1944-08-12 1944-08-18 1944-08-21 1944-08-25 1944-08-28 1944-08-29 1944-09-05 1944-09-07 1944-09-09 1944-09-12 1944-09-15 1944-10-05 1944-10-06 1944-10-26 1944-11-04 1944-11-07 1944-11-10 1944-11-16 1944-11-19 1944-11-22 1944-11-29 1944-12-24 1944-12-25 1945-01-03 1945-01-30 1945-02-05 1945-02-11 1945-03-30 1945-03-31 1945-04-07 1945-04-08 1945-04-09 1945-04-10 1945-04-19 1945-04-20 1945-04-21 1945-05-10 1945-05-16 1945-05-23 1945-05-24 1945-05-25 1945-05-26 1945-06-08 1945-06-20 1945-06-21 1945-06-22 1945-06-23 1945-07-04 1945-07-05 1945-07-06 1945-07-07 1945-07-14 1945-07-15 1945-07-16 1945-07-17 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Lincolnshire England--Oxfordshire England--Rutland Scotland--Argyll and Bute Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway Scotland--Ross and Cromarty Wales--Pembrokeshire Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Helgoland Bight Atlantic Ocean--Kiel Bay France France--Brest France--Lorient Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Aachen Germany--Berlin Germany--Braunschweig Germany--Bremen Germany--Cologne Germany--Duisburg Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Homberg (Kassel) Germany--Karlsruhe Germany--Kiel Germany--Mannheim Germany--Wilhelmshaven Indian Ocean Sri Lanka Sri Lanka--Văligama Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nick Cornwell-Smith 205 Squadron 49 Squadron air gunner aircrew Anson Battle bombing Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) C-47 Catalina Hampden Hornet Moth Lancaster mine laying Oxford RAF Alness RAF Carew Cheriton RAF Cottesmore RAF Cranwell RAF Koggala RAF Oban RAF Scampton RAF Upper Heyford RAF West Freugh Sunderland training Wellington wireless operator / air gunner https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2768/48867/SBondS-ClarkeEv10001.1.pdf db4cf3a6ef00b3cd652c0fd306bea482 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarke, E Clarke, E (Bond, S collection) Description An account of the resource Two items. Concerns (1051928) Sergeant Eric Clarke who flew operations as a wireless operator/air gunner with 49 Squadron. Collection consists of an oral history interview 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-ClarkeEv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Conversation with Eric Clarke Description An account of the resource Starts with discussion of Hampden and then getting Manchester and subsequently Lancaster. Relates some Manchester operations including 1000 bomber raid. Provides anecdotes about Manchester operations. Continues with account of joining up and training. Tells stories of operations on 14 month first tour on Hampdens where he did 10 operations. Relates converting to Manchester and talks of gunner's responsibility for ammunition. Covers 4 operations on Manchester. Speaks of conversion to Lancaster where he did 12 operations. Tells various anecdotes of operations and crew mates. Specifically mentions operation to Milan. Talks of commissioning and Guy Gibson's dog. Covers subsequent career on OTU. Retells of joining RAF Scampton as wireless operator/air gunner. Tells more long anecdotes concerning operations. Lists operation on Hampdens. Goes on to relate anecdotes of Manchester era. Continues with more about Lancaster and his relationship with pilot , then Flg Off later Wing Commander J K M Cooke. Finally relates story of operation to Milan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource S Bond Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009-02-17 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1941-09-21 1942-11-13 1942-07-02 1943-08-12 1941 1942 1943 1944-01 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Germany--Cologne Great Britain England--Yorkshire England--Doncaster England--Lancashire England--Blackpool England--Oxfordshire England--Wiltshire England--Lincolnshire Italy Italy--Milan Germany--Düsseldorf Netherlands Netherlands--Rotterdam England--Worcestershire Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay France France--Brest Germany--Wilhelmshaven Germany--Helgoland Germany--Essen Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany--Lübeck France--Rennes Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Ruhr (Region) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Nineteen page printed document Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-ClarkeEv10001 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 16 OTU 23 OTU 24 OTU 44 Squadron 49 Squadron aircrew bombing Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) Hampden Lancaster Manchester mine laying Operational Training Unit perception of bombing war RAF Honeybourne RAF Pershore RAF Scampton RAF Upper Heyford RAF Waddington RAF Yatesbury recruitment searchlight training wireless operator / air gunner https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2767/48861/SBondS-BrownRv10001 b.pdf 6b9ea01f1c0d6ed9acfaf4d1929bec60 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2767/48861/SBondS-BrownRv10001.pdf 66b924016c788d78cc6062dc13a68287 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown, R Description An account of the resource Five items. Collection concerns Ron Brown who flew 30 operations as a flight engineer on Stirling with 218 Squadron followed by a further 34 operations on Lancaster with 75 Squadron. Collection contains list of operations, an oral history interview and photographs. 