Daniels also took part in the Victory in Europe parade in London and after the war joined the Pathfinder's Association. He closes his memoir with the words of Air Vice Marshal Bennett, who led the Pathfinder Force.
The memoir also contains two photographs of Daniels, with his family, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross at Buckingham Palace. It also has an extract from his logbook and a newspaper cutting about an operation against Hamburg in July 1943.]]> Horace Daniels]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> England--Torquay]]> England--London]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Remscheid]]> Italy]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> Zimbabwe]]> Zimbabwe--Bulawayo]]> 1940-11]]> 1941]]> 1942-12]]> 1943]]> 1943-01-24]]> 1943-01-27]]> 1943-04]]> 1943-07-19]]> 1943-07-23]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10]]> 1943-10-07]]> 1943-11-10]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-10]]> 1946]]> 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]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy--Turin]]> Saskatchewan--Dafoe]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Alberta]]> Saskatchewan]]> 1941]]> 1942-09-10]]> 1942-09-11]]> 1942-12-06]]> 1942-12-07]]> 1942-12-08]]> 1942-12-09]]> 1942-12-10]]> 1943-01-14]]> 1943-01-15]]> 1943-01-16]]> 1943-01-17]]> 1943-01-22]]> 1943-01-23]]> 1943-01-24]]> 1943-01-27]]> 1943-01-28]]> 1943-02-11]]> 1943-02-12]]> 1943-02-14]]> 1943-02-15]]> 1943-02-16]]> 1943-02-17]]> 1943-02-18]]> 1943-02-19]]> 1943-02-21]]> 1943-02-22]]> 1943-02-26]]> 1943-02-27]]> 1943-02-28]]> 1943-03-01]]> 1943-03-02]]> 1943-03-03]]> 1943-03-04]]> 1943-03-05]]> 1943-03-06]]> 1943-03-09]]> 1943-03-10]]> 1943-03-11]]> 1943-03-12]]> 1943-03-13]]> 1943-03-26]]> 1943-03-27]]> 1943-03-28]]> 1943-03-29]]> 1943-03-30]]> 1943-04-03]]> 1943-03-04]]> 1943-03-05]]> 1943-03-08]]> 1943-03-09]]> 1943-03-10]]> 1943-03-13]]> 1943-03-14]]>
Posted to 309 (Polish) Squadron in November 1940. Operational posting to No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) in May 1941, which in September 1942 became 540 Squadron.

Shot down on 28 March 1943 over Norway by two Me 109’s. After capture flown to Germany in a Ju-52. He was held in Stalag Luft III from 5 April 1943 until May 1945.

On returning to England undertook refresher training at No. 17 Service Flying Training School, before postings to 525 and 187 Squadrons.

Served at RAF Walsgrave, RAF Anstey, RAF Grantham, RAF Meir, RAF Upavon, RAF Old Sarum, RAF Renfrew, RAF Benson, RAF Gibraltar, RAF Bathurst (Gambia), Freetown, RAF Leuchars, RAF Coleby Grange, RAF Wymswold, RAF Syerston, RAF Membury, RAF Netheravon.

Aircraft flown were Tiger Moth DH82, Anson, Hind, Hector, Tutor, Master, Lysander, Magister, Proctor, Battle, Spitfire, Blenheim, Hornet Moth, Maryland, Swordfish, Hudson, Boeing Clipper, Sunderland, Mosquito, C-47 Dakota, B-24 Liberator, JU-52, Lancaster, Oxford.

With 1 PRU and 540 Squadron he flew as the pilot 102 photoreconnaissance operations all in daylight. His targets included Tarifa, Casablanca, Oran, the Spanish Coast, Lisbon, Straits of Gibraltar, Tangier, Cartagena, Majorca, Cadiz, Cape St Vincent, Rabat, Minorca, Dakar, Tambacounda, Kaolack, Bambey, Saint Louis, Bergen, Narvik, Stavanger, Danzig, Gdynia, Stettin, Skagerrak, Trondheim, Egersund, Oslo, Kristiansund, Copenhagen, Stadlandet, Tromso, Gibraltar, Algiers, Toulon, the Balearic Islands, Tarragona, Kiel, Namsos.

He was involved in photographing Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Prince Eugen.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Label reads “76”; signed by the author; caption reads: “STALINGRADO 22-23-24 Gennaio 1943. Ultimi giorni della sanguinosissima lotta tra le esauste forze tedesche e i sovietici incalzanti, fra le rovine della fabbrica “ottobre rosso”.

Caption translates as: “Stalingrad 22-23-24 January 1943. The last days of the bloody combat between the exhausted German troops and the determined Soviet units amidst the remains of the “Red October" factory. "]]> Angiolino Filiputti]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Francesca Campani]]> Alessandro Pesaro]]> Helen Durham]]> Giulia Banti]]> Maureen Clarke]]> ita]]> Artwork]]> Russia (Federation)--Volgograd]]> Russia (Federation)]]> 1943-01-22]]> 1943-01-23]]> 1943-01-24]]>