Dorothy May]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Italy]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> France--Colmar]]> Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Offenburg]]> Italy--Naples]]> Italy--Palermo]]> Italy--Rome]]> Italy--Turin]]> 1942]]> W Thomson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Glasgow Region]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> 1944-06-05]]> Mrs Thomson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Glasgow Region]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> 1943-07-21]]> Chapter 1 - early life, enlistment and training.
Chapter 2 - operational training. Describes activities during training OTU including naming his crew and flying out to Tunisia,
Chapter 3 relates his experiences of operations on 150 squadron including flight out to Tunisia and a history of 150 Squadron. Describes in detail eighteen operations against targets in Italy and France giving details of targets and losses. Includes photographs and documents. Moved to Cerignola 3 (Torretta) in Italy. Describes living conditions and activities there. Continues description of operations against targets in Italy, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
Chapter 4 - another sort of flying. Admitted to hospital after his eighteenth operation. Tells of his move to 216 Squadron at Heliopolis, Egypt and subsequent flying in various aircraft with 2 Ferry Unit at Gebel Hamzi, Egypt then 10 Staging Post at Cairo West. Mentions other flying after December 1944. Then describes briefly post war career and family life.
Appendix A - Flying Summary from log book. Includes fates of aircraft he flew.
Appendix B - miscellaneous documents.
Appendix C - glossary of Royal Air Force terms and slang.]]> S Bond]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--London]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Cornwall]]> England--Redruth]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Morocco]]> Tunisia]]> Tunisia--Qayrawān]]> Italy]]> Italy--Florence]]> France]]> France--Nice]]> Italy--Turin]]> Italy--Rome]]> Italy--Cerignola]]> Croatia]]> Croatia--Rijeka]]> Italy--Velletri]]> Italy--Grottaferrata]]> Bosnia and Herzegovina]]> Bosnia and Herzegovina--Bihać]]> Italy--Sorrento]]> Italy--Porto Santo Stefano]]> Bulgaria]]> Bulgaria--Sofia]]> Italy--Monfalcone]]> Italy--Padua]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> North Africa]]> 1941-04-19]]> 1942-01-31]]> 1942-04-26]]> 1942-09-16]]> 1943-07-16]]> 1943-11-11]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-28]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-17]]> 1944-03-03]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-19]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-03-27]]> 1944-07-27]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1946-03-01]]> Idwal Davies]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Naples]]> France]]> France--Marseille]]> France--Istres]]> France--Corsica]]> Italy--Elba]]> Italy--Montecristo]]> Italy--Capri Island]]> Italy--Rome]]> Vatican City]]> Italy--Anzio]]> Italy--Nettuno]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> On the reverse is 'Trocadero British Officers Club Rome'.]]> British Officers Club]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]>
Identification kindly provided by Andrew Gordon of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Indian Air Force]]> India]]> India--Bangalore]]> India--Pune]]> India--Delhi]]> India--Mumbai]]> United Arab Emirates--Abū Ẓaby (Emirate)]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Saudi Arabia]]> Saudi Arabia--Jiddah]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> Great Britain]]> England--Wiltshire]]> North Africa]]> United Arab Emirates]]> 1974-07-20]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Record Office]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Liz McElwee]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> 1941-08]]> The Germans have been blindsided by this audacious operation.
There are photographs of Stirling transport aircraft and paratroopers, as well as several photographs showing infantrymen landing and bringing their equipment ashore. There is shelling from the warships. A photograph shows some of the 4,000 ships and landing craft.
The French are encouraged to keep listening to the BBC and the America Broadcasting Station in Europe. They will be told how to co-operate with the liberation forces.
The date for the landings was agreed by Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt in Tehran. Statements are also included from Eisenhower, Montgomery and De Gaulle, expressing confidence in the outcome and urging support.
The allied troops in Italy have taken Rome and are advancing. Russian allies are resuming their Eastern offensive. There are photographs from Italy, including tanks in front of the Colosseum in Rome.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> fra]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> United States Army]]> France]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-06]]> 2. The Vittoriano Monument, seen from the Piazza Venezia.
3. An interior view of St Peter's Basilica, showing the Chair of St Peter.
4. Five women washing clothes in a river, beside the ruins of the 'acquedotto di Mola', a Roman aqueduct near Formia.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Fitter]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> Italy--Formia]]> Red Cross]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> British Army]]> Royal Navy]]> Turkey--Istanbul]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Ukraine--Odesʹka oblastʹ]]> France--Toulon]]> Switzerland--Geneva]]> Italy--Rome]]> Ukraine]]> Austria--Pupping]]> France]]> Germany--Hoyerswerda]]> Belgium]]> Germany]]> Italy]]> Turkey]]> 1945-05]]> Air Marshall Sir Ralph Sorley]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. 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He is recorded as missing from the last of these operations. Comments on operations include: 'Aircraft holed 24 times. 2 through my turret'.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. 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Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Map]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Northern Ireland--Belfast]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> Great Britain]]> His pilot on operations was Flight Sergeant Stowell.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Malta]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Italy--Rome]]> Scotland--Inverness]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1946]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> Dick Curnock]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Austria]]> Austria--Villach]]> Canada]]> British Columbia--Abbotsford]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> Gibraltar]]> Germany]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bridlington]]> England--Leicester]]> England--London]]> England--Melksham]]> Italy]]> Italy--Bari]]> Italy--Cortina d'Ampezzo]]> Italy--Naples]]> Italy--Padua]]> Italy--Ravenna]]> Italy--Rimini]]> Italy--Rome]]> Italy--Udine]]> Italy--Venice]]> Malta]]> North Africa]]> Poland--Toruń]]> Germany--Lüneburg]]> Poland]]> Lithuania]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> England--Christchurch (Dorset)]]> Québec]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> British Columbia]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Air Headquarters (Movements) Italy]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MCurnockRM1815605-171114-0740002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy--Udine]]> Italy--Rome]]> Italy]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Wehrmacht]]> Civilian]]> Ukraine]]> Ukraine--Donet︠s︡ʹk]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> Vatican City]]> Malta]]> 1943-09]]> Second is of Jack shaving, two other individuals, and tent in background, captioned 'Foggia Italy, re-equiped with Liberator a/c'. Reverse, captioned, 'Foggia Italy 1945'. Third is of Jack and three other individuals, street scene in background, reverse captioned 'Florence, Italy 1945'.
Fourth and fifth are of Jack and others drinking in a bar, captioned 'Florence Sept 45, coming home for the first leave in UK since 1942'. Reverse, captioned ' 5/12/45 Darling xx Taken in Florence a few months ago, love Jack xxx.']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy--Rome]]> Italy--Foggia]]> Italy--Florence]]> Italy]]> 1945-12-05]]> 1945-05]]> 1945-09]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PSeaggerA16010128]]> Civilian]]> United States Army]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Italy]]> Italy--Rome]]>

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