1 25 141 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/900/24850/LJarmyJFD134695v1.1.pdf f8359d06e1c1f6ebf8e121a357d933ef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jarmy, Jack Jack Francis David Jarmy J F D Jarmy Description An account of the resource 23 items. And oral history interview with Jack Francis David Jarmy DFC (b. 1922, 134695 Royal Air Force) his log books and photographs. He flew operations as a navigator with 75 and 218 Squadrons. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Jack Jarmy and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-09-21 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Jarmy, JFD Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jack Jarmy’s Royal Canadian Air Force observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book. One Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike French Cara Walmsley Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LJarmyJFD134695 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal New Zealand Air Force Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1943-07-30 1943-07-31 1943-08-03 1943-08-04 1943-08-06 1943-08-07 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-16 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-05 1943-09-06 1943-09-08 1943-09-09 1943-09-15 1943-09-16 1943-09-17 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-24 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1943-10-05 1943-10-08 1943-10-09 1943-10-10 1943-11-18 1943-11-19 1943-11-20 1945-02-07 1945-02-08 1945-02-09 1945-02-13 1945-02-14 1945-02-15 1945-02-18 1945-02-20 1945-02-21 1945-03-01 1945-03-02 1945-03-04 1945-03-05 1945-03-07 1945-03-08 1945-03-09 1945-03-14 1945-03-18 1945-03-22 1945-03-29 1945-04-13 1945-04-14 1945-04-15 1945-04-18 1945-04-24 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Canada France Germany Great Britain Italy Manitoba--Portage la Prairie England--Buckinghamshire England--Cambridgeshire England--Cumbria England--Norfolk England--Suffolk France--Modane Germany--Bad Oldesloe Germany--Berlin Germany--Bocholt Germany--Bremen Germany--Chemnitz Germany--Cologne Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal Germany--Dortmund Germany--Dresden Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Mönchengladbach Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hattingen Germany--Helgoland Germany--Kamen Germany--Kassel Germany--Kiel Germany--Mannheim Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia) Italy--Turin Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea France--Boulogne-sur-Mer France--Montluçon Germany--Mönchengladbach Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Hannover Manitoba Germany--Dessau (Dessau) France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Datteln Germany--Salzgitter Germany--Krefeld Germany--Wanne-Eickel Europe--Frisian Islands Description An account of the resource Navigators log book for J Jarmy covering the period from 7th August 1942 to 12th November 1957. Detailing his flying training in Canada and England and operations flown, including various certificates and a list of his operational crew. He was stationed at RCAF Portage La Prairie (7 AOS), RAF Carlisle (15 EFTS), RAF Westcott (11 OTU), RAF Waterbeach (1651 HCU), RAF Mepal (75 Squadron), RAF Feltwell (3 LFS) and RAF Chedburgh (218 Squadron). Aircraft flown in were Anson, DH82 Tiger Moth, Wellington, Stirling, Lancaster, Oxford, Meteor, Harvard, Hastings, Beaufighter, Pembroke, Valetta, Dakota, Shackleton. He did two tours of operations, flew 21 night operations with 75 Squadron and a further 20 operations (7 night and 13 daylight) with 218 Squadron. His pilots on operations were Flight Sergeant Mayfield and Flight Lieutenant Guinane. Targets were the Freisians, Hamburg, Bordeaux, Nuremburg, Turin, Peenemünde, Mönchengladbach, Berlin, Mannheim, Boulogne, Montluçon, Modane, Hanover, Kassel, Frankfurt, Bremen, Wanne-Eickel, Hohenbudberg, Dresden, Chemnitz, Wesel, Dortmund, Kamen, Cologne, Gelsenkirchen, Dessau, Datteln, Hattingen, Bocholt, Hallendorf, Kiel, Heligoland and Bad Oldesloe. The log book also lists his post war RAF Flights. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 11 OTU 1651 HCU 218 Squadron 75 Squadron Air Observers School aircrew Anson Beaufighter Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945) bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) C-47 Flying Training School Harvard Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster Lancaster Finishing School Meteor mine laying navigator Operational Training Unit Oxford RAF Abingdon RAF Carlisle RAF Chedburgh RAF Chivenor RAF Dishforth RAF Feltwell RAF Kinloss RAF Mepal RAF Middleton St George RAF North Luffenham RAF Shallufa RAF Swinderby RAF Topcliffe RAF Waterbeach RAF Westcott Shackleton Stirling Tiger Moth training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/939/31097/MMackieGA855966-180130-02.2.jpg c0681f83298d58ed5e7fbe4d7bd9df61 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mackie, George George Alexander Mackie G A Mackie Description An account of the resource Nine items. An oral history interview with George Mackie (1920 - 2020, 855966 Royal Air Force) with his log books, diary extract, list of operations, battle order and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 15 and 214 Squadrons. The collection was catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-12-22 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Mackie, GA Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document 15 SQUADRON WYTON July 1941 6th N. France daylight 7th Frankfurt 12th N. France daylight 23rd La Rochelle daylight 25th Berlin abort August 1941 25th Manheim September 1941 19th Stettin October 1941 12th Nuremburg 24th Brest 28th Pilsen 30th Paris November 1941 1st Brest 15thh Kiel 25th Brest 27th Dusseldorf January 1942 10th Emden 14th Hamburg 1651 HCU WATERBEACH May 1942 30th Cologne 1,000 June 1942 1st Essen 22nd Cap d’ Antifer July 1942 28th Hamburg abort September 1942 17th Essen 214 SQUADRON VARIOUS AIRFIELDS October 1943 17th Mining, Baltic November 1943 14th Leverkusen December 1943 1st Mining off Bordeaux January 1944 4th N. France 21st Cherbourg April 1944 20th Brussels May 1944 1st Tours 8th Lanveoc-Poulmic 21st Kiel Bay 31st Saumur June 1944 16th Kerkrade July 1944 17th St Leu d’Esserent 24th Spoof 28th Stuttgart August 1944 6th Spoof 12th Brunswick 17th Spoof 18th Bremen September 1944 10th Holland 11th Darmstadt 12th Spoof Losses 19 Stirlings 4 Fortresses Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 15 Squadron Wyton, 1651 HCU Waterbeach and 214 Squadron operations Description An account of the resource List of operations from July 1941 until September 1943 for 15 Squadron, 1651 HCU at RAF Waterbeach and 214 Squadron at various airfields. Note at bottom; losses 19 Stirlings 4 Fortresses. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One page printed document Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MMackieGA855966-180130-02 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Great Britain Germany Poland Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Netherlands Czech Republic Germany--Frankfurt am Main France--La Rochelle Germany--Berlin Germany--Mannheim Poland--Szczecin France--Brest Czech Republic--Plzeň France--Paris Germany--Kiel Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony) Germany--Hamburg Germany--Essen France--Le Havre Germany--Leverkusen France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France--Cherbourg Belgium Belgium--Brussels France--Tours France--Poulmic France--Saumur France--Creil Region Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Braunschweig Germany--Bremen Germany--Darmstadt Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Ruhr (Region) France--Saint-Leu-d'Esserent France--Cap-d'Antifer Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1941-07-06 1941-07-07 1941-07-12 1941-07-23 1941-07-25 1941-08-25 1941-10-12 1941-10-24 1941-10-28 1941-10-30 1941-11-01 1941-11-15 1941-11-25 1941-11-27 1942-01-10 1942-01-14 1942-05-30 1942-06-01 1942-06-22 1942-07-28 1942-09-17 1943-10-17 1942-11-14 1942-12-01 1943-01-04 1941-01-21 1943-04-20 1943-05-01 1943-05-08 1943-05-21 1943-05-31 1943-06-16 1943-07-17 1943-07-24 1943-07-28 1943-08-06 1943-08-12 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-09-10 1943-09-11 1943-09-12 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David Bloomfield Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 15 Squadron 1651 HCU 214 Squadron B-17 bombing bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) Heavy Conversion Unit mine laying RAF Waterbeach RAF Wyton Stirling training https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2175/38139/SWilliamsonF1311249v10003-0011.1.jpg d3393a07d64a77ca6ff51632f9324856 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Williamson, Frank-249 Description An account of the resource 24 items. The collection concerns Frank Williamson (b. 1912, 1311249 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents and newspaper clippings. He flew operations as an air gunner with 106 Squadron. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Lynn Williamson and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Williamson, F Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-01-30 Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [inserted] No 7 17/18 Aug 1943 [/inserted] 3,000 sorties smash Nazi defence plane plants GREATEST ANGLO-U.S. MASS ATTACK IN 24 HOURS By BASIL CARDEW [indecipherable rubber stamp] IN the first full-scale two way attack on Europe, aimed primarily at destroying Germany's fighters, their airfields, and factories producing the planes, the Allied air forces have just made between 2,500 and 3,000 sorties in the space of 24 hours. [map] This tremendous air offensive covers the day and night of August 17-18, and was mounted both from Britain and the Mediterranean. Taken in conjunction with the American raid on the great Messerschmitt factory at Weiner Neustadt, 30 miles from Vienna, at the weekend, the latest Flying Fortress assault on the Regensburg factory in southern Germany is believed to have partially stopped production of the very types of aircraft the Germans will need to repulse a Second Front. REGENSBURG BLAZES Short-range fighters are the spearhead of defence. Reconnaissance pictures taken four hours after the Regensburg attack show that the Fortress bombs were accurate and caused great havoc. At least four large buildings were still on fire when the spy plane passed over. All the six main workshops were destroyed, five of them severely. The main assembly shop, the gun-testing range, large new shops that had recently been erected, the boiler house, office buildings, and several other small unidentified buildings or the great plant have been damaged or burned out, in some cases completely destroyed. The target at Regensburg was Germany's second largest aircraft factory, makers of the latest type of Messerschmitt single-engined fighter planes. It was to have been the main production unit left to the enemy for its fighters after the plant at Weiner Neustadt, which was producing a third of the Messerschmitt programme, had been partially knocked out. MIGHTY BLOW Bomber Command's contribution to this onslaught on Germany's first-line defences against an imminent Allied invasion followed a few hours after the Regensburg raid, when a mighty force of home-based, long-range aircraft heavily attacked in bright moonlight the armament and radio development establishment at Peenemunde, 60 miles north-west of Stettin, on Tuesday night, and dropped 1,500 tons of bombs. This large, secret factory produces the equipment for the German fighters that are at the moment No. 1 target for the Allies. The bombers had to fly on as long a route as that to Berlin to hammer the factory, and they encountered many of the night-fighter squadrons and ground defences that have been greatly strengthened recently for the protection of the German capital. But the raid was devastatingly successful, although it cost 41 aircraft. The rest of the 2,500-3,000 sorties [page break] OUR Stirling dropped on its starboard side and began to lose height. Luckily the bomb-aimer had just come up from his position and was sitting by me, so that he was able to help me to drag on the control and pull the Stirling level. "All the way back it was difficult to control the aircraft. The bomb-aimer and I would get the Stirling level on its course and then down would slip the starboard wing and we would swing off our course. "The flight-engineer helped matters by running three engines off the starboard tank, so lightening the starboard side of the aircraft. When we were near base I lowered the under-carriage and flaps and tried out how I could handle her like that. She answered to the control perfectly, and I glided down to a safe landing on the runway." The Lancasters which attacked transformer and switching stations in North Italy on the night of July 15-16 did not return to England immediately, but, as before, when a force of Lancasters bombed the radio-location factory at Friedrichshafen, they used airfields in North Africa as an advanced base. On Saturday night they returned Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 3,000 Sorties Smash Nazi Defence Plane Plants Description An account of the resource A newspaper article about bombing several aircraft factories. It is annotated 'No 7 17/18 Aug 1943'. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Austria Germany Austria--Wiener Neustadt Germany--Berlin Germany--Friedrichshafen Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Regensburg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three newspaper cuttings Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SWilliamsonF1311249v10003-0011 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-08-17 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sue Smith aircrew B-17 bomb aimer bombing bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) flight engineer Lancaster propaganda Stirling https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2752/48841/MAudisRJ[Ser -DoB]-230427-01.pdf cbb1063e176a504da4a12bfdce0267d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audis, Roger J 9 Squadron Association Description An account of the resource 41 items. The collection contains material collected by Roger Audis related to 9 Squadron RAF and airmen who served in the squadron. The collection includes four hand written operational record books, copies of log books, and interviews with Bomber Command veterans. It includes a <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.omeka.net/collections/show/4055">Scrapbook</a> belonging to Ken Rogers. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Richard James and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff, Barry Hunter, and Nick Cornwell-Smith. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023-04-27 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Audis, RJ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 9 Squadron Operations Record Book. One Description An account of the resource This is a handwritten record book for 9 Squadron from 14/15 April 1943 to 10/11 November 1943. For each operation it includes many details of the target, routes, bomb load, crews, a description of results, and if any did not return. The last few pages contain a summary of each pilot, the number of operations completed and what happened to them i.e. tour expired, posted out of 9 Squadron or missing/killed in action. There is an index listing each operation and a monthly summary of raids. 9 Squadron were operating Lancaster I and III from RAF Bardney. Over the period covered by this record 9 Squadron flew 1 day and 67 night operations, mainly bombing but also some mine laying. Bombing targets: Stuttgart, Pilsen, Spezia, Stettin, Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Bochum, Oberhausen, Friedrichshafen, Krefeld, Mülheim, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Turin, Reggio Emilia, Hamburg, Remscheid, Milan, Mannheim, Nurnberg, Peenemünde, Leverkusen, Berlin, Mönchengladbach, Hagen, Munich, Kassel, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Modane. Mine laying targets were: Weeding (Heligoland Bight), Furze (St Jean De Luz), Silverthorn (Kattegat areas), Nasturtium (Copenhagen Sound), Verbena (Copenhagen approach), Spinach (Gdynia). Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943 1943-04-14 1943-04-15 1943-04-16 1943-04-17 1943-04-18 1943-04-19 1943-04-20 1943-04-21 1943-04-22 1943-04-23 1943-04-26 1943-04-27 1943-04-28 1943-04-29 1943-04-30 1943-05-01 1943-05-04 1943-05-05 1943-05-12 1943-05-13 1943-05-14 1943-05-23 1943-05-24 1943-05-25 1943-05-26 1943-05-27 1943-05-28 1943-05-29 1943-05-30 1943-06-11 1943-06-12 1943-06-13 1943-06-14 1943-06-15 1943-06-16 1943-06-17 1943-06-20 1943-06-21 1943-06-22 1943-06-23 1943-06-24 1943-06-25 1943-06-26 1943-06-28 1943-06-29 1943-07-03 1943-07-04 1943-07-08 1943-07-09 1943-07-10 1943-07-12 1943-07-13 1943-07-15 1943-07-16 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-26 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-07-29 1943-07-30 1943-07-31 1943-08-02 1943-08-03 1943-08-07 1943-08-08 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-14 1943-08-15 1943-08-16 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-22 1943-08-23 1943-08-24 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-03 1943-09-04 1943-09-05 1943-09-06 1943-09-07 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-24 1943-09-27 1943-09-28 1943-09-29 1943-09-30 1943-10-01 1943-10-02 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1943-10-05 1943-10-07 1943-10-08 1943-10-09 1943-10-18 1943-10-19 1943-10-20 1943-10-21 1943-10-22 1943-10-23 1943-11-03 1943-11-10 1943-11-11 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Lincolnshire Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--Helgoland Bight Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea) Czech Republic Czech Republic--Plzeň Denmark Denmark--Copenhagen France France--Modane France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Berlin Germany--Bochum Germany--Cologne Germany--Dortmund Germany--Duisburg Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Friedrichshafen Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg) Germany--Hamburg Germany--Kassel Germany--Krefeld Germany--Leipzig Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Mannheim Germany--Mönchengladbach Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf) Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Remscheid Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Wuppertal Italy Italy--La Spezia Italy--Milan Italy--Reggio Emilia Italy--Turin Poland Poland--Gdynia Poland--Szczecin Germany--Helgoland Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One book Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription. Allocated Review Oct 2024 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]-230427-01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nick Cornwell-Smith 9 Squadron aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Lancaster Lancaster Mk 1 Lancaster Mk 3 mine laying pilot RAF Bardney Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/816/31072/SFarrAA1434564v10001.pdf 5bf8420013e198223332adc79a64ecf6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Farr, Allan Avery A A Farr Description An account of the resource Six items. An oral history interview with Allan Farr DFM (1923 - 2018, 1434564 Royal Air Force) as well as his flying logbook, a photograph, list of operations, a map, contemporary photograph and a song. He flew operations as an air gunner with 100, 625 and 460 Squadrons. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Allan Farr and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-07-12 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Farr, AA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan Farr's flying log book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SFarrAA1434564v10001 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Belgium Canada France Germany Great Britain Italy Netherlands Poland Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Belgium--Ath Belgium--Kortrijk England--Derbyshire England--Lincolnshire England--Staffordshire France--Aire-sur-la-Lys France--Caen Region France--Creil Region France--Falaise France--Nieppe Forest France--Pas-de-Calais France--Pommeréval Germany--Berlin Germany--Braunschweig Germany--Cologne Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg) Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Leipzig Germany--Mannheim Germany--Munich Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Rüsselsheim Germany--Saarbrücken Germany--Stuttgart Italy--Milan Netherlands--North Brabant Netherlands--Veere Poland--Szczecin Québec--Bas-Saint-Laurent Germany--Nuremberg Québec Germany--Ruhr (Region) France--Pauillac (Gironde) France--Fontenay France--Ardouval France--Trossy St. Maximin France--Fontenay-le-Marmion France--Fromentel France--Vincly France--Bois des Jardins Germany--Rüsselsheim Netherlands--Westkapelle Netherlands--Uden France--Pas-de-Calais France--Pas-de-Calais Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943 1944 1943-05-15 1943-05-16 1943-07-06 1943-07-07 1943-07-08 1943-07-09 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-26 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-08-02 1943-08-03 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-15 1943-08-16 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-03 1943-09-04 1943-09-05 1943-09-06 1943-09-07 1943-09-24 1943-09-25 1943-09-27 1943-09-28 1943-10-01 1943-10-02 1943-10-18 1943-10-20 1943-10-21 1943-11-03 1943-11-26 1943-12-02 1943-12-03 1943-12-04 1943-12-16 1943-12-17 1944-07-20 1944-07-25 1944-07-28 1944-07-29 1944-07-31 1944-08-01 1944-08-03 1944-08-04 1944-08-05 1944-08-07 1944-08-08 1944-08-09 1944-08-12 1944-08-13 1944-08-14 1944-08-15 1944-08-16 1944-08-17 1944-08-18 1944-08-25 1944-08-26 1944-08-28 1944-08-29 1944-08-30 1944-09-12 1944-09-13 1944-10-03 1944-10-05 1944-10-06 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Description An account of the resource Flying log book for A A Farr, air gunner, covering the period from 29 December 1943 to 6 October 1944. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at RCAF Mount Joli, RAF Church Broughton, RAF Binbrook, RAF Blyton, RAF Waltham (aka RAF Grimsby), RAF Kelstern and RAF Seighford. Aircraft flown in were, Battle, Wellington and Lancaster. He flew a total of 48 operations, 20 with 100 Squadron, 7 with 625 Squadron and 21 with 460 Squadron of which 9 were daylight. Targets were Cologne, Hamburg, Essen, Mannheim, Nuremburg, Milan, Peenemünde, Berlin, Munich, Hannover, Hagen, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Courtrai, Ardouval, Bois des Jardins, Stuttgart, Foret-de-Nieppe, Trossy St. Maximin, Pauillac, Fontenay-le-Marmion, Aire-sur-la-Lys, Brunswick, Falaise, Volkel, Stettin, Fromentel, Rüsselsheim, Vincly, Frankfurt, Westkapelle and Saarbrucken. His pilots on operations were Pilot Officer Bowden, Flight Sergeant Etchells and Flying officer Hudson. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 100 Squadron 12 OTU 1662 HCU 27 OTU 30 OTU 460 Squadron 625 Squadron air gunner aircrew anti-aircraft fire Battle Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944) bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944) Distinguished Flying Medal Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster mid-air collision Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) Operational Training Unit RAF Binbrook RAF Blyton RAF Church Broughton RAF Grimsby RAF Kelstern RAF Seighford Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) tactical support for Normandy troops training V-1 V-weapon Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1976/37223/LDowdingAF159677v1.2.pdf 8a4ec135f65d52a1402206e6df37946d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dowding, Alexander Francis A F Dowding Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-10-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Dowding, AF Description An account of the resource One item. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Alexander Francis Dowding (48333, 159677 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 428 and 424 Squadorns. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Stewart Dowding and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff. Additional information on Alexander Francis Dowding is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/207686/">IBCC Losses Database</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alexander Francis Dowding’s flight engineer’s flying log book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal Canadian Air Force Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Terry Hancock Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LDowdingAF159677v1 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-07-03 1943-07-04 1943-07-09 1943-07-10 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-26 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-28 1943-08-29 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-05 1943-09-06 1943-10-22 1943-10-23 1943-11-11 1943-11-12 1943-11-22 1943-11-23 1943-11-25 1943-11-26 1943-12-08 1943-12-09 1943-12-29 1943-12-30 1944-02-15 1944-02-16 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Germany Great Britain Italy England--Durham (County) England--Yorkshire France--Cannes Germany--Mönchengladbach Germany--Berlin Germany--Cologne Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Kassel Germany--Leipzig Germany--Mannheim Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Italy--Milan Germany--Ruhr (Region) Description An account of the resource A F Dowding’s Flight Engineer’s Flying Log Book covering the period from 06 June 1943 to 16 February 1944 when he became ‘missing-death presumed’. Detailing his flying training and operations flown as a Flight Engineer. He was stationed at RAF Leeming (1664 HCU), RAF Middleton St George (428 Squadron RCAF ) and RAF Skipton-on-Swale (424 Squadron RCAF). He flew seventeen night operations with 428 Squadron and one night operation with 424 Squadron, eighteen in total. Aircraft flown in was Halifax. Targets were Cologne, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Mannheim, Nuremberg, Milan, Peenemünde, Nuremburg, Mönchengladbach, Berlin, Kassel, Cannes, Frankfurt, and Leipzig. His pilots on operations were Pilot Officer Reilander and Squadron Leader Suggett. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are available. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 1664 HCU 424 Squadron 428 Squadron aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) flight engineer Halifax Halifax Mk 3 Halifax Mk 5 Heavy Conversion Unit killed in action missing in action RAF Leeming RAF Middleton St George RAF Skipton on Swale Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) training https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1245/16916/LBainA658930v1.1.1.pdf 20decd9160b01b2b8135f9b24c00ab78 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LBainA658930v1.1.pdf Title A name given to the resource The Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book for Andrew Bain Description An account of the resource This is the Log Book of A Bain covering the period from 29 June 1942 until June 1946 when it has been stamped by the RAF Central Depository ‘Death Presumed’. He qualified as an Air Gunner on the 31 October 1842 and as an Observer on the 9 October 1942. He identifies his flying duties as Bomb Aimer, Bombardier, Navigator u/t, Navigator, Acting Navigator, Photography. He was based at RAF Oudtshoorn and Port Alfred, South Africa for training and then for operational training at RAF Cottesmore, then at RAF Waterbeach and finally with 75 New Zealand Squadron at RAF Mepal. The first part of the Log Book deals in detail with his training as a bomb aimer / navigator / air gunner/ bombardier. This includes day and night training. Operationally he took part dropping mines off the north Dutch coast and bombing Hamburg, Essen, Nuremberg and Turin. He flew with the following pilots; Dold, Scott, Wessells, Harper, Oughton, Fenwick, Allan, Puntis, Charles, Jackson, De Clerk, Maxfield, Termorshuizen, Brooks, Scott, Jackson, Norton, Grieff, Meter, Le Seuer, Levine, Gillett, Geotzee, Tucker, Van Niekerk while training in South Africa. In the UK he flew with Klim, Tricks, Maxwell, Freeman, Fern, Quinton, Fear, Crouch, Halgro, Smith, McLoughlan, Biley, Youseman, Boyd, Lofthouse, and Patrick. He flew in the following aircraft; Avro Anson, Airspeed Oxford, Vickers Wellington and Short Stirling. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bain, Andrew A Bain Description An account of the resource 58 items. The collection concerns Andrew Bain (1916-1943, 658930, Royal Air Force). He joined the British Army in September 1939 and transferred to the RAF in October 1941. He was killed in action 23/24 August 1943. Collection includes: observer's logbook, pay book, photographs (some loose, some in album), letters (numerous), brevets and badges, medals, ribbons and BC Clasp. Includes correspondence received by Andrew's widow Isabel following his death and a list of his effects. Additional in formation on Andrew Bain is available via <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/201025/">the IBCC Losses Database.</a> The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lorna Aitchison Howieson and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-07-23 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Bain, A Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Andrew Bain's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book Description An account of the resource Covers the period from 26 June 1942 until August 1943. In June 1946 stamped by the RAF Central Depository ‘Death Presumed’. He qualified as an air gunner on the 31 October 1942 and as an observer on the 9 October 1942. He identifies his flying duties as bomb aimer, bombardier, navigator u/t, navigator, acting navigator, photography. He was based at RAF Oudtshoorn, and Port Alfred, South Africa, for training and then for operational training at RAF Cottesmore, then at RAF Waterbeach and finally with 75 New Zealand Squadron at RAF Mepal. Operationally he took part dropping mines off the north Dutch coast and bombing Hamburg, Essen, Nuremberg and Turin. He flew with the following pilots; Dold, Scott, Wessells, Harper, Oughton, Fenwick, Allan, Puntis, Charles, Jackson, De Clerk, Maxfield, Termorshuizen, Brooks, Scott, Jackson, Norton, Grieff, Meter, Le Seuer, Levine, Gillett, Geotzee, Tucker, Van Niekerk while training in South Africa. In the UK he flew with Klim, Tricks, Maxwell, Freeman, Fern, Quinton, Fear, Crouch, Halgro, Smith, McLoughlan, Biley, Youseman, Boyd, Lofthouse, and Patrick. His pilot on operations was Sergeant Fear. He flew in the following aircraft; Avro Anson, Airspeed Oxford, Vickers Wellington and Short Stirling. As part of his UK training he identifies 'Infra Red Bombing'. On some of the training flights he states that he was 'Nav (B)Acting Air Bomber'. Also trained on autopilot 'George'. The last recorded flight was on the 23 August 1943. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LBainA658930v1.1.pdf Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. South Africa South Africa--Oudtshoorn South Africa--Port Alfred England--Rutland England--Cambridgeshire England--Rutland England--Cambridgeshire England--Cambridgeshire France France--Loire River Germany Germany--Hamburg Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Essen Italy Italy--Turin Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Great Britain Germany--Ruhr (Region) Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943 1944 1943-07-03 1943-07-04 1943-07-05 1943-07-06 1943-07-08 1943-07-09 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-26 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-16 1943-08-17 1943-08-23 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Trevor Hardcastle Cara Walmsley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 75 Squadron air gunner aircrew Anson bomb aimer bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) mine laying navigator observer Oxford RAF Cottesmore RAF Mepal RAF Waterbeach Stirling Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1766/31210/LReadAW50611v1.pdf 939def25b9bc43026e42a11a140eab72 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Read, Aubrey William Read, A W Description An account of the resource 34 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer Aubrey Read (1920 - 1943, 627232, 50611 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and documents. He flew operations as a a wireless operator with 106 Squadron and was killed 26 November 1943. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Leitch and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle. Additional information on Aubrey read is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/119409/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Read, AW Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-01-07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aubrey Read’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1942-09-30 1943-11-26 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LReadAW50611v1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Great Britain Italy Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea England--Cumbria England--Leicestershire England--Lincolnshire England--Nottinghamshire England--Rutland England--Wiltshire Italy--Po River Valley Germany--Berlin Germany--Bochum Germany--Cologne Germany--Essen Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Kassel Germany--Krefeld Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Mannheim Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf) Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Remscheid Italy--Milan Germany--Hannover Germany--Ruhr (Region) Poland--Gdańsk Poland Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943-06-12 1943-06-13 1943-06-14 1943-06-15 1943-06-16 1943-06-17 1943-06-21 1943-06-22 1943-06-23 1943-07-08 1943-07-09 1943-07-10 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-26 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-07-29 1943-07-30 1943-07-31 1943-08-02 1943-08-03 1943-08-07 1943-08-08 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-22 1943-08-23 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-27 1943-09-28 1943-09-29 1943-09-30 1943-10-02 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1943-10-22 1943-10-23 1943-11-26 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David Leitch Description An account of the resource Flying Officer Aubrey Read’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 30/9/42 to 26/11/43, detailing training and operations as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner. Based at RAF Walney Island (aka RAF Barrow in Furness) (No. 10 Air Gunnery School), RAF Yatesbury (No. 2 Signals School), RAF Saltby and RAF Cottesmore (14 OTU), RAF Wigsley (1654 Conversion Unit), RAF Syerston and RAF Metheringham (106 Squadron). Aircraft flown: Dominie, Proctor, Defiant, Wellington IC, Manchester, Lancaster I and Lancaster III. Records a total of 23 night operations (plus three returned early), final entry reads “Bombing - Berlin failed to return”. Targets in Germany and Italy are: Berlin, Bochum, Cologne, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Gulf of Danzig, Hamburg, Hanover, Kassel, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mannheim, Milan, Mulheim, Munich, Nuremberg, Oberhausen, Peenemünde and Remscheid. His pilot on operations was Flying officer Hoboken, with second pilots Flight Sergeant Cheney, Sergeant Holburn and Flying officer Banfield. