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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
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131 items contained in a scrapbook. Mainly newspaper cuttings of events from May 1942 to 1945.
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THE TIMES MONDAY NOVEMBER 23 1942
SIR S. CRIPPS LEAVES THE WAR CABINET
NOW MINISTER OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
PROMOTION FOR MR. H. MORRISON
MR. EDEN TO LEAD THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
COL. STANLEY COLONIAL SECRETARY
The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments:-
Lord Privy Seal LORD CRANBORNE
Secretary of State for the Colonies COL. OLIVER STANLEY
Minister of Aircraft Production SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS
Minister Resident in Washington for Supply COL. J.J. LLEWELLIN
Colonel Llewellin will fill the new post of Minister Resident in Washington for Supply, and will be responsible to Mr. Lyttleton as Minister of Production under the general aegis of H.M. Ambassador for work in relation to the British Missions and Combined Boards in Washington concerned with supply matters.
Sir Stafford Cripps, who ceases to be a member of the War Cabinet, will take Colonel Llewellin’s place as Minister of Aircraft Production, and Mr. Herbert Morrison, Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister of Home Security, will take Sir Stafford Cripps’s place in the War Cabinet.
FRENCH STAND IN TUNISIA
GERMAN ATTACKS BEATEN OFF
BRITISH BATTER AXIS COLUMN
The following announcement was made last night from Allied Headquarters in North Africa:-
One of the British advance units inflicted heavy damage on a German armoured column in Tunisia on Saturday.
French forces were attacked by Germans in Tunisia. This French force is one of those which had disregarded the Vichy order not to oppose Axis occupation of Tunisia. Two vigorous attacks were unable to break French resistance, in spite of relatively severe losses. French patrols are operating far to the rear of Axis advanced positions.
A raid on the Tunis airfield was made yesterday by B17s of the 12th Air Force. They were escorted by P38s. At least five enemy aeroplanes were destroyed on the ground. Others were damaged and hits on hangars and warehouses were observed. Four German fighters were shot down.
The P38 is the Lockheed Lightening, a fighter of unorthodox design. Its tail unit is held by twin fuselages.
RUSSIANS ADVANCE 40 MILES IN STALINGRAD AREA
TOWN RETAKEN ON THE DON
ENEMY SUPPLY LINES CUT ON EASTERN BANK
The Red Army has made important advances at the approaches to Stalingrad. It was stated in a special announcement broadcast from Moscow last night that Russian troops moving in two directions, from the north-west and south of the city, have gained between 40 and 50 miles.
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Sir S Cripps leaves war cabinet, French stand in Tunisia and Russians advance 40 miles in Stalingrad area
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Article 1. Headlines: Sir S Cripps leaves the war cabinet, now minister of aircraft production, promotion for Mr H Morrison, Mr Eden to lead House of Commons, Col Stanley colonial secretary. Notes appointments by the King. Article 2. Headlines: French stand in Tunisia, German attack beaten off, British batter axis columns. Notes attack on Tunis airfield by B-17s of 12 Air Force escorted by P-38. Four German fighters shot down. Article 3. Headlines: Russian advance 40 miles in Stalingrad area, town retaken on the Don, enemy supply lines cut on eastern bank.
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The Times
IBCC Digital Archive
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Three newspaper cuttings mounted on a scrapbook page
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10033
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Civilian
British Army
United States Army Air Force
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Tunisia
Tunisia--Tunis
Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation)--Volgograd
North Africa
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1942-11
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Angela Gaffney
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1942-11-23
B-17
P-38
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Nevill, Edward
Edward Greville Nevill
E G Nevill
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Nine items. Collection concerns Sergeant Edward Nevill DFM and includes correspondence and newspaper reports about the award of Edward Nevill's Distinguished Flying Medal.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Guy Nevill and catalogued by Archive staff.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-11
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Nevill, EG
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HOUNSLOW AIRMAN HONOURED
Sgt. E.G. Nevill, D.F.M.
Sergeant E.G. Nevill, of the Royal Air Force, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for conspicuous service. Not yet 20 years of age, he is the son of Mr. Edwin J. Nevill, of “Keyford,” 79, Cromwell Road, Hounslow, late head postmaster of East Grinstead. Mr. Nevill is a well-known member of the Heston and Isleworth Philanthropic Society.
The British bombers, of which Sergeant Nevill was a member of a crew, were reconnoitring the enemy’s back areas at a height of only 50 feet when three Messerschmitt 109’s were sighted about 150 feet higher. Sergeant Nevill, the rear gunner, holding his fire until the fighters were within close range, replied to each attack with a series of short bursts, while his pilot, taking violent evasive action, skimmed the housetops of villages as he made for the coast.
One Messerschmitt 109, closing to within 300 yards of the bomber’s tail, was caught by a well-directed burst from the rear gun and dived headlong to the ground. At the coast the two remaining enemy machines broke off the engagement and turned back.
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The crew of one British bomber, reconnoitring the enemy’s back areas at a height of only 50ft., sighted three Messerschmitt 19’s [sic] about 150ft. higher.
Held His Fire
The British rear-gunner, holding his fire until the fighters were within close range, replied to each attack with a series of short bursts, while his pilot, taking violent evasive action, skimmed the housetops of villages as he made for the coast.
One Messerschmitt 109, closing to within 300 yards of the bomber’s tail, was caught by a well aimed burst from the rear gun and dived headlong to the ground. At the coast two remaining Messerschmitts broke off the engagement and turned back.
Printed and Published by The Daily [missing letters]
_
Former Frome Postmaster’s Son Honoured
Sergeant E.G. Nevill, of the Royal Air Force, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for conspicuous service. Not yet 20 years of age, he is the son of Mr. Edwin J. Nevill, of “Keyford,” 79, Cromwell Road, Hounslow, who for five years was head postmaster at Frome. Sergeant Nevill was born in Frome and spent the first five years of his life here. The British bombers, of which Sergeant Nevill was a member of a crew, were reconnoitring the enemy’s back areas at a height of only fifty feet when three Messerschmitt 109’s were sighted about 150 feet higher. Sergeant Nevill, the rear gunner, holding his fire until the fighters were within close range, replied to each attack with a series of short bursts, while his pilot taking violent evasive action, skimmed the housetops of villages as he made for the coast. One Messerschmitt 109, closing to within 300 yards of the bomber’s tail, was caught by a well-directed burst from the rear gun and dived headlong to the ground. At the coast the two remaining enemy machines broke off the engagement and turned back.
_
DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL
NEVILL, 610339, SERGEANT EDWARD GREVILLE.
SPENCER, 580466, SERGEANT ALAN.
In June Flight Lieutenant Batt was the pilot and Sergeants Nevill and Spencer the observer and rear gunner respectively of an aircraft which successfully carried out a single aircraft reconnaissance. Throughout the whole operation the aircraft was flown at a height of less than 200ft., and enemy troop concentrations were located and subsequently attacked. Flight Lieutenant Batt successfully completed the mission in spite of intense anti-aircraft fire, which severely damaged his aircraft. Sergeant Spencer was wounded during the operation, but continued to use his gun, also making valuable visual reconnaissances. Sergeant Nevill, by his skilful handling of his gun, beat off an attack by three Messerschmitt 109s. It is believed that one was destroyed. This crew has taken part in 11 operational flights since May 10, and they have at all times displayed courage and determination in the face of the enemy. Their excellent team work has largely contributed to the success of many of the missions entrusted to them.
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The crew of another bomber, reconnoitring the enemy’s back areas at a height of only 50 ft. sighted three Messerschmitt 109’s ahead.
The fighters at once dived to the attack, one closing in on either quarter and the third approaching directly from astern.
Pressing home their attacks at short range they then broke away, and while one fighter continued to attack from astern, the remaining two, working as a pair, kept up a series of diving assaults on each quarter in turn.
The British rear-gunner, holding his fire until the fighters were within close range, replied to each attack with a series of short bursts while his pilot skimmed the housetops and scattered villages as he made for the coast.
FLEW BACK
One Messerschmitt was caught by a well-aimed burst from the rear gun, turned over on its back and dived headlong into the ground.
The running fight continued until the coast was reached, when the two remaining Messerschmitts broke off the engagement and turned back.
Immediately the bomber pilot turned his aircraft about and completed his interrupted reconnaissance in full.
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[underlined] Flew at 200 Feet [/underlined]
Flight-Lieutenant Robert Batt was the pilot, and Sergeants Edward Nevill and Alan Spencer, the observer and air gunner of an aircraft which successfully carried out a single aircraft reconnaissance.
Throughout the whole operation the aircraft was flown at a height of less than 200 feet, and enemy troop concentrations were located and subsequently attacked.
Flight-Lieutenant Batt successfully completed the mission in spite of intense anti-aircraft fire which severely damaged his aircraft. Sergeant Spencer was wounded, but continued to use his gun. Sergeant Nevill, by skilful handling of his gun, beat off an attack by three Messerschmitts. It is believed he destroyed one.
