W Thomson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Glasgow Region]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> 1944-06-16]]> H A Beverton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Bury St. Edmunds]]> 1944-10-09]]> Mrs Spagatner]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> Ukraine]]> Ukraine--Odesa]]> A Simpson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> France]]> France--Abbeville]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Longpré-les-Corps-Saints]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> 1943-06]]> 1944-05-26]]> 1944-09-02]]> 1944-08-27]]> 1944-06-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> nld]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> British Army]]> Wehrmacht]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Renkum]]> Netherlands--Wolfheze]]> Netherlands--Ede]]> 1944-09-17]]> A Thomsett]]> S Bond]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Steeple Aston]]> England--Norfolk]]> Netherlands]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Scarborough]]> England--Suffolk]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1943-10]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-10]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1948]]> 1941-10]]> 1958]]> 1943-09-14]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1944-08-15]]> 1944-08-15]]> There is a description of allied army successes in the West. The allied Commander-in-Chief has warned citizens in the Ruhr and Rhineland areas of forthcoming air strikes to transport hubs and military installations. There are over 400,000 German prisoners and their army has huge losses of equipment. A total of 27 generals have been lost or imprisoned.
Large airstrikes have taken place from much closer airfields with over 100 in France. There have been heavy attacks on fuel plants, affecting the German war effort. Germany lost 280 aircraft on 11th and 12th September. There were 600,000 incendiary bombs dropped on the key hubs of Frankfurt and Stuttgart.
On the southern front, allied forces have penetrated the Gothic Line and Italian partisans liberated towns in northern Italy. The Germans have had to declare martial law in several provinces.
In the Balkans there are further advances by Russian and Romanian troops, Slovakian and Yugoslav partisans. They are supported by allied bombers, warships and troops.
In Poland the red army has gained an advantageous position for the southern entry points to East Prussia. Polish partisans continue their fight, and Germans are in increasing danger from the Russians’ approach.
On the northern front, the Finns have sent a peace delegation to Moscow and given an ultimatum to the Germans to leave Finland by 15th September.
Germany is said to be losing the economic war, refuting Hitler’s claim on 8th November 1942 to have sufficient raw materials to get through the war. It compares the crisis to 1918. It has now lost most of its cast iron from Ukraine, Sweden, Spain and France. It is left with inferior Austrian iron deposits and some German ones. With the loss of alloy metals from South Russia and the Balkans, it cannot produce high quality steel.
Romania’s situation has meant that Germany has lost a third of its oil and the allies have systematically destroyed fuel plants, oil refineries and oil depots. The air force increased these attacks on 11th and 12th September to new levels.
Germany’s loss of territories has had an impact on its food supplies with only a mediocre harvest. Those areas abandoned by the Germans are likely to be fed first and the situation will be exacerbated by the imminent invasion of Germany. Germans are advised to be frugal with their food supplies.
Several neutral countries are refusing to give asylum to fleeing Nazis. Those close to the regime have been making trips abroad; they are described as “rats leaving the sinking ship”.
There have been 96 German generals lost since 6th June 1944.
Many of the German leaders have sent offshore large amounts of money, securities, precious stones, stolen artwork, gold and other assets; a sign that things are not going well.
According to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison there will be a staged removal of blackout restrictions throughout the country. Fire watchers will also no longer be required. This has not yet happened in London because of the V-1 flying bombs whose number has reduced with fewer reaching their target. Air strikes on the research institute in Peenemünde and launch sites in Northern France delayed their use for nearly six months.
Roosevelt and Churchill met in Canada for the seventh time since 1941 to discuss the end of the war in Europe and the Pacific.
The main armistice conditions are laid out for Romania.
A shipment of over than $100 million to Italy will be paid for by the Italian government.
Sweden has closed German transit traffic between Norway and Germany.
The United Nations relief and reconstruction agencies are convening on 15th September to fight starvation, look at economic reconstruction and the repatriation of 12 million foreign workers in Germany.
The second lot of defendants have been sentenced to death by hanging because of their plot to remove Hitler on 20th July. This was not a small clique but military generals in the first trial and administrators, diplomats and politicians in the second. Carl Friedrich Gördeler, Mayor of Leipzig, was one.
Newspapers in neutral countries are reporting on Germany’s precarious situation.
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Additional information on Carson Jack Foy is available via IBCC Losses Database.]]> Ken Johnson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> British Army]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Egypt]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Great Britain]]> Norway]]> Egypt--Alexandria]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Port Said]]> England--Kent]]> England--Ramsgate]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Newark (Nottinghamshire)]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Prouville]]> France--Beauvoir-sur-Mer]]> France--Limoges]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Paris]]> France--Rilly-La-Montagne]]> France--Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole]]> France--Toulouse]]> France--Vitry-le-François]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> Scotland--Inverness]]> North Africa]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-07]]> 1944-07-08]]> 1944-07-17]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-27]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-29]]>
Card giving details of the RAF Bomber Command reunion dinner at Grosvenor House Hotel, London.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Wehrmacht. Kriegsmarine]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Calais]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> Europe--Ardennes]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> France]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Paris]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944]]> From 1945 to 1946 he flew many transport sorties during the operations in the Dutch East Indies.
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Chapter one covers enlistment and training initially as an observer and then a bomb aimer. Follows scanned image of his service record as an airman.