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 106 Squadron 14 OTU 1654 HCU Air Gunnery School aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Defiant Dominie Heavy Conversion Unit killed in action Lancaster Lancaster Mk 1 Lancaster Mk 3 Manchester mine laying missing in action Operational Training Unit Proctor RAF Barrow in Furness RAF Cottesmore RAF Cranwell RAF Elsham Wolds RAF Metheringham RAF Saltby RAF Syerston RAF Wigsley RAF Yatesbury Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) training Wellington wireless operator wireless operator / air gunner https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1009/19017/NMadgettHR190610-13.2.jpg 2e7fe377f44f2d6377d84bdcc701a296 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madgett, Hedley Robert H R Madgett Description An account of the resource 250 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Hedley Madgett DFM (1922 - 1943, 147519, 1330340 Royal Air Force), a pilot with 61 Squadron. He was killed 18 August 1943 on the last operation of his tour from RAF Syerston to Peenemünde. The collection consists of letters, postcards and telegrams to his parents while he was training in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition the collection contains memorabilia, documents from the Air Training Corps, artwork, a railway map, diaries, medals as well as his logbook, photographs of people, places and aircraft. Also contains letters of condolence to parents and a sub collection containing a photograph album with 44 items of his time training in Canada'. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Joan Madgett and Carol Gibson, and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on Hedley Madgett is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/114690/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/madgett-hr/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a>. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-03-17 2019-06-14 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Madgett, H Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document AXIS RESEARCH STATION DESTROYED A striking night picture taken during the R.A.F. attack on Peenemunde Aircraft Research and Radiolocation Establishment on Aug. 17. Two bombers can be seen silhouetted against the glare of fires as they run over the target. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Air, referred to the raids as “this shattering attack upon a difficult and important target.” [inserted] 1943 [/inserted] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Axis research station destroyed Description An account of the resource Target photograph showing two Lancasters and anti-aircraft fire. Captioned 'a striking night picture taken during the RAF attack on Peenemunde aircraft research and radiolocation establishment on Aug. 17'. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One newspaper cutting Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMadgettHR190610-13 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany Germany--Peenemünde Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-08-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Telegraph and Morning Post Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-08 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Claire Monk aerial photograph bombing bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Lancaster target photograph https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1808/32659/PWoodhallSpaCM1703.1.jpg e732f0370da4cd2433a12fe28c96d3d6 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1808/32659/PWoodhallSpaCM1704.1.jpg be8f8835b1345cfae0fff600dca5b838 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Woodhall Spa Cottage Musuem Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-10 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum Description An account of the resource Two items. The collection contains photographs of the destruction of Royal Hydro in 1943. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Duke-Cox and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bomb damage at Woodhall Spa Description An account of the resource First is Station Road and the second is Tattershall Road from the Mall. On the night of 16/17 August two parachute mines were dropped destroying the Royal Hydro Hotel and Winter Garden. Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two b/w photographs Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PWoodhallSpaCM1703, PWoodhallSpaCM1704 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Lincolnshire England--Woodhall Spa Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-08-16 1943-08-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive bombing https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1684/37581/MShawS1576142-200397-13.2.jpg c1f0c9e2c4d02d1593a354f94e69f1f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shaw, Stanley S Shaw Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-07 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Shaw, S Description An account of the resource 54 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Stanley Shaw (1912 - 1943, 1576142 Royal Air Force) who flew 22 operations as an air gunner with 44 Squadron before his aircraft failed to return from bombing Peenemünde in August 1943. Collection contains correspondence, newspaper cutting, decorations, documents and photographs. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by R Towlson and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on Stanley Shaw is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/121068/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [inserted] [underlined] Synopsis [/underlined] Germany To be placed on folio held by [indecipherable word] Fred. [/inserted] Officer Commanding, No. 4 M.R. & E. Unit, c/o 85 Group, B.A.F.C. Royal Air Force, c/o British Army of the Rhine. [underlined] Casualty Enquiry No. [inserted] G1536 [/inserted] [deleted] (P407629/43) [/deleted] (Russian Zone) [/underlined] 1. Lancaster DV.202, Merlin 23 engine numbers P.O. 3539/267493 P.I. 6505/325794 S.I. 6098/325522 S.O. 6090/325519, was reported missing by No. 44 Squadron on the 17/18th August, 1943 during an attack on Peenemunde with the following crew aboard: CAN/J17338 P/O R.C. Harding Pilot P.D. 1379790 T/Sgt T.N. Weston F/E 1127532 T/F/S L. Prendergast Nav. 1802253 T/Sgt L.F. McDermott A/B 1213933 T/Sgt W.N. Quance WO/AG 1576142 T/F/S S. Shaw A/G CAN/R104462 F/S P. Pynisky A/G P.D. (now CAN/J19930 P/O) 2. G.S.T. 175 states that F/S Shaw, Sgt. Quance, P/O Prendergast were buried on the 24th August, 1943 at the South Shore of Koplin See (Map Ref.: N54/U25). Sgt. (now P/O) Pynisky is listed as being buried on the 21st August, 1943 on the West Shore of Kolpin See. There is no mention of the remainder of the crew. 3. It is requested that an investigation be made to locate the graves of the crew members listed above and also determine the fate of P/O Harding, Sergeant Weston and Sergeant McDermott. [signature] (W.A. Dicks) Wing Commander, for Chief of the Air Staff. LJL:GB Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Casualty enquiry Description An account of the resource From Air Ministry to officer commanding No 4 M.R & E Unit 85 Group in Germany. Gives details of Stanley Shaw's 44 Squadron Lancaster and crew missing from operation to Peenemunde on 17/18 August 1943. Reports gives some details of burial of F/S Shaw, Sgt Quance and P/O Prendergast on south shore of Kolpin-See. Requests investigation be made to locate graves. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource W A Dicks for Chief of Air Staff Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-21 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Kölpin Lake (Neubrandenburg) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One page typewritten document Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription. Under review Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MShawS1576142-200397-13 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tricia Marshall 44 Squadron air gunner aircrew bomb aimer bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) final resting place flight engineer killed in action Lancaster navigator pilot wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2915/52803/EBastoirM-AFaircloughT-P430817.1.jpg a835c9586062ed6e8c0afcaa258633e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fairclough, Thomas Fairclough, T Fairclough, Tom Fairclough, Tommy Fairclough, Fairy Description An account of the resource 63 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer Thomas Fairclough (b. 1920, 1077120 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book correspondence, documents and photographs. He flew operations as a wireless operator / air gunner with 100 and 550 Squadrons. He was shot down in March 1945 and evaded via Sweden. Additional information Donald Morris and Harvey Porter is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/?aircraft-serial=ME449&forename=&initials=&surname=&select-search-options%5B%5D=surname&select-search-options%5B%5D=initials&select-search-options%5B%5D=forename&select-search-options%5B%5D=aircraft-serial-number&_token=rBVwiziIcR7p7ml6InefGYtXPxMhBKjfjvhJ7PJy&losses_form=7f8a0f6148&orderby=surname&order=asc">IBCC Losses Database</a>. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Nigel Fairclough and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-08-17 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Fairclough, T Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Congratulations Description An account of the resource Telegram to Sergeant and Mrs Fairclough with congratulations and best wishes for the future. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tom Bastoir Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-08-17 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Lincolnshire England--Grimsby Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Correspondence Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One telegram Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EBastoir-AFaircloughT-P430817 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. love and romance https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/167/2385/MAllenDJ1880966-150702-16.2.jpg 8a5b8e359cda4efd7d469f702d7a132b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Allen, Derrick Derrick Allen D J Allen Description An account of the resource 75 items. The collection covers the career of Flight Sergeant Derrick John Allen (1880966 Royal Air Force) who was a mid-upper gunner on 467 Royal Australian Air Force Squadron at RAF Waddington in 1944-45. Collection contains his logbook, Royal Air Force documentation, notes on air gunners course and photographs of various aircrew. Collection also contains maps and photographs covering the loss of his Lancaster near Spa in Belgium from which he successfully bailed out on 2 November 1944. There is also an oral history interview with his family. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Judy Hodgson and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-08-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Allen, DJ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Permission granted for commercial projects Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Conspicuous Gallantry Award winners on 463 and 467 Squadrons on Tonsberg and Peenemunde operations Description An account of the resource Lists crew member Sergeant George Wilfred Simpson Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, flight engineer from 463 Squadron, Lancaster RA542 piloted by Flying Officer A Cox on Tonsberg operation 25/26 April 1945 and Sergeant George William Oliver Conspicuous Gallantry Medal of 467 Squadron, mid-upper gunner, pilot Warrant Officer W L Pluto Wilson on Peenemnde operation 17/18 August 1943. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One page handwritten document Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Personal research Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MAllenDJ1880966-150702-16 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal Australian Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Norway--Tønsberg Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Germany--Peenemünde Germany Norway Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-04-25 1945-04-26 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 463 Squadron 467 Squadron bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Conspicuous Gallantry Medal https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2846/50437/SBondS-SpodenPv10001.pdf c46e8a8fd3dea480d1afbb825051b620 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spoden, Peter Description An account of the resource Eight Items. Collection concerns Hauptmann Peter Spoden German Cross in Gold. He flew as a Luftwaffe night fighter pilot with NJG5 and NJG6. Collection contains an oral history interview, photographs and documents. The collection was licensed to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dr Steve Bond and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. This collection was provided, in digital form, by a third-party organisation which used technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-SpodenPv1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Conversations with Peter Spoden Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource P Spoden S Bond Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2005-07 2007-11 2011-01 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-08 1944 1944-09-13 1945-04-28 1943 1943-07-25 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-23 1943-08-24 1944-01-14 1944-01-15 1944-01-27 1944-01-28 1944-01-30 1944-01-31 1944-02-24 1944-07-21 1944-07-22 1944-08-25 1944-08-26 1944-09-11 1944-09-12 1944-12-04 1944-12-05 1944-12-23 1944-12-24 1945-02-01 1945-02-02 1945-02-21 1945-02-22 1945-02-23 1945-02-24 1945-03-08 1945-03-09 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Buckinghamshire England--Milton Keynes Germany Germany--Essen Germany--Munich Germany--Berlin Netherlands Netherlands--Rotterdam Germany--Braunschweig Poland Poland--Szczecin Germany--Neunkirchen (Saarland) Germany--Darmstadt Germany--Rüsselsheim Germany--Heilbronn Germany--Trier Germany--Mannheim Germany--Pforzheim Germany--Dessau (Dessau) Germany--Hamburg Germany--Peenemünde England--London Germany--Kitzingen Germany--Ruhr (Region) Description An account of the resource Talks of school time and members of the Hitler youth before the war. Comments on using "Himmelbett" and "Zahme or Wilde Sau" systems with some description of night fighter operations. Goes on to describe the Luftwaffe system for making claims of shoot downs. Goes on to describe the relationship between claim numbers and decorations. Flew both Me 110 and Ju 88 and describes advantages of one over the other. Goes on to describe crewing and aircraft allocation. Describe how the war ended for him, Asked if he had met any other leading night-fighters or cross of gold winners like him, and stated that he met Hermann, Schnaufer, Sayn-Wittgenstein and others. Goes on with a little of Hermann's history. Further interview 2 January 2011 - there is an oral history sound track of this discussion linked to this item. Describes operations when he started in 1943 with the old "Kammhuber" line. Mentions the use of German speaking spoofing from 100 Group as well as jamming radio. Mentions how the use of Window on the Hamburg attack made Himmelbett non effective but also affected the Lichtenstein airborne and Würzburg ground radars. Reflects comments made by Göring on the Hamburg attack and resulting development of Wilde Sau. Describes how the night fighter system worked with a detailed description of diversionary an attack on Berlin by 8 Mosquito and gathering there by 250 German fighters while Bomber Command attacked Peenemunde. Continue with more description of Bomber Command countermeasures, use of female German ground controllers and use of local music to indicate location of British bombers. Includes how capture of H2S resulted in development of Naxos receiver which he used. Mentions that SN2 radar had six frequencies and was useful in finding bomber stream. Covers 100 Group tactic to simulate operations when none were on due to weather to keep German fighters and controllers up. States that he was an ace in American system as he claimed 10 German aircraft (baled out 4 times and crashed 6 times). Correspondence January 2013. Described sight and harmonisation for "schraege musik" guns. Make brief comment on tactics, use of SN2 and Naxos as well as homing on stream of window left by bombers. Mention getting audio waring of Mosquito radar from behind towards the end of the war. Concludes with a table listing his 24 claims. At the end 4 photographs. 1. Four aircrew and one airman in front of a Me 110 with caption 'Peter Spoden and his Me.110 crew (Oblt Johen shaking Peter’s hand'. 2. Six German airmen sitting round a table outside with caption 'NJG101 at Kitzingen 1943, Peter Spoden 3rd from left'. 3. A large group of airmen manhandling a Ju-88 with caption 'Ju.88 being manhandled by ground crew'. 4. Peter Spoden standing in front of an Me 110 night-fighter with caption 'Peter Spoden at the RAF Museum Hendon July 2005'. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Wehrmacht Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Nine page printed document with five photographs Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-SpodenPv10001 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. 