Welcome to the IBCC Digital Archive. To get started, you can either use the search box on the left or the following options:
Collections
See all items donated by the same person or organisation.
Subject headings
Entry points for forces, aircraft, groups, squadrons, stations, facilities, roles and trades, decorations, aerial warfare and related concepts, notable people, major events and life experiences in wartime.
Timeline
Start from a 1939-1945 calendar and discover how events unfolded day-by-day, or see together all items about the same date.
Places
Start from a global map and explore the archive geographically.
Aerial photographs
See aerial photographs plotted on a map and access them directly.
Advanced search
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For information on the type of material in the Archive and how it has been constructed, please visit About. For our Collection Policy, please see Preserving archival materials and for an explanation of what we have already published, go to Publishing archival materials.
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Featured Item
A Wartime Log
Les Arrowsmith's wartime note book during 1944 and 1945 whilst a prisoner of war in Germany. In the book he has recorded addresses of friends, a list…
Featured Collection
Stachiewicz, Mieczyszaw. Album
58 items. An album of photographs, newspaper clippings and papers relating to Mieczyszaw Stachiewicz's escape from Poland through Romania, Greece, and…
Featured Exhibit
Sinking the Tirpitz
Using Tallboy bombs, 29 specially modified Lancasters from 9 Squadron and 617 Squadron sank the the Battleship Tirpitz in Tromso...
