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Title
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Green, Alan William
A W Green
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-09-19
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Identifier
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Green, AW
Description
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58 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Alan William Green (b. 1920, 104402, 1150518 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, diary and correspondence. He flew operation as a navigator with 218 Squadron before being shot down and becoming a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Stuart Green and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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R.A.F. STATION
WADDINGTON
Sept 7/41
Dear Allen,
Well, this is [underlined] IT [/underlined] at last. We reported to Coningsby on Fri night but they decided there wasn't any place for us there – called up “group” and found out we shouldn't have been posted there in the first place. We stayed Coningsby about 12 hours then they flew us up here.
We will be flying in Manchesters and from the navigators standpoint it's tops. Bags of room – everything handy. I got my first
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glimpse of an automatic bomb site. All the Manchesters are equipped with them. Looks as though will be training a few weeks yet. I thought I'd finished that bloody beacon hopping at night.
P/O Sawyer and I are billeted off the station about 8 miles – but not for long if we can help it. They have stuck us with an old couple who have never had any children of there [sic] own – don't tolerate drinking of any sort and “of course you went to church this morning”. It takes a half hour bus ride to get out here [deleted] and [/deleted] the bus
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leaves the Station at 9:30. So you see every evening is broken up.
I had a very successful 7 days leave. Thanks to you for starting it off properly. I enjoyed very much going to Coventry and meeting your family. We must have the record for travel between Coventry & Warwick – 3 hours to go about nine miles. That ride was one of the highlights of my leave.
I stayed in Leamington until Wednesday morning while I was there I managed to get into Coventry one night -saw “Merchant of Venice” at Stratford – went through
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a brewery at Banbury (but only drank port)
The last two days I spent quietly with a couple of old aunts in dear old Surrey. Doesn't that sound peaceful?
On my way back through London I met several Canadians who I trained with. The first chap of our course to land in this country has been reported missing over the Irish Sea – he was still at O.T.O.
Give my best regards to Tunny. I miss his guiding hand when I do a little drinking – he knows my weakness.
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Lichfield probably thinks we are stationed at Coningsby so would you drop into the PMC's office and have them send our mail up here instead. P/O Sawyer & P/O SPEIR are here too.
Cheerio for now. Let us know where you and Tunny are posted.
Best regards
John
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Title
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Letter to Alan Green from John
Description
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The letter refers to an erroneous posting then transfer to Waddington. He will be flying Manchesters. He is billeted with an old couple who don't tolerate drinking. He enjoyed seven days of leave in Coventry and surrounding towns.
Creator
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John
Date
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1941-09-07
Format
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Five handwritten sheets
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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E[Author]JGreenAW410907-0001,
E[Author]JGreenAW410907-0002,
E[Author]JGreenAW410907-0003,
E[Author]JGreenAW410907-0004,
E[Author]JGreenAW410907-0005
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Coventry
England--Warwick
England--Leamington
England--Banbury (Oxfordshire)
England--Surrey
England--London
England--Stratford-upon-Avon
England--Lincolnshire
England--Oxfordshire
England--Warwickshire
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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Jan Waller
Temporal Coverage
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1941-09-07
aircrew
bomb aimer
entertainment
Manchester
military living conditions
military service conditions
missing in action
navigator
Operational Training Unit
RAF Coningsby
RAF Lichfield
RAF Waddington
training