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-BrownRv1 Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document Ron Brown’s confirmed operations with 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Woolfox Lodge STIRLINGS Special Duty Squadron Crew P/O H.Sheldon (pilot) Sgt Don Whittaker (Nav) Sgt R. Brown (Flt/Eng) Sgt G. Brown (Bomb/Aimer Sgt.L Rogers (W/Op) Sgt B.Concannon (Rear Gunner) Sgt T.Moore (Mid/Upper/Gunner) Established at Heavy Conversion Unit based at Chedburgh March 1st1944 Joined 218 Sqdn at Woolfox Lodge March 23rd 1944 1st June 10 mine laying Knocke 2nd June 16 mine laying Frisian Islands 3rd June 17 bombing Montdidier 4th June 24 mine laying Brest Transferred to Heavy Conversion Unit on to Lancasters 75 New Zealand Squadron-based at Mepal Cambridgeshire Our new N.Z PILOT Squadron Leader Bob Rogers D.F.C B Flight Commander-completed one tour on Lancasters 5th Sep 20 bombing Calais German Garrisons 6th Sep 23 bomb Nuess Dusseldorf dock & industry 7th Sep 27 bomb Calais German garrisons 8th Oct 3 (Master bomber) bombing West Kappelle 9th Oct 5 bomb Saarbrucken 10th Oct 7 Bombing Emmerich 11th Oct 23 bombing Essen 12th Oct 30 bomb Cologne 13th Nov 2 Bomb Homberg oil plant 14th Nov 6 Bomb Koblenz 25,000 homes destroyed 15th Dec 2 Dortmund oil plant 16th Dec 8 Bomb Duisburg marshalling yard 17th Dec 12 Bomb Witten Steel Works ME109's active 9 Lancs lost 18th Dec 21 bomb Trier 19th Dec 28 bomb Cologne – Wing/Com Newton Co/Pilot 20th Dec 29 bomb Koblenz Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource List of Ron Brown's operation on 218 Squadron and 75 Squadron Description An account of the resource List 30 completed operations with 218 Squadron Stirling's from RAF Woolfox Lodge. List crew for these operations. Includes one glider towing operation on 6 June 1944. Transfers via heavy conversion unit onto Lancaster and flies a further 34 operations with 75 Squadron at RAF Mepal. Notes that his pilot flew last operation on 26 August 1944 and was replaced by Squadron Leader Bob Rogers DFC. Concludes with account concerning Wing Commander Newton DFC and the character of Squadron Leader Rogers. Please note: The veracity of this information has been called into question. We advise that corroborative research is undertaken to establish the accuracy of some of the details mentioned and events witnessed. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1944-03-01 1944-04-05 1944-04-09 1944-04-12 1944-04-13 1944-04-17 1944-04-21 1944-04-22 1944-04-26 1944-04-29 1944-05-01 1944-05-05 1944-05-08 1944-05-24 1944-05-26 1944-05-27 1944-05-28 1944-05-30 1944-06-03 1944-06-06 1944-06-07 1944-06-08 1944-06-09 1944-06-10 1944-06-12 1944-06-15 1944-06-16 1944-06-17 1944-06-18 1944-06-21 1944-06-24 1944-06-29 1944-07-17 1944-07-18 1944-07-20 1944-07-21 1944-07-23 1944-07-24 1944-07-25 1944-07-30 1944-08-01 1944-08-09 1944-08-12 1944-08-15 1944-08-26 1944-09-20 1944-09-23 1944-09-27 1944-10-03 1944-10-05 1944-10-07 1944-10-23 1944-10-26 1944-10-31 1944-11-02 1944-11-06 1944-11-15 1944-11-21 1944-12-03 1944-12-08 1944-12-12 1944-12-15 1944-12-21 1944-12-28 1944-12-29 1944-12-30 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Rutland England--Cambridgeshire Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea France Germany Denmark Netherlands Germany--Helgoland France--Lille France--Cherbourg Germany--Kiel France--Brest France--Léon France--Beaumont-sur-Oise Belgium France--Dunkerque France--Lorient Europe Europe--Scheldt River Estuary Belgium--Knokke France--Saint-Nazaire France--Valenciennes Europe--Frisian Islands France--Montdidier (Hauts-de-France) France--Saint-Malo Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Channel Islands Germany--Homburg (Saarland) Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea) Germany--Stuttgart France--Abbeville Region Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Rüsselsheim Belgium--Sint-Truiden France--Calais Germany--Düsseldorf Netherlands--Walcheren Germany--Saarbrücken Germany--Emmerich Germany--Essen Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Cologne Germany--Dortmund Germany--Duisburg Germany--Witten