James joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool, then Bicester, then Fairoaks.
At RAF Training - Heaton Park he was assessed as a future Navigator and was sent to Canada, via New York, on the Queen Elizabeth. Then they were sent by train to Three Rivers, Manitoba via Moncton. On completion of that stage of the training he returned via Liverpool. Further training was at RAF Lossiemouth then operations at RAF Leconfield. His aircraft engines started losing power on the way to Stuttgart and he bailed out. After some time they were captured by Germans. They were sent by train to Frankfurt for interrogation then onwards to Stalag Luft VII. As the Russians advanced they were marched to Stalag III. They were eventually helped to escape by the Americans and he ended up in Brussels before being flown to the UK. This section ends with photographs taken during his training.

The Long March.
A document written by a Senior British Officer to the Russian authorities. Food supplies were inadequate and the Russians refused to allow the Americans to release the prisoners. Report of a Forced March made by Occupants of Stalag Luft 7, Germany. The report describes in detail the miseries endured by the POWs on a daily basis.]]> JF Neilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Blackpool]]> Scotland--Gourock]]> United States]]> New York (State)--New York]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Manitoba]]> England--Liverpool]]> Wales--Anglesey]]> Ireland]]> Atlantic Ocean--Firth of Clyde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> France]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Poland]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--London]]> Scotland--Airdrie]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Europe--Elbe River]]> Scotland--Stirling (Stirling)]]> Germany]]> New Brunswick]]> Belgium]]> New York (State)]]> Alan Holman]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> Wales--Aberystwyth]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Great Malvern]]> England--Eastbourne (East Sussex)]]>
Served at RAF Staverton, RAF Church Fenton, RAF Yatesbury, RAF Evanton, RAF Foulsham, RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, RAF Defford.

Aircraft flown were Anson, Blenheim, Oxford, Beaufighter, Boston, Dominie, Proctor, Halifax, Wellington, Lancaster, Mosquito, Lincoln, York.

With 192 Squadron he flew a total of 49 special duties operations (3 day, 46 night) plus one Cook’s Tour. His special duties operations took place along the French, Dutch, Belgium, Danish, German coasts, the Western Approaches, the Bay of Biscay and Brunswick.
His pilots were Pilot Officer Ellis, Flying Officer Leask, Pilot Officer Kennedy, Warrant Officer Salt, Flight Lieutenant Roach, Flying Office Sanders and Wing Commander Trousdale.

Log book includes a holiday flight in 1946 and a business flight in 1947.
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He was stationed at RAF Cranwell (No.1 Signals School), RAF Jurby (No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School), RAF Digby and RAF West Malling (29 Squadron), RAF Hunsdon (1459 Flight), RAF Colerne (1454 Flight), RAF Predannack (1457 Flight and 536 Squadron), RAF Defford (Telecommunications Flying Unit), RAF Church Fenton (25 Squadron). Aircraft in which flown: Valentia, Wallace, Harvard, Battle, Blenheim, Beaufighter, Magister, Havoc, Boston, Tiger Moth, Defiant, Mosquito, Oxford, Anson, Wellington, Proctor.

Records specialist night fighter operations and patrols with codenames including ‘X-Raid’, ‘Turbinlite’, ‘Sledge Green’, ‘Intruder’, ‘Ranger’, ‘Mahmoud’ and ‘Diver’, and also airborne interception development work.

Includes several examples of Guy Gibson’s signature as Commander of ‘A’ Flight 29 Squadron. Also includes photographs of aircrew and aircraft, and a ‘score’ of enemy aircraft, flying bombs and locomotives damaged or destroyed.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> Pending review]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Denmark]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> England--Hertfordshire]]> England--Kent]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Bonny-sur-Loire]]> Germany--Bassum]]> Germany--Diepholz]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> 1943-08-15]]> 1943-08-16]]> 1943-09-03]]> 1943-09-04]]> 1943-09-16]]> 1943-09-17]]> 1943-10-01]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-11-19]]> Officers' Mess]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1945-09-06]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Tadcaster]]> 1945-09-15]]>
The hand written notes added to the end of the log book give a description to the crash at Senantes, and his attempts to evade capture:

