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Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> 1941-07-01]]> #1 The telegram reports that Chan is missing.
#2 The second reports Chan is safe.]]> 49 Squadron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1941-07-01]]> 1941-07-09]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> 1941-07-01]]> Goldfish Club]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> 1941-07-01]]> Posted to 12 Operational Training Unit in April 1941. Operational posting to 101 Squadron in June. Attended Beam Approach Training course in September/October. May 1942 posted to 21 Operational Training Unit. Posted to 1652 Conversion Unit in August 1943 before operational posting to 102 Squadron.
In September 1944 posted to 46 Group Headquarters, Transport Command. In April 1945 posted to Air Command, South East Asia.

Served at RAF Desford, RAF Tern Hill, RAF Grantham, RAF Benson, RAF West Raynham, RAF Oakington, RAF Honington, RAF Moreton-in-March, RAF Marston Moor, RAF Pocklington, RAF Broadwell, RAF Ratmalana (Sri Lanka), RAF Swinderby.

Aircraft flown were Tiger Moth, Anson, Wellington Ic, Wellington III, Wellington X, Halifax, Oxford, C-47 Dakota, Proctor, Auster, B-17 Flying Fortress, York, Mosquito, C-54 Skymaster, C-45 Expeditor, Sunderland, Varsity.

Undertook 40 operations with 101 Squadron (2 day, 38 night) to targets including Rotterdam, Cologne, Bremen, Brest, Bielefeld, Osnabruck, Kiel, Hamburg, Mannheim, Hamm, Essen, Hannover, Duisburg, Berlin, Turin, Frankfurt, Wilhelmshaven, Munster, Lubeck, Dortmund, Rostock. One operation was the search for the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, and a second was a meteorological operation over the North Sea. Other than himself, his pilots were Squadron Leader Colenso, Sergeant Gaunt and Pilot Officer Todd.

Whilst at 21 Operational Training Unit he flew 4 night bombing operations to Cologne, Essen, Dusseldorf and Bremen.

At 102 Squadron he flew 21 night bombing and mine laying operations. Targets were Modane, Hanover, Mannheim, Bochum, Kassel, Dusseldorf, Ludwigshafen, Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Meulan, Trappes, Le Mans, Helgoland, Kiel Bay and Courtrai.
During the operation on the night of 3rd November 1943, his aircraft was hit and set on fire. Sergeant Doherty managed to put out the fire and was later awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal as described in a newspaper clipping in the log book.

On the night of 19/20th February 1944 their aircraft managed to shot down a Ju-88.
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Upper photograph: Five Allied airmen wearing life jackets, stand with four Luftwaffe aircrew and two others on the deck of a vessel, in front of a seaplane. The Allied airmen are identified with an "X" and the photograph is captioned: "1941(?) 5 Eng. Airmen, Amsterdam, Schellingwoude".
Also written is: "Picked up by German Air Sea Rescue Service probably 1941".
From left to right:
Coxswain, Sergeant William Horatio Hales, (507047 Royal Air Force)
Sailor, LAC Alfred George Overill, (964939 Royal Air Force)
Captain, Flying Officer William Francis Jackman, (1163494 Royal Air Force)
Air Gunner, AC2 Edward George Roger Daggett, (1167012 Royal Air Force)
Engineer, LAC Alfred Baden Raybould, (946672 Royal Air Force)

Lower photograph: Three Allied airmen in borrowed clothing stand with five German military personnel in front of a camouflaged tent or building. The Allied airmen are identified with an "X" and the photograph is captioned?: "3 Eng airmen, Amsterdam, Schellingwoude".

On the 1st of July 1941, Kenneth Fenton and crew of Blenheim Mk IV V6258 ditched in the North Sea, 60km North-West of Vlieland Island. High Speed Launch (HSL-108) was dispatched but was engaged by two German Arado 196 seaplanes from Schellingwoude Air-sea Rescue base. The crews of the Arados took the crew of the Blenheim and the RAF Rescue launch as prisoners.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frank Schilder]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. 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