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Mills, Gordon Albert
Albert Gordon Mills
G A Mills
A G Mills
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2020-10-28
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Mills, GA
Description
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25 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Gordon Albert Mills (b. 1921, 1448361, 196610 Royal Air Force). He volunteered for aircrew as air gunner and completed operations on 149, 218 and 75 NZ Squadrons on Lancaster and Stirling in 1944/45 and stayed in the RAF after the war. The collection contains his log book, documents, photographs and decorations.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by L A Barker and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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[missing words] the heaviest and most [missing letters]ate bombing in the his-[missing letters] of Bomber Command.
Dresden has always been regarded as a sticky target because of heavy defence, but last week the squadron was over there with drastic results to the enemy. It was the deepest penetration the squadron had made. Objectives such as synthetic oil plants, railway yards and troop concentrations received attention.
Another attack during daylight was to support 21 Army Group’s capture of Wesel. The Rhine had still to be crossed, but with the British Army only about two miles from the target, extreme bombing accuracy was necessary.
German opposition was mostly flak from the anti-aircraft defences. Pilots report that some is accurate. However, from all these operations the squadron returned safely. Sometimes aircraft came in with two engines feathered or the fuselage pitted with shell splinters, but all pilots were able to say they returned with no personal injuries, and, what is more, in formation.
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Newspaper article on Bomber Command operations
Description
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Mentions attack on Dresden and also on Wesel in support of Rhine crossing. German opposition was anti aircraft fire, however squadron all returned safely though some aircraft damaged.
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One newspaper cutting
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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NMillsGA201003-01
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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.
Temporal Coverage
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1945
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David Bloomfield
Steve Baldwin
anti-aircraft fire
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)