1 25 2 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/530/25820/MShawSR3002545-160211-110001.jpg 3ef7e44f2fb2a3d4bda204d64b841cd4 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/530/25820/MShawSR3002545-160211-110002.jpg dac266b49ce2f65ecf29880d31cbde49 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/530/25820/MShawSR3002545-160211-110003.jpg 87e15334d0abd27fa9414f3f73b49764 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 R S R Shaw Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Shaw, SR Description An account of the resource 37 items. An oral history interview with Stanley Shaw (3002545 Royal Air Force) Photographs, documents and his log book. He served with a Repair and Salvage Unit and attended many crashes. He later served in North Africa and the Middle East. The collection also contains two photograph albums; one of his RAF service and one of his time in a cycle club. The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by Stanley Shaw and catalogued by Barry Hunter. 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. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-01-14 2016-02-11 Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [circled 1] [underlined] BOMBER COMMANDS OPERATIONS FROM EAST ANGLIA 42 – 45 [/underlined] 1) SHOW MAP OF RAF & USAF STATIONS ON SCREEN ENGLAND WAS FLOATING AERODROME. AIR MARSHAL AFFECTIONATEY [sic] KNICKNAMED ‘BOMBER’ OR ‘BUTCH’ BY AIRCREWS SERVING UNDER HIM TOOK OVER BOMBER COMMAND IN 1942 (JAN). UP TO THEN WHITLEYS, MANCHESTERS HAMPDENS & WELLINGTONS HAD BOMBED TARGETS ALMOST INDIVIDUALLY NOT IN SQD STRENGTH. ACCURACY WITHIN 5 MILES RADIUS OF TARGETS AREA BOMBING ON 30TH MAY 1942. FIRST 1,0000 BOMBER RAID ON COLOGNE. O.[inserted] P [/inserted] T. [inserted] R [/inserted] UNITS USED ON THIS RAID 44 A/C LOST. 1,046 A/C TOOK PART. [underlined] 2 [/underlined] 8th AIRFORCE DAY LIGHT RAIDS. IN STRENGTH. FORTRESSES. 10 MAN CREWS AUG 17th 1943 SCHWEINFURT. 229 TOOK PART 36 LOST OCT 14th 1943 “ 291 “ “ 60 LOST [underlined] 3 [/underlined] [inserted] R.A.F. [/inserted] 1944 – 1945. UP TO 900 A/C OPERATING AT NIGHT USAF – IN DAYLIGHT. 1,000 + 500 A/C FIGHTER ESCORTS. [underlined] 4 NUREMBURG 30TH MARCH. 1944 [/underlined] 1,009 A/C OPERATED THAT NIGHT. 782 SENT TO NUREMBURG. 55 ABORTED 636 BOMBED TARGET OR CLAIMED. 95 A/C LOST. 75 SUFFERED DAMAGE. 22 CRASHED IN ENGLAND ON RETURN. [underlined] AIR CREW CASUALTIES [/underlined] ON THIS RAID. 745. KILLED OR WOUNDED. 26 INJURED. 159 MADE PO.Ws. [underlined] HAZARDS TO RETURNING AIRCRAFT. [/underlined] FOLLOWING GERMAN NIGHT FIGHTERS. FRIENDLY ACK-ACK. AIR COLLISIONS. BOMBS FROM OTHER AIRCRAFT. FOG OR BAD WEATHER OVER BASES. F.I.D.O. AT WOODBRIDGE & MANSTON CRASH STRIPS. BESIDES BOMBER COMMAND. MANY AIRCRAFT FROM OPERATIONAL TRAINING AND HEADY CONVERSION UNITS. STIRLING FROM DOWNHAM MKT. SEPT. ’43. THREE WEEKS OLD. 22 HRS TOTAL FLYING TIME SHOT UP BY N/F OVER HANNOVER. CRASHED AT BARROW. [page break] [underlined] 2 [/underlined] IN OCTOBER 1945, OUR PARTY TRAVELLED TO KEMBLE RAF STATION WHERE LINES OF PRACTICALLY NEW LANCASTERS STOOD WAITING TO BE SCRAPPED. WE WERE GIVEN A BRAND NEW LANCASTER, FULLY EQUIPPED, TO STRIP DOWN, LOAD ONTO SEVEN LOW LOADING QUEEN MARY’S, AND TRANSPORT TO COLCHESTER. WITH THE AID OF A COLES CRANE, IT WAS ASSEMBLED COMPLETE IN A LOCAL PARK, AND THE PUBLIC ALLOWED TO INSPECT THE AIRCRAFT. AFTER THREE WEEKS, THE LANC WAS STRIPPED AGAIN, LOADED UP, AND TRANSPORTED TO CHELMSFORD, FOR FURTHER PUBLIC DISPLAY. THIS TIME, THE SITE WAS ONLY FIFTY YARDS FROM A PUB, AND NEEDLESS TO SAY, IT TOOK JUST A LITTLE LONGER TO ASSEMBLE. AFTER THREE DAYS IN CHELMSFORD, THIS IDYLIC SITUATION WAS SUDDENLY BROUGHT TO AN ABRUPT END. A VAN ARRIVED FROM OUR NEWMARKET BASE TO TRANSPORT ME BACK. I WAS POSTED OVERSEAS. [underlined] IN TRANSIT [/underlined] I WAS ALLOWED HOME ON LEAVE FOR CHRISTMAS 1946, AND THEN TRAVELLED UP TO HEATON PARK, TRANSIT CAMP, JUST OUTSIDE MANCHESTER. EVERYTHING WAS FROZEN SOLID, SHAVING AND WASHING WAS DONE STANDING ASTRIDE A SMALL STREAM JUST OUTSIDE OUR NISSEN HUT. RAZOR IN ONE HAND, AND A MIRROR IN THE OTHER. THE DINING HALL WAS A JOURNEY OVER THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PARK, AND I CAN’T REMEMBER HAVING A DECENT MEAL THERE. MOST OF THE TIME, WE SPENT GUARDING THE COAL COMPOUND. AFTER BEING ISSUED WITH TROPICAL KIT, WE WERE PUT