Part 2. Covers Alan Gamble's short flying history over France in 1945 before being shot down, and his experiences as a POW in southern Germany and subsequent liberation. The manuscript of Part 2 appears to be complete except for one or more pages missing about two thirds of the way through. This is at the beginning or the end of a fragment bound by metal clips, and could easily have become detached as the outside pages of some fragments' in Part 3 were also lost. It is therefore possible that only one page is missing.

Part 3. Covers Alan Gamble's post war experiences up to about 1963. This has not been read.

The manuscript of Part 3 is missing pages 24-86, 120 and 170, the latter two being the outside pages of bound fragments. (Page numbering here has assisted in reconstruction).

Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.





]]> A T Gamble]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Skegness]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Barrow-in-Furness]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> France]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Jordan]]> Jordan--Amman]]> Germany--Hammelburg]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-06-17]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-07-03]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-07]]>
Photographs 3 and 4 are street scenes in deep snow captioned 'Photo Sec Billet, Rue de Pont.'

Photographs 5 and 6 are of a house with a large church behind captioned 'Madam Mathia House, Jan 1945.'

Photograph 7 is Reginald George Cavalier with two women captioned 'Marie, Me, Madam, 11th Dec 1944.'

Photograph 8 is a street scene from an upstairs window of a horse, cart, man and dog.
]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> ]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> France]]> France--Vitry-en-Artois]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> Second of two individuals on airfield with B-25s as background, captioned 'Wilf - Bert.
Third is of snowy street of substantial houses, captioned 'Brebiere - January 1945.
Fourth is of snow covered airfield with dispersed B-25s, captioned Vitry - Jan 1945.
Fifth is of large snow covered farm buildings, captioned Farm -Jan 1945.'
Sixth is of industrial buildings flanking a canal, captioned Sugar factory - Corbenhem'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> France]]> France--Vitry-en-Artois]]> 1945-01]]> RAF Station Mauripur]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> MShipmanJ1694683-181126-040002,
MShipmanJ1694683-181126-040003]]> Royal Air Force]]> Pakistan]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> 1945-01]]> Bottom - target photograph of Politze showing glare and no ground details. Captioned '3772 meth 13/14.1.45//NTC 8" 17900 320 2216 POLITZE, 1HC4000IN 7GP500DT 2MC500LD 29 SEC F/L BARDEN O/106'. Submitted with caption 'target photo of Politze dated 13-14/1/1945. The pilot was F/Lt A G Barden, flying 106 Sqn Lancaster ND501 ZN-O'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Euskirchen]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland]]> Germany]]> Germany--Luckenwalde]]> Germany--Winterfeld]]> Poland--Bąków]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-01-19]]> 1945-01-23]]> 1945-01-25]]> 1945-01-27]]> 1945-01-30]]> 1945-04-21]]> 1945-04-22]]> 1945-05-10]]> G B Tomson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland]]> Poland--Kluczbork Region]]> Poland--Tychowo]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-01-19]]> 1945-02-01]]>
Inscriptions read “205”; signed by the author; caption reads “GENNAIO 1945. UDINE Il tempio ossario centro della resistenza partigiana dei Verdi dell’Osoppo, 2 preti, Don Albino e Don Giorgio, hanno vissuto qui per tanti mesi, in mezzo ad un arsenale di armi, e viveri, cominciarono con l’ospitare un partigiano di Colugna, ucciso poi dai tedeschi. Dì Renato Del Din, primo caduto dell’Osoppo, sotto la cupola aveva organizzato, un laboratorio segreto, da dove partivano i materiali, per le formazioni in montagna. Una radio trasmittente quella del gruppo del maggiore inglese Niconlson [Nicholson], funzionava spesso senza tante precauzioni. Il gruppo “Baracca” e il Comando della piazza, si stabilirono quasi in permanenza al tempio, i confessionali, le pedane dell’organo, l’organo stesso erano piene di armi”.

Caption translates as: “January 1945, Udine. For many months, the ossuary church, stronghold of the “verdi” men of the Osoppo partisan Brigades, was the place of abode of two priests, Father Albino and Father Giorgio. They lived amidst weapons and provisions. They gave shelter to a partisan from Colugna, who was later killed by the Germans. Renato Del Din was the first fallen of the Osoppo Brigade. He had set up a secret workshop under the dome, supplying all partisan units in the mountains. A radio transmitter belonging to the unit lead by the British Major Nicholson, often operated without many precautions. The “Baracca” unit and the local command operated down in the church almost permanently. The confessionals, the organ platforms, and the organ itself were stuffed with weapons.”]]> Angiolino Filiputti]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Francesca Campani]]> Alessandro Pesaro]]> Helen Durham]]> Giulia Banti]]> Maureen Clarke]]> ita]]> Artwork]]> Italy--Udine]]> Italy]]> 1945-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1945-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> France]]> France--Vitry-le-François]]> 1945-01]]> There is a photo of Arthur Harris giving the salute.]]> Penny Thickett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Cochem]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-09]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Rastatt]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Luckenwalde]]> Poland]]> Poland--Kluczbork Region]]> Germany--Goldberg (Schwerin)]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-10]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-05]]> D C Howatson RAMC Camp medical Officer]]> Pilot Officer P A Thomson Camp Leader]]> G B Thomson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Wehrmacht]]> Poland]]> Poland--Kluczbork Region]]> Poland--Łambinowice]]> Germany]]> Poland--Łagiewniki (Województwo Dolnośląskie)]]> Germany--Goldberg (Schwerin)]]> Poland--Tychowo]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-01-17]]> DC Howatson, MO]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Poland]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]>
Photograph 2 is of a group of airmen around steaming drums. Captioned 'Jan 12th 1945. Washing Up.'