Flight-Lieutenant Batt has been awarded the D.F.C., and Sergeant Nevill and Sergeant Spencer the D.F.M.
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Sgt Edward Nevill's DFM newspaper reports
Hounslow Airman Honoured
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Six newspaper cuttings referring to the award of a DFM to Edward Nevill and giving details of the conduct which led to the three crew being awarded medals.
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Six newspaper cuttings
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eng
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NNevillG160511-01
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Hounslow
England--Middlesex
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1940
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1940-06
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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air gunner
aircrew
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Flying Medal
Me 109
navigator
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Hooker, Fred
Fred J Hooker
F J Hooker
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Hooker, FJ
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31 items. Two oral history interviews with Sergeant Fred Hooker (b. 1924, 1850487 Royal Air Force) and his scrapbook containing photographs and documents. He flew operations as a mid-upper gunner with 102 Squadron and became a prisoner of war on 12 September 1944.
The collection was catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
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2016-05-25
2017-08-26
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ROOM MATES BRIDLINGTON 1944
[Photograph]
Page Break
L.A. Dutton. Bridlington 1943.
H E Bunce Bridlington 1943.
J G Boulter Bridlington 1943.
J.E. [signature] Bridlington 1943.
9458A
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Room Mates Bridlington, 1944 [sic]
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Five trainee airmen including Fred Hooker, arranged round a desk. On the reverse are signatures of four men and 'Bridlington 1943'.
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1943
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One b/w photograph and its reverse from a scrapbook
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eng
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Photograph
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SHookerFJ1805487v10004
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Yorkshire
England--Bridlington
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1943
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Angela Gaffney
aircrew
Initial Training Wing
RAF Bridlington
training
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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
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131 items contained in a scrapbook. Mainly newspaper cuttings of events from May 1942 to 1945.
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THE TIMES FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 1942
THE RETREAT FROM STALINGRAD
ANOTHERE 12,000 PRISONERS TAKEN
RUSSIAN GRIP ON VITAL RAILWAYS
AXIS REPORTS OF NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE AT KALININ
In a special Soviet announcement last night it was stated that during the day the Russians had taken 12,000 more prisoners, bringing the total since November 19 to 63,000.
The Germans are straining every nerve to prevent the retreat of their forces before Stalingrad from developing into a rout and their rearguards are fighting stubbornly.
The German High Command announced yesterday that the Russians had begun the “expected attack” on a broad front south of Kalinin and south-east and west of Toropets, but claimed that the attacks had broken down.
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Retreat from Stalingrad
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Headlines: the retreat from Stalingrad, another 12000 prisoners taken, Russian grip on vital railways, axis reports new soviet offensive at Kalinin.
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The Times
IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-11-27
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One newspaper cutting mounted on a scrapbook page
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10036
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Wehrmacht
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Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation)--Volgograd
Russia (Federation)--Toropet︠s︡
Russia (Federation)--Starit︠s︡a (Tverskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
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1942-11
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Angela Gaffney
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Thomas, Arthur Froude. Album 1
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An album containing 50 pages of photographs of Arthur Froude's family and his pre war career and service as a flight engineer with 90 Squadron. The album also contains family photographs dating from 1900.
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Thomas, AF
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[Photograph]
T. Wilks, 12 CHEPSTOW ROAD, NEWPORT.
Reginald Henry Thomas. Master Wheelwright & Carpenter. Born Banwell 17th. October 1887. Died Weston-S-Mare General Hospital 1973. Son of Charles Henry & Emily Thomas. Father of Arthur Froude, Alison Mary & Charles Edward Thomas.
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Reginald Thomas
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Half length portrait of Arthur Thomas' father, Reginald.
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J Wilson
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One b/w photograph on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
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PThomasAF20010012
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Somerset
England--Banwell
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Miles, Reg
Reginald J Miles
R J Miles
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-07-26
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Miles, RJ
Description
An account of the resource
102 items. The collection concerns Reg Miles (1923 - 2022) and contains his audio memoir, log book, photographs and documents. He flew 36 operations with 432 and 420 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by R Miles and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[Photograph]
Reg Miles as a Flight Engineer in the RAF with 420 and 432 Sqdns flying Halifax mark 3
ESCAPE PHOTO FOR USE IN FALSE DOCUMENTS IF SHOT DOWN TAKEN MARCH 1944
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Reg Miles
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A head and shoulders portrait of Reg used as an escape photo. It is annotated with his name, trade and other details.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are available.
Date
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1944-03
Format
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One b/w photograph
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PMilesRJ16010012
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Contributor
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-03
420 Squadron
432 Squadron
aircrew
escaping
evading
flight engineer
Halifax
Halifax Mk 3
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Arrowsmith, Les
H L Arrowsmith
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14 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Les Arrowsmith (b.1920) who flew operations as a bomb aimer with 576 Squadron from RAF Elsham Wolds until his Lancaster was shot down 21/22 May 1944 and he became a prisoner of war. The collection includes his prisoner of war diary, his log book, photographs, a scrap book and correspondence. After the war he continued to serve with the RAF and remustered to become a navigator.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Mike Arrowsmith and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-09-22
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Arrowsmith, HL
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[underlined] Ruth. [/underlined]
[page break]
Leicester.
10 Sutherland Street
June 18th 1947.
I. Ruth Elizabeth Arrowsmith, of No. 11 Park Lane, Knebworth, Herts, have this day received the sum of £22-7-0., the amount due to me, representing one fourth share, of claim paid by the Provident Association of London, under Policy No: 9/M.22.17604, held by my late Mother, Mrs. S. P. [indecipherable word] who died at the above address.
March 29th 1947.
[postage stamp]
Received with thanks
RE Arrowsmith
18.6.47
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Receipt for a sum of money from the Provident Association
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A receipt signed by Ruth Arrowsmith for a one quarter share of her mother's savings.
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Ruth Arrowsmith
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1947-06-18
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One handwritten note and envelope
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eng
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MArrowsmithHL571013-160929-090001,
MArrowsmithHL571013-160929-090002
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Civilian
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Great Britain
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1947-06-18
1947-03-29
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Angela Gaffney
Steve Baldwin
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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SMathersRW55201v1
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2017-07-17
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[Page Break]
[missing words] GRAPH AND MORNING POST, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1946
[Photograph]
MEN of the No. 35 Lancaster Squadron on their return yesterday to Graveley Airfield, Hunts. from their goodwill visit to the United States.
R.A.F. GOODWILL PLANES HOME
ONLY 15 SECONDS AFTER SCHEDULE
From our SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
GRAVELEY, Thursday.
After a flight of 15,000 miles on a "goodwill tour" of America, the 35th Squadron of the R.A.F. Lancasters touched down here to-day, only 15 seconds after scheduled time.
On the final stage of their journey they followed a course along the South Coast and thence across London. They passed over the Air Ministry in Kingsway, across the City over St. Paul's and then north to Graveley.
When, in cloud and wind, the squadron appeared at their home base, the crews were given a memorable reception by all the land crews in the camp.
Waiting to meet the planes were Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley, A.O. C-in-C Bomber Command, Maj-Gen. C.K. Bissell, United States Military and Air Attaché, Mr. [two indecipherable words], First Secretary to the American Embassy and Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert.
SUCCESSFUL MISSION
Sir Norman Bottomley said he felt that the squadron had succeeded in their mission. He congratulated the men on their high standard of formation flying and discipline.
The journey was covered without any technical failure of engines or airframes in flight.
The squadron's flights per machine was equivalent to 12 times round the world. It testified to the efficiency of British equipment and the British heavy aircraft industry.
"I am sure" he said "that this performance was due to the very good maintenance of our ground crews."
The crews of the aircraft spoke highly of the reception which they were accorded in America.
[underlined] 29th AUGUST 1946 [/underlined]
[Photograph]
Goodwill
London welcomed the Lancasters of 35 (Madras) Squadron home to-day after their 15,000-mile goodwill tour of the United States. Flying at 2,000ft. owing to clouds and "bumps" which made formation difficult, they swept over the City on their way to their home base at Graveley, Herts, where they were received by Air Ministry officials and representatives from the American Embassy.
To-day's last lap was from St. Mawgan, Cornwall, where they landed from the United States. En route they passed over South Coast towns and turned north from Brighton.
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RAF Goodwill planes home
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Item 1 is a newspaper cutting marking the return of the Lancasters to Graveley.
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting titled 'Goodwill' showing 11 Lancasters over St Paul's Cathedral.