100 Group 158 Squadron 227 Squadron 300 Squadron 44 Squadron 462 Squadron 578 Squadron 90 Squadron aircrew B-17 bale out Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Fw 190 H2S Halifax Ju 88 Lancaster Me 110 Me 262 Mosquito pilot radar Schräge Musik shot down target indicator Wellington Window wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/778/15054/LGoffCC746538v1.pdf 3236de6a86a90aa2e5a6fd9be3b30ec5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Goff, Cyril Cyril C Goff C C Goff Description An account of the resource Three items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Cyril Goff (746538, Royal Air Force) and contains two log books and a handwritten note naming his crew. He was a pilot and flew 13 operations with 100 Squadron from RAF Grimsby. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by N Bussey and catalogued by David Leitch. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-12-12 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Goff, CC Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cyril Charles Goff's pilot’s flying log book. One Description An account of the resource Pilot’s flying log book for Pilot Officer Cyril Charles Goff from 24 February 1942 to 18 October 1943, detailing training schedule and operations flown. Served at RAF Sleap, RAF Tilstock (Whitchurch Heath), RAF Newton, RAF Shawbury and RAF Grimsby (Waltham). Aircraft flown were Lancaster and Whitley. He carried out a total of 13 operations with 100 Squadron as a pilot on the following targets in Germany: Berlin, Hagen, Hanover, Ludwigshaven, Mannheim, Munich, Nürnburg, Peenemude, Rheydt and Stuttgart. His pilot on operations was Wing Commander McIntyre. Includes notes on a leaflet dropping operation over France whilst with 81 Operational Training Unit, and an air-sea rescue operation with 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit searching for a dinghy in the North Sea. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David Leitch Callum Davies Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LGoffCC746538v1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Great Britain Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--North Sea England--Lincolnshire Germany--Berlin Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg) Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein Germany--Mannheim Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Rheydt Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Hannover Germany--Ruhr (Region) Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943-06-22 1943-06-23 1943-07-28 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-23 1943-08-24 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-24 1943-10-01 1943-10-02 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1943-10-05 1943-10-07 1943-10-08 1943-10-09 1943-10-18 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 100 Squadron 1667 HCU 81 OTU Advanced Flying Unit air sea rescue aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Flying Training School Halifax Halifax Mk 5 Heavy Conversion Unit killed in action Lancaster Lancaster Mk 1 Lancaster Mk 3 missing in action Operational Training Unit Oxford pilot propaganda RAF Grimsby RAF Lindholme RAF Newton RAF Shawbury RAF Sleap RAF Tilstock Stearman Tiger Moth training Whitley https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1217/15049/LStoreyDP1334123v1.pdf 9575e8b05a67237abd33f0bdb44eaf50 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Storey, David Philip D P Storey Description An account of the resource Three items. The collection concerns David Philip Storey DFC (1919 - 2018, 1334123, Royal Air Force) and consists of his log book, a photograph and a memoir. He flew operations as a navigator with 51 Squadron from RAF Snaith and then became an instructor at RAF Kinloss. He was promoted to flight lieutenant in September 1945. The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Storey and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-01-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Storey, DP Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource David Storey's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LStoreyDP1334123v1 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Cara Walmsley Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Germany Great Britain Italy Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea England--Buckinghamshire England--Hertfordshire England--Oxfordshire England--Yorkshire France--Lille France--Modane France--Montluçon Germany--Berlin Germany--Cologne Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Kassel Germany--Krefeld Germany--Leipzig Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein Germany--Mannheim Germany--Mönchengladbach Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Remscheid Germany--Stuttgart Italy--Milan Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway Germany--Ruhr (Region) Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1943-06-22 1943-06-25 1943-06-26 1943-06-28 1943-06-29 1943-07-03 1943-07-04 1943-07-09 1943-07-10 1943-07-29 1943-07-30 1943-07-31 1943-08-02 1943-08-03 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-22 1943-08-23 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-05 1943-09-06 1943-09-15 1943-09-16 1943-09-17 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-24 1943-09-27 1943-09-28 1943-10-22 1943-10-23 1943-11-03 1943-11-18 1943-11-19 1943-11-22 1943-11-23 1943-11-25 1943-11-26 1944-01-29 1944-02-15 1944-02-20 1944-03-01 1944-03-02 1944-04-29 1944-04-30 Description An account of the resource Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for David Storey, navigator, covering the period from 3 October 1942 to 6 June 1946, and from 25 June 1949 to 29 November 1952. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, instructor duties and post war flying. He was stationed at RAF Wigtown, RAF Abingdon, RAF Rufforth, RAF Snaith, RAF Kinloss, RAF Westcott and RAF Panshanger. Aircraft flown in were, Anson, Whitley, Halifax and Wellington. He flew a total of 30 Night operations with 51 squadron. His pilots on operations were Sergeant Morris, Sergeant Jackson and Flying Officer Love. Targets were Krefeld, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Hamburg, Remscheid, Mannheim, Nuremburg, Milan, Peenemünde, Leverkusen, Berlin, Mönchengladbach, Montluçon, Modane, Hannover, Kassel, Düsseldorf, Ludwigshaven, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Stuttgart and Lille. This item was provided, in digital form, by a third-party organisation which used technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive. 10 OTU 11 OTU 1663 HCU 19 OTU 26 OTU 51 Squadron Air Observers School aircrew Anson Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Halifax Heavy Conversion Unit Me 109 navigator Operational Training Unit promotion RAF Abingdon RAF Kinloss RAF Rufforth RAF Snaith RAF Westcott RAF Wigtown RAF Wing Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) training Wellington Whitley https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2922/54728/LChandlerEB911217v1.pdf ca23e636498927559f6bcc725f82cff1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chandler, Edmund Basil Edmund Basil Chandler Chan Chandler Description An account of the resource 181 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edmund Basil "Chan" Chandler DFC (b.1921, 911217 Royal Air Force) and contains <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.omeka.net/collections/show/2988">an album</a>, his log book, correspondence, documents, objects and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 49 and 617 Squadrons and No.1 Film Production Unit. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Robert Mark Chandler and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-09-08 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Chandler, EB Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource E B Chandler’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book Description An account of the resource Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for E B Chandler, wireless operator/air gunner. Covering the period from 13 November 1940 to 22 June 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at 4 Bombing and Gunnery School RAF West Fraugh, Anson Flight RAF Upper Heyford, 16 Operational Training Unit RAF Upper Heyford, 49 Squadron RAF Scampton and RAF Fiskerton, Central Gunnery School RAF Castle Kennedy, 617 Squadron RAF Coningsby and RAF Woodhall Spa, 1 Film Production Unit, 233 Squadron and 514 Squadron. Aircraft flown in were Dominie, Battle, Anson, Hampden, Hereford, Blenheim, Wellington, Whitley, Manchester, Lancaster, Defiant, Oxford, Maryland, Mosquito, Boston, Dakota, Stirling and Halifax. He flew 86 operations, 55 night time with 49 Squadron and 5 daylight and 24 night operations with 617 Squadron. Targets were Bremen, Hamburg, Frisian Islands, Brest, Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Kiel, Heligoland, Dusseldorf, Brunswick, Sylt, Cologne, Frankfurt, Berlin, Oslo, Kassel, Rostock, Essen, Rennes, St Nazaire, Duisburg, Spezia, Pilsen, Friedrichshafen, Nuremburg, Peenemunde, Mönchengladbach, Hannover, Antheor Viaduct, Flixecourt, Liege, Amiens, Limoges, Albert, St Etienne, Woippy, Clermont-Ferrand, Bergerac, Angouleme, Lyon, St Cyr, Juvisy, La Chapelle, Saumur tunnel, Le Havre, Boulogne, Pas De Calais, St Omer, St Pol, Limburg and Ypenburg. His pilots on operations were Sergeant Welch, Sergeant Woolston, Sergeant Green, Sergeant Bachelor, Squadron Leader Tench, Sergeant Broomfield, Sergeant Samuels, Flight Sergeant Rowlands, Wing Commander Slee, Squadron Leader Barnard, Flight Lieutenant Green, Sergeant Gumbley, Wing Commander Johnson, Flight lieutenant Taylor, Sergeant Blackmore, Flight Lieutenant Munro and Flight Lieutenant Wilson. He also flew one Operation Exodus and one Operation Manna. The log book also contains various photos and sketches of crews and aircraft. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LChandlerEB911217v1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940 1941-04-16 1941-04-17 1941-04-26 1941-04-27 1941-05-02 1941-05-03 1941-05-04 1941-05-05 1941-05-06 1941-05-07 1941-05-08 1941-05-09 1941-05-10 1941-05-11 1941-05-12 1941-05-13 1941-05-16 1941-05-17 1941-05-25 1941-05-26 1941-05-27 1941-05-28 1941-06-18 1941-06-19 1941-06-22 1941-06-23 1941-06-25 1941-06-26 1941-06-28 1941-06-29 1941-06-30 1941-07-01 1941-08-12 1941-08-13 1941-08-14 1941-08-15 1941-08-17 1941-08-18 1941-08-19 1941-08-20 1941-08-26 1941-08-27 1941-08-29 1941-08-30 1941-08-31 1941-09-01 1941-09-02 1941-09-03 1941-09-06 1941-09-07 1941-09-08 1941-09-09 1941-09-12 1941-09-13 1941-09-15 1941-09-16 1941-09-28 1941-09-29 1942-05-30 1942-05-31 1942-06-01 1942-06-02 1942-06-05 1942-06-06 1942-07-31 1942-08-01 1943-03-22 1943-03-23 1943-03-26 1943-03-27 1943-03-28 1943-03-29 1943-03-30 1943-04-11 1943-04-12 1943-04-13 1943-04-14 1943-04-16 1943-04-17 1943-05-13 1943-05-14 1943-05-23 1943-05-24 1943-05-25 1943-05-26 1943-06-11 1943-06-12 1943-06-15 1943-06-16 1943-06-20 1943-06-23 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-08-01 1943-08-02 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1943-10-08 1943-10-09 1943-11-11 1943-11-12 1943-12-16 1943-12-17 1943-12-20 1943-12-21 1943-12-22 1943-12-23 1944-01-04 1944-01-05 1944-01-21 1944-01-22 1944-01-25 1944-01-26 1944-02-08 1944-02-09 1944-02-12 1944-02-13 1944-03-02 1944-03-03 1944-03-04 1944-03-05 1944-03-09 1944-03-10 1944-03-15 1944-03-16 1944-03-17 1944-03-18 1944-03-19 1944-03-20 1944-03-21 1944-03-22 1944-03-23 1944-03-24 1944-03-25 1944-03-29 1944-03-30 1944-04-10 1944-04-11 1944-04-18 1944-04-19 1944-04-20 1944-04-21 1944-06-06 1944-06-07 1944-06-08 1944-06-09 1944-06-14 1944-06-15 1944-06-18 1944-06-20 1944-06-21 1944-06-24 1944-06-25 1945 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Belgium Czech Republic France Germany Great Britain Italy Netherlands Norway Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Germany--Ruhr (Region) Belgium--Liege Czech Republic--Plzen England--Lincolnshire England--Oxfordshire Europe--Frisian Islands France--Albert France--Amiens France--Angouleme France--Antheor France--Bergerac France--Boulogne-sur-Mer France--Brest France--Clermont-Ferrand France--Flixecourt France--Juvisy-sur-Orge France--Le Havre France--Limoges France--Lyon France--Pas-de-Calais France--Rennes France--Saint-Étienne (Loire) France--Saint-Nazaire France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) France--Dunkerque France--Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer France--Woippy Germany--Berlin Germany--Braunschweig Germany--Bremen Germany--Cologne Germany--Duisburg Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Friedrichshafen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Helgoland Germany--Kassel Germany--Kiel Germany--Limburg (Landkreis) Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein Germany--Mannheim Germany--Monchengladbach Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemunde Germany--Rostock Germany--Sylt Italy--La Spezia Netherlands--Hague Norway--Oslo Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway Czech Republic--Plzeň France--Saumur France--Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer Europe--Frisian Islands France--Pas-de-Calais Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 16 OTU 49 Squadron 514 Squadron 617 Squadron aircrew Anson Battle Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) Blenheim bombing Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944) bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944) bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944) bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944) bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944) bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944) bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944) Boston C-47 Defiant Dominie Halifax Hampden Lancaster Manchester mine laying Mosquito Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944) Operation Exodus (1945) Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945) Operational Training Unit Oxford RAF Castle Kennedy RAF Coningsby RAF Fiskerton RAF Scampton RAF Upper Heyford RAF Wainfleet RAF West Freugh RAF Woodhall Spa Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) Stirling training Wellington Whitley wireless operator / air gunner https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/116/1664/LMillingE656624v1.2.pdf 5b83c5391137a31be69a332248348ee1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Milling, Edward E Milling Description An account of the resource 20 Items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward Milling DFM (656624 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and four photographs. Edward Milling was a navigator with 103 and 166 Squadrons at RAF Elsham Wolds and RAF Kirmington. He was killed 27/28 September 1943 when his Lancaster crashed in Germany while on an operation to Hannover. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Bren Bridges and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive Staff. Additional information on Edward Milling is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/116227/">IBCC Losses Database</a>. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-03-31 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Milling, E Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward Milling's observer's and air gunner's flying log book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Great Britain Italy England--Lincolnshire England--Yorkshire Germany--Berlin Germany--Bochum Germany--Cologne Germany--Dortmund Germany--Duisburg Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Krefeld Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Mannheim Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Remscheid Germany--Wuppertal Italy--Turin Germany--Mönchengladbach Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943 1943-03-04 1943-03-05 1943-05-12 1943-05-13 1943-05-14 1943-05-23 1943-05-24 1943-06-11 1943-06-12 1943-06-13 1943-06-21 1943-06-22 1943-06-23 1943-06-24 1943-06-25 1943-06-26 1943-07-08 1943-07-09 1943-07-10 1943-07-12 1943-07-13 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-07-29 1943-07-30 1943-07-31 1943-08-02 1943-08-03 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-22 1943-08-23 1943-08-24 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-03 1943-09-04 1943-09-06 1943-09-07 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-24 1943-09-27 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LMillingE656624v1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 Description An account of the resource Log book for Sergeant Edward Milling from 16 August 1942 to 27 September 1943. Navigator Sergeant E Milling was stationed with 103 Squadron at RAF Elsham Wolds, and 166 Squadron at RAF Kirmington, where he flew Lancasters. The log book details 27 operations over Germany and Italy: Berlin, Bochum, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisberg, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Hannover, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mannheim, Mönchengladbach, Mülheim, Munich, Nuremberg, Peenemünde, Remscheid, Turin, Wuppertal. His pilot on operations was Warrant Officer Chesterton. The final three entries are made by the commanding officer reporting that Sergeant Milling's aircraft failed to return from Hannover. Stamped “DEATH PRESUMED”. 103 Squadron 1656 HCU 166 Squadron 30 OTU Air Observers School aircrew Anson Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Heavy Conversion Unit killed in action Lancaster missing in action navigator Operational Training Unit RAF Elsham Wolds RAF Hixon RAF Kirmington RAF Lindholme Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/747/40638/LColingEF1481171v1.2.pdf 72f9230cebd8e195ba94bf7151021cb1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coling, Eric E Coling Description An account of the resource 10 items. The collection concerns Eric Frederick Coling (1921 - 2018 1481171 Royal Air Force) and contains his memoir, photographs, log book, service documents, letters and an oral history interview. Eric flew operations as a bomb aimer with 50 Squadron before ditching, drifting for several days and time and becoming a prisoner of war. The collection was catalogued by Lynn Corrigan. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-01-10 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Coling, E Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eric Frederick Coling's observer's and air gunner's flying log book Description An account of the resource Observer's and air gunner's flying log book for Bomb Aimer Eric Frederick Coling from June 1942 to February 1953. Detailing his training schedule, operations flown and post war duties. Served at 44 Air School, South Africa; 16 Operational Training Unit, Upper Heyford; 1660 Conversion Unit, RAF Swinderby and RAF Skellingthorpe. Aircraft flown were Anson, Oxford, Wellington, Manchester and Lancaster Mk 1, Mk3. Eric completed a total of 13 night time operations but on the fourteenth was reported as missing. The operations were carried out as bomb aimer over targets in Italy and Germany: Turin, Milan, Hamburg, Mannheim, Nuremberg, Peenemünde, Berlin and Hannover. His pilots on operations were Pilot Officer Dennis and Flight Sergeant Code. In his proficiency tests Eric was described as 'average' and as being 'keen and reliable'. His post war flying is recorded. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-07-11 1943-07-12 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-07-27 1943-07-29 1943-07-30 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-14 1943-08-15 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Italy Germany Italy--Turin Italy--Milan Germany--Hamburg Germany--Mannheim Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Berlin Germany--Hannover South Africa Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LColingEF1481171v1 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lynn Corrigan Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 16 OTU 1660 HCU 50 Squadron aircrew Anson bomb aimer bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) ditching Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster Lancaster Mk 1 Lancaster Mk 3 Manchester mine laying missing in action Operational Training Unit Oxford RAF Skellingthorpe RAF Swinderby RAF Upper Heyford training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1543/28501/LTansleyEH149542v1.1.pdf 7cca3a40dfe87a7fc8a69193ffd628eb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tansley, Ernest Henry E H Tansley Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-09-22 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Tansley, EH Description An account of the resource 98 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley (1914 - 1943, 149542 Royal Air Force). He flew operations as a pilot with 57 Squadron and was killed 2 December 1943. Collection consists of photographs, letters, memoires, biographies, accounts of operations, logbook extracts and official/personal documents. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Anne Doward and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on Ernest Tansley is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/122894/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Extract from Ernest Harold Patrick's flying log book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Six pages from logbook Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LTansleyEH149542v1 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-26 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-15 1943-08-16 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-22 1943-08-23 1943-08-24 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-27 1943-09-28 1943-09-29 1943-09-30 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1943-10-07 1943-10-08 1943-10-09 1943-11-03 1943-11-04 1943-11-10 1943-11-11 1943-11-18 1943-11-19 1943-11-26 1943-11-27 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Germany Great Britain Italy Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea England--Lincolnshire France--Modane Germany--Berlin Germany--Bochum Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Kassel Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Mannheim Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Stuttgart Italy--Milan Germany--Ruhr (Region) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Description An account of the resource Extract from flying log book for bomb aimer’s for Ernest Harold Patrick, detailing his operations flown until failing to return from operations. He was stationed at RAF Scampton and RAF East Kirkby. Aircraft flown in was Lancaster. He flew a total of 21 night operations with 57 squadron. Targets were Hamburg, Mannheim, Nuremburg, Milan, Peenemünde, Leverkusen, Berlin, Hannover, Bochum, Kassel, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Modane. His pilot on operations was Pilot Officer Tansley. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available. 57 Squadron aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bomb aimer bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) killed in action Lancaster RAF East Kirkby RAF Scampton https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/753/31388/BCotterJDPCotterJDPv1.2.pdf 51801623ceddc1937a5f993bda2490ef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cotter, John David Pennington J D P Cotter Description An account of the resource Three items. The collection concerns Wing Commander John Cotter DFC (b. 1923, Royal Canadian Air Force) and contains an oral history interview, his log book and a memoir. He flew operations as a pilot with 158 and 640 Squadrons. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John Cotter and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-08-28 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Cotter, JDP Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document WING COMMANDER JOHN COTTER DFC EXTRACTS FROM WAR DIARIES AND INFORMATION ON AIRCRAFT CREWS AND LISTS OF BOMBING RAIDS. ACCOMPANYING ADDITIONS TO ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW 28th August 2018 [page break] [underlined] A BOMBER CREW [/underlined] I arrived at 28 Operational Training Unit, Bomber Command on 23rd February 1943. The OTU was equipped with Wellington 1c aircraft and located at Wymeswold, near the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire. Most of the aircrew on my course were NCO's – sergeants – all the navigators were Canadian (RCAF). They also all wore the 'O' brevet which indicated that they had been trained as observers, i.e. navigators and bomb-aimers combined. But at this time the Air Force was splitting the duties of navigator and bomb-aimer and we had the new trade of bomb-aimer on our course. Initially most bomb-aimers were commissioned, as it was a new trade, and so most, if not all, the bomb aimers on our course were pilot officers. There was a great deal of networking among the aircrew to sort themselves out into crews but I let matters take their course and eventually I was allocated a crew. So in my diary for 8th March I have put: “At teatime in the Mess I met my navigator, a Canadian Called Andy Hicks. He seems a decent sort of chap.” I think Andy must have been the first person crewed with me as it is not until 17th March that an air gunner, Wally Lomax, a wireless operator, Harry Reid and a bomb-aimer Norman Hawkridge, join the crew. We then started flying together – five of us. On 22nd March I was sent solo in the Wellington and the other 4 seemed quite happy with me. By 30th March we were going out in the evenings together as a crew, all except Norman, the bomb-aimer who lived in the Officers Mess. Anyway that evening we four sergeants went into Loughborough together – to the films (we saw a documentary “Desert Victory” and Alan Curtis in “Remember Pearl Harbour”). The crew was given its first leave on Sunday 11th April and I invited Andy to come and stay at my home in North West London. Although he came from Calgary he had lost his mother in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1920 and the infant child had been brought over to Truro to be looked after by his grandmother: not returning to Canada until he was 8 years old. I think he had been down to Cornwall on a previous leave so he was glad of a break in London. My younger brother was away in the Air Force so Andy borrowed his civilian clothes for our trips into London. The leave was for 7 days and we packed a lot in during that week as the weather was superb. We met two Canadian friends of Andy who were both in the RCAF but were not aircrew. There is a photograph of the four of us at Hampton Court on a lovely sunny day – Andy and I in civilian clothes and Don and Hal in RCAF uniform. I never saw them again after that leave but Andy knew one of them in Alberta for many years after the War. One night we took my mother to dinner in London and then to the theatre to see Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard in “Watch on the Rhine”. We also saw Kay Hammond in 'Blithe Spirit' and a rather weak musical comedy. 2 After that leave Andy made my parents' flat his home and he used to spend half his leaves in Cornwall and half with us. When we got to the Squadron in July we found that crews were sent on leave for 7 days every six weeks. So Andy and I would go to my place for 3 days, then he would go to Paddington Station to catch the “Cornish Riviera” express down to Truro for 3 days. On the 7th day we would meet back in London and travel north together, back to the Squadron. We would always take my mother out to dinner and a show on every leave. At that time there was a very famous comedian called Sid Field and we would take Mother to one of his shows whenever he was appearing in London. Sid Field's female lead was Zoe Gail who used to appear on stage dressed in top hat and tails, complete with cane, singing “I'm Going to Get Lit up when the Lights Go On in London”. There was still a blackout throughout the country. Just after the War Sid Field died and then, some 10 years later, his leading lady, Zoe Gail, was crippled in a car accident. The two of us frequented the best restaurants (such as were still open – there was not much choice). Quite often we would dine at the Ritz Hotel which we could quite afford as no restaurant in wartime was allowed to charge more than 5 shillings for a meal. Hotels, such as the Ritz, would levy a cover charge of around the meal price to stop the riff-raff getting in. The only other crew member we would meet in London on our leaves was Bill Griffiths, our mid-upper gunner. Bill lived in Luton and we used to meet him in London or sometimes go up and stay at his parents' house. His mother was a very nice, attractive lady and she used to look after us very well. The Canadian Forces had a club in London, just off Trafalgar Square, called the Beaver Club. Andy and I used to go there frequently on our leaves. We would quite often run out of money and we would go down to the RCAF accounts headquarters in Kensington. I would wait outside while Andy went in and drew some of his deferred pay to keep us going. On every leave we would pay at least one visit to a Turkish bath. The establishment we frequented was in Northumberland Avenue, just off Trafalgar Square. There, for a few shillings, we would endure a severe pummelling from the masseurs after going through hot, cold and steam baths. This would be followed by a two or three hour snooze followed by a call with tea and hot-buttered toast. We found it a wonderful tonic for a hangover. When my brother Paul had leave at the same time he would join us on our London escapades. Fortunately he had two suits so he and Andy would share the clothes. Our flight commander at Wymeswold was Squadron Leader Penman and he was the first proper operational veteran that most of us had met. Penman was one of the survivors of a raid, in August 1942, on Augsburg. This was the last daylight raid by Bomber Command for nearly 2 years and had resulted in very heavy losses as only 5 aircraft, from an attacking force of 12 Lancasters had returned. The raid leader, Sqn. Ldr Nettleton, was awarded the VC and Penman received the DSO. [page break] 3 At operational training unit crews finished off their course by undertaking a nickel raid. A nickel raid was a simple thing really although sometimes crews did not return. One's plane was loaded with leaflets and you flew across to France, Belgium or Holland and dropped all the leaflets which, I assume, encouraged all the occupied people to keep their chins up. So a nickel was a crew's operational baptism, although a reasonably mild one. My diary for 4th and 5th May 1943 reads: “Got up about 11. Then went up and had dinner (lunch). After that went across to the link trainer and did an hour and a half which finishes me off (completes my link trainer programme). Then met Andy and found out that we were on a nickel. I nearly fainted! Bags of briefing and panic! Took off at 2130 and reached the (southern) English coast at 2359 where we wasted about an hour flying up and down trying to find Beachy Head (our departure point). Then crossed over to France. We had to drop leaflets on Rouen and we got caught in searchlights and then flak. Was I on pins! We were holed 5 times. Landed at Cranage (an airfield in North West of England) at 0400. Had no sleep at all. Got up at 0800: that is out of the chair that I occupied in the dump that the boys at this station call a Mess. I am still full of last night. Hung around all morning until at 1230 we got permission to take off. We got back to Wymeswold at about 1400 and after depositing our kit we went to the Intelligence Officer for an interrogation. Then to the Mess to proceed to shoot a line to all the boys. I was dog-tired however so Andy and I went and had a shower and then went to bed. Boy! Our first operation over – the 5 of us are walking around like fairies”. At this stage our mid-upper gunner (Bill Griffiths) and our flight engineer (Mickey Rooney) had yet to join the crew. Bill Griffiths in fact joined us the next day, 6th May, and flew with us for the first time in place of Wally Lomax. On the Wellington we only had one gunner's turret – the rear – whereas we were obviously destined for Lancasters, Halifaxes or Stirlings all of which had positions for two gunners: a mid-upper and a rear gunner. When we arrived at this OTU we were told it normally supplied the Lancaster bomber squadrons. On the 14th May 1943 we passed out, as a crew, from 28 OTU Wymeswold and we were off on 14 days leave. My diary stops at this time not to be resumed until September and then only for a short time. Anyway Andy came home with me for half the leave and spent the other half in Cornwall. We were posted to 1652 Heavy Conversion Unit at Marston Moor, just outside York. HCU's served to convert crews on to the heavy bombers to be flown on operations and when you passed the HCU course you went straight to your squadron. Marston Moor had been the site of a famous battle. On 2nd July 1644 the Royalist forces of King Charles I had suffered their first major defeat there and, consequently, lost control of York and so the North of England. 4 1652 HCU was one of three HCU's to feed 4 Group so we were not going on Lancasters but Halifaxes. No 4 Group was one of the two bomber groups stationed in Yorkshire – the other was 6 Group, the Canadian group. The Canadian stations were north of York and 4 Group was south and to the east. 6 Group was run by the RCAF but there were Australians, New Zealanders and British serving in the Group. 