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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interview with George Griffiths]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[George Griffiths recounts his service in the RAF from 1942, when he volunteered as a wireless operator.  In June 1942, he was called up and completed his wireless operator training before being posted to Norfolk in February 1943. During this time, he began his service in Air Sea Rescue for two months before being posted to RAF Cranwell for further wireless operator training. George recalls his most significant memories from his service. In 1944, he was posted to 28 ASI Unit at New Haven, where he wore the official insignia of Air Sea Rescue. During D-Day, he was on a launch boat at 03:00am patrolling the channel and provided rescue cover to aircraft during Operation Market Garden. Towards the end of the war, George joined ASI Unit 101, which was the first long-range Air Sea Rescue Unit. In July 1945, he was in Malta when the Japanese surrender was announced and recalls receiving gifts such as a gramophone and records.<br />
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    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Julie+Williams">Julie Williams</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Cara+Walmsley">Cara Walmsley</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Carolyn+Emery">Carolyn Emery</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Maureen+Clarke">Maureen Clarke</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[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.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:requires><![CDATA[George Griffiths volunteered for the RAF from his home in Wales. He was posted to Air Sea Rescue Unit at Wells on the Sea. He was then posted to 28 ASR at Newhaven. When it became clear that longer range craft would be required for future air sea rescue particularly in the Far East George was one of the men selected for training at RAF Calshot. George was further posted to Sardinia. Of his time in the RAF George particularly recalls the gifts from the Forces Comfort Fund of a Gramaphone and records and the five pounds that was collected for him every Christmas by the people of his home town.]]></dcterms:requires>
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    <dcterms:temporal><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1943">1943</a>]]></dcterms:temporal>
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    <dcterms:temporal><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1946">1946</a>]]></dcterms:temporal>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interview with Bill Bilton]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William (Bill) Bilton recounts his 6 years of service in the RAF Marine Section, from 1940-1946. During his time in Air Sea Rescue, he served in the UK and Europe, assisting RAF operations from the waters.  At his first posting in Dover, William was responsible for four Vicars Guns on his motorboat.  He remembers his most interesting operations, including the rescue of a Spitfire pilot in thick fog. In September 1941, William was posted to Malta in the General Marine Craft.  During this posting, he was promoted to the rank of Corporal Coxswain and recalls his first experience taking parade, where he marched his leading column into the bay. He describes in detail the difficulties of operating the rescue launches whilst under bombardment and, in his words, &#039;the desperate conditions&#039; Malta was then experiencing due to the lack of supplies of food, fuel and ammunition getting through.  William was posted to Sicily and Civitavecchia during his tour of Europe and visited Rome before embarking to the UK in July 1944.   William spent his final two years in the RAF in Glasgow, posted to a Torpedo Recovery Unit but he didn’t get along with the Commanding Officer.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Julie+Williams">Julie Williams</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Cara+Walmsley">Cara Walmsley</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Carolyn+Emery">Carolyn Emery</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Maureen+Clarke">Maureen Clarke</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[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.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:requires><![CDATA[Bill Bilton volunteered for the RAF and began his training for Motorboat Crew. He suffered injury to his eye when a cartridge ricochet hit him. When he was released from NH Chatham he began service at Dover. He then went from that busy posting to Malta. From there he was further posted to Anzio where his boat was shot up by Americans. After three years abroad he was posted back to the UK to the Torpedo Recovery Unit at Ayr and with RAF Turnberry.]]></dcterms:requires>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ischia Island [entry point]]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This page is an entry point for a place. Please use the links below to see all relevant documents available in the Archive.]]></dcterms:description>
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