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1946-08-30
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eng
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SMathersRW55201v10048
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Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
England--London
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1946-08-29
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Two newspaper cuttings on a scrapbook page
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Angela Gaffney
35 Squadron
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
RAF Graveley
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Wright, John Alfred
J A Wright
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21 items. The collection concerns John Alfred Wright (1913 - 1986, 563242 Royal Air Force). It contains items associated with his marriage to Kathleen Burchell (Kay) several photographs, and notes about his service at RAF Graveley.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John M Wright and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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2018-01-30
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Wright, JA
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Royal Air Force, Graveley, Hunts
DECEMBER 22nd and 23rd 1942
THE ENTERTAINMENTS COMMITTEE
Present to you
"FLYING HIGH"
(by kind Permission of Wing Commander Robinson D.S.O., D.F.C.)
A Musical Revue of 16 Scenes
PROGRAMME PRICE THREEPENCE
No. 732
LISTEN FOR YOUR PROGRAMME NUMBER DURING THE EVENING
[page break]
[signature]
[inserted] Blondie [/inserted]
[inserted] Beryl [/inserted]
[underlined] PROGRAMME [/underlined]
[inserted] P. Murden [/inserted]
1. We Introduce Ourselves
2. "Flying High" JACK HARDMAN and CHORUS
3. Sketch "Efficiency Plus"
Officer Flt. Sgt.
Corporal The Ede
4. Serenade ARTHUR VINE
5. "Song in My Heart" PRESENTING the GIRLS
6. Introducing Jack J. HARDMAN
7. Sketch The 3 Points of a Triangle
Husband Wife Lover
8. "Southland" KAY BURCHELL, VINE, CRISP LONGBOTTOM and FULL COMPANY
INTERVAL FIVE MINUTES
[inserted] Hope you are "Flying High in 1943 [signature] [/inserted]
[page break]
9. "If Your Face Wants To Smile" FULL COMPANY
10. Enoch Entertains S. CARTER
11. Penny Serenade P. WATSON
(Accompanied by Bruce Thomas)
12. Public W.A.A.F. No. 1 J. HARDMAN
13. "Gypsy Encampment" KAY BURCHELL, CROSSLAND, VINE, CRISP and FULL COMPANY
14. Sketch Counting The Heads
M.P. Cook
Jenkins Son
15. Musical Moments Led By KAY and ARTHUR
16. Finale "Rose of England"
FULL COMPANY
"PER ARDUA AD ASTRA"
[inserted] "Jeff" With Love [/inserted]
[page break]
[underlined] YOU WERE ENTERTAINED BY:- [/underlined]
KAY BURCHELL W.A.A.F.
BERYL FLETCHER W.A.A.F.
PENNY MURDEN W.A.A.F.
LILA PETERMAN W.A.A.F.
MONICA PORTEOUS W.A.A.F.
ROSALIE RODMELL W.A.A.F.
IRIS STUBBS W.A.A.F.
PENNY WATSON W.A.A.F.
NANCY GRIERSON W.A.A.F.
CARTER R.A.F.
CRISP R.A.F.
COOK R.A.F.
CLARKSON R.A.F.
CROSSLAND R.A.F.
ELLIOTT R.A.F.
EVANS R.A.F.
GRINSTEAD R.A.F.
HARDMAN R.A.F.
QUINN R.A.F.
HENRY R.A.F.
JEFFERY R.A.F.
LEVITT R.A.F.
LONGBOTTOM R.A.F.
MARSH R.A.F.
SEARY R.A.F.
VINE R.A.F.
Music Supplied By THOMAS TUFFS BAKER LANE BUTTERWORTH
FOR YOUR SUPPORT WE THANK YOU AND HOPE THAT WE SHALL BE TOGETHER ON MANY FUTURE OCCASIONS
Printers – John Corah & Son Ltd.
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Programme for revue 'Flying High'
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Revue produced by RAF Graveley Entertainments Committee, with combined Royal Air Force and Women's Auxiliary Air Force cast, including Kay Burchell. Includes some signatures.
Date
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1942-12
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One printed programme
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eng
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Text
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MWrightJA563242-180130-040001, MWrightJA563242-180130-040002, MWrightJA563242-180130-040003
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
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1942-12-22
1942-12-23
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Angela Gaffney
entertainment
ground personnel
RAF Graveley
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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Nolan, Frank. Work folder
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Twenty eight items. Folder containing work related correspondence and ministry of aircraft manufacture, aeronautical inspection directorate process reports.
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2016-05-17
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Nolan, JF
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[crest]
B SHOP GROUP. 28/12/43.
[underlined] PROCESS CHECK ON ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS TO D.T.D. 1029 AND INSPECTION INSTRUCTION A.19. [/underlined]
[underlined] Installation of Cables. [/underlined]
A Spot check was taken on C/S R3/LB/14636. All cables are effectively protected with approved insulating material; accessibility of ducts, connections, terminal blocks and breeze sockets, cord binding at ends of cables, special binding of the tele-mic sockets, bonding of metal braided cables, clipping, soldering etc. satisfactorily fulfil requirements of D.T.D. 1029 or relative drawings.
[underlined] Identification of Cables. [/underlined]
All cores are identified by letters or numbers clearly stamped on breeze sockets, and services may be identified by cable part number on outer covering of cable.
[underlined] Continuity Tests. [/underlined]
These are satisfactorily carried out with the aid of test sets which have been approved by A.I.D. or by ringing through with a bell set.
[underlined] Insulation Resistance. [/underlined]
Megger tests, both interpole and pole to earth were taken, and in no case was megger reading less than 2 megohms for general services or 20 megohms for W/T or I/C.
[underlined] Bonding. [/underlined]
This is well carried out to specification requirements of D.T.D. G.E. 125, lengths of bridging connections, terminals of same, bonding across rubber hose etc. are satisfactorily carried out.
[underlined] Bench Work. [/underlined]
Only approved solder and resin flux are used, solder being to B.S.S. 219 Grade 'M' and an approved flux, Batch No. P.465, was traced to Release Note from Telegraph Condenser Co. Test Report 53568. R.D.A. and S.M. Signals apertaining [sic] to electrical components are efficiently satisfied. General workmanship is of high standard.
Process as viewed is considered satisfactory.
J.F. Nolan
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Process check on electrical installation to D.T.D 1029 and inspection instruction A.19
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Covers installation of cables, identification of cables, continuity tests, insulation and resistance, bonding and bench work.
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J F Nolan
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1943-12-28
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One page typewritten document
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eng
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Text
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SNolanJF150621v10030
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Civilian
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1943-12-28
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Angela Gaffney
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Jackson, Norman
N Jackson
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An account of the resource
Four items. An oral history interview with David Jackson about his father Norman Jackson VC (1919 - 1994), his service record and two photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by David Jackson and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-11-30
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Jackson, N
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[Photograph]
[page break]
[underlined] A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., [/underlined]
[underlined] Manchester. [/underlined]
[underlined] 8th March. 1946. [/underlined]
Presentation of Lancaster Model to Warrant Officer. N.C. Jackson. V.C.,
[underlined] Left to Right. [/underlined] Warrant Officer N.C. Jackson, V.C., Sir Roy Dobson, C.B.E., Managing Director, Mr. E. Sandilands, [underlined] Mr. Roy Chadwick. ** [/underlined] C.B.E., M.Sc., F.R.Ae.S., Director and Chief Designer.
** Mr. Roy Chadwick, lost his life, on August 23rd 1947. when a Tudor II on experimental flight, crashed soon after take-off from A.V. ROE’S WOODFORD WORKS, CHESHIRE.
He was 54 years of age.
Roy Chadwick was designer of Lancaster Bomber.
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Presentation of Lancaster Model to Warrant Officer Norman Jackson
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Photo 1 is three quarter length image of Norman Jackson, Roy Dobson, E Sandilands and Roy Chadwick.
Photo 2 is a caption with the names of the four in photo 1.
'Warrant Officer NC Jackson VC, Sir Roy Dobson OBE, Managing Director, Mr E Sandilands, Mr Roy Chadwick, CBE MSc FRAeS, Director and Chief Designer'
A handwritten note refers to the accident which killed Roy Chadwick in 1947.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
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AV Roe
Date
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1946-03-08
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One typed sheet with handwritten annotations and one b/w photograph
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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MJacksonN905192-171130-02,
PJacksonN1701
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Manchester
England--Lancashire
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1946-03-08
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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Workflow A completed
Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947)
Lancaster
Victoria Cross
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Thompson, Keith G
K G Thompson
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95 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Keith Thompson DFC (1238603 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, photographs and training material as well as his navigation logs. He flew operations as a navigator with 101 and 199 Squadrons.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Mark S Thompson and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-09-07
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Thompson, KG
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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[Photograph]
WIVES’ CLUB OUTING, ST. EVAL
[underlined] S.R.O’s Xmas Island. [/underlined]
The practise [sic] of swimming or sun-bathing in the nude is to cease forthwith
“Pride of ownership is an understandable & human trait, but it is a Service tradition that equipment not intended for immediate use should be stowed away out of sight [deleted][indecipherable word][/deleted].”
