Air Ministry]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1940-03]]> Andrew Hobley]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> ]]> Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending review]]> Sound]]> Germany]]> Lithuania]]> Zimbabwe]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> Great Britain]]> Lithuania--Klaipėda]]> Mediterranean Sea]]> 1940-09]]> 1944]]> Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Second generation]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943]]> Gary Rushbrooke]]> Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Ferme d'Urville]]> 1943]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> ]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Scotland--Inverclyde]]> Canada]]> Saskatchewan]]> Saskatchewan--Moose Jaw]]> France]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> 1938]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Canada]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Greenock]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> France]]> France--Dunkerque]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Second generation]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> 1944-04-27]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Rutland]]> France]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Christmas Island]]> Egypt]]> Malta]]> Singapore]]> Malaysia]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> North Africa]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1956]]> 1957]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-03-31]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> Chris Johnson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Chris Johnson]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Poland]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Poland--Żagań]]> North Africa]]> 1941]]>

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His pilots on training and test flights were: Lieutenants White, Swart, Lindsay-Rae, Youngleeson, Robertson, Peters, Holmner, Tindall, Rabinowitz, Rosenthal, Hopper, Webb, Norval, Donelly, Marillier, Watteyne, Penver, Benjamin, Crouse, Nel, Le Riche, Mould, Geater, Gradwell, Du Bruin, Ceuppens, Connell, Lagesse, O'Leary, McIver, Spriggs, Bayley, Allnut, Stevenson and Croft; Warrant Officers Le Cocq, Humphrey, and Langdon; Flying Officers Harvey, Ryde, Dean, Sharpe, Boyd, Beecroft, Scofield, Walters and Adams; Wing Commanders Stapleton and Burnell; Pilot Officers Pugh, Langlands, L'Abbé, Onysko, O'Gara, Greville, Ainley and Anderson; Flight Sergeants West, Johnstone, Goldstein, West, Thomas, Whiddon, Patterson, Stein, Cannon and Bodrill and Squadron Leader Petty. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenants Bayley and Allnutt.

Targets in France, Belgium, Poland, and The Netherland were: Amiens, Annecy, Antwerp, Augsburg, Aunay-sur-Odon, Beauvois, Berlin, Bonn, Braunschweig, Bremen, Caen, Dortmund-Ems Canal, English Channel, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Gdańsk, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Hagen, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Kamen, Kassel, Kiel Bay, Koblenz, La Pernelle, Ladbergen, Le Havre, Leopoldsburg, Lüneburg, Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Mannheim, Munich, Münster in Westfalen, Nuremberg, Paris, Poland, Saumur, Schweinfurt, Stuttgart, The Ruhr, Toulouse, Tours, Turnhout, Wesel and Wesseling.

John Maunsell was shot down at Turnhout, Belgium on the return journey from an operation on 21 June 1944. The fate of the crew is listed in the logbook. The Captain, Flight Lieutenant A F Bayley, Wireless Operator, Warrant Officer F Beecher and Rear Gunner, Sergeant J Donovan were killed in action. The Bomb Aimer, Flight Sergeant A D Naysmith, Mid-Upper Gunner, Flight Sergeant L Marshall and Flight Engineer, Sergeant R Heaseman were captured and became prisoners of war. John Maunsell evaded capture.

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Also includes articles on Fighter Command defence of British airfields, the design of seaplanes and the use of booms to defend ports.
The Sphere was printed in England by The Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd and published weekly by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd.]]> Great Britain. Illustrated Newspapers Ltd]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> France--Montpellier]]> Italy--Pantelleria Island]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> Europe--Vardar River Valley (North Macedonia and Greece)]]> North Macedonia--Bitola]]> Greece--Thessalonikē]]> Greece--Euboea Island]]> Greece--Athens]]> Bulgaria]]> Albania]]> Greece]]> North Africa]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> Egypt--Sallūm]]> Libya--Cyrenaica]]> Libya]]> North Africa]]> Eritrea--Keren]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Czech Republic]]> Slovakia]]> France]]> Egypt]]> Eritrea]]> Italy]]> 1941-04-26]]> Great Britain. Ministry of Aircraft Production]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Air Publication 1480]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> 1943-11]]>