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  • Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-10-06"

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Page 14. A vertical aerial photograph taken during an operation at Karlsruhe (sic) (actually reconnaissance photograph of Kaiserlautern). It is annotated '1065 3255 6 Oct 44 F/36"//541 Sqdn ->'
Underneath is text referring to Ken's operation at Luna…

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Page is titled 'Operational details of raids carried out over Germany, Holland and France, details of our flight log book of bombing raids.' It is in the form of a table recording Date, Target, Country, Duration and Comments. The summary at the end…

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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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Target photograph showing built up area in top half with road and railway running left to right. Smoke from bomb explosions top left. Captioned '2630 DRF.6-10-44//8"17500 >094.1716.Sterkrade. R.16x500.C.34 secs.F/S Jubb.R.462.'.

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List of twelve operations from 1 June 1944 to 29 October 1944.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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Four photographs of Glenn's grave.
Photo 1 and 2 are of the original plain wooden cross with his name and two other crew members.
Photo 3 and 4 are of the reinterred graves with standard gravestones.
Photo 3 is of Glenn's grave and photo 4 is…

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BHendersonIGHendersonIGv1.pdf
Aircraft from 153 Squadron at RAF Scampton. Provides a description of the crew and some history of the aircraft "P" Peter. It gives a detailed description of the operation. Describes aircraft being hit on previous operation to Politz. Comments on…

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A planning chart with a route from Mepal to Dortmund. On the reverse is '51 32 07 03'.

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Two target photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is Westkapelle dyke which was bombed to flood Walchern Island, which was below sea level.
Photo 2 is a night attack on Dortmund, most of the image obscured by anti-aircraft fire and target indicators.

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A vertical aerial photograph of Dortmund during an operation at night. No detail on the ground is visible and half the image is obscured by anti-aircraft fire. Annotated '1863 MEP 6/7.10.44// NT. 8” 21,000 [arrow] 310[degrees] 2030 DORTMUND. N. 1 x…

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LSearleROJ615463v1.pdf
Flying log book for R O J Searle, Flight Engineer, covering the period from 25 June 1944 to13 July 1945 and from 17 August 1951 to 14 September 1964. Detailing his training as a flight engineer and a full tour of operations flown with Bomber Command…

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Lancaster PO-Y on end of runway mistakenly captioned '6-10-45' (should be 6-10-44), 'First operation', '4hrs 30mins', 'BREMEN'. Personnel visible in the background.

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Shows two bomb loads for operations. Details distributor and preselection settings as well as bombing height, Window and some timings. On the reverse marking and bombing instructions.

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BVanNestPBrooksGWv1.pdf
Four crew survived the crash and the pilot and perhaps one or two of the crew visited the crash site in 1945. Glenn had made it out of the rear turret and was trying to free Jim Short who was trapped by damage to his turret. Neither Jim nor Glenn…

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YCrawfordJ[Ser#-DoB]v1.pdf
Covering the period 3 December 1941 to 1945 it details Jack's initial training, sailing from New Zealand to Canada and subsequent train journey, visiting a fox farm, canoeing, taking exams and getting the results and trips in the snow. Qualifying as…

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SCockramJC419379v10025.pdf
Operation 26 for the crew. Three navigation log sheets showing the route to be taken and the observations made throughout the operation. The plotting map shows the coasts of England and Holland and the route to Sterkrade.
The target photograph…

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Map and log sheets.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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MAdamsHG424504-170215-12.pdf
List of 29 operations as navigator on Lancaster of 467 Squadron between 10 September 1044 and 16 January 1945, including comments on each sortie; bomb load; flight times; fighters seen; weather; anti-aircraft fire; aircraft shot down.

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MAdamsHG424504-170215-11.pdf
Describes operations by Bomber Command and USAAF aircraft to Hamburg from 24 to 28 July 1943, recalling it was the first firestorm and the use of Window. Writes that the next firestorm was Darmstadt on September 11 1944, and recalls subsequent…

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LBrownAE1282879v1.pdf
Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for A E Brown, air gunner, covering the period from 19 November 1942 to 29 November 1944. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at 7 Air Gunnery School RAF…

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SAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]v020007.pdf
William (Bill) Shutler’s Flying Log Book from 25th November 1943 until 9th February 1946. During this time trained as a navigator. Trained at No. 7 Air Observers School, 14 Operational Training Unit, 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit and No. 5 Lancaster…

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SAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]v020005.pdf
William Haydn Price’s Flying Log Book from 7th April 1944 until 1st January 1945. During this time trained as an air gunner.

Trained at No. 11 Air Gunners School, 14 Operational Training Unit, 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit and No. 5 Lancaster…

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SAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]v020004.pdf
Vincent Peace’s Flying Log Book from 11th September 1944 until 1st January 1945. He flew as an air gunner.
Operational posting to 9 Squadron in September 1944.
Failed to return on 1st January 1945 operation to Dortmund-Ems Canal.

Served at RAF…

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SAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]v020001 2.pdf
J Lane’s Flying Log Book from 30th October 1943 until 19th June 1944. During this time trained as an air gunner.
Training starts at No. 12 Air Gunners School, 29 Operational Training Unit, 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit and No. 5 Lancaster Finishing…

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SAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]v010007.pdf
Two pages from Harry Denton’s Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 30th September 1944 until 1st January 1945. He flew as a pilot with 9 Squadron.

Served at RAF Bardney flying Lancasters.

He flew five bombing operations (one day and four night) with 9…

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