In other words, “Wear Shorts”
_
[Photograph]
ENGINEER – HEWITT
_
[Photograph]
“PLAY BOY”
_
[Crest]
HEADQUARTERS,
COASTAL COMMAND
MAY ’58 – OCT ’59
¬_
[Crest]
A hart’s head ‘caboshed’ with a beech tree in the background are featured on Bovingdon’s badge, suggesting the station’s location in the Chiltern Hills.
OCT ’59 – DEC ’61
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Photographs and memorabilia from Keith Thompson's time at RAF St Eval, Headquarters Coastal Command and RAF Bovingdon
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Photograph of 13 ladies standing in front of a coach, captioned 'Wives Club outing St Eval'.
Handwritten copy of extract from SROs Christmas Island.
Photograph head and shoulders, from the side, sergeant in flying overalls and flying helmet sitting in aircraft cockpit captioned 'Engineer -Hewitt'. Photograph of Keith Thompson naked but for a towel on a beach captioned 'Playboy'.
Small colour image of the Coastal Command badge captioned 'Headquarters Coastal Command', annotated 'May '58-Oct '59'.
Small b/w image of RAF station Bovingdon badge captioned 'A Hart's head caboshed with a beech tree in the background are featured on Bovingdon's badge, suggesting the stations location in the Chilton Hills, annotated Oct '59-Dec '61'.
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Three b/w photographs, hand written text and badges on an album page
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eng
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Text
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PThompsonKG15010139
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Coastal Command
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Great Britain
England--Cornwall (County)
England--Hertfordshire
Christmas Island
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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Workflow A completed
aircrew
RAF St Eval
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Baxter, Peter Dennis
P D Baxter
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-07-12
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Baxter, PD
Description
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63 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Peter Baxter (b. 1922, 52604 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and documents. He was trained as an airframe apprentice at RAF Halton and served as ground crew before volunteering to become air crew. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 12 and 153 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Michael Baxter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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[underlined] Baxter 507 [/underlined]
L-R TOP
SGT BAXTER F/ENG
SGT PROWSE R/GUNNER
P/O DEAR W/OP
SGT THOMAS B/AIMER
L-R BOTTOM
S/L VILLIERS PILOT.
F/O ALLINSON NAV.
P/O SAUNDERS M/U GUNNER
12 Sq. WICKENBY
MARCH 1943
ED548 ‘V’
1 [indecipherable letters] extra for Norman Prowse, 514
[page break]
[Photograph]
[page break]
[Photograph]
[page break]
[Photograph]
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Peter Baxter and his crew
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From information provided by the donor. Four photographs ,the first is a reverse with the crew listed, annotations 'Baxter 507, L - R top, Sgt Baxter, F/eng, Sgt Prowse R/Gunner, P/O Deare W/Op, L -R Bottom, S/L Villiers Pilot, F/O Allinson Nav, P/O Saunders M/U Gunner, 12 Sq Wickenby, March 1943, ED548 'V''. Second is the crew the reverse refers to. Crew is posed on fuselage of the aircraft just bemind the canopy. Third is of M.U gunner Charlie Saunders and W/Op Mac Deare sitting on a 4,000lb 'cookie' on its trolley with the aircraft in the background. Fourth is of P/O Saunders in his turret on 'V' Victor.
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1943-03
Format
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Four b/w photographs
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PBaxterPD16020024, PBaxterPD16020025, PBaxterPD16020026, PBaxterPD16020027
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
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1943-03
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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IBCC Digital Archive
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12 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
bomb aimer
bomb trolley
flight engineer
Lancaster
military service conditions
navigator
pilot
RAF Wickenby
service vehicle
wireless operator
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Cluett, Albert Victor
Albert Victor Cluett
A V Cluett
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World War (1939-1945)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Description
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68 items. The collection concerns Leading Aircraftman Albert Victor Cluett (1209046, Royal Air Force). After training in 1941/42 as an armourer, he was posted to 50 Squadron at RAF Swinderby and then RAF Skellingthorpe. The collections consists his official Royal Air Force documents, armourer training notebooks, photographs of colleagues, aircraft and locations as well as propaganda items, books in German and Dutch and items of memorabilia.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Albert Victor Cluett's daughter Pat Brown and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2015-05-15
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Cluett, AV
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IBCC Digital Archive
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10.
Brazing.
STEEL.
ROUGHT [sic] IRON
MATRIALS [sic] USED IN Brazing (Spelter) Copper Zinc
The flux used is Borax.
Before Brazing the 2 parts must be Clean and good fitting, then apply heat untill [sic] Borax and spelta [sic] is melted. Borax to be used first and then spelta running in. When spelta is running through then allow metal to cool. Main Point is
Soldering
Means of uniting 2 Pieces of metal with great heat. Metals which [indecipherable word] be Soldering sh. steel, [indecipherable word] and Brass. Martrail used Solder conts Lead & Tin and a flux as a Cleaning agent. Fluxes. Resum [sic] Zinc, Chloride, Amonium [sic] Chlorine. First both parts going to be joined clean & Tin solding [sic] Iron. Apply heat to Iron
[page break]
dip in flux used then with Solder Tin 2 peices [sic] going to be joined then put 2 Peices together and apply hot Iron with more flux.
More tin the better made solder
Common soldering tin
Silver soldering
then brazing
and wealding [sic] 26-2
[Sketch]
[Sketch]
[page break]
[deleted] [Technical notes] [/ideleted]
[page break]
[Morse Code alphabet]
Packing Peice No.2
[Sketch]
26.2-
No1. [sketch]
[sketch]
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Notes on brazing, soldering and Morse code
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Notes on brazing, soldering, and Morse code alphabet including diagrams.
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Four page handwritten document
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eng
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Text
Text. Training material
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MCluettAV120946-150515-10
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Royal Air Force
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Angela Gaffney
ground personnel
Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy
training
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McDermott, Colin
C McDermott
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-11-03
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McDermott, C
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An account of the resource
87 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Colin McDermott (1119618 Royal Air Force). He served as an air gunnery instructor and flew operations as an air gunner with 98 Squadron. Contains his log book, papers and photographs and includes issues of 'Evidence in Camera'. <br /><br />The collection also contains albums of photographs from his training at <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1696">Evanton</a> in 1943, taken during his service in <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1699">Denmark </a>and some <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1698">duplicate </a>photographs.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Bury and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[Photograph]
No. 7. A.G. INSTRUCTORS COURSE. (SQUAD 3).
SGTS. SAUNDERS. HOLMES. GIRVAN. JONES. BATEMAN.
SGTS. SHARP. BELL. GEORGE. ELLIS. McDERMOTT.
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No 7 A.G. Instructors Course (Squad 3)
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Ten airmen arranged in two rows, captioned 'No 7 A.G. Instructors Course (Squad 3)' and the names of the ten airmen.
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PMcDermottC16010005
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
air gunner
aircrew
training
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-09-06
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Valentine, JRM
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ROYAL AIR FORCE, ABERYSTWYTH
No. 1 SQUADRON "D" FLIGHT MARCH, 1941
[Photograph]
Pickford & Son Photographers Aberystwyth
BACK ROW – L.A.C. James, Underhill, Howes, Thompson, Fairley, Bingley-Pullen, Sargent, Valentine, Caldwell, Beck, Fuller, Reid, Stringfellow, Sheperd, Charnock, Dimaline.
MIDDLE ROW – A.C./1 Watson, L.A.C. King, Wilson, Brook, Hill, Pearse, McNicol, Johnston, Shuttleworth, Poole, Button, Pollitt, Routledge, Oldham, Gardiner, Lunney.
FRONT ROW – L.A.C. Barlow, Sullivan, Pratt, Teale, Cpl. Clarke (Asst. Flt. Instructor), P/O G. Corcoran (Flt. Commander), Sqn./Ldr. C. Whyatt-Hughes, (O.C. No. 1 Squadron), Sergt. Rees (Flt. Instructor), L.A.C. Rowan (Supernumerary), Squire, Holmes, Gammon, Hedley.
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No 1 Squadron, D Flight, Aberystwyth
No.6 Initial Training Wing
Description
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Forty-five airmen sitting and standing in three rows in front of a building. John Valentine is eighth from the right in rear row.
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Pickford and Son Photographers
Date
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1941-04
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
Identifier
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PValentineJRM1805
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Wales--Dyfed
Wales--Aberystwyth
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1941-04
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
Initial Training Wing
training
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Madgett, Hedley Robert
H R Madgett
Description
An account of the resource
250 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Hedley Madgett DFM (1922 - 1943, 147519, 1330340 Royal Air Force), a pilot with 61 Squadron. He was killed 18 August 1943 on the last operation of his tour from RAF Syerston to Peenemünde. The collection consists of letters, postcards and telegrams to his parents while he was training in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition the collection contains memorabilia, documents from the Air Training Corps, artwork, a railway map, diaries, medals as well as his logbook, photographs of people, places and aircraft. Also contains letters of condolence to parents and a sub collection containing a photograph album with 44 items of his time training in Canada'.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Joan Madgett and Carol Gibson, and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Hedley Madgett is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/114690/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/madgett-hr/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-03-17
2019-06-14
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Madgett, H
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RAF Bombers Tricked Enemy by a Berlin False Alarm
NAZI ‘BACKROOM BOYS’ KILLED
Key Men Died Here
[Photograph]
End of a vital German research station. Reconnaissance picture shows Peenemunde after the big R.A.F. raid there. Devastation is enormous, huge craters can be seen all over the area. Forty huts in which radiolocation and other research was done have been destroyed in this section, and another 50 burnt.