4 Group was RAF but many Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and one or two Americans were among our crews. I was delayed getting to Marston Moor as I was sick at the end of my leave in London so Andy took charge of the crew. And accounts refused to pay them. Andy then went to the Station Warrant Officer to say the crew had no money and was owed 3 weeks pay but he got short thrift from this gnarled old pre-war NCO who probably thought these pip-squeak young sergeant aircrew were a damned nuisance. Just as Andy was protesting the Commanding Officer's door opened and out came the CO – Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, later a VC. He asked Andy the trouble, then turned to the SWO “See that these men are paid at once”. “Yes Sir!” said the SWO standing to attention. Cheshire at that time was 27 and a renowned bomber ace. He had been sent on a public relations tour of the United States and had come back to England with an American bride. This was Constance Binney who was 17 years older than Cheshire and a well-know Broadway actress. Some of the crew, I think Harry, Wally and Bill, were hitch-hiking back from York one day and they were picked up by Miss Binney whom they described as a very fragrant lady. When I arrived at Marston Moor the crew introduced me to Mickey Rooney our flight engineer who was just joining us and now the crew was complete. I only had two instructors converting me to the Halifax: Sqn. Ldr Hadyn RAAF and Flt Lt Fisher, both very good. Shortly after we started flying the Halifax all the pilots were loaded into a 15cwt truck and driven east across Yorkshire. We were all going on a real operation that night, flying as second pilots. There were about six of us and one of us was dropped off each at a separate squadron base. Eventually I was the only one left on the truck and I was driven to the most easterly airfield – Lisset the home of 158 Squadron. The raid was to Cologne and I was put with Sgt ‘Bluey’ Mottershead and his crew. I had nothing to do, of course, but to sit in the right-hand seat and watch. Thank goodness our flight was uneventful: the weather was clear, the city was on fire long before we reached it and we did not come across any fighters. But Bomber Command lost 27 aircraft that night with 156 aircrew killed. When we turned for home after bombing I was so exhausted with the tension that I started to fall asleep. Bluey told me to go back and sleep on the rest bed and the next thing I knew was when the wheels touched the runway back at Lisset. Returning westwards in the 15cwt I was eventually joined by the others: we had all come through! [page break] 5 Towards the end of July the course finished and my crew was posted to 158 Squadron where I had just been. Lisset is near the East Yorkshire coast and just south of the seaside resort of Bridlington. We travelled across to Lisset on Thursday 22nd July in another 15cwt truck to start our operational career and it was a nice sunny summer day. I recall we stopped and bought strawberries at a wayside stall on the way over. It was fairly late when we arrived at the Squadron base – I think about 2230. In those days the blackout and the absence of all road signs throughout Britain made road journeys rather long and tedious. Norman went off to the officers’ quarters and we six sergeants were allocated a Nissan hut as our very own. I think all six of us then drifted along to the Mess in search of something to eat. It was quite a sight when we reached it as there had just been a dance. Various chaps were occupying all the mess settees, accompanied by Waafs (Womens Auxiliary Airforce) with greatcoats covering their antics. The floor of the anteroom was covered in debris: cigarettes, glasses and beer spillages. At the far end of the long room a combined snooker and crap game seemed to be in progress with about 20 participants dominated by a tall, blonde flight sergeant dressed in the dark blue of the Australian Air Force. Six weeks later, after the Squadron Commander and one of the 3 Flight Commanders had been lost, that Australian had jumped 5 ranks to Squadron Leader and was our Flight Commander; remaining so nearly until the end of our tour. Friday 23rd July was spent settling in and flying one of the Squadron aircraft for about 4 hours on a handling flight. Then, the next day, we were off on our first trip for the start of what became known as the Battle of Hamburg. This was the first of 4 successive attacks on the City in 9 days. This operation was notable for a new defensive device carried by the bombers called “Window”. Window consisted of small metallic strips of foil that were thrown out of each aircraft as it approached the target area. Harry, the wireless operator, had the job of throwing out the window strips, thousands came from each of the Wellingtons, Stirlings, Halifaxes and Lancasters taking part in this operation. Window confused the German ground and airborne radar and so we only lost about 12 aircraft that night, including one from our squadron. We took off around 2200 and Andy expertly navigated us to Hamburg, although once we were within 50 miles of the City the fires on the ground indicated the target. I was the only one of the crew to cause a problem that night on our first proper operation. As we were running in over the target Norman found the bomb release did not work. After we had passed over the City with the bombs still on board Mickey, the engineer, came up to the cockpit to see what was wrong. I had pushed the bomb door lever down instead of pulling it up to open the doors. By now we were well to the north east of Hamburg and heading towards Lubeck. Instead of turning straight for home and safety we turned and completed a large circuit round the burning city and some half hour later we were on our second bombing run and this time I operated the lever correctly. When we bombed everyone else had finished and long since cleared the area. We should have been a 6 sitting duck for the night fighters but all those metallic strips floating in the air must have protected us. We took part in all four raids to Hamburg, although we aborted one operation when we turned back with engine trouble. Lisset was a typical airfield built during the War with accommodation in well-dispersed Nissan huts. We 6 sergeants were in our own hut some half mile from the Sergeants Mess. The hut was heated by a coke-burning stove and was not too comfortable. We were saved by meeting Company Sergeant-Major Albert Hawkins. CSM Hawkins, known to all as 'Q', was in the Tank Corps and he was in charge of an Army sergeants mess located in a very nice house on the seafront in Bridlington. He persuaded his Mess to adopt our crew and from then on we lived and messed with the Army. Q provided us with transport whenever we were needed at the airfield but most of the time we were in Bridlington. By Christmas Day 1943 both Andy and I, as well as Norman, were commissioned but we spent the day with the Army serving Xmas dinners to all the squaddies. When we arrived on 158 the Squadron was commanded by Wg. Cdr T.R. Hope, DFC. He was a big, bluff, likeable officer : a pre-war civil pilot. But we hardly knew him as some 3 weeks after our arrival he failed to return from a trip to Nuremburg. And, after another 3 weeks Sqn. Ldr Elliott, one of the flight commanders, also failed to return. The new squadron commander was the highly decorated Wg.Cdr. Jock Calder, DSO, DFC. The station commander was Group Captain John Whitley, DSO. He had been shot down earlier in the War, evaded, and walked across the Pyrenees to Spain and freedom. He used to regale us with the story of the powerful American footballer in his evading party who had collapsed crossing the mountains – [underlined] because he was not fit [/underlined]. To this end he would have us running around the perimeter track on the occasional non-operational day. Fortunately our crew missed most of these exercises as we were probably lurking with the Army in Bridlington. One crew who had been with us both at Wymeswoold and at Marston Moor had also arrived at 158. This was Sgt Doug Robinson and crew. Our favourite watering hole in Bridlington was the Brunswick and one night our two crews were there together. Doug's navigator was a Canadian, Dave Rosenthal, and he happened to say to me that if he was shot down he would not stand much chance as he was Jewish. It was the first time I began to think about what was happening to the Jews of Europe and then some weeks later Doug and crew failed to come back from Berlin. By October 1943 our crew had completed 13 operations. I had now been promoted to flight sergeant and very pleased I was: my pay had gone from 12/6 to 16/6d a day. In the middle of that month David Leicester, our flight commander, asked us to travel to an [page break] 7 airfield in the South of England to ferry back an aircraft that had been repaired. We jumped at the chance as this meant a night in London on the way down. My diary again: “Up at 0830 (in the Army sergeants mess in Bridlington). The weather rotten but we had to go back to camp. Leicester asked me to take the crew down and collect a kite from Middle Wallop. We had to go by train from Hull. Norman went home to Leeds but the rest of the boys came with me. We had to stand in the train all the way from Doncaster to London. Got to London at 1930 and went along to the Regent Palace hotel and booked two double rooms. Bill and I had one room and we smuggled Wally into it and Andy and Harry got Mickey into their room.” The point of this is that, in those days, a single room in the Regent Palace was 12/6d and a double was 19/6d, so we saved ourselves a few pennies. We slept three to a bed in the two rooms and in the middle of the night the air raid sirens went off. I don't know about Andy's room but in our room there was panic with all three of us trying to dive under the bed. Although my diary does not say as much, I have no doubt that our nerves were brittle because we had been out on the town that night and we probably all were a little smashed. My diary for the following day, Monday 18th October 1943, reads: “Caught a bus for Andover at 0900 and we had to stand all the way for the two hour journey. At Andover had to find another bus to get us to Middle Wallop which turned out to be a night fighter base. After a lunch and messing about all afternoon found we could not take off. So we all had tea and went down to Andover to the movies. Saw Lana Turner in 'Slightly Dangerous'. Harry and I missed the last bus back to camp and we had to stay in the White Hart Hotel for the night which cost me 12/6d, all the money I had.” What Harry Reid and I were doing to miss the bus I have forgotten but I expect we were up to no good!! Diary for the 19th October : “Harry and I caught the 0825 bus to Middle Wallop and heard that we could take off straight away. Got back to Lisset at 1200 to learn we were on ops. So had dinner and went up to the billet (spelt 'billett' throughout my diaries) to get changed. Wally reported sick so we were given a spare gunner. Got briefed and the target was Augsburg. Had ops meal and then went to locker room. Norman had not turned up but luckily the op was scrubbed. Met Norman on the way to Q's (CSM Hawkins our Army friend in Bridlington) So he came down with us. He had only just got back from Leeds.” 8 Another diary entry is for Saturday 30th October 1943. This must have been one of the rare nights the crew slept at the RAF base rather than with the Army in Bridlington: “Got up at 0610, washed, dressed and had breakfast. Went down to the flights at 0900. Once again there were ops on so went out (to the aircraft) to do my D.I. (inspection). After that went up to the billet and got changed into battledress (obviously when we got up that morning we had dressed in our walking-out uniform expecting to Saturday off and a trip into Bridlington). Then had lunch and went down with Andy to navigation briefing. Once again target was Leverkusen. Went to main briefing at 1400 and then had lunch. Take off was 1630 so we went out to the kite and we were all ready when it was scrubbed. So Any, Wally and I stayed in and lit a fire. Later Andy and I went down to The Bull for a drink. It was more like a brothel than a pub”. It looks, from the above that we had two lunches that day. In fact the second lunch would have been our take-off meal. Our crew, of course, very rarely used the local pubs in Lisset. The Bull, which I do not remember, must have been packed that Saturday night with Waafs and aircrew. August 1943 was a bad month for the Squadron with 15 aircraft lost, 9 of these on two raids to Berlin (or the 'Big City' as it was known to the crews). It was an intensive month for Bomber Command with the last of the raids to Hamburg at the start, followed by the attack on the rocket installations at Peenemunde and rounding off with the first Berlin offensive to close. On a beautiful summer evening on 2nd August we were briefed for the 4th successive attack on Hamburg to the announcement that only the brothel and residential areas had not been destroyed and they were our target. Most of us gave a cheer at this news. I think it is fair to say that most of our crew thoroughly enjoyed squadron life. In wartime Britain operational aircrew lived very well and, provided one could cope with the constant danger, it was a life of Riley. Consider: Before every operation crews were given a super meal consisting of cholesterol building agents – eggs, bacon, chips etc. On return from an operation we were greeted in the debriefing room by Waafs with mugs of coffee liberally laced with navy rum. And if you smiled sweetly at the Waafs you might get a second mug at the end of the debriefing. [page break] 9 If successful in getting the second helping of rum you then tottered out of the briefing room to another meal of eggs, bacon, chips and increased cholesterol. 7 days leave came round ever 6 weeks. At a time when petrol for pleasure motoring was banned aircrew were an exception as we were allowed enough petrol to run our cars and motor bikes. Lord Nuffield, the motor magnate, sponsored a scheme whereby aircrew could stay at many of the best hotels in the country at a 50% discount. In October Andy Hicks was commissioned and my own commission came through a few weeks later. Our final operation for 1943 was an attack on Leipzig on 3rd December (my diary stops in October so I now rely on memory.) Christmas was spent with our Army friends in Bridlington and we were only involved in training flying until the end of the year. Part of this training was to convert to a new Halifax, the Mark 3, which had better engines and an improved performance. 158 squadron consisted of 3 flights and our crew in C Flight was commended by the aforementioned Squadron Leader David Leicester, the blonde Australian flight sergeant we had noticed on our arrival at Lisset the previous July. At the beginning of 1944 C Flight, together with our new Halifaxes, left 158 Squadron to become A Flight of a new Squadron – 640 – based at Leconfield. We left behind the temporary, wartime airfield at Lisset, with its Nissan huts and winter warmth provided by coke stoves and moved to a pre-war permanent station with brick buildings and central heating. Leconfield is about 30 miles from Lisset near the ancient market town of Beverley with its 10th century minster. At the time of the move our crew was on leave, with Andy and I down in London with my mother. I think we had also spent a night or two of that leave with Bill Griffiths and his parents at Luton, 35 miles north west of London. We came back to our new base, with its creature comforts, where Andy, Norman and I took up residence in one of the pre-war married officers quarters. We had, at this stage, completed 20 operations – more than halfway through our assumed tour of 30. We had to say goodbye to our good friends in the Tank Corps at Bridlington and settle into a new social life centred on Beverley and the North Sea fishing port of Hull a little further away. Possibly our social life was now more focused on the Officers Mess where there was a lot of activity. Whereas 158 had been the only squadron at Lisset our new base was home to two squadrons: 640 with crew members from the RAF, the RCAF, the RAAF and the RNZAF and even one USAAF officer; and 466 an RAAF squadron with mainly Australian aircrew but a few British, Canadians and New Zealanders thrown in. Our 10 station commander was Group Captain Waterhouse who had been one of the 3 officers sent over to Canada in August 1939 to help start the Empire Air Training Scheme. He had come back home with a lovely Canadian wife who lived on base. Our squadron commander was Wing Commander 'Ruby' Eayrs who had returned from a posting in Australia. With 2 squadrons on the base there was a great deal of rivalry that used to culminate in Mess games on non-flying nights. Our time with 640 included the second Berlin offensive in February, that also included an attack on Leipzig, and the notorious Nuremberg raid at the end of March when the Command suffered very heavy losses. In early March I was called in to see Ruby Eayrs and questioned about my tour up until then. Some two weeks later I had finished a comfortable lunch and was fast asleep in one of the deep mess armchairs when I was woken by Alan Smart. I had just been awarded an immediate DFC, the first decoration to be awarded on our new squadron. A little later I was called once more to see the squadron commander, to be told that my crew had been awarded a further three decorations and I had to recommend the recipients. This was an extremely hard task but I eventually put forward Andy Hicks, Mickey Rooney and Bill Griffiths. So Andy received the DFC and Mickey and Bill the DFM. In truth all the crew had earned these decorations. Our crew completed 13 trips at Leconfield, finishing with an operation to Düsseldorf on 22nd April. As it was the period just before D-day we completed slightly more operations than the normal 30, our extra sorties being attacks on French targets – mainly rail junctions. Norman Hawkridge, our bomb-aimer , had left us the previous month when he had been sent on a bombing leader's course. This is why Norman does not appear in the crew photograph, taken that April outside the house at Leconfield where Andy and I lived. The sad thing about that last operation was that two crews were on their final sortie that night. Colin Penfold, a New Zealander, and his crew had joined 158 Squadron at the same time as us and had moved with us to 640. They were lost over Düsseldorf with all the crew killed except the second pilot who managed to bail out just in time. Looking back there is no doubt that we were blessed with good fortune during our squadron life. We had no serious combats with German fighters and although occasionally coned in searchlights we had always broken free. Colleagues, such as lan Smart had fought off night fighter attacks and sustained severe aircraft damage whereas we were very lucky. We would fly towards or away from the target watching others of our bombers being shot down either side of us. Quite early on in our tour we had adopted our own tactics which may have helped. A Bomber Command operation in 1943 and early 1944 would usually consist of about six [page break] 11 waves following the pathfinders who would be in the lead. Waves would be allocated a specific time and height over the target, they would be separated by around 10 minutes and would have a bombing window of about 5 minutes. After take off aircraft would climb to bombing height and set course from an assembly point: Goole for the northern bomber groups if flying east, or Reading if going south east. Bombing height was around 22000 feet for the Halifax 3 and crews were briefed to fly out at that altitude. However, we usually flew much lower, at about 8000 feet, on the premise that the German aircraft would sooner hunt in the main stream above us than try to pick off the odd single aircraft. Some ten minutes before the target we would climb up to the correct height, bomb and descend when well clear of the area. Just before our final trip we attended a briefing by an intelligence officer from Command who told us that only three large German cities remained free from attack: Chemnitz, Breslau and Dresden and that all would be bombed eventually. And during the War I never heard anyone, service or civilian, object to the policy of saturation bombing. We all admired our Commander in Chief. He was known to the bomber crews as Butch Harris, not Bomber Harris. Our crew was now dispersed: I was sent to Scotland to a training unit and Andy went to a similar station in the West Country. But we arranged our leaves to coincide so that Andy spent half of each leave in North London with us and the other half in Truro. When news came through that my brother had been killed at Boundary Bay in Canada I was in the North of Scotland but Andy went to my home immediately to help my mother handle the shock. In September 1944 I had to attend an investiture for the award of my DFC and, as I was serving in Scotland, the ceremony took place at Holyrood House in Edinburgh while the King was in residence there. I was allowed to invite two guests and Andy brought my mother up from London. Our last meeting, before Andy returned to Canada, was on 2nd July 1945 when he was best man at my wedding. Bill Griffiths was the only other crew member to attend that day. Andy had been due to return home earlier in the year but he delayed for the wedding. On our wedding night Margaret and I were staying at a London hotel after leaving the reception. When we went out to eat later that evening we found that Andy, together with another guest, Lois Hammerbeck, had come to the West End and tracked us down to the restaurant where they joined us. After the War the crew went their separate ways: [underlined] John Cotter [/underlined] remained in the RAF until 1962. He then flew with an airline until finally retiring in 1983. He now lives in Brighton. 