RAF Lossiemouth S/L Ian Willoughby Bazalgette
33 on first [?] [indecipherable] DFC
Flight Commander
Deputy – RAM Palmer
Left there April 1944 – 37 on first tour [?]
[indecipherable]
F/O Geof [sic] Goddard Nav F/O Ivan Hibbert Bomb Aimer F/O Godfrey
F/O Cameron DFM ex F/Sgt Middleton’s V.C.
rear gunner
Joined at PFF Navigation Training met [?] by
Sgt George Turner then on Sqdn by F/LT Colonel Hewell [?] mid upper
6/5/44 First op as crew
During May 5 and June 7 night ops
In July Daylight and night ops 1 2
ND950 ‘M’ Mother
23 Kiel
Last week in July 24 Stuttgart
25 Stuttgart
[indecipherable] and motor bike [?]
28 Hamburg
4 August 1944 Should have gone on leave
F/L Henson missing – Oxford to York
One crew required Baz [?] volunteered – get one
more in before leave
Daylight to Trossy St Maximin
Took T for Tommy instead of M Mother
Crew conference at [?] dispersal – decided
to go in at 6000 feet main force up
at 12000 feet.

[page break]

F/LT Beveridge (DMB) shot down by
flak going into target
Nearing target heavy Ack-Ack
shell penetrated starboard wing – Both
engines spluttered to standstill
Bomb aimer wounded
[page break]
Godfrey last to leave aircraft
G. Goddard put foot [?] on him and out
he went. Landed in tree
I landed in cornfield – stripped
[?] [indecipherable] and hid parachute under corn
stacks [?] - lay under hedge – rather shocked
Lancaster hit deck two fields ahead
exploded on landing down
Village of Senantes Maire of village
helped us – in civvies within a few
minutes of landing. Lay in potato
bed all afternoon while Germans
searched for survivors – waited till
darkness into house for meal. Slept at
gentlemans [sic] house
– [indecipherable]. Moved by horse and
Cart to farm near Chappelle [sic] aux Pots
No English – lying sunbathing alongside
Railway line – Thunderbolts beat up train
SS troops moved back. Moved to
Forest for 10 days – [indecipherable] to lay on
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Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> France]]> France--Reims]]> France--Abbeville]]> India]]> East Asia]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1945]]> 2012-10]]> 2017-06-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Tadcaster]]> England--York]]> His pilot for his first 'second dickie' operation was Pilot Officer Turnbull. There is a green endorsement at the end for skill in bombing the target and returning with a damaged aircraft after a mid-air collision. The log book also contains four crew pictures with details and a paper clipping after his tour of the far East. Harold Blow was killed on 22nd May 1954 flying with 616 Royal Auxilliary Air Force flying a Meteor 8.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Malta]]> Poland]]> United States]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Modane]]> France--Toulouse]]> France--Tours]]> Georgia--Americus]]> Georgia--Macon]]> Georgia--Moody Air Force Base]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Northern Ireland--Down (County)]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> England--Sussex]]> Georgia]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-10-23]]> 1944]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-03-31]]> 1944-04-05]]> 1944-04-06]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-04]]> 1943-11-10]]> 1943-11-11]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-24]]> 1943-12-16]]> 1943-12-17]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-23]]> 1943-12-24]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-01]]> 1944-01-02]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-06]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-22]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1944-01-28]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-01-31]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-02-26]]> 1944-03-01]]> 1944-03-02]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-19]]> 1944-03-22]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-03-25]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-03-27]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-12]]> Gary Rushbrooke]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cathy Brearley]]> Sally Coulter]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Essex]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Canada]]> Saskatchewan]]> Saskatchewan--Regina]]> Manitoba]]> Manitoba--Carberry]]> Germany]]> Germany--Recklinghausen (Münster)]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Norway]]> continues with a new section entitled "LACW