Peenemunde Raid Wiped Out Air Experts’ HQ
By COLIN BEDNALL, Daily Mail Air Correspondent
It is considered most likely that numbers of outstanding German scientists and highly skilled technicians were killed in the R.A.F.’s mass attack last week on the previously unheard-of target of Peenemunde.
These men were the sinister, dangerous, and personal foes of every Allied airman who flies over Germany. The enemy cannot replace them.
They were essentially combatants, with normal military uniforms and rankings, but they fought with deadly radiolocation and other instruments produced and often operated many miles from the scene of combat.
Until the R.A.F. descended on Peenemunde, they hunted our airmen with little risk to themselves. The plans for the attack had these “backroom boys” very much in mind.
The first hint of their success was given by a German radio announcement the day after the raid that General von Chamier-Glisezenski, inventor of many of Germany’s secret weapons, had met with a “fatal accident.”
If the truth were known, many of his colleagues and subordinates met a similar fate on the night of August 17-18.
Evidence to support this belief is provided by the picture of bomb damage at Peenemunde which appears in this page.
The Vital Point
At first glance it may look no different from any other aerial photograph of bomb damage, but the vital point to observe is the flattening of rows of plain wood and iron huts. They are very large huts.
In them at the time of the raid would be scores of “backroom boys,” either working at their secret devices or resting.
Cut off from the rest of the world and surrounded by thick forest and the sea, the Peenemunde research and radiolocation station was supposed to be beyond prying eyes – especially R.A.F. eyes. It had the appearance of an innocent, over-grown holiday camp.
It would seem probable that many of the scientists were caught at work. As was stated in [italics] The Daily Mail [/italics] after the raid, the big R.A.F. force took a course that probably caused the enemy to anticipate an attack on Berlin.
Wrong Idea
There is every probability that the enemy believed Berlin was to be the target.
The “backroom boys” at Peenemunde would have welcomed this prospect with far more relish than the citizens of the capital because it would have provided them with their finest opportunity ever of testing and experimenting with their secret devices.
Absorbed in their work and without a fear that they – and not Berlin – might be the target for the night, few, if any, would have thought of taking shelter until it was too late.
And no hut is any protection against a British “block buster.”
[cartoon]
“Don’t you think you could bring yourself to take just a teeny-weeny peep at the damage?” – by Neb
[articles]
[page break]
FRIDAY, The Daily Mail, AUGUST 27, 1943.
[underlined] NURSES HAVE TO USE MOSQUITO NETS [/underlined]
Fly Plague Empties a Hospital, 21 Child Patients Ill
By Daily Mail Reporter
TWENTY-ONE children patients and four members of the staff at Watford Isolation Hospital have been affected by dysentery attributed to flies, which swarm in the wards and kitchen. Now only ten patients remain. The rest have been evacuated.
A letter from a sister at the hospital was read at a meeting of Watford Council yesterday. “To attempt to nurse patients, especially cases of infection, under such circumstances is both disgraceful and revolting,” she wrote.
“Until I became a sister at this hospital I considered myself fit and healthy, but although I have only been a member of the staff since October 1942 I have been almost continually under a doctor’s care.
“I attribute this to the fact that I have been working in unhygienic surroundings caused by this pestilence of flies.
“It has become a daily game for the children to count the flies from hour to hour which collect on the fly papers and around the wards, and which it is necessary to change twice daily, and even more often in the kitchen.”
[underlined] STAFF THEORY [/underlined]
I visited the hospital, which is normally capable of taking 140 fever cases, last night. The white-tiled walls had just been washed with disinfectant, but a minute later the flies came back.
The nursing staff are forced to sleep under netting. In the kitchen the cook has had to seal her cupboards.
Through a glass panel I saw one patient constantly flicking the insects away. On another counterpane I counted nearly 100 of them.
Ten fly papers hung from the ceiling of the sterilising room. They had been changed twice before I arrived.
A sister said: “The pests are floating in the water when I go to bathe the children at night.”
A Ministry of Health official has inspected the building and attempts have been made to find the cause of the plague.
The hospital staff have their own theories. They believe the flies come in from refuse pits 30 yards from the building.
[underlined] DANGER TO TOWN [/underlined]
“They have been worrying us for over a year now,” the sister said.
Yet three miles away in Watford High-street the swarms are almost as bad.
The matron of the hospital, who is on holiday, is preparing a full report for the Health Ministry.
“The whole borough might be affected unless something is done,” I was told.
Watford Council passed a resolution yesterday expressing serious concern “with the appalling conditions owing to the excessive number of flies at the hospital and the terrible conditions under which the staff had been endeavouring to carry out their duties for a considerable period of time.”
They instructed the council representatives on the hospital board to do “everything within their power to get this nuisance abated at once.”
‘FOR LUCK’ MEDALS
From Queen Mary
By Daily Mail Reporter
TWO small silver-coloured medallions, slightly bigger than a sixpence, engraved on one side “FROM M.R.” and on the other “FOR LUCK,” are prizes possessions of two R.A.F. aircraftmen stationed in the West Country.
They were presented to them by an elderly lady who gave them a lift in her car. Afterwards they discovered that the lady was Queen Mary.
The aircraftmen were walking into Chippenham, Wilts. to go to a cinema when the car drew up beside them. They accepted the proferred lift.
With Queen Mary in the car – though the men did not know it then – were the Queen’s lady-in-waiting and Lord Claud Hamilton, comptroller of her household.
Queen’s Own Idea
When the car dropped the men an elderly man gave them two small packages wrapped in cellophane.
It was only when a crowd began to gather on the pavements that they realised they had been driving with Queen Mary.
An official at Marlborough House told me yesterday: “The idea of the medallions was entirely Queen Mary’s.
“It is a very small medallion, made of a silver-coloured alloy, and can be hung on a watch-chain or slipped into a pocket. It means just what it says: ‘Good Luck.’”
Flyers Meet RAF Chief
[photograph]
BRITISH and American flyers tell Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Chief of Bomber Command, some of their experiences during flights over Germany. They were guests at the “Not Forgotten Association” garden party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace yesterday. In chair is Warrant Officer R. Williams. Americans are S/Sgt. J. Sloan and S/Sgt. Alfred Vickers, of Chicago.
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"Nazi backroom boys killed, Pennemunde raid wiped out air experts HQ". Account of Peenmeunde operation and background to research carried out there. Surrounded by other articles and further articles on the reverse.
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1943-08-17
1943-08-18
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250 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Hedley Madgett DFM (1922 - 1943, 147519, 1330340 Royal Air Force), a pilot with 61 Squadron. He was killed 18 August 1943 on the last operation of his tour from RAF Syerston to Peenemünde. The collection consists of letters, postcards and telegrams to his parents while he was training in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition the collection contains memorabilia, documents from the Air Training Corps, artwork, a railway map, diaries, medals as well as his logbook, photographs of people, places and aircraft. Also contains letters of condolence to parents and a sub collection containing a photograph album with 44 items of his time training in Canada'.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Joan Madgett and Carol Gibson, and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Hedley Madgett is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/114690/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/madgett-hr/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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MR. CHURCHILL’S WAR MEMOIRS
(Continued from Page 4, Col. 5)
It seemed likely that if the German had succeeded in perfecting and using these new weapons six months earlier than he did our invasion of Europe would have proved exceedingly difficult, perhaps impossible. I feel sure that if they had succeeded in using these weapons over a six-month period, and particularly if they had made the Portsmouth-Southampton area one of their principal targets, “Overlord” [the cross-Channel operation of 1944] might have been written off.
This is an overstatement. The average error of both these weapons was over 10 miles. Even if the Germans had been able to maintain a rate of fire of 120 a day and if none whatever had been shot down the effect would have been the equivalent of only two or three one-ton bombs to a square mile per week. However, it shows that the military commanders considered it necessary to eliminate the menace of the “V” weapons, not only to protect civilian life and property, but equally to prevent interference with our offensive operations.
In the early autumn it became clear that the Germans were planning to attack us not only with rockets but also with pilotless aircraft. Meanwhile, it was observed that in Northern France a large number of groups of curiously shaped structures were being erected. All were laid out after the same fashion and most of them appeared to be directed on London. Each included one or more buildings shaped rather like a ski.