Germany--Siegen Germany--Trier Germany--Koblenz Germany--Ruhr (Region) France--Pas-de-Calais Germany--Ruhr (Region) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal New Zealand Air Force Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three page printed document Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-BrownRv10001 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 218 Squadron 75 Squadron air gunner aircrew bomb aimer bombing bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944) flight engineer Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster mine laying navigator Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) pilot RAF Cottesmore RAF Mepal RAF Woolfox Lodge Stirling tactical support for Normandy troops V-1 V-weapon wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2752/48841/MAudisRJ[Ser -DoB]-230427-01.pdf cbb1063e176a504da4a12bfdce0267d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audis, Roger J 9 Squadron Association Description An account of the resource 41 items. The collection contains material collected by Roger Audis related to 9 Squadron RAF and airmen who served in the squadron. The collection includes four hand written operational record books, copies of log books, and interviews with Bomber Command veterans. It includes a <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.omeka.net/collections/show/4055">Scrapbook</a> belonging to Ken Rogers. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Richard James and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff, Barry Hunter, and Nick Cornwell-Smith. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023-04-27 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Audis, RJ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 9 Squadron Operations Record Book. One Description An account of the resource This is a handwritten record book for 9 Squadron from 14/15 April 1943 to 10/11 November 1943. For each operation it includes many details of the target, routes, bomb load, crews, a description of results, and if any did not return. The last few pages contain a summary of each pilot, the number of operations completed and what happened to them i.e. tour expired, posted out of 9 Squadron or missing/killed in action. There is an index listing each operation and a monthly summary of raids. 9 Squadron were operating Lancaster I and III from RAF Bardney. Over the period covered by this record 9 Squadron flew 1 day and 67 night operations, mainly bombing but also some mine laying. Bombing targets: Stuttgart, Pilsen, Spezia, Stettin, Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Bochum, Oberhausen, Friedrichshafen, Krefeld, Mülheim, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Turin, Reggio Emilia, Hamburg, Remscheid, Milan, Mannheim, Nurnberg, Peenemünde, Leverkusen, Berlin, Mönchengladbach, Hagen, Munich, Kassel, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Modane. Mine laying targets were: Weeding (Heligoland Bight), Furze (St Jean De Luz), Silverthorn (Kattegat areas), Nasturtium (Copenhagen Sound), Verbena (Copenhagen approach), Spinach (Gdynia). Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943 1943-04-14 1943-04-15 1943-04-16 1943-04-17 1943-04-18 1943-04-19 1943-04-20 1943-04-21 1943-04-22 1943-04-23 1943-04-26 1943-04-27 1943-04-28 1943-04-29 1943-04-30 1943-05-01 1943-05-04 1943-05-05 1943-05-12 1943-05-13 1943-05-14 1943-05-23 1943-05-24 1943-05-25 1943-05-26 1943-05-27 1943-05-28 1943-05-29 1943-05-30 1943-06-11 1943-06-12 1943-06-13 1943-06-14 1943-06-15 1943-06-16 1943-06-17 1943-06-20 1943-06-21 1943-06-22 1943-06-23 1943-06-24 1943-06-25 1943-06-26 1943-06-28 1943-06-29 1943-07-03 1943-07-04 1943-07-08 1943-07-09 1943-07-10 1943-07-12 1943-07-13 1943-07-15 1943-07-16 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-26 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-07-29 1943-07-30 1943-07-31 1943-08-02 1943-08-03 1943-08-07 1943-08-08 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-14 1943-08-15 1943-08-16 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-22 1943-08-23 1943-08-24 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-03 1943-09-04 1943-09-05 1943-09-06 1943-09-07 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-24 1943-09-27 1943-09-28 1943-09-29 1943-09-30 1943-10-01 1943-10-02 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1943-10-05 1943-10-07 1943-10-08 1943-10-09 1943-10-18 1943-10-19 1943-10-20 1943-10-21 1943-10-22 1943-10-23 1943-11-03 1943-11-10 1943-11-11 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Lincolnshire Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--Helgoland Bight Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea) Czech Republic Czech Republic--Plzeň Denmark Denmark--Copenhagen