12 [underlined] Andy (Vic) Hicks [/underlined] returned to Canada and worked in accountancy and the hotel industry. He eventually retired to Calgary where he died in 1997. [underlined]Norman Hawkridge [/underlined] worked in banking and insurance before retiring to Cumbria. Norman died on 20th May 2005. [underlined]Harry Reid [/underlined] was demobilized in Rhodesia where he was stationed. He worked on the railways but he and his family returned to the UK in 1961. Harry died in 1998. [underlined]Mickey Rooney [/underlined] stayed in the RAF and was commissioned. He was killed in an aircraft accident c1950. [underlined]Bill Griffiths [/underlined] emigrated to Australia in 1961. After some years of ill-health Bill died in 2003. [underlined]Wally Lomax [/underlined] returned to Lancashire and died in 2001. Other personalities mentioned: Sqn. Ldr. Penman DSO, DFC remained in the RAF after the War. He died in 2004. [underlined] David Leicester DFC* [/underlined] completed his tour 3 weeks before I did. He went straight to a Lancaster conversion unit and then to a pathfinder squadron – No. 35. After completing 68 operations, without a break, he returned to Australia in January 1945. On applying to Qantas he was found to be unfit for civil flying and he left aviation. He is now retired and lives in Adelaide. [underlined] Wg. Cdr. T. Hope DFC [/underlined] was shot down over Belgium on a raid to Nuremburg. Only 3 crew members survived to be taken prisoner: Hope, his flight engineer and mid-upper gunner. After the War Hope resumed his civil flying career as Chief Pilot with Scottish Aviation. [underlined] Sqn. Ldr. Neil Elliott [/underlined] was shot down on a raid to Berlin on a night when the Squadron losses were 20%. His 2 gunners were lost and the rest of the crew became prisoners. Neil Elliott stayed in the RAF and when I went through Staff College in 1958 he was on the directing staff. He died of a heart attack in the 1960’s. [underlined] Wg. Cdr. Jock Calder DSO*, DFC [/underlined] completed his second tour as CO of 158. In 1958 he was on the same course as me at Staff College. He died in 1997. [underlined] Gp. Cpt. John Whitley DSO [/underlined] retired from the RAF in 1962 as an Air Marshal. I met him several times after the War. A very nice man. [underlined] Gp. Cpt. Leonard Cheshire VC, DSO** DFC [/underlined] became a legend in Bomber Command and received the VC. After the War he founded the Cheshire Homes. He was the Principal Speaker at the first 4 Group Dinner I attended in 1992. He died a few years later. [page break] 13 [underlined] Douglas Robinson. [/underlined] Just after the War I was a flying instructor at Moreton-in-Marsh and we were refreshing returned ex-pow pilots. Low and behold Doug Robinson appeared on the course and later, when he worked in teaching, he would bring cadets to the RAF for annual camps and we met a couple of times. He published a book in 1997 from which I found that Doug had had a very tough war – in sharp contrast to my own lucky run. On returning from training in South Africa his boat was torpedoed off the West African coast and Doug spent 8 days in an open boat. Midway through his tour his crew was about to go on leave when they were called out for an attack on Berlin. His aircraft was badly damaged by flak and the crew had to bale out over Holland. The flight engineer’s parachute had been destroyed so Doug stayed with the engineer and crash-landed the aircraft in a field. If anyone deserved a gallantry medal he did, but he did not get one. And he did not have a very pleasant time in prison camp. [underlined] Dave Rosenthal. [/underlined] After prison camp Dave returned to Canada and I met him again at a 158 reunion in the ‘90’s. [underlined] ‘Bluey’ Mottershead. [/underlined] ‘Bluey’ completed his tour and was awarded the DFC. After the War he formed the 158 Association and ran the squadron reunions for many years. [underlined] Alan Smart DFC [/underlined] Alan completed his tour and after the War returned to commerce in the Hull area. Alan died on 3rd October 2002. [underlined] ‘Ruby’ Eayrs DFC. [/underlined] Retired from the RAF as a Group Captain. He merited a long obituary in the Telegraph when he died in 1992. [underlined] Crew Operations: [/underlined] 1. 28 OTU 4/5/43 Rouen - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Lomax 2. 158 Sqn 28/6/43 Cologne – Cotter (2nd pilot with another crew) 3. 158 Sqn 24/7/43 Hamburg – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/ Reid/Rooney/ Griffiths/Lomax Log book records – Fighters none seen, Flak negligible, Weather good, Large fires, Bomb Load 1 x 2000 lb. 12 Aircraft lost. Landed Eastmoor short of fuel. 4. 158 Sqn 29/7/43 Hamburg – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax Flack negligible, Heavy concentrations of searchlights, Weather clear over target, Large fires south of City. 30 aircraft lost. 14 5. 158 Sqn. 2/8/43 Hamburg – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. 10/10 cloud over target, Heavy thunderclouds up to 20000 feet, AA barrage, No fighters seen, Fires scattered over target area, Bombed heaviest concentration, Bomb load – 2x1000 48x30 630x4lb 31 aircraft lost 6. 158 Sqn. 9/8/43 Mannheim - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. More than half cloud over target, Fighter encountered over Boulogne, Landed Barford St John fuel short, 16 aircraft lost 7. 158 Sqn. 17/8/43 Peenemunde - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Weather clear, Smoke screen over target, Bright Moon, Flak negligible, Searchlights nil, No combats seen, Bombed @ 0013 – 1x2000 1x1000 6x500lb, Landed Wymeswold, 41 aircraft lost 8. 158 Sqn. 22/8/43 Leverkusen - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Full cloud over target, AA barrage, 2 fighters & 1 combat seen over target. No pathfinder markers seen, 5 aircraft lost. 9. 158 Sqn. 16/9/43 Modane Italy - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Ran into heavy cloud 30 minutes from target. Forced to turn back owing to severe icing over Alps. 5 aircraft lost. 10. 158 Sqn. 22/9/43 Hannover - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Large concentrations of searchlights ringed round target. Flak heavy in cones, 5 British aircraft seen going down over target, weather good, large fires. 31 aircraft missing. 11. 158 Sqn. 23/9/43 Mannheim - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Searchlights heavy, flak cooperating with them, many fighters over target, heavy fires seen, weather good, 2 engines cut on landing approach, fuel short. 37 aircraft missing. 12. 158 Sqn. 27/9/43 Hannover - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Good weather, searchlights and fighters cooperating effectively over target, 38 aircraft missing, landed at Downham Market. 13. 158 Sqn. 29/9/43 Bochum – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax/plus Sgt Cipriani as 2nd pilot. Good visibility over target, heavy concentrations of searchlights, little flak, no fighters seen, heavy fires in target area, 8 aircraft missing. [page break] 14. 158 Sqn. 3/10/43 Kassel - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Weather clear, defences weak over target, attack well concentrated, 24 aircraft missing. 15. 158 Sqn. 4/10/43 Frankfurt - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Cloudy over continent, target clear, large numbers of searchlights surrounding target, successful prang, 12 aircraft missing. 16. 158 Sqn. 23/10/43 Kassel - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus Flt Sgt Vicary as 2nd pilot. Flying in cloud most of way but target clear, defences moderate, no combats seen, landed Catfoss, 44 aircraft missing. 17. 158 Sqn. 3/11/43 Dusseldorf - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus Flt Sgt Edwards as 2nd pilot. Full cloud en route but target clear, no flak, searchlights weak owing to ground mist, many combats sighted, fires well concentrated, 19 aircraft missing. 18. 158 Sqn. 22/11/43 Berlin - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus Sqn. Ldr. McCormack as 2nd pilot. Full cloud below us over whole of Germany, heavy flak at defended areas along the route, especially Hannover, bombed on Wanganui flares, 26 aircraft missing. 19. 158 Sqn. 25/11/43 Frankfurt - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Full cloud over target, flak nil, no fighters seen, fires rather scattered, 13 aircraft missing. 20. 158 Sqn. 26/11/43 Stuttgart - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus F/O Thompson supernumerary. Heavy searchlight defences over Frankfurt, many combats sighted, also combats over Frankfurt, heavy flak over target, flak damage sustained over Saarbruken, landed Tangmere, 32 aircraft missing. (Flying Officer Thompson was a schoolmaster and officer in the Air Training Corps and he had a gammy leg due to a World War I wound. The crew thought he was pretty brave to come on an operation like this as a volunteer). 21. 158 Sqn. 3/12/43 Leipzig - Cotter/Hicks/Portsmouth/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus Sgt Wisbey as 2nd pilot. Many combats sighted en route out, full cloud over target, accurate flak over Dessau, 24 aircraft missing. 16 22. 640 Sqn 30/1/44 Berlin – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Wong/Salvoni/Lomax. Full cloud over target and all Europe, many rockets seen over target but no combats, number 5 and 6 tanks froze up, (water in fuel) landed Little Snoring, have lost 247 gallons, 33 aircraft missing. 23. 640 Sqn 15/2/44 Berlin – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus F/O Cameron as 2nd pilot. Full cloud over target, bombed on Wanganui flares, no combats, flak ineffective, very quiet for Berlin, bomb load all incendiaries, 43 aircraft missing. 24. 640 Sqn 19/2/44 Leipzig - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus Flt Sgt Burke as 2nd pilot. Full cloud over target, ran into heavy searchlight at Emden, missed markers and hit Berlin, many combats seen, 79 aircraft missing. 25. 640 Sqn 20/2/44 Stuttgart – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Stilliard. Moderate cloud over target, fires well concentrated, flak moderate, quiet trip, 10 aircraft missing. 26. 640 Sqn 24/2/44 Schweinfurt - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus Lt Kornegay USAAF as 2nd pilot. Clear over target, fires well concentrated, flak heavy, searchlights weak, combats seen en route, 35 aircraft missing. 27. 640 Sqn 6/3/44 Trappes – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. No opposition at all, Bombed railway lines with 12,000lbs HE, aiming point photograph. 28. 640 Sqn 7/3/44 Le Mans – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. A little heavy flak over target, bombed railways through heavy cloud cover, bomb load 11,500lbs. 29. 640 Sqn 15/3/44 Stuttgart – Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Austen plus Flt Lt Cassells as 2nd pilot. Much cloud en route, heavy opposition from fighters, landed at Westcot, 40 aircraft missing. [page break] 17 30. 640 Sqn Nuremberg – Cotter/Gray/Sproulle/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Half cloud cover en route, fighter opposition heavy in extremes, opposition fierce over target, coned at Calais on home route, 96 aircraft missing. *See note. 31. 640 Sqn Paris – Cotter/Hicks/Sproulle/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Full moon, attacked marshalling yard at Villeneuve, souther suburbs, flak moderate, 11 aircraft missing. 32. 640 Sqn Tergnier – Cotter/Hicks/Broadbent/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Full moon, clear over target, no fighters seen, rocket flak bursting at 12,000ft on route out. 22Aircraft missing. 33. 640 Sqn Tergnier - Cotter/Hicks/Broadbent/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax. Marshalling yards bombed, aiming point on photo, rockets seen in bomber stream, 14 aircraft missing. 34. 640 Sqn Dusseldorf - Cotter/Hicks/Sproulle/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax plus P/O Maxwell as 2 nd pilot. Searchlights numerous but no flak, no combats, weather good, 42 aircraft lost. [underlined] Aborted Operations [/underlined] 1. 27/7/43 Hamburg - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax Turned back before enemy coast with one engine surging badly. 2. 24/8/43 Berlin - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax Turned back before enemy coast with rear gunner's oxygen supply unserviceable. 3. 8/10/43 Hannover - Cotter/Hicks/Hawkridge/Reid/Rooney/Griffiths/Lomax An engine failed just after take-off The second pilots shown above were new arrivals on the Squadron and the procedure was they were sent out on one trip with an experienced crew before operating on their own. Also, a number of other crew members flew with me during the tour and all non-regular crew members are shown below: 18 Sgt Cipriani RAF - Later killed in action 22/10/43 F/Sgt Vicary RAAF – Later bailed out over UK 16/2/44 and left the Squadron F/Sgt Bush RAAF – Shot down, POW 31/3/44 P/O Portsmouth RAF – Completed tour F/Sgt Edwards RAAF – Later killed in action 20/12/43 S/Ldr McCormack RAAF – Shot Down, POW, 29/1/44 F/O Thompson ATC – Schoolmaster Sgt Wisbey RAF – Killed in action 28/6/44 Sgt Wong RAF – Completed tour F/O Salvoni RAF – Killed in action F/O Cameron RCAF Killed in action 17/6/44 F/Sgt Burke RCAF – Killed in action 31/3/44 Sgt Stilliard RAF – Killed in action 31/3/44 Lt Kornegay USAAF - Completed tour F/Lt Cassels RAF – Completed tour F/O Austen RAF – Shot down, POW, 31/3/44 W/O Gray RCAF – Completed tour F/Lt Sproulle RAF – Completed tour F/Sgt Broadbent RAF - Completed tour P/O Maxwell – Not known [underlined] Note. Nuremburg. [/underlined] Once again we had a trip without running into any opposition. Norman had gone off on his bombing leaders' course so Tommy Sproulle, the Squadron Bombing Leader, came with us. Andy was also away and was replaced by a Canadian navigator on his first trip. It was a moonlight night and all the way out and back we saw combats to the east of us with our aircraft invariable going down in flames. Because I had the Bombing Leader on board I flew at the briefed operating height, mixed in with the stream. Shortly before we reached the final turning point for Nuremburg the navigator was unsure of his position. Then I saw target indicators going down ahead and told the crew that I had Nuremburg in sight, even though we were some 15 minutes ahead of ETA. Tommy bombed on the markers and we set course for home for a personally uneventful return. Then as we flew north over Lincolnshire all the airfield lights were out and at Leconfield the Drem flarepath had to be turned on for us. We were 30 minutes ahead of ETA because we had bombed Schweinfurt instead of Nuremburg. Our squadron lost 3 aircraft with 18 killed. All the Captains were RCAF including Jim Laidlaw, married the month before, and F/Sgt Burke who had flown with me only a few weeks earlier. In total the Command had 545 men killed. JDC/Revision 2/Jun 05 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Extracts from war diaries and information on aircraft crews and lists of bombing operations Description An account of the resource Describes training and crewing up at operational training unit on Wellingtons. There is a diary entry describing operational baptism. It continues with coverage of training at heavy conversion unit and his eventual posting to 158 Squadron. He describes, in detail, first operations to Hamburg as well as life at RAF Lissett, tells the story of being detailed to ferry an aircraft back from an airfield in the south of England, and spending a day in London. The diary covers many other events and mentions that squadron lost 15 aircraft in August 1943. Eddie describes his last operation in 1943, getting his commission, converting to new Halifax, and transfer to 640 Squadron at RAF Leconfield. Comments of some of the operations flown and awards of decorations to him and his crew. He gives details of the history of other individuals named in the memoir, and lists crew operations, commenting on losses. The diary concludes with an account of his operation to Nuremburg, including mention of aircraft lost. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J D Cotter Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-08-28 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Nineteen page printed document Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Memoir Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context BCotterJDPCotterJDPv1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Australian Air Force Royal New Zealand Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force United States Army Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jan Waller Maureen Clarke 158 Squadron 1652 HCU 28 OTU 4 Group 466 Squadron 640 Squadron air gunner aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bomb aimer bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) crewing up Distinguished Flying Cross Distinguished Flying Medal Distinguished Service Order Halifax Heavy Conversion Unit mess military living conditions navigator observer Operational Training Unit RAF Leconfield RAF Lissett RAF Marston Moor RAF Wymeswold searchlight training Wellington wireless operator https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2175/38168/LWilliamsonF1311249v1.2.pdf 3a09616de7fe2f04cf52008062b10526 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Williamson, Frank-249 Description An account of the resource 24 items. The collection concerns Frank Williamson (b. 1912, 1311249 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents and newspaper clippings. He flew operations as an air gunner with 106 Squadron. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Lynn Williamson and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Williamson, F Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-01-30 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource F Williamson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. 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Germany Great Britain Poland Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea England--Lincolnshire England--Northumberland England--Nottinghamshire England--Rutland Germany--Bochum Germany--Cologne Germany--Essen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Kassel Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Mannheim Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Remscheid Poland--Gdańsk Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Description An account of the resource Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for F Williamson, air gunner. Covering the period from 27 December 1942 to 27 June 1944. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Morpeth, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Fulbeck, RAF Wigsley and RAF Syerston. Aircraft flown in were Botha, Wellington, and Lancaster. He flew a total of 19 operations with 106 Squadron. Targets were Bochum, Oberhausen, Cologne, Hamburg, Essen, Remscheid, Peenemünde, Leverkusen, Nuremberg, Hannover, Mannheim, Gulf of Danzig, Munich, and Kassel. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Hoboken. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 106 Squadron 14 OTU 1654 HCU 85 OTU air gunner Air Gunnery School aircrew bomb aimer Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) Botha Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster mine laying Operational Training Unit RAF Cottesmore RAF Fulbeck RAF Morpeth RAF Syerston RAF Wigsley Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/3173/59252/YRobinsonHGM421304v1.pdf bf8cf6efee769c5abdfb4ee0d0b627cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robinson, Harry George Mason Robinson, H G M Description An account of the resource 47 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Harry George Mason Robinson DFC (412304 Royal Australian Air Force) and contains correspondence, documents, objects and photographs. He flew operations as a wireless operator air gunner with 76 and 156 Squadrons and was killed 15 July 1944. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Beverly Carroll and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan. Additional information on Harry George Mason Robinson is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/224060/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-08-09 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Robinson, HGM Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Five year diary Description An account of the resource Entries made by Harry during the period 24 March 1941 to 9 July 1944 and additional entries by Harry's wife Dot after he was killed. Describes training in Canada, part of a convoy to England, further training, postings, promotions and operations. He describes the weather, his relationship with Dot and time spent on station and on leave; writing letters, visits to chapel, watching films, sports played and books read. Harry provides updates on colleagues including Flight Sergeant Ernest Lee Lancaster, Flight Sergeant Charles Barry Sullivan and Flight Sergeant Frederick William Limbrick. Additional information on Ernest Lancaster, Charles Sullivan, and Frederick Limerick is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/216075/">IBCC Losses Database</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Harry George Mason Robinson Dorothy Mason Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal Australian Air Force Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Diary Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context YRobinsonHGM421304v1 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One annotated notebook Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942-09-11 1943-01-14 1943-01-15 1943-01-21 1943-01-22 1943-01-24 1943-01-29 1943-01-30 1943-02-25 1943-02-26 1943-02-27 1943-02-28 1943-03-22 1943-03-23 1943-03-26 1943-03-27 1943-03-28 1943-04-03 1943-04-04 1943-04-05 1943-04-08 1943-04-09 1943-04-10 1943-04-11 1943-04-14 1943-04-15 1943-04-16 1943-04-17 1943-04-20 1943-05-12 1943-05-13 1943-05-25 1943-05-26 1943-06-19 1943-06-20 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-09-08 1943-09-09 1944-04-07 1944-04-09 1944-04-10 1944-04-11 1944-04-12 1944-05-03 1944-05-04 1944-05-11 1944-05-12 1944-05-19 1944-05-20 1944-05-27 1944-05-28 1944-05-29 1944-06-03 1944-06-14 1944-06-15 1944-06-16 1944-06-23 1944-06-24 1944-06-25 1944-06-27 1944-07-01 1944-07-07 1944-07-08 1944-07-09 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Europe--Frisian islands Belgium Czech Republic Canada France Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Great Britain Italy Poland United States New York (State)--New York Belgium--Hasselt Czech Republic--Plzeň England--Oxfordshire England--Yorkshire England--Selby France--Cap Gris Nez France--Coubronne France--Dunkerque France--Le Creusot France--Lens France--Lille France--Marquise France--Middel Straete France--Montdidier (Hauts-de-France) France--Oisemont (Canton) France--Pas-de-Calais France--Rennes France--Saint-Leu-d'Esserent France--Saint-Nazaire France--Vaires-sur-Marne France--Saint-Leu-d'Esserent Germany--Aachen Germany--Berlin Germany--Cologne Germany--Duisburg Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Kiel Germany--Mannheim Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Stuttgart Italy--Milan Poland--Szczecin Ontario Ontario--Guelph Saskatchewan France--Château de Bernapré Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 15 OTU 1658 HCU 19 OTU 23 OTU 24 OTU 7 Squadron 76 Squadron Air Gunnery School Beaufighter bombing Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) crash Distinguished Flying Cross entertainment faith grief Halifax Heavy Conversion Unit killed in action Lancaster love and romance military living conditions missing in action Operational Training Unit Pathfinders RAF Elsham Wolds RAF Harwell RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor RAF Honeybourne RAF Kinloss RAF Lindholme RAF Linton on Ouse RAF Madley RAF Pershore RAF Riccall Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) sport training Whitley https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2214/40052/LDunnFT1319229v1.2.pdf 84e830959bedec152aed2ea9cc8a9624 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dunn, Frederick Thomas Dunn, FT Description An account of the resource 45 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Frederick Thomas Dunn (1319229 Royal Air Force) and contains his logbook, memoir, correspondence, clippings and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 102 Squadron and was killed in a mid-air collision on return from Berlin 22 November 1943. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Josephine Guinness and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on Frederick Thomas Dunn is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/207983/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-02-14 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Dunn, FT Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fred Dunn's observer's and air gunner's flying log book Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LDunnFT1319229v1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Germany Great Britain Italy South Africa England--Warwickshire England--Yorkshire France--Modane France--Montluçon Germany--Berlin Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Mannheim Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Peenemünde Italy--Milan South Africa--Makhanda Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Terry Hancock Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-07-24 1943-07-27 1943-07-29 1943-08-02 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-12 1943-08-17 1943-09-15 1943-09-16 1943-10-08 1943-11-22 1944-01-24 1944-02-04 1944-02-05 1944-02-19 1944-03-02 1944-03-04 1944-03-05 1944-03-07 1944-03-18 1944-03-23 1944-03-25 1944-06-16 1944-06-17 1944-06-27 1944-07-20 1944-07-23 1944-07-25 1944-07-24 1944-08-07 1944-08-11 1944-08-25 1944-08-26 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Description An account of the resource F T Dunn’s Air Bomber’s Flying Log Book covering the period from 24 September 1942 to 22 November 1943. Detailing his flying training and operations flown as air bomber. He was stationed at RAF Mount Hampden as pupil pilot 3-21 Aug 1942, South African RAF Grahamstown (44 Air School), RAF Honeybourne and RAF Long Marston (24 OTU), RAF Riccall (1658 HCU) and RAF Pocklington (102 Squadron). Aircraft flown in were Oxford, Anson, Whitley and Halifax. He flew on 12 night operations with 102 Squadron. Targets were Hamburg, Mannheim, Nuremburg, Milan, Peenemünde, Montluçon, Modane, Hanover and Berlin – log book annotated on this date ‘Shot up Halifax crashed in mid-air over base’. Annotated ‘Killed in action’. His pilots on operations were Flight Sergeant Hughes and Warrant Officer Brooks. 102 Squadron 1658 HCU 24 OTU air gunner aircrew Anson Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bomb aimer bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) crash Halifax Heavy Conversion Unit killed in action mid-air collision Operational Training Unit Oxford RAF Honeybourne RAF Mount Hampden RAF Pocklington RAF Riccall training Whitley https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/459/8038/LNorthGJ173836v1.1.pdf 158f980ba904ff91970b193456df0034 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource North, Geoffrey John North, G J North, Johnny Description An account of the resource 31 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey John 'Johnny' North, DFC, (173836, Royal Air Force) who served as a rear gunner on 428, 76 and 35 Squadrons flying Wellington, Halifax and Lancaster. He was called up in 1940 from his job as a tailor in Saville Row where he returned after the war. He was shot down on an operation to Duisburg on 21 February 1945. The collection contains his logbook, an account of his shooting down, capture and time as a prisoner of war, including documentation, forced march to another camp in 1945, liberation and repatriation. The collection includes membership documents for Royal Air Force Association, Pathfinders Association and Caterpillar Club as well as personnel documentation, Pathfinder badge correspondence and photographs of crew and squadron as well as other memorabilia. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Carole Bishopp and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-05-20 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context North, G Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geoffrey North’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LNorthGJ173836v1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Belgium France Germany Great Britain Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Belgium--Hasselt Belgium--Leopoldsburg England--Berkshire England--Cambridgeshire England--Durham (County) England--Lincolnshire England--Yorkshire Wales--Gwynedd France--Boulogne-sur-Mer France--Calais France--Douai France--Juvisy-sur-Orge France--Laon France--Longueau France--Noyelles France--Orléans France--Saint-Nazaire France--Trouville-sur-Mer Germany--Aachen Germany--Berlin Germany--Bochum Germany--Bottrop Germany--Chemnitz Germany--Dortmund Germany--Essen Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hanau Germany--Hannover Germany--Landshut Germany--Leverkusen Germany--Magdeburg Germany--Merseburg Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf) Germany--Peenemünde Germany--Soest Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Wanne-Eickel Germany--Wilhelmshaven Germany--Saarbrücken Germany--Düren (Cologne) Germany--Mannheim Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Mönchengladbach Germany--Urft Dam France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray France--Laval (Mayenne) Germany--Ruhr (Region) France--Juvincourt-et-Damary France--Noyelle-en-Chaussée France--Rennes France--Juvisy-sur-Orge France--Blainville-sur-l'Eau France--Pas-de-Calais Germany--Böhlen France--Château de Bernapré Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943-01-26 1943-02-06 1943-02-07 1943-02-19 1943-02-28 1943-03-03 1943-03-04 1943-04-14 1943-04-15 1943-04-16 1943-04-17 1943-04-28 1943-04-29 1943-05-04 1943-05-05 1943-05-12 1943-05-13 1943-05-21 1943-05-22 1943-05-28 1943-05-29 1943-07-13 1943-07-14 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-26 1943-07-27 1943-07-28 1943-07-29 1943-07-30 1943-08-02 1943-08-03 1943-08-17 1943-08-18 1943-08-22 1943-08-23 1943-08-24 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-05 1943-09-06 1943-09-07 1943-09-22 1943-09-23 1943-09-27 1943-09-28 1943-10-04 1943-10-05 1944-05-11 1944-05-12 1944-05-13 1944-05-19 1944-05-20 1944-05-22 1944-05-23 1944-05-27 1944-06-07 1944-06-08 1944-06-09 1944-06-12 1944-06-13 1944-06-14 1944-06-15 1944-06-16 1944-06-19 1944-06-20 1944-06-22 1944-06-23 1944-06-24 1944-06-28 1944-06-29 1944-07-01 1944-07-04 1944-07-09 1944-09-17 1944-09-20 1944-09-25 1944-09-30 1944-10-05 1944-10-06 1944-10-14 1944-10-15 1944-10-19 1944-10-21 1944-10-31 1944-11-02 1944-11-04 1944-11-06 1944-11-16 1944-11-18 1944-11-29 1944-12-04 1944-12-05 1944-12-06 1944-12-07 1944-12-24 1945-01-06 1945-01-07 1945-01-08 1945-01-14 1945-01-15 1945-01-16 1945-01-22 1945-01-23 1945-02-13 1945-02-14 1945-02-15 1945-02-20 1945-02-21 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Description An account of the resource Royal Air Force observer's and air gunner's flying log book for Pilot Officer Geoffrey North, air gunner, covering the period from 17 June 1942 to 29 September 1945. Detailing training, operations, repatriation and post war flying. He was stationed at RAF Llandwrog, RAF Harwell, RAF Dalton, RAF Driffield, RAF Topcliffe, RAF Middleton-St-George, RAF Dishforth, RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor, RAF Catfoss, RAF Warboys, RAF Graveley, RAF Huntingdon. Aircraft flown in were, Whitely, Wellington, Halifax, Lancaster, C-47. He flew 71 operations, 26 Night operations with 428 Squadron, 4 daylight and 12 Night operations with 76 Squadron and 9 daylight and 20 night operations with 35 Squadron. Targets were Wilhelmshaven, St Nazaire, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Dortmund, Bochum, Aachen, Essen, Peenemünde, Leverkusen, Berlin, Nurenberg, Mönchengladbach, Munich, Hannover, Frankfurt, Trouville, Hasselt, Boulogne, Orléans, Bourg-Leopold, Juvisy, Laval, Longueau, Douai, Fouillard, Laon, Noyelle-en-Chaussée, Blainville, Saint-Martin-l'Hortier, Chateau Bernapre, Calais, Bottrop, Saarbrucken, Sterkrade, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Duren, Wanne-Eickel, Urft Dam, Soest, Merseburg, Hanau, Magdeburg, Bohlen and Chemnitz. He failed to return from his 71st operation to Duisberg on 21 February 1945, becoming a prisoner of war. His log book shows him being repatriated on 8 May 1945 from Landshut via Rheims and Juvincourt to RAF Westcott. His pilots on operations were Flying Officer Morgan, Sergeant Williamson, Sergeant Staight, Sergeant Silvester, Warrant Officer Harrison, Pilot Officer Cole, Group Captain Dean, Squadron Leader Hall, and Flight Lieutenant Tropman. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 15 OTU 1659 HCU 1664 HCU 35 Squadron 428 Squadron 76 Squadron Advanced Flying Unit air gunner Air Gunnery School aircrew Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943) bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943) C-47 Halifax Halifax Mk 2 Halifax Mk 3 Halifax Mk 5 Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster Lancaster Mk 1 Lancaster Mk 3 mine laying missing in action Operation Exodus (1945) Operational Training Unit Pathfinders prisoner of war RAF Catfoss RAF Dalton RAF Dishforth RAF Driffield RAF Graveley RAF Harwell RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor RAF Llandwrog RAF Middleton St George RAF Topcliffe RAF Warboys RAF Wyton Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) shot down training Wellington Whitley