Chapter 2 covers his operational training at 1651 HCU and includes a colour photograph of a crew of six walking away from a Stirling with engines running captioned 'A trainee crew walk in from their 1651 HCU Stirling at Waterbeach'. Below this is a b/w air-to-air photograph of three Stirlings in vic formation captioned '1651 HCU Stirlings in flight'.

Followed by a b/w photograph from rear quarter of a Stirling being refuelled, captioned '1651 HCU Stirling being refuelled from a Zwicky fuel bowser at Waterbeach in 1943;. List the crew he crewed up with at RAF Waterbeach. After training completed posted to 90 Squadron for operational duties.

Follows a b/w course photograph captioned 'This photograph has the pencilled inscription “Cranwell 1943, F/Lt Grafton” on the reverse. Dave Cantera, who was the mid-upper gunner in Stan’s crew is sixth from the right in the third row, and the mixture of commissioned and other ranks, pilots and non-pilot aircrew, tends to indicate that this was actually taken at No.1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach'.

Chapter 3 covers tour on 90 Squadron and starts with some history of the Stirling on that squadron, including movement and replacement of Stirling with Lancaster. Follows a coloured map showing Stirling stations captioned 'Stirling country. On the left is Cambridge and on the right is Bury St.Edmunds. The four Stirling stations where Stan served are Waterbeach - N of Cambridge, Wratting Common – bottom centre, Tuddenham – top right, and Chedburgh – SW of Bury St.Edmunds. There were so many Stirlings based in this area that Short Brothers set up their own repair and modification depot at Madingley near Cambridge.'.

Follows b/w reconnaissance photograph of RAF Wratting Common.

B/w photograph of rear quarter of parked Stirling captioned 'Short StirlingIII EH906/XY-T of C Flight, 90 Squadron at Wratting Common. This aircraft was the mount for the majority of Stan’s operations'

B/w photograph up inside of fuselage of bomb aimer station, captioned 'The bomb aimer’s position in the nose of a Stirling. The bombsight is to the left of the aiming window and the bomb selector switches are to the right'.

Then follows a description of each of his twenty three operations detailing target, operational techniques, numbers of aircraft, losses as well as comments on each.

Includes b/w photograph of crew, seven airmen wearing tunics with brevet captioned 'Stan Mason and crew. Front row, left to right; Eric Young, Stan Mason, Stan Grafton,Alan Watson, Back row, Left to right; Bill Kington, Dave Cantera, Ron Lucking'.

B/w photograph of crew sitting round table at debrief captioned 'The morning of 24 August 1943, and the crew of EH906 is debriefed after the Berlin raid the previous night. Clockwise from far left: unidentified intelligence officer, Stan Grafton, Stan Mason, Alan Watson, Eric Young, Bill Kington, Dave Cantera, Ron Lucking'.

B/w photograph from front of line up of Stirlings captioned '90 Squadron Stirlings lined-up at Wratting Common before the Berlin raid on 31 August 1943. One of these aircraft would not be coming back'.

Colour photograph over airfield captioned 'Wratting Common in the autumn of 1969. Two hangars remain standing among the corn'.

B/w photograph side view of Stirling parked, captioned 'The hangar in the background of this shot of a 1651 HCU Stirling at Wratting Common, is the one on the right in the 1969 view'.

B/w photograph with airmen standing on top and two lening out of cockpit windows. Aircraft named "T Queer Thing". Captioned 'Stirling EH906 “T Queer Thing” with Stan and crew after their 21st Operation'.

