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Title
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Carpenter, Ronald
R B Carpenter
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-02-11
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Carpenter, RB
Description
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27 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Ronald Carpenter DFM (149832 Royal Air Force). He flew a tour of operations as a bomb aimer with 10 Squadron and with 223 Squadron in 100 Group on electronic countermeasures. The collection contains his log book, documents and photographs.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Ronald Carpenter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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[underlined]SECRET[/underlined]
DETAILS OF WORK CARRIED OUT BY 12 O. T. U.
FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE 1942
1/2 .6.42 Wellington X3203 P/O Aickin – Pilot, F/Sgt.[indecipherable] – Observer, Sgt. Crossland – B/A, Sgt. Elliot – WT/AG, Sgt. La Fortune – R A/G.
A/C Failed to return from raid on Essen.
25/26 .6.42 Wellington DV949 F/Lt Debenham – Pilot, P/O Walker – Observer, Sgt. Carpenter – B/A, P/O Walker – WT/AG, Sgt. Gardner – A/G. Up 22.30 Down 0450.
25/26. 6. 42 Wellington DV950 F/Sgt. Levenson – Pilot, Sgt. Whittaker – Observer, Sgt. Tiller – WT/AG, Sgt. Davis – B/A, Sgt. Cox – RA/G. Up 22.30 Down 05.45.
Out of force of 20 A/C which took off to attack Bremen, 17 claim to have reached and bombed the target on E. T. A. through 10/10th cloud, dropping 11,500lb G.P. [indecipherable] incendiaries, and 3300 X 4 lb incendiaries. Attack was carried out between 01.15 and 01.20 hours. Target pinpointing was impossible through 10/10th clouds, with tops at about 7000 feet. Visibility above cloud was excellent. Aircraft Z 8800, Captain Sgt. Bagley W.J. went below cloud and bombed from 3000 feet, definitely identifying the target. 3 A/C are missing.
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Title
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Page of 12 Operational Training Unit's F540
Description
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One page of the operations for June 1942, records one Wellington failing to return from operation to Essen on 1/2 June. It also records two Wellingtons successfully attacking Bremen on 25/26 June, one of them was captained by Flight Lieutenant Debenham with Ronald Carpenter as the bomb aimer. From information provided by the donor this was Ronald's first operation.
Date
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1942-06-02
1942-06-26
Format
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One printed page with typewritten annotations
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Log book and record book
Text
Identifier
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MCarpenterRB149832-201102-02
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Northamptonshire
Germany--Bremen
Temporal Coverage
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1942-06-01
1942-06-02
1942-06-25
1942-06-26
Contributor
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David Bloomfield
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
12 OTU
aircrew
bombing
incendiary device
Operational Training Unit
RAF Chipping Warden
training
Wellington