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During a training flight the pilot flew into a thunderstorm cloud and encountered severe turbulence and icing such that the aircraft became uncontrollable and the crew were ordered to fit their parachutes. Plummeting from twelve thousand feet to four thousand the pilot regained control but the air speed indicator was unserviceable and a difficult landing at an emergency airfield was made.
After converting to the Lancaster at the Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Bottesford, Jeff was posted to 576 Squadron to RAF Fiskerton in April 1945 and made five trips delivering food to Holland as part of operation Manna, the last being on VE day. Returning from this last trip the formation decided to carry out a ‘beat up’ of their airfield. Operating the engine boost to increase speed a large panel became detached from the wing. As Jeff points out, the aircraft were pretty old. All the pilots were later reprimanded for their display. Flights to Brussels, repatriating prisoners, and Naples to bring home demobbed servicemen occupied the next five months until he was posted to Germany at a radar station in what was eventually the French zone. Here he met his future wife who was a local interpreter.
Jeff became aware that if he re-engaged with the RAF he could retrain as aircrew but was required to acquire an auxiliary trade. This requirement resulted in training at the school of armament and also in an aerial photography role. In 1950 he was posted to 149 Squadron flying B-29s from RAF Marham and then RAF Coningsby. A lack of American supplied aircraft, due to the outbreak of war in Korea, meant that flying only commenced in November 1950, with flights sometimes lasting 19 hours. With the advent of jet aircraft, there was no role for air gunners so he retrained as a pilot under the Canadian training scheme. This scheme was terminated before his passing-out parade so he did not receive his pilot's wings. Returning to England he began flying Meteor jets but suffered from blackouts during aerobatics. This was diagnosed as a low G tolerance and not wanting to revert to a ground trade, Jeff left the RAF after 11 years of service.
Jeff then joined AVRO in the armament section and worked on the design of the Vulcan, Shackleton and Nimrod aircraft for 12 years until a reorganisation caused him to leave and he joined a firm designing commercial vehicles. He considered that this was a boring job so he rejoined AVRO in the publications department where he worked until retirement in 1989.]]> Susanne Pescott]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jackie Simpson]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Terry Holmes]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Canada]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> Italy--Pomigliano d'Arco]]> Netherlands]]> Scotland--Highlands]]> Italy]]> 1944]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-05-08]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1989]]> ]]> Jean Macartney]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Hargrave]]> Sally Coulter]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Australia]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Norway--Tønsberg]]> Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden]]> Germany--Halle an der Saale]]> Germany]]> George joined 630 Squadron at RAF East Kirby and carried out 22 operations. He discusses what operations and life on a station were like, and details some notable operations, including one to Pölitz. They lost an engine, causing them to lose height and speed and had to go round a second time to the target. He recounts the Dresden bombing.
George talks about loss and lack of moral fibre.
The squadron was disbanded after war ended. He retrained as a fabric worker at RAF Weeton and worked on vehicle maintenance at RAF Holmsley South.
George relays his feelings about the treatment of Bomber Command after the war.]]> Julian Maslin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hugh Donnelly]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Sussex]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Poland]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dresden]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Lachie McBean, whom he met up with many years later in Australia. They were posted to RAF Bottesford where they flew Lancasters. The war ended before they could become operational and he returned to Australia. Steve describes where he sat in the aircraft and his work as a wireless operator. He discusses the Lancaster. On one trip they were followed by a German night fighter, which they managed to evade. He recalls another fighter being shot down and crashing into the cemetery in Brighton. He explains how he spent his free time, particularly going to dances, for example in the Brighton Pavillion, and contact with families. He comments on wartime England. He enjoyed listening to dance music and big bands on his radio. Steve reflects on his good fortune]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> Sally Coulter]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Brighton]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> ]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Carolyn Emery]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Poland]]> Zimbabwe]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--London]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Zimbabwe--Gweru]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1939]]> 1941]]> Lachie was sent to Brighton and to some camps, including RAF Credenhill where an RAF officer tried unsuccessfully to persuade them to re-muster as glider pilots, presumably for D-Day. He did a refresher course on Tiger Moths, a beam approach course and then went to an Advanced Flying Unit on Oxfords. Lachie recalls an interesting posting to Badminton, where the Commonwealth aircrew were invited to a film showing of "Pygmalion" at Badminton House in Queen Mary’s presence. Lachie was posted to an Operational Training Unit at RAF Church Broughton on Wellingtons, where he crewed up. Lachie describes how he spent his leave. He went to a Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Bottesford on Lancasters. They were sent to 467 Squadron and straight back to Bottesford as war ended. Lachie took his motorbike to the Scottish Highlands, home to his forbears.
Lachie returned to Australia and was demobilised. He discusses Bomber Command’s legacy.
]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Sally Coulter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> United States]]> California]]> California--San Francisco]]> New York (State)]]> New York (State)--New York]]> Great Britain]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Great Badminton]]> 1945]]> Alistair did five operations with the last one to Bremen. They then dropped supplies to the Dutch for which they received a medal from the Dutch government. He also brought back liberated prisoners of war and describes how organised it was. They participated in Cook’s tours. They carried out several long-range navigation exercises, did drop trials on U-boat pens at Farge and shipping strikes.
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The hand written notes added to the end of the log book give a description to the crash at Senantes, and his attempts to evade capture:

RAF Lossiemouth S/L Ian Willoughby Bazalgette
33 on first [?] [indecipherable] DFC
Flight Commander
Deputy – RAM Palmer
Left there April 1944 – 37 on first tour [?]
[indecipherable]
F/O Geof [sic] Goddard Nav F/O Ivan Hibbert Bomb Aimer F/O Godfrey
F/O Cameron DFM ex F/Sgt Middleton’s V.C.
rear gunner
Joined at PFF Navigation Training met [?] by
Sgt George Turner then on Sqdn by F/LT Colonel Hewell [?] mid upper
6/5/44 First op as crew
During May 5 and June 7 night ops
In July Daylight and night ops 1 2
ND950 ‘M’ Mother
23 Kiel
Last week in July 24 Stuttgart
25 Stuttgart
[indecipherable] and motor bike [?]
28 Hamburg
4 August 1944 Should have gone on leave
F/L Henson missing – Oxford to York
One crew required Baz [?] volunteered – get one
more in before leave
Daylight to Trossy St Maximin
Took T for Tommy instead of M Mother
Crew conference at [?] dispersal – decided
to go in at 6000 feet main force up
at 12000 feet.

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F/LT Beveridge (DMB) shot down by
flak going into target
Nearing target heavy Ack-Ack
shell penetrated starboard wing – Both
engines spluttered to standstill
Bomb aimer wounded
[page break]
Godfrey last to leave aircraft
G. Goddard put foot [?] on him and out
he went. Landed in tree
I landed in cornfield – stripped
[?] [indecipherable] and hid parachute under corn
stacks [?] - lay under hedge – rather shocked
Lancaster hit deck two fields ahead
exploded on landing down
Village of Senantes Maire of village
helped us – in civvies within a few
minutes of landing. Lay in potato
bed all afternoon while Germans
searched for survivors – waited till
darkness into house for meal. Slept at
gentlemans [sic] house
– [indecipherable]. Moved by horse and
Cart to farm near Chappelle [sic] aux Pots
No English – lying sunbathing alongside
Railway line – Thunderbolts beat up train
SS troops moved back. Moved to
Forest for 10 days – [indecipherable] to lay on
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