Kathryn Reid (nee Kathy Miers) WAAF No 473650 RAF Oulton 1944". This section covers her posting after training as R/T.D/F operator to RAF Sculthorpe, which was under command of Group Captain Pickard DSO, DFC. RAF Sculthorpe was closed and all units, including American ones, moved to RAF Oulton and Kathleen describes its location, activities and work. She mentions RAF aircrew converting from Stirling to fly American aircraft at night and describes her work in aircraft control, mentioning that she was on duty for D-Day. She continues describing operations and mentions B-17 from 214 Squadron being shot down near station sick quarters with only two gunners escaping. Kathleen provides more details of work and life on camp, including entertainment, and talks about an American friend. Her next posting was to RAF Swannington and she describes work and operations with Mosquito. Kathleen describes, in detail, the location and work carried out at her final posting to RAF Church Fenton.]]> K Reid]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. 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Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Poetry]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Tadcaster]]> William Raymond Wyrill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> South Africa]]> Zimbabwe]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Kent]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Farlington (Parish)]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Berlin]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> South Africa--Durban]]> South Africa--Johannesburg]]> Zimbabwe--Bulawayo]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Chapter 3 - first bomber tour. Describes move to 115 Squadron initially flying in Harrow and then converting to Wellington. Goes on to describe his 26 operations in some detail. Mentions being shot at by Me 110, covers losses in some operations, forced landings, wounded crew members. Posted to OTU after 26 operations.
Chapter 4 - rested from operations. Spend nearly two years flying routine training on 20 OTU at RAF Lossiemouth. Participated in two more operations while at Lossiemouth to Cologne for which a detailed description is provided. Second was to Essen , also with derailed description.
Chapter 5 -second tour. Posted to 156 Squadron still with Wellington in June 1942. Describes his subsequent six operations including the 34th on 27 August 1942 when his aircraft was shot down by Me 110 flown by Hauptmann Wolfgang Thimmig. Notes that crew were buried in the Reichswald Forrest war cemetery at Kleve (photograph included). List the other members of the crew: Flt Sgt Michael Gordon Savage (930778), pilot age 20, from Eastbourne in Sussex
Sgt Gilbert Hebblethwaite (657350), 2nd pilot age 24, from Crosland Moor,
Huddersfield
P/O Peter Hayes RNZAF (404484), observer age 20, from Sydney, New South Wales
P/O Jack Leewarden (132751) WOp/AG age 25, from Hampstead Heath, London
Sgt Frederick Valentine Herbert Shepherd (629714), rear gunner.
Appendix A - Hauptmann Wolfgang Thimmig - provided biographic details and service history of the Luftwaffe night fighter pilot.]]> S Bond]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Hillingdon]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Ameland Island]]> Germany]]> Germany--Borkum]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Norway]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Norway--Kristiansand]]> Norway--Stavanger]]> England--Colchester]]> England--Essex]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Gembloux]]> France]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Gronau (North Rhine-Westphalia)--Epe]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1937]]> 1937-09]]> 1937-11-30]]> 1938-05]]> 1938-06]]> 1938-10-18]]> 1938-12-14]]> 1939-06]]> 1939-05-09]]> 1939-12-01]]> 1939-12-24]]> 1940-01-03]]> 1940-01-23]]> 1940-02-01]]> 1940-03-09]]> 1940-03-15]]> 1940-03-23]]> 1940-04-07]]> 1940-04-09]]> 1940-04-10]]> 1940-04-14]]> 1940-04-30]]> 1940-05-17]]> 1940-05-20]]> 1940-05-22]]> 1940-05-27]]> 1940-05-30]]> 1940-06-01]]> 1940-06-03]]> 1940-06-17]]> 1940-06-21]]> 1940-06-24]]> 1940-06-26]]> 1940-06-30]]> 1942-02-02]]> 1942-04-28]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-06-01]]> 1942-06-25]]> 1942-07-08]]> 1942-08-06]]> 1942-08-09]]> 1942-08-11]]> 1942-08-27]]> 1941-06-17]]> 1941-06-18]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-05-31]]> 1942-06-06]]> 1943-06-11]]> 1944-11]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-05-08]]>