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  • Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-06"

ATweddleWD[Date]-010004.mp3
Doug Tweddle undertook his initial pilot training in South Africa. On return to the UK, he attended Operational Training Unit at Upper Heyford where he selected his crew. The crew were then posted to 9 Squadron at RAF Bardney. Doug was the only…

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For Robert Kendall Records promotions, posting to 15 Squadron and sorties flown with F/S Overend, notes shot down and prisoner of war. Similar for William Kendall DFC with different crew on 15 Squadron. Completed tour of 31 operations.

MThomsonGB1572977-240131-37.pdf
Circular from the domestic members of the association to members of staff in H M force. Gives information about the current bank, including ration of male to female with greater numbers of the latter. Opportunities for jobs, refresher training and…

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Son of Thomas Donaghy starts by mentioning his father was a New Zealand Lancaster pilot on 75 Squadron who was shot down in June 1944. Author was born in 1939 and never knew his father.
Account is translation of French language document describing…

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United States Army troops standing at ease in formal ranks in the square in Carantan. The troops are being addressed by a soldier on a stage draped with a flag. Further soldiers and civilians are present on the stage. A soldier in the centre of the…

PWaughJW1801.pdf
A group of waving spectators as Lancaster 'Oboe' departs.
On the reverse 'Off on a flying visit with the beautiful Oboe, June 1944.'

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The item describes events that took place at Châtillon-sur-Seine on and around 6 June 1944. Raymond Gauthier found the crashed aircraft with four or five dead bodies.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No…

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A list of duty NCOs at three airfield locations.

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Two photographs from an album.
#1 is an oblique aerial photograph of Snaith taken during the war.
#2 is a group of men arranged in three rows in front of a Halifax. Bob's position is indicated in the caption.

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Two pages from Bob's log book showing some of his training flights and operations whilst with 51 Squadron.

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He is in good health and the weather is hot. He struggles to fill the card but asks that she remembers him to his pals and the Holloways.

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A certificate awarding Sergeant Bird and crew the best night photographs for June. The artwork comprises a large bomb with the citation written in it, and the outline of a Wellington, stars, searchlights and a port. On the opposite page is a…

EDarbyCAHWellandJ440625.pdf
He talks about V-1 'doodle bugs' and Jean's fire watching. He has been doing a lot of flying. They have been raising money for the Army and had a really good concert and a dance.

EDarbyCAHWellandJ440618.pdf
He describes his journey back to camp.

EDarbyCAHWellandJ440614.pdf
He has been doing dinghy drill at the Baths in Oxford. Then they went shopping, failed to get a beer because the pubs were sold out and went to see a film.

EDarbyCAHWellandJ440608.pdf
He describes his return trip to his camp and films he has watched.

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Keith was five at the start of the war and lived in a farm adjoining the airfield at RAF Skellingthorpe. He describes the airfield and how the trees were cut down in the farm belt. The airfield was closed soon after the war, bought by the City…

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Donald Jones was born in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica. He volunteered for the RAF and went on the SS Cuba to the United States, crossing the Atlantic to Liverpool in June 1944. He went to a former Butlins holiday camp in Filey where, as ground…

MDayW[Ser#-Dob]-160121-01.pdf
List containing some some basic service history and some details of flights made by crew of Flight Sergeant A Barford with individual pages for pilot Barford, Warrant Officer William Day - air gunner, Flight Sergeant F Bolan RCAF- navigator, Warrant…

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Top - explanatory note explaining that our crews contributed to D-Day.
Top left - newspaper cutting providing account of plan for attack on Merville battery including saturation bombing by Lancasters and ground attack. Goes on with account of actual…
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