B/w photograph of mines being loaded into a Stirling captioned 'Loading sea mines into a Stirling for a “Gardening” operation'. Chapter 4 deals with his following tour as an air bombing instructor and award of Distinguished Flying Cross and subsequent postings.

Includes b/w photograph of the nose of a Wellington with six airmen standing in front. Followed by copies of his promotion and decorations record as an officer.

Appendix A is a table listing his twenty three operations. At end is details of fates of aircraft flown. Appendix B is a Glossary of Royal Air Force Terms and Slang.]]> S Bond]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--London]]> England--Devon]]> England--Torquay]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--Queenstown]]> South Africa--Pretoria]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Essex]]> Germany]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> France]]> France--Montluçon]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-24]]> 1941-06-23]]> 1942-02-06]]> 1942-05-27]]> 1942-08-27]]> 1942-11-21]]> 1943-06-17]]> 1943-07-16]]> 1943-07-25]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-16]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-09-03]]> 1943-09-05]]> 1943-09-15]]> 1943-09-16]]> 1943-09-22]]> 1943-09-23]]> 1943-09-27]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-18]]> 1943-10-19]]> 1944-01-04]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-21]]> Massy-Palaiseau, Dreux, Gelsenkirchen, Valenciennes, Montdidier, Domleger, Villers-Bocage, Nucourt, Vaires, Linzeux. He was also involved in mine laying. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Dominie, Lancaster, Mk 1 and Mk 3, Oxford, Proctor, Stirling and Wellington. Post war in Transport Command he flew in C-47s Dakotas (including during the Berlin Airlift), Lincoln, Yorks and Hastings.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lynn Corrigan]]> Mike Connock]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> Denmark]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Great Britain]]> Belgium--Kortrijk]]> Denmark--Frederikshavn]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Angers]]> France--Cap Gris Nez]]> France--Domléger-Longvillers]]> France--Dreux]]> France--Laon]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Lisieux]]> France--Montdidier (Hauts-de-France)]]> France--Nucourt]]> France--Oise]]> France--Paris]]> France--Rouen]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> France--Valenciennes]]> France--Villers-Bocage (Calvados)]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> France--Linzeux]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Québec--Saint-Hubert (Chambly)]]> France--Chambly]]> France--Massy-Palaiseau]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> Québec]]> 1943]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-19]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-03-27]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-03-31]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-28]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-02]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-19]]> 1944-05-20]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-05-29]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-08]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-18]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-30]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-02]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-07-07]]> 1944-07-08]]> 1944-07-09]]> 1944-07-10]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated (cumulative polygon)]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> France--Trossy St. Maximin]]> France--Saint-Leu-d'Esserent]]> 1944-08-03]]> S Bond]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Lons-le-Saunier]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France--Revigny-sur-Ornain]]> 1941]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-09-26]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1945]]> 1978]]> 2011]]>
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Trained as a wireless operator with No. 4 Radio School, No. 6 Advanced Flying Unit, 83 Operational Training Unit, 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit and No. 1 Lancaster Finishing School. Posted to 550 Squadron for operations.

In April 1945 posted to No. 10 Radio School as an instructor.

Served at RAF Madley, RAF Peplow, RAF Sandtoft, RAF Hemswell, RAF North Killingholme, RAF Carew Cheriton.

He flew 33 bombing operations (19 day and 14 night). Targets were Le Havre, Sterkrade, Saintes, Flers, Chateau Bernapre, Domléger, Oisemont-Neuville, Orleans, Neufchatel, Caen, Revigny, Sannerville, Kiel, St. Leu, Pauillac, Fontenay, Dugny (Paris), Douai, Le Culot (Brussels), Stettin, Ghent-Terneuzen Canal, Russelheim, Wemars Cappel [Wemaers-Cappel], Agenville, Steenwijk, Sangatte, Neuss, Cap Gris Nez.

His pilot for all operations was Flying Officer Lord.
On 24/25th June 1944 his aircraft was attacked by a Focke Wolf 190.

On 7th July his aircraft was damaged by anti-aircraft fire.

On 13th July he had to bale out of his Lancaster near to Wattisham due to lack of fuel.

Includes his commissioning scroll as Pilot Officer, RAF Volunteer Reserve from 9th November 1943 and Flying Officer, RAF Volunteer Reserve from 24th October 1967.

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