We later discovered from air photographs that there were structures similar to these in the neighbourhood of Peenemünde, and one of the photographs revealed a minute aircraft close to an inclined ramp. From this it was deduced that the so-called “ski sites” in Northern France were probably designed to store, fill and launch small unmanned aircraft or flying bombs.
On Dec. 18 Lord Cherwell sent me a report giving his ideas about the date and intensity of the attack which might be expected from the flying bombs. In his view the bombardment would not begin before April, and not more than 100 a day would be dispatched after the first day or two; of these about 25 would get within 10 miles of the aiming point.
During the early months of 1944 we completed our plans for meeting the flying bomb attack. It was decided that the defences should be laid out in three zones – a balloon barrage on the outskirts of London, beyond that a gun belt, and beyond that again an area in which the fighter aircraft would operate. Steps were also taken to hasten the supply from America of the electronic predictors and radio proximity fuses, which, when the bombardment eventually started, made it possible for the gunners to take a heavy toll of the flying bombs.
Meanwhile, the British and American Air Forces continued to bomb the hundred or so “ski sites” in Northern France. This was so effective that at the end of April aerial reconnaissance indicated that the enemy was giving up work on them.
But our satisfaction was short-lived, for it was discovered that he was building instead modified sites which were much less elaborate and more carefully camouflaged and therefore harder to find and to hit. Wherever found these new sites were bombed. Many were destroyed, but about 40 escaped damage or detection. It was from these that the attack was ultimately launched in June.
COPYRIGHT in the British Commonwealth by THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, in the U.S.A. by the New York Times, and in all other countries by Cooperation Press Service.
World copyright reserved. Reproduction, even partially, in any language, strictly prohibited.
To-morrow Mr. Churchill describes how he refused to receive from the Soviet Ambassador an offensive telegram from Stalin about the resumption of the Arctic convoys to Russia. This unusual diplomatic incident, he learnt later, impressed the Soviet Government.
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250 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Hedley Madgett DFM (1922 - 1943, 147519, 1330340 Royal Air Force), a pilot with 61 Squadron. He was killed 18 August 1943 on the last operation of his tour from RAF Syerston to Peenemünde. The collection consists of letters, postcards and telegrams to his parents while he was training in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition the collection contains memorabilia, documents from the Air Training Corps, artwork, a railway map, diaries, medals as well as his logbook, photographs of people, places and aircraft. Also contains letters of condolence to parents and a sub collection containing a photograph album with 44 items of his time training in Canada'.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Joan Madgett and Carol Gibson, and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Hedley Madgett is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/114690/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/madgett-hr/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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[inserted] K. TIMES 20/8/43 [/inserted]
MISSING.
Pilot Officer H.R. Madgett.
Yesterday morning we received official notification that Sergeant (now Pilot Officer) Hedley Robert Madgett, of 127, Longlands-road, Sidcup, had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal. On inquiry at his home we were informed that he is now reported missing after recent operations.
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Received official notice that Sergeant (now Pilot Officer) Hedley Robert Madgett had been awarded Distinguished Flying Medal now reported missing.
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One item. A memoir by Tom Bennett. He flew operations as a navigator with 617 Squadron.
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[inserted] 1 [/inserted] I cannot recall the operation mounted by No's 1 and 5 Groups, Bomber Command, on the night of 3/4th May 1944, against the French target of Mailly-le-Camp without a feeling of tremendous sadness, even after the passage of [deleted] fifty-eight years [/deleted] [inserted] [deleted] some sixty two [/deleted] almost seven decades [/inserted]. That night I witnessed the early stages of a slaughter of aircraft which contemporary aircrew could NEVER have previously associated with a "French target" at that period of the war. That sadness is more than a little tinged with bitterness, but, nevertheless, there IS a thread of personal thankfulness running through the weave.
The four Mosquito marker crews of 617 Squadron were very surprised to be summoned to the Briefing Room at RAF Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire during the afternoon of the 3rd May 1944. Together with the remainder of the whole aircrew strength of the Squadron, they had been briefed for OPERATION TAXABLE (the "D-DAY SPOOF") and had come under the ban from operations until TAXABLE had been fulfilled. At the briefing, they discovered that a German Panzer Division was temporarily bivouaced [sic] in the French Tank Training Camp at Mailly-le-Camp, some 150 km ESE of Paris. This Division was apparently en route to position behind the "Atlantic Wall" and the Allied Command was anxious that this prime target be hit before it could move out again. 627 Squadron, the Mosquito squadron undertaking target-marking duties for 5 Group, had but recently assumed this role, on transfer from No 8 (P.F.F.) Group, and it was felt by Bomber Command Headquarters that this "one-off" target really needed the expertise that the 617 marker crews had regularly demonstrated in the finding of small
[inserted] 1 [/inserted]
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[inserted] 2 [/inserted] targets, difficult to locate by purely radar aids.
Since the Lancaster element of 617 Squadron was not taking part in this operation, it was not considered necessary to give these marker crews the usual full "MAIN FORCE" briefing, but just the elements that applied to the actual target area...time of first flare-fall..timing of the first wave of aircraft (which was to be the 5 Group effort)..lull time for the marking of the area allocated to the second wave of aircraft (1 Group)...Wing Commander Cheshire to be "MARKER LEADER" ...indeed, I remember that the main emphasis for the Mossie crews was on security, so unusually disturbed was the Intelligence side with the prospect of four crews operating, each member of which knew that D-DAY could not be far away. In effect, the bottom line was "MARK YOUR TARGET AND THEN GET THE HELL BACK TO U.K.!!". Operational aircrew were exhorted to keep themselves up-to-date with all that was going on in relation to the Intelligence side of the war. Without exception, the Intelligence section of an operational RAF station was most comfortably furnished and staffed with very pleasant WAAF personnel. An intriguing amount of wide-ranging literature was always available and, at strategic times, a nice mug of tea! In a browse through some of the literature a week or so before the Mailly-le-Camp operation, I had come across an item which said that a German prisoner of war had stated that an operation order rested in the safes of all Luftwaffe day-fighter squadrons in France, code named "WILDE SAU" ...the order to be invoked when moonlight conditions were such that day fighters could readily be scrambled to operate in a "freelance" role during the passage of a bomber stream over France. However, not a vestige of this came into
[inserted] 2 [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] 3 [/inserted] my mind during the preparation period.
Wg Cdr Cheshire and Sqn Ldr Dave Shannon were detailed as markers for the 5 Group wave and thus they took off some time before the Mosquitos of Flt Lt Terry Kearns and Flt Lt Gerry Fawke. I was Gerry Fawke's navigator and my log book shows that we were airborne from Woodhall Spa at 2230 hrs. The trip down England was uneventful ...the "GEE" radar aid working well and wind velocities soon well checked and logged...a lovely moonlight night with no sign of cloud at any altitude. We were at 6000 feet, a height reckoned to be reasonably safe from light "flak" and below the minimum height of the heavier stuff ...also it enabled one to work without the oxygen mask clamped across the face. We crossed the English coast on time at Beachy Head and sped towards the enemy coast, to cross just to the east of Dieppe.
It was during this Channel crossing that I began to appreciate fully just how bright the moonlight was. The invisible enemy "jamming" of the Gee radar had begun to invade the main time base but at that stage, it could be "read through" without much difficulty. I found it was eminently possible to map-read accurately in the brightest moonlight I could ever recall, except perhaps when crossing the Alps en route for Italy, back in mid-October 1942. I used Gee very sparingly, mainly across areas devoid of the more definable pin-points.
One of the advantages of being in the second wave was that one could see the "party" starting well ahead and the final run-in could be made merely by steering visually towards the action. We arrived in the immediate area of the Camp and it appeared that the raid was progressing very favourably. We had picked up no messages on the VHF
[inserted] 3 [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] 4 [/inserted] frequency, neither did we experience any invasion of the VHF channel by any outside brodcasting [sic] unit.
Gerry positioned the Mossie for the marking dive we would need to make and we watched as sticks of bombs hammered home around the well-placed markers. We could see that these had been laid very accurately. I kept Gerry informed as the minutes ticked away and at the beginning of the "lull time", our Mossie was perfectly poised for the marking dive. We had just about commenced the dive without actually being committed to it when a stick of bombs exploded across the target. Gerry wheeled out of the dive and climbed to regain the altitude lost and re-position for the dive. Further sticks of bombs fell during this period and yet again as we commenced the second attempt to mark. I was shocked and appalled at this! In the self-contained 617 Squadron operations to which we had grown accustomed, timings were STRICTLY adhered to, and I took a very shady view of the lack of discipline that the Main Force crews were showing, not appreciating the chaotic situation developing above us.
