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Title
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Holmes, George
George Henry Holmes
G H Holmes
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Identifier
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Holmes, GH
Description
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Nine items. An oral history interview with Pilot Officer George Holmes (b. 1922, 1579658, 187788 Royal Air Force) his log book, records of operation, newspaper cuttings and photographs of personnel. He flew operations as a wireless operator / air gunner with 9, 50 and 83 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by George Holmes and catalogued by Nigel Huckins
Date
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2016-10-21
2017-01-14
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[underlined] SORTIE RECORD SHEET [/underlined]
Number 187788 Rank P/O Name HOLMES Aircrew Category WOP/AIR.
PRESENT GROUP NUMBER 5. SQUADRON 83 POSTED IN w.e.f. 2.4.44
[underlined] PREVIOUS RECORD [/underlined]
[underlined] TOUR No. [/underlined] 1 [underlined] IN GROUP NUMBER [/underlined] 5 [underlined] UNIT OR SQUADRON NUMBER [/underlined] 50
SORTIES COMPLETED [underlined] TYPE OF AIRCRAFT [/underlined]
2nd Pilot 1st Pilot Other categories than Pilot LANC III
[underlined] Date commenced : [/underlined] 3.6.44
[underlined] Date finished : [/underlined]
[underlined] TOUR No. [/underlined] [underlined] IN GROUP NUMBER [/underlined] [underlined] UNIT OR SQUADRON NUMBER [/underlined]
SORTIES COMPLETED [underlined] TYPE OF AIRCRAFT [/underlined]
2nd Pilot 1st Pilot Other categories than Pilot
[underlined] Date commenced : [/underlined]
[underlined] Date finished : [/underlined]
[page break]
(*14892-13366) Wt. 18766-Q1152 20M 6/44 T.S. 700
(*15456-13366) Wt. 35557-Q2668 60M 10/44 T.S. 700 [underlined] CURRENT RECORD [/underlined]
TOUR No. ONE IN SQUADRON No.
DATE 1 TYPE OF AIRCRAFT 2 AIRCRAFT LETTER 3 SORTIE No. 4 TARGET 5 6 REMARKS, including reasons for :- (i) Failure to complete sortie; (ii) Ceasing to operate in, or leaving, current squadron (e.g. missing, posted, killed, etc.) 7
(1) 19.8.44 (2) LANC III (3) - (4) 16 (5) LA PALLICE (6) C (7)
(1) 10.9.44 (2) LANC III (3) - (4) 17 (5) LA HERVE (6) C (7)
(1) 17.9.44 (2) LANC III (3) - (4) 18 (5) BREMERHAVEN (6) C (7)
(1) 19.9.44 (2) LANC III (3) - (4) 19 (5) M. GLADBACH (6) C (7)
(1) 23.10.44 (2) LANC III (3) - (4) 20 (5) FLUSHING (6) C (7)
(1) 13.1.45 (2) LANC III (3) H (4) 21 (5) POLITZ (6) C (7) FF2
(1) 7.2.45 (2) LANC III (3) J (4) 22 (5) DORTMUND-EMS (6) C (7) FF2
(1) 8.2.45 (2) LANC III (3) J (4) 23 (5) POLETZ (6) C (7) FF1
(1) 13.2.45 (2) LANC III (3) D (4) 24 (5) DRESDEN (6) C (7) FF1
(1) 14.2.45 (2) LANC III (3) D (4) 25 (5) ROSITZ (6) C (7) FF1
(1) 23.2.45 (2) LANC III (3) D (4) 26 (5) HORTEN (SHIPS) (6) C (7) FF1
(1) 21.3.45 (2) LANC III (3) S (4) 27 (5) HAMBURG (6) C (7) FF2
(1) 8.4.45 (2) LANC III (3) U (4) 28 (5) LUTZKENDORF (6) C (7) FF1
(1) 17.4.45 (2) LANC III (3) W (4) 29 (5) CHAM (6) C (7) FF3
(1) 1.2.45 (2) LANC III (3) C (4) 30 (5) SIEGEN (6) C (7)
(1) 2.2.45 (2) LANC III (3) J (4) 31 (5) KARLSRUHE (6) C (7)
POSTED FROM THIS SQUADRON ON (Date) TO
If the sheet is completed in respect of a pilot, insert a star in column (4) against sorties as second pilot.
In column (6) insert C if sortie was completed.
NC if sortie was not completed.
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Title
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George Holmes sortie record sheet 83 Squadron
Description
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A Sortie Record Sheet dated from 19 August 1944 to 17 March 1945. Relating to Pilot Officer George Holmes’ service as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner with 83 Squadron. The sheet records 16 operations, all of which are recorded as being on Lancaster Mk 3.
Format
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Two page form document filled in
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Service material
Identifier
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OHolmesGH187788-161021-02
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
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1944-08
1944-09
1944-10
1945-01
1945-02
1945-03
1945-04
Spatial Coverage
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France
Germany
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
France--La Rochelle
France--Le Havre
Germany--Altenburg (Thuringia)
Germany--Bremerhaven
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Karlsruhe
Germany--Leipzig
Germany--Mönchengladbach
Germany--Siegen
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Norway--Horten
Poland--Szczecin
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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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.
Contributor
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Steve Baldwin
5 Group
83 Squadron
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 3
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
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