Photograph 3 is of a group of 12 airmen including Reginald George Cavalier standing in deep snow in front of a tent. Captioned 'Dec 24th 1944, 137 Wing, S.H.Q. Photographers.'

Photographs 4, 6 and 8 are of a crashed B-17. On the tail is 'L', 'O', 'MS' and '48593', the rest of the aircraft has been completely destroyed. Captioned 'Feb 1945, Crashed Flying Fortress A/C U.S.A. on Aerodrome, Vitroy (sic) en Artois. R.A.F. Vitroy [sic] en Artois'

Photograph 5 is four airmen standing outside a tent in heavy frost. Reginald George Cavalier is second on the left. Captioned 'Jan 1st 1945, Jock Sadler, Les Seymour, Hal Ashley.'

Photograph 7 is of a lorry with an airman standing beside it. There is snow on the ground and icicles on the lorry. Captioned 'Jan 1st 1945, Mitch Mitchell, Frozen Photographic Section lorry.'
]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> France]]> France--Vitry-en-Artois]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hereford]]> England--Herefordshire]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-03]]> Top right - a woman wearing jacket and skirt and holding a coat standing on a beach with castle in the distance. Captioned 'Kay - Bamburgh Castle in background, 16.9.44'.
Bottom left - view down snow covered tree lined road. Captioned 'Snow and frost - Foulsham, Norfolk, Jan 1945'.
Bottom right - car in front of hut. Captioned 'During a snow shower - Foulsham, Jan 1945'.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northumberland]]> 1944-09-04]]> 1944-09-16]]> 1945-01]]> Lloyds bank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Bournemouth]]> 1945-01]]> P J Hogan]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Lichfield]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> England--Selby]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-11]]> 1980-10-12]]> 1980-11-02]]> 1944-07]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-04]]>
Inscriptions read “208”; signed by the author; caption reads “GENNAIO 1945. I MARTIRI DI PALMANOVA…legato grondante sangue, ma con l’occhio scintillante l’eroe fissa i suoi carnefici con disprezzo “come ti chiami” gli grida il carnefice “Napoli” risponde l’eroe, “sei partigiano” “sì” freddo e fiero esce dalla sua bocca, “quale attività svolgi”. A questa domanda il piccolo Napoli raccoglie in un supremo sforzo, tutte le sue esauste forze, ed ergendo la sua povera e macciulenta [sic] carne, a monito solenne contro i traditori del popolo, risponde: “sono gappista”, chi sono i tuoi compagni urla il fascista, “sono napoletano e non li conosco”. Quattro colpi di mazza lo abbattono, ma ha ancora la forza di balbettare “porco”. Immediatamente il piccolo martire, viene passato alle torture piu raffinate e crudeli “Napoli” si contorce, spasima, invoca la madre lontana ma non parla. Una scarica rabiosa lo abate, l’aureola del martirio cinge la sua fronte; e papa Garibaldi lo accoglie nel cielo degli eroi”.

Caption translates as: “January 1945 – The Palmanova Martyrs… constrained and dripping blood, the hero was staring at his torturers with contempt, maintaining his bright gaze. “What’s your name” yelled the torturer. “Napoli” answered the hero. “Are you a partisan?”. “I am”, said he, cold and proud. “What is your task?”. To answer this question, the little Napoli gathered his strengths with extreme difficulty, he was exhausted. He got up – his body was miserable and emaciated – and, as a reprimand against the traitors of the people, answered: “I’ with the Patriotic Action Groups”. “Who are your comrades?” yelled the Fascist. “I am Neapolitan, I don’t know who they are”. He was knocked over by a bludgeon, but he still found the energy to reply “pig”. The little martyr was immediately tortured using more refined and cruel methods. “Napoli” started writhing. He had spasms and ached. He invoked his long-gone mother, but he doesn’t give away any information. A furious rush of blows knocked him over. The halo of the martyrs on his head, Father Garibaldi welcomes him in the heaven of the heroes.”]]> Angiolino Filiputti]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Francesca Campani]]> Alessandro Pesaro]]> Helen Durham]]> Giulia Banti]]> Maureen Clarke]]> ita]]> Artwork]]> Italy--Palmanova]]> Italy]]> 1945-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Diary]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1945-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Robin Christian]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> France]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Vegesack]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Italy]]> Italy--Genoa]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Berlin]]> France--Lorient]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Cologne]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Bochum]]> France--Montchanin]]> Germany--Kassel]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> France--Maubeuge Region]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> France--Bourg-en-Bresse]]> France--Saint-Médard-en-Jalles]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Sablé-sur-Sarthe]]> France--Lille]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> France--Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes)]]> France--Argentan]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Poitiers]]> France--Villers-Bocage (Calvados)]]> France--Abbeville Region]]> France--Vitry-en-Artois]]> France--Beauvoir-sur-Mer]]> France--Creil]]> France--Caen]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Germany--Rheydt]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Würzburg]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--IJmuiden]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Pilsen Basin]]> Czech Republic--Chomutov]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Saint-Leu-d'Esserent]]> France--Louailles]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-25]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-05-03]]> 1944-05-04]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1942-07]]> 1942-08]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-10]]> 1942-11]]> 1942-12]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-05]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-04]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-07-18]]> R Henderson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Poland]]> Poland--Łambinowice]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Görlitz (Görlitz)]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942-08-27]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-04]]> No 5 Group]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1945-01]]> National Ex-Prisoner of War Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Balata]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-13]]>