As we sought to re-position, Gerry "buttoned" the VHF. "PLEASE STOP BOMBING! We are trying to mark for the second wave!". For the first and only time, we heard another voice across the ether. "Well, get a move on, mate!" came a calm but firm Australian voice "Things are getting a bit hot up here!" ...and this was the first indication we had as a crew that perhaps things were not going quite as expected. However, no further fall of bombs interrupted the marking process and both Mossie crews managed to lay their markers very close to the new aiming point. We were to discover later that Terry Kearns and his navigator Home Barclay had also had the same
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[inserted] 5 [/inserted] disconcerting marking experience as we had endured. How ironic if a blast of "friendly" bombs (if there are such things!) had delivered us to German interrogation!
Satisfied that the marking duty had been performed accurately, we now readily obeyed the urgent order to "cut and run" and we set course on the return route. We had seen no aircraft shot down on the way in but scarcely had we embraced the first leg away from the target when the first ghastly sight of a heavy bomber exploding in flames on the ground struck our eyes, the obscene fireball illuminating momentarily the pall of oily smoke that was always a part of such macabre scenes. To our mounting horror and concern, this was not an isolated incident! Again and yet again the tragedy was repeated. I tried to persuade myself that it could be night-fighters being destroyed, but each funeral pyre was too large for that. When a fifth bomber cremated itself around us, Gerry said "Not a healthy area for a twin-engined aircraft, Ben! Let's find another way home!". I gave him a rough course for the nearest safe part of the coast and then buried myself in the niceties of "tidying up" this rough alteration to ensure that we crossed the French coast at a reasonably quiet spot. I could not exorcise from my mind the glimpse of hell we had had inflicted on us. My mind grappled with this unbelievable torment until, quite suddenly, I recalled the Intelligence item of the "WILDE SAU" operation order. Had this order been invoked? Certainly all the weather conditions were as required ... I pushed the matter to the back of my mind. There was an aircraft to get back to base and that was my primary and paramount duty at that moment! We landed at Woodhall Spa at 0230 hrs on 4th May 1944, still very
[inserted] 5 [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] 6 [/inserted] silent and appalled at the carnage we had seen, all the more unbelievable for being associated with a FRENCH target. All four Mosquitos had landed safely, much to everyone's relief ...most of the aircrew staff had waited up, so concerned were they for our safe return. The news was flashed through to Headquarters, Bomber Command as soon as the fourth Mossie had landed!
It was in the debriefing room that we first heard talk of interference on the VHF channel and a developing communications difficulty ...of "Chesh's" despair trying to sort out the fraught situation that had developed and his unsuccessful attempts to abort the operation. The two earlier Mosquito crews had not seen the carnage the latter pair had observed. Dave Shannon's navigator, Len Sumpter, said that as soon as they were satisfied they had nothing more to contribute to the proceedings, they had hared for home. Pat Kelly, "Chesh's" navigator, said they had seen a couple of bombers shot down, but nothing like the scenes we had described. Pat was somewhat mollified by our eye-witness description of the effectiveness of the first wave bombing, but most concerned at the communications mayhem.
At our personal debriefing, I said to the Intelligence officer "I feel we have seen the activation of the German operation order "WILDE SAU"". He looked at me, absolutely perplexed. I said "Add it as a footnote, Arthur. I'm sure someone at Group or Command will fathom it!" ...but there was never any later reference to the observation.
Our worst fears were confirmed later that day ....42 Lancasters missing, 14 from the 5 Group first wave and 28 from the 1 Group second wave. My initial personal reaction was that 5 Group had stirred the hornets' nest and 1 Group had taken the stings. One
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[inserted] A [/inserted] Many years later, I was stirred into deeply researching this operation through reading a magazine article which, to me, did not truly reflect the situation, certainly not during the development of the actual operation. Also, Leonard Cheshire had returned from a visit to his "Homes" in Australia. During his stay, he had been challenged on three separate occasions by ex-Bomber Command aircrew who had laid the losses of Mailly-le-Camp firmly at his door! He had endeavoured to put the correct circumstances to his accusers but felt he had made little impression. He was most concerned that the whole truth should be put into the public domain.
I carried out a lot of personal research, both in the archives available at the Public Record Office, Kew, and also with the two surviving Mossie navigators, Pat Kelly having been killed on a later Dortmund-Ems Canal operation with 49 Squadron whilst filling the post of Station Navigation Officer at RAF East Kirkby. None of us were aware of any VHF interference by an outside broadcasting source. Leonard Cheshire made some reference to such interference but the post-operational report of the Controller, Wing Commander Deane, 83 Squadron, was quite adamant that this was present and had prevented him from instructing the first wave to commence bombing, once he was satisfied that the specific target area had been correctly marked. He had instructed his Wireless Operator to pass the "Commence Bombing" message through to the force on the allocated W/T frequency, but this too failed to get through. Investigation after the operation showed that the Master Bomber's W/T transmitter was at least 30 k/cs off tune, but whether this was a set fault or human error was not stated.
I did discover something that truly shocked me... a Yellow Target Indicator was
[inserted] A [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] B [/inserted] dropped away from the target so that the bombers had a datum around which to orbit should there be any delay in the marking procedure. This propensity in the realms of Higher Authority to assume that Main Force squadron crews needed this sort of cosseting was a constant source of irritation to me. These crews had had EXACTLY the same training as all the so-called "specialist" crews and the navigators, in the main, could reasonably be expected to keep station in a waiting area without aids that were also visible to a very active enemy, especially when two well-known powerful night-fighter bases, Chalons-sur-Marne and St Dizier, were both within 45 kms of the target, with five other similar bases within comparatively short fighter flying time!
The two Pathfinder squadrons who had been returned to 5 Group in April 1944 were not at all enamoured that visual marking by Mosquitos might reduce them to "flare carrying" forces although this role carried a very great responsibility. When 617 Squadron were experimenting and perfecting this low-level marking technique in the winter of 1943-44, it was a duty that was laid upon some of the Squadron's most experienced crews, who accepted it willingly. Air Vice Marshal D.C.T. Bennett, the Air Officer Commanding No 8 Group (PFF) was violently opposed to this new concept of target marking and there can be no doubt that his views continued to influence many of the officers who had served under him in 8 Group [deleted] , [/deleted] after the return of 83 and 97 Squadrons to 5 Group. 627 Squadron had inevitably had some marking "hiccups" during their short run in the role but I always hold that Leonard Cheshire was at his shrewdest when he chose very experienced Lancaster aircrew to man the Mosquito Marker aircraft of 617 Squadron. These aircrew came to the role knowing from their own personal experience what confusion could ensue from "delayed marking" of a target and their
[inserted] B [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] C [/inserted] whole emphasis was to ensure that targets were "prepared" on time. It was quite another matter if individual crews, dissatisfied with their initial bombing run, decided to abort and "go round again" ...the prime duty of the marker crews was to have the target readily available for a "straight through, no messing" initial run. Also, [deleted] Bomber Command [/deleted] [inserted] 5 Group [/inserted] crews were required to adjust their speed along the route to bring them to each turning-point at a specified time. The provision of an "orbitting [sic] datum" was a temptation for the less experienced crews to "press on regardless", arrive early in the target area and while away the surplus time orbitting [sic] the datum. It is to the great credit of the Deputy Leader of the first wave, Sqn Ldr Sparkes, 83 Squadron, that he perceived the danger accruing from the very visible Yellow datum marker and ordered it NOT to be renewed.
According to the post-operational report of Wg Cdr Deane, the Green Target Indicator dropped by the OBOE-controlled Mosquito was timed at 2359 hrs and fell about 800 mts north of the target centre. Wg Cdr Cheshire was the first Marker in, diving from 3000 feet to 1500 feet before releasing his red "spot fires" at 0001 hrs. These were judged to be slightly North-east of the aiming point, which was the south-east area of the Camp. Dave Shannon was apprised of this and he dived from 3000 to 400 feet to lay his red spots accurately on the aiming point at 0006 hours. Thus, the target WAS "prepared" on time. It was then, through the communication difficulties, that things began to go seriously awry. Post-operation reports of the returning crews indicate just how confused the situation became. 106 SQUADRON: "No W/T messages received before bombing. R/T messages were contradictory". 44 SQUADRON: "No instructions received on R/T or W/T. Aircraft bombed because they saw other aircraft bombing". 630 SQUADRON: "Marking precise and
[inserted] C [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] D [/inserted] accurate. R/T bad". 49 SQUADRON, 9 SQUADRON, 50 SQUADRON and 207 SQUADRON all commended the accuracy of the red spot fires and Sqn Ldr Blore-Jones of 207 Squadron added this rider: "Yellow T.I. on datum. No orders from Controller. Complete chaos in target area. Controller inefficient and crew discipline bad". A further comment from 49 Squadron: "Congestion over target to a degree of suicide. 18 to 25 minutes wait for order to bomb". Sqn Ldr Sparkes' aircraft was shot down, but he parachuted safely, evaded capture and was sheltered by French families in the district until the American Army came through the area.
Thus the crews of 1 Group flew unwittingly into a maelstrom not of their own making, but which was to extract a high price for the failure of others.
