Donaghy, Thomas Rogers

Title

Donaghy, Thomas Rogers

Description

Six items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Thomas Rogers Donaghy (422267 Royal New Zealand Air Force) and contains documents and photographs. He flew operations as a Pilot with 75 Squadron and was killed 11 June 1944.

Additional information on Thomas Rogers Donaghy is available via the IBCC Losses Database.

The collection was donated to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John Donaghy and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

Date

2019-09-04

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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.

Identifier

Donaghy, TR

Collection Items

Thomas Donaghy and crew
Six airmen, three squatting in front, three standing behind, all wearing battledress with brevet and side caps. On the reverse 'Bomber crew 1944, Lancaster, Donaghy T R centre rear'.

Donaghy family
Full length image of an airman wearing tunic and side cap walking down town street with young boy and girl. On the reverse 'Thomas Rodger Donaghy, John Roger Donaghy, Janet Elizabeth Donaghy'.

Thomas Rodger Donaghy
Half-length image of an airman wearing flying jacket, helmet and goggles. Captioned 'Thomas Rodger Donaghy'.

The Lancaster of Tillières-sur-Avre
Details of operation and loss of Lancaster HK553 piloted by Tom Donaghy during operation to Dreux in France. Contains:
The needs of the landing of June 6 1944.
An effective German defence.
The bombing of Driex.
The Lancaster HK553 crash with…

Il tout commencé avec Google
French language account from Tom Donaghy's son John about discovering what happened to his father from a French website and subsequent visit to France.

It all started with Google
Son of Thomas Donaghy starts by mentioning his father was a New Zealand Lancaster pilot on 75 Squadron who was shot down in June 1944. Author was born in 1939 and never knew his father.
Account is translation of French language document describing…
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