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Title
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
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46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Louvain [/underlined]
[underlined] Marshalling Yards. [/underlined]
[underlined] 11/7/44 [/underlined]
Airborne 2240.
[underlined] Landed 0125. [/underlined]
No moon.
Master searchlight caught us when crossing Dutch Islands but evaded it by means of a stall turn.
Flak seen Antwerp & Brussells.
Target – good T.Is. with neglible [sic] defences.
Ground rocket fired at us but turned starboard & evaded it.
MARSHALLING YARDS
[page break]
[map]
[inserted] [underlined] LOUVAIN. [/underlined] [/inserted]
[page break]
[newspaper cutting]
INVASION BLITZ AGAIN
RAILYARDS BY NIGHT
Boulogne and Louvain
The railway yards at Boulogne and Louvain, key points on the railways of North-West Europe, were among the targets attacked by Lancasters and Halifaxes of Bomber Command on Thursday night.
Both objectives were firmly identified and heavily bombed, said the Air Ministry.
Military objectives in France and Belgium were likewise hammered. A very violent explosion was the response to bombing made on one target on the French coast. Débris was thrown 1,000ft up. Several crews said they thought an ammunition dump had been blown up.
Some of the targets, both in France and Belgium, being near to built-up areas, a number of crews brought their bombs back, as visibility over the target areas was not good.
Bomber aircraft also laid mines in enemy waters. From these operations 16 aircraft are missing.
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Description
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Three items, Edward's description of the operation against the marshalling yards, he describes the events, flak and conditions over the target. Edwards navigation plot, a newspaper clipping describes the allied air activity including against Louvain.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-05-11
1944-05-12
Spatial Coverage
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Belgium
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
Belgium--Louvain
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Map
Format
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Hand written document, navigation log, newspaper clipping
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
Date
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1944-05-11
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10050; SKingEJ182986v10051; SKingEJ182986v10052
Contributor
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Sue Smith
Title
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Louvain, Edward King's 11th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 3
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
searchlight