ON A DRAFT FOR THE AZORES. THREE DAYS LATER, THIS WAS SCRUBBED, OUR KIT BAGS WERE STAMPED MEDLOC, AND WE WERE BOUND FOR THE MIDDLE EAST. [underlined] THE MEDLOC ROUTE. [/underlined] IN LATE JANUARY, AT 6 AM ON A FROSTY, FOGGY MORNING, WE LEFT NEWHAVEN, ON THE DUNKIRK VETERAN, “EMPIRE DOFFODIL”. CROSSING A GLASSY, WAVELESS CHANNEL, TO THE PORT OF DIEPPE. THE RECEPTION CAMP WAS SITUATED ON A SEA OF MUD, DIFFERENT TENTED AREAS WERE REACHED BY CROSSING WOODEN DUCKBOARDS. AFTER A QUICK MEAL, MONEY CHANGED TO FRANCS, GIVEN A PACKET OF SANDWICHES, WE WERE MARCHED TO THE RAILWAY STATION, AND LOADED ABOARD THE “TOULON [page break] [underlined] 3 [/underlined] EXPRESS” ANYONE THAT UNDERTOOK THAT PARTICULAR JOURNEY, WILL NEVER FORGET THE SHEER LUXURY THE TRAIN AFFORDED. THE FRENCH RAILWAY SYSTEM, DURING THE WHOLE WAR HAD BEEN HAMMERERED [sic] BY ALLIED BOMBERS DURING THE NIGHT, AND STRAFED BY FIGHTERS DURING DAYLIGHT. EACH COMPARTMENT WAS FITTED WITH WOODEN BENCH SEATS, FOUR EITHER SIDE, NO STEAM WAS LAID ON TO [inserted] THE [/inserted] CARRIAGES, AND FOR THE 36 HOUR JOURNEY, SLEEP WAS NIGH IMPOSSIBLE. THE TRAIN STOPPED THREE TIMES, AT BRAM, NEVEAX PALLIAX AND LIMOGES 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 Bomber Command Operations from East Anglia 42-45 Description An account of the resource A brief description of bombing activity during the war., starting with the ineffectual early operations to 1000+ bomber operations. He lists some of the operations then details some of the hazards for returning aircraft. After the war, Stan took a new Lancaster to a park in Colchester, then Chelmsford for public display. He then transferred to the Middle East on the Medloc route. Newhaven-Dieppe, train through France. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stan Shaw Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three handwritten sheets Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Memoir Text. Personal research Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MShawSR3002545-160211-110001, MShawSR3002545-160211-110002, MShawSR3002545-160211-110003 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. Great Britain England--Colchester England--Chelmsford Germany--Cologne Germany--Schweinfurt Germany--Hannover England--Newhaven France--Dieppe France--Bram France--Limoges Germany--Nuremberg France Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) England--Essex 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). 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tricia Marshall Maureen Clarke anti-aircraft fire B-17 bombing bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944) FIDO Hampden Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984) Heavy Conversion Unit Lancaster Manchester Operational Training Unit RAF Downham Market RAF Heaton Park RAF Kemble RAF Manston RAF Woodbridge Stirling training Wellington Whitley https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1857/33186/SAdderM175073v10044-0001.jpg 65b2bfa8c66b0fafc26308c28451cf9b https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1857/33186/SAdderM175073v10044-0002.jpg 1854b7de53229a0260fe35fc96bfab86 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1857/33186/SAdderM175073v10044-0003.jpg a1b4c24f0b3354d9c994b71478725a81 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1857/33186/SAdderM175073v10043.jpg c3b447ee3e8ec278440b9db4072baae6 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 Adder, Mervyn M Adder 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 2017-05-29 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 Adder, M Description An account of the resource 88 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Mervyn Adder (1922 - 1944, 175073 Royal Air Force) and contains his diaries, correspondence and photographs. He flew operations as a navigator with 44 Squadron and was killed 15 March 1944. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Mary Sprakes and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on Mervyn Adder is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/100101/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [inserted] Can you make him do anything about it? threaten his discharge. I have sent him a card & it seems such a shame to let them “shove” him in as a navigator when he has done so well. [/inserted] 1459790 L.A.C. Adder M. Hut 65, No 2 Squadron, R.A.F. Station, Heaton Park, Manchester Saturday Dear All, Thanks for the letters Mother and the discs which I received yesterday morning and I was jolly glad to hear from you as I was feeling rather browned off. [inserted] [underlined] Mother says will you please write to him. [/underlined] [/inserted] They have decided by some mysterious means, perhaps pinpricking, that I should be a Navigator instead of a Pilot, and you can understand what I felt like when I heard the news the other day. What I cannot understand is that I go Solo, enjoy and think I do well [deleted] [two indecipherable words] [/deleted] [inserted] flying [/inserted] and become a Navigator, yet another chap in our Hut doesn’t manage to go Solo and becomes a Pilot – it stinks. [page break] Before I got over the change I thought I would go and see the C.O about it, when I cooled off I saw it wouldn’t do any good and I wouldn’t be a Pilot now – for anything. I am going to try to be a good Navigator and forget I ever wanted to be a Pilot as after all there is a War on, and whatever we do it is equally important and will help towards winning the War. Life here is rather pleasant, except of course for the weather which is very damp, and we have already enjoyed a fair amount of rain since arriving in Sunny Manchester. We do very little during the day, there are so many of us here that we are usually put on odd jobs such as helping in the cook house, digging, Fire duties and occasionally do P.T and perhaps attend lectures although so far I haven’t done anything in the above line of duties spending most of my time [page break] in the Hut writing letters. I am due for cook house duties tomorrow afternoon which isn’t so bad as we get the following afternoon off. There is a boating lake in our Park so I went for a row yesterday afternoon until tea time, which is at half past four – nice and early and gives you plenty of time to get out at night. I went to the Palace last night with four other chaps it was a grand show Arthur Askey the star turn and was he funny, much better than seeing him on the pictures or hearing him on the wireless. I am going into Manchester this afternoon with the lads to have a look round, and then afterwards I expect we shall go to a show. I don’t think I have anything else to tell you at the moment so I will say cheerio for the present. All the Best Mervyn. [page break] 19 September 1942 This is when I believe this letter was written. It is particularly interesting as, after it was received by the family, Edith then sent it on to my Dad with the notes to tell him to write to Mervyn who was devastated at not being selected to be a pilot. Mervyn heard from Edith on 22 September and from Dad on 25 September so they were all quite concerned about him. Mervyn had just arrived at Heaton Park on 15 September. He saw Arthur Askey live on 18 September. On 20 September he was on cookhouse duties but managed a row out on Heaton Park boating lake also on that day. 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 Letter from Mervyn Adder to his family Description An account of the resource Letter and explanatory note. Thanks them for letters. States that he is browned off as they had decided he should be a navigator rather than a pilot and describes his feelings about this news and what he did about it. Comments on life in his location and the poor weather as well as his activities which include boating, theatre and going into Manchester. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource M Adder Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three page handwritten letter and printed explanatory note Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Correspondence Text. Personal research Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SAdderM175073v10044, SAdderM175073v10043 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 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Manchester England--Lancashire Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1942-09-19 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942-09-19 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. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription. Under review Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tricia Marshall aircrew navigator pilot RAF Heaton Park training