France France--Modane France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Berlin Germany--Bochum Germany--Cologne Germany--Dortmund Germany--Duisburg Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Friedrichshafen Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg) Germany--Hamburg Germany--Kassel Germany--Krefeld Germany--Leipzig Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Mannheim Germany--Mönchengladbach Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf) Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Remscheid Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Wuppertal Italy Italy--La Spezia Italy--Milan Italy--Reggio Emilia Italy--Turin Poland Poland--Gdynia Poland--Szczecin Germany--Helgoland Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One book Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription. Allocated Review Oct 2024 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]-230427-01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nick Cornwell-Smith 9 Squadron aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Lancaster Lancaster Mk 1 Lancaster Mk 3 mine laying pilot RAF Bardney Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2459/48813/LWardA1452665v1.1.pdf acd5ef0559d9e75922521b43db4a1819 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ward, Arthur Description An account of the resource One item. The collection concerns Arthur Ward (b. 1923, 1452665 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 199 Squadron. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rodney Ward and catalogued by Nick Cornwell-Smith. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-06-23 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ward, A Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Arthur Ward’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LWardA1452665v1 Description An account of the resource Arthur Ward’s Flying Log Book as an air bomber from 20 November 1942 until 27 August 1944 on completion of his operational tour. Trained at No. 10 Advanced Flying Unit, 27 Operational Training Unit 30 Operational Training Unit, 1651 Conversion Unit, before being posted to 199 Squadron for operations in August 1943. Served at RAF Dumfries, RAF Lichfield, RAF Hixon, RAF Waterbeach, RAF Lakenheath, RAF North Creake. Aircraft flown were Anson, Botha, Wellington III, Stirling III. He flew 36 night operations with 199 Squadron. These included bombing, mine laying and special operations dropping window and radar jamming. Targets included Bordeaux, Frisian Islands, Boulogne, Hannover, Mannheim, Kattegat, Bremen, Berlin, Abbeville, Kiel Bay, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, Heligoland, Laon, Aulnoye, Amsterdam, Sint-Annaland. His pilot on all but his last three operations was Flight Lieutenant Lumsdaine. Pilots for the last three were Flight Lieutenant Cattarall and Flying Officer Holmes. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-09-02 1943-09-03 1943-09-08 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-24 1943-09-26 1943-09-27 1943-10-07 1943-10-08 1943-10-09 1943-11-18 1943-11-22 1944-01-14 1944-01-21 1944-02-04 1944-02-05 1944-02-06 1944-02-19 1944-02-20 1944-02-25 1944-03-02 1944-03-03 1944-03-04 1944-03-05 1944-03-06 1944-03-07 1944-03-08 1944-03-18 1944-03-23 1944-03-25 1944-03-26 1944-06-16 1944-06-17 1944-06-18 1944-06-27 1944-06-28 1944-07-20 1944-07-21 1944-07-22 1944-07-23 1944-07-24 1944-07-25 1944-07-26 1944-08-07 1944-08-08 1944-08-11 1944-08-12 1944-08-25 1944-08-26 1944-08-27 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Cambridgeshire England--Norfolk England--Staffordshire England--Suffolk Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway Europe--Frisian Islands Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea) Atlantic Ocean--Kiel Bay Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Mediterranean Sea France France--Abbeville France--Aulnoye-Aymeries France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France--Boulogne-sur-Mer France--Laon Germany Germany--Berlin Germany--Bremen Germany--Hannover Germany--Helgoland Germany--Mannheim Netherlands Netherlands--Amsterdam Netherlands--Sint-Annaland Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nick Cornwell-Smith Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 1651 HCU 199 Squadron 27 OTU 30 OTU Advanced Flying Unit aircrew Anson anti-aircraft fire Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bomb aimer bombing Botha Heavy Conversion Unit mine laying Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) Operational Training Unit RAF Dumfries RAF Hixon RAF Lakenheath RAF Lichfield RAF North Creake RAF Waterbeach Stirling training Wellington Window https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2672/47804/PGouldS19070028.1.jpg 6682f20b6c01422da148dd8436ded358 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gould, Simon RAF Waddington negatives Description An account of the resource 361 items. The collection concerns Simon Gould and contains his collection of photo negatives of aircraft, people and activities from RAF Waddington. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Simon Gould and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-07-03 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Gould, S Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kiel Description An account of the resource Reconnaissance photograph of Kiel port area and city with targets indicated by arrows. Text above 'we were issued wit escape kit for [missing] consisting of currency and maps for [missing] flew over, emergency survival [missing] wakey pills and a compass'. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-12-21 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940-12-21 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany--Kiel Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One b/w photograph and accompanying text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PGouldS19070028 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Geolocated aerial photograph reconnaissance photograph https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1540/47582/LHaguesGT1819687v1.pdf 296d6b6460e167325d436a2b124e95ca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hagues, George Thomas G T Hagues Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-09-16 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Hagues, GT Description An account of the resource Three items. The collection concerns Sergeant George Thomas Hagues (1819687 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, diary and a document. He flew operations as an air gunner with 625 Squadron and was killed 13 September 1944. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Annie Roberts and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff. Additional information on George Hagues is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/109557/">IBCC Losses Database</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Thomas Hagues’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LHaguesGT1819687v1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1944-05-03 1944-05-04 1944-05-25 1944-05-26 1944-06-22 1944-06-23 1944-06-24 1944-06-27 1944-06-28 1944-06-29 1944-07-02 1944-07-12 1944-07-13 1944-07-20 1944-07-25 1944-08-04 1944-08-05 1944-08-07 1944-08-08 1944-08-16 1944-08-17 1944-08-18 1944-08-19 1944-08-25 1944-08-26 1944-08-27 1944-08-29 1944-08-30 1944-08-31 1944-09-03 1944-09-08 1944-09-10 1944-09-12 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Belgium France Germany Great Britain Netherlands Poland Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Belgium--Ghent England--Lincolnshire England--Shropshire France--Dunkerque France--Fontenay France--Le Havre France--Mailly-le-Camp France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray France--Dieppe France--Pas-de-Calais France--Pauillac (Gironde) France--Reims France--Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise France--Tours France--Vaires-sur-Marne France--Vierzon Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Kiel Germany--Rüsselsheim Netherlands--Tilburg Poland--Szczecin Wales--Bridgend France--Ardouval France--Le Clipon France--Siracourt France--Les Hayons France--Neuville-aux-Bois France--Pauillac (Gironde) France--Fontaine-le-Pin France--Raimbert France--Pauillac (Gironde) France--Pas-de-Calais France--Wizernes Description An account of the resource Navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book for George Thomas Hagues, air gunner, covering the period from 12 September 1943 to 12 September 1944, when he failed to return from operations. He was stationed at 7 Air Gunnery School RAF Stormey Down, 83 Operational Training Unit RAF Peplow, 1481 (Bomber) Gunnery Flight RAF Binbrook, 1662 Conversion Unit RAF Blyton, 1 Lancaster Finishing School RAF Hemswell and 625 Squadron RAF Kelstern. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Wellington, Halifax, and Lancaster. He flew a total of 23 operations with 625 squadron, 12 night and 11 daylight operations. Targets were Mailly-le-Camp, Le Clipon, Reims, Les Hayons, Vaires, Siracourt, Vierzon, Neuville, Tours, Wizernes, Ardouval, Paulliac, Fontaine-le-Pin, Stettin, Ghent, Rüsselsheim, Kiel, Daiment [Raimbert], Gilze-Rijen, Le Havre and Frankfurt. His pilots on operations were Pilot Officer Beetham, Flight Lieutenant Hamilton, Pilot Officer Wilson, Pilot Officer Cornish, Flying Officer Minnis, and Flight Lieutenant Banks. