Blanchard, Jack William

Title

Blanchard, Jack William
J W Blanchard

Description

Six items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Jack William Blanchard (b. 1922, 1321435, 141885 Royal Air Force) and contains an oral history interview, correspondence, his log book and photographs. He flew a tour of operations as a Lancaster pilot on 166 Squadron May to August 1944.

Some items are available only at the University of Lincoln.

The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Jack Blanchard and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

Date

2018-08-21

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Blanchard, JW

Collection Items

Pilot in Tiger Moth
Pilot wearing flying helmet, googles and jacket sitting in the rear cockpit of a Tiger Moth. Captioned 'EFTS Benoni South Africa, pupil pilot J W Blanchard (Tiger Moth). Submitted with caption 'Photo of Tiger Moth at EFTS at Benomi - South Africa…

Lancaster and large group of airmen
Top - front quarter view of a parked Lancaster with letter 'P' on nose.
Bottom - a large group of aircrew listening to a officer reading from paper. Annotated 'Congratulations telegram on Caen raid 7 July 1944 from General Montgomery, 166 Squadron…

Seven aircrew
Seven airmen wearing battledress with brevet, six with side caps, all standing in line in front of the bomb bay of a Lancaster. Annotated '166 Squadron Kirmington'. Submitted with caption 'Photo of my Lancaster crew'.

Letter from King George VI to Flight Lieutenant Jack W Blanchard DFC and photograph of crew
Top - a letter passes regrets that the King was unable to personally give Blanchard his award. Bottom - eight aircrew wearing battledress standing behind eight groundcrew squatting down. In the background a Lancaster. Submitted with caption 'Letter…

Jack Blanchard - extracts from flying log book
Partial pilots flying log book for J W Blanchard, covering the period from 14 April 1944 to 14 August 1944. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Lindholme, RAF Hemswell, and RAF Kirmington. Aircraft flown in…
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