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 1662 HCU 625 Squadron 83 OTU air gunner Air Gunnery School aircrew Anson bombing Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944) bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944) Halifax Halifax Mk 2 Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster Lancaster Finishing School Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) Operational Training Unit RAF Binbrook RAF Blyton RAF Hemswell RAF Kelstern RAF Peplow RAF Stormy Down tactical support for Normandy troops training V-1 V-weapon Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2674/47316/LHinshelwoodD186049v1.pdf a593e850b6b730b2869d6689a1875dfe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grew, Bobbie Grew, B Description An account of the resource Eight items. The collection contains log books and medal sets belonging to different people. A log book belonging to D Hinshelwood, a log book and medal set belonging to A Steele, a log book belonging to H Maddox, a log book belonging to G W A White, a medal set belonging to H Dawson, and a medal set belonging to A A Waller. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Bobbie Grew and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-03-06 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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 An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Grew, B Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource D Hinshelwood’s Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LHinshelwoodD186049v1 Description An account of the resource Pilot Officer Hinshelwood’s Log Book as an Air Gunner from 5th September 1943 until 6th October 1944. He started training at No. 2 Air Gunnery School and then 10 Operational Training Unit. Posted to 1658 Conversion Unit in March 1944. Operational posting to 78 Squadron in April. Served at RAF Dalcross, RAF Abingdon, RAF Stanton-Harcourt, RAF Riccall, RAF Breighton. Aircraft flown were Anson, Whitley and Halifax. 1 night leaflet dropping operation with 10 OTU to Paris. Flew 37 bombing and mine-laying operations with 78 Squadron (11 day and 26 night). Targets included Paris, Malines, Leopoldsburg, Trappes marshalling yard, Mont Fleury Battery, Saint-Lô, Laval Airfield, Amiens, Laon, Noyelle-en-Chaussée, Montorgueil, Mont Candon, Blainville-sur-l'Eau, Saint-Martin-l'Hortier, Chateau Bernapre, Helgoland, Nucourt, Caen, Acquet, Bottrop, Stuttgart, Foret de Nieppe, Brest, Forêt De Mormal, Braunschweig, Falaise, Kiel Bay, Homberg, Kiel, Calais, Neuss, Cap Gris Nez, Kattegat. His pilot for all his operations was Flight Lieutenant Prichard. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-12-22 1944-04-30 1944-05-01 1944-05-02 1944-05-27 1944-05-31 1944-06-01 1944-06-05 1944-06-06 1944-06-07 1944-06-09 1944-06-12 1944-06-13 1944-06-22 1944-06-23 1944-06-24 1944-06-25 1944-06-27 1944-06-28 1944-06-29 1944-07-01 1944-07-04 1944-07-06 1944-07-09 1944-07-12 1944-07-13 1944-07-15 1944-07-16 1944-07-18 1944-07-19 1944-07-20 1944-07-21 1944-07-24 1944-07-25 1944-07-26 1944-07-27 1944-07-28 1944-07-29 1944-08-07 1944-08-08 1944-08-09 1944-08-12 1944-08-13 1944-08-14 1944-08-16 1944-08-17 1944-08-27 1944-09-15 1944-09-16 1944-09-20 1944-09-23 1944-09-25 1944-09-26 1944-10-04 1944-10-05 1944-10-06 1944-10-07 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Oxfordshire England--Yorkshire Scotland--Inverness Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Bottrop Germany--Braunschweig Germany--Helgoland Germany--Homberg (Kassel) Germany--Kiel Germany--Neuss Germany--Stuttgart Belgium Belgium--Leopoldsburg Belgium--Mechelen France France--Amiens France--Aulnoye-Aymeries France--Brest France--Caen France--Calais France--Cap Gris Nez France--Crécy-en-Ponthieu France--Falaise France--Laon France--Laval (Mayenne) France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray France--Nieppe Forest France--Nucourt France--Paris France--Saint-Lô France--Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines France--Ver-Sur-Mer France--Blainville-sur-l'Eau France--Forêt De Mormal France--Acquet France--Noyelle-en-Chaussée France--Mont-Candon Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea) France--Montorgueil France--Pas-de-Calais France--Château de Bernapré Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nick Cornwell-Smith Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 10 OTU 1658 HCU 78 Squadron air gunner Air Gunnery School aircrew Anson bombing bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944) Halifax Halifax Mk 3 Heavy Conversion Unit Ju 88 mine laying Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) Operational Training Unit RAF Abingdon RAF Breighton RAF Dalcross RAF Riccall RAF Stanton Harcourt tactical support for Normandy troops training Whitley