It is not generally appreciated that Wg Cdr Deane (83 Sqdn) was Controller ONLY for the 5 Group element of the operation, i.e. the first wave. On 6th April 1944, a Special Duties Flight had been formed in 1 Group, under Sqn Ldr Breakspear, at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire. 6 Lancaster aircraft were allocated to this new Flight and the aircrew, together with a ground-crew complement of 80 personnel, were drawn from the squadrons within 1 Group. This Flight undertook an intensive training programme, designed to allow 1 Group to operate independently at some future date. On the night of 24/25th April 1944, ten aircraft of No 101 Squadron were detailed to attack Munich in company with 239 Lancasters of 5 Group. The main purpose of this was to give these 1 Group crews some first-hand experience of the new marking technique being employed by 5 Group for the day when
[inserted] D [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] E [/inserted] similar independent operations would be undertaken by 1 Group. All ten crews returned safely, and the pilots' reports on the technique and results were very favourable. The operation against Mailly-le-Camp was chosen for the operational debut of 1 Group's Special Duties Flight.
Blissfully unaware of the instinctive cancellation by the 5 Group Deputy Controller of the datum Yellow marker for 5 Group crews, the crews responsible for laying and renewing the datum point for the 1 Group crews kept it marked throughout the period of 1 Group's prime involvement.
Some of the 1 Group crews were given a special target within the north-west area of the Camp ...the tank park. The two 617 Mosquitos were to mark the MAIN area for the majority of the 1 Group crews, and aircraft of the 1 Group Special Duties Flight would INDEPENDENTLY mark the tank park. The post operational report in the 1 Group Operational Record Book for this operation makes interesting reading: "It would appear that the Master of Ceremonies was unable to determine the accuracy of the first markers (?R/T trouble). Delay of 10-12 minutes before Main Force ordered to bomb red spots. Orbitting and R/T interference caused confusion. Red spots confirmed by 1 Group aircraft to be well placed. Fires from first attack on south-east caused a huge pall of rising smoke. Confirmed south-east attack highly successful. Opposition from night-fighters on a large scale- numerous sightings and combats. SPECIAL AIMING POINT (Tank Park)..Green Target Indicator undershot by 1000 yards: next one 500 yards. Deputy Master of Ceremonies claimed a marker much nearer the aiming point. Crews ordered to switch to main area but some crews did not receive this message and continued to bomb the original target".
[inserted] E [/inserted]
[page break]
[inserted] F [/inserted] The post-operational report of the 1 Group Master of Ceremonies, Sqn Ldr Breakspear, reads: "Markers and bombing slightly short but a fair number of bombs fell right across the target". One aircraft of the Special Duties Flight failed to return.
The reports from the other squadrons in the Group are more precise and expansive. 101 SQUADRON: "Red spots accurate. Station interference on W/T. On R/T other aircraft chatting..much back-chat". 12 SQUADRON: "Markers late. "American" broadcast on R/T. Marker Force continually harrassed [sic] by Master of Ceremonies with questions". 100 SQUADRON: "Red spots marking accurate" 103 SQUADRON: "Target marking good but crews kept orbitting for ten minutes. Nothing from Master of Ceremonies. Terrific amount of cross-talk on R/T." 626 SQUADRON: "R/T interruption. Too much chatter. R/T poor. Yellow "flares" for over half-an-hour. Open invitation to fighters. Congestion at 6000 feet. Climbed to 7000 for bombing. Master of Ceremonies poor. Enemy fighters orbitting". However, 576 SQUADRON reports gave something of a different picture: "Red spots scattered. Germans giving orders, cutting in on R/T. PFF 5-10 mins late. 2 combats. Many night-fighters". An additional 103 SQUADRON report is surprising, to say the least: "Me410 and rockets well in evidence".
There was an immediate post-operational tendency to lay the debacle on the "marking force" and in the continuous and constant re-telling of this tale, the blame, inevitably and unfairly, came to be laid at the door of the 617 Squadron Mosquito Marker Force. One can only hope this account and the true records on which it is based will nail that false impression once and for all.
[inserted] F [/inserted]
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[inserted] G [/inserted] The Mailly-le-Camp raid achieved its aim to a large degree but the price paid was painfully high. In 5 Group, 50 Squadron lost four of the eleven aircraft despatched. 207 Squadron lost two from sixteen. The other ten missing aircraft were distributed among the remaining thirteen squadrons. In 1 Group, 460 Squadron lost five from sixteen: 101 lost four from nineteen: 103 lost four from fourteen: "Shiny Twelve" lost four from seventeen: 626 Squadron lost three from ten. The only squadron in 1 Group without an aircraft casualty was 100 Squadron which had put up eleven aircraft. All told, 316 aircrew went "missing" that night. 253 were killed, 24 were taken prisoner and 39 evaded capture with the help of the local French civilian population, a number of whom were executed or sent on forced labour in Germany when evaders were discovered by the Germans. Of the dead aircrew, 95 were officers and 218 N.C.Os. 46 were under the age of 21: a further 159 were between 21 and 25: 33 were between 26 and 30, with the remaining 15 over 30 years of age. Of the 32 aircrew missing from 101 Squadron at RAF Ludford Magna, only two survived as prisoners of war, the other thirty having been killed in action. "Shiny Twelve's" missing proved to be 21 dead, 2 prisoners of war and 6 evaders, all six from the crew of Fg Off G Maxwell. It adds to the sorrow of these heavy losses to realise that a proportion of the missing crews had survived the massacre of the March 31st operation against Nuremburg!
Such multiple losses always tore great and almost unbearable "holes" in a squadron's aircrew complement. The Messes of both Officers and N.C.O's were unusually silent and empty as survivors remembered their friends. Many of the WAAF who worked closely with aircrew showed their uncontainable grief openly. The tempo of the Station would only gradually be restored with the arrival of replacement aircrew from the Heavy Conversion Units, but the
[inserted] G [/inserted]
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Memory of Mailly-Le-Camp
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Tom Bennett
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13 photocopied sheets
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eng
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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France--Mailly-le-Camp
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1944-05-03
1944-05-04
1944-06-05
1944-06-06
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Part of a memoir describing the operation to Mailly-le-Camp 3/4 May 1944.
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Angela Gaffney
1 Group
5 Group
617 Squadron
8 Group
83 Squadron
Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986)
bombing
Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944)
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)
debriefing
Gee
grief
Lancaster
Master Bomber
Mosquito
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944)
Oboe
Pathfinders
RAF Woodhall Spa
target indicator
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Cavalier, Reginald George. Album one
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57 items. Photograph album showing pictures taken during Reginald George Cavalier's service as a squadron photographer. It includes material from his photographic course training in 1940, and service with 76 Squadron at RAF Middleton St George, and with 88 Squadron and 226 Squadron with 2 Group and 2nd Tactical Air Force at RAF West Raynham. The album also includes target photographs, images of Christmas parties, visits by VIPs including Eisenhower and the King, as well as captured German ordnance and aircraft in France, the Netherlands and Germany.
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Farnborough 1940
[sketch]
RAF
MENU
[underlined] SOUP [/underlined]
CREME OF TOMATO.
[underlined] JOINT [/underlined]
ROAST TURKEY. ROAST PORK
[underlined] VEGETABLES [/underlined]
ROAST POTATOES. PARSNIPS,
BOILED POTATOES. BRUSSELS SPROUTS
[underlined] SWEETS [/underlined]
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
BRANDY SAUCE. MINCE PIES.
[underlined] SAVOURY [/underlined]
CHEDDAR CHEDLETS & BISCUITS
[underlined] DESSERT. [/underlined]
APPLES. ORANGES. MIXED NUTS. DATES AND FIGS.
Christmas dinner, R.A.F. Farnborough Photographic Course, Dec 24th 1944.
[page break]
R.G. Cavalier
[signature]
K.H. Manning
F. Mason
Graham Holland
[signature]
G. Rushton
[signature]
[signature]
C F Searle.
P. Bonnett
A H Aldridge
[signature]
J. Harrison
U B Blackway
R. Dagville
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[page break]
[Photograph]
Coventry Climax generator for Photographic Trailor. [sic]
[page break]
[sketch]
VIDE ET CREDE
THE SELECT ORDER OF H-UNOFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF GERMAN TERRITORY.
[sketch] ............ IS HEREBY INITIATED INTO THE SELECT ORDER, BY VIRTUE OF HAVING PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE AIR, CERTAIN PORTIONS OF GERMAN TERRITORY ON THE NIGHT OF ............. NAMELY ........... MUCH TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE HUN'S PEACE OF MIND.
[sketch] SIGNED
PRESIDENT.
R. Cavalier
[page break]
[sketch]
RESOLUTE
WE CAME –
WE SAW –
WE PHOTOGRAPHED
IN ……………..
NIGHT OF ………………..
SIGNED
PRESIDENT.
R. Cavalier
Certificate awarded to Air Crews for Night Photographs of enemy targets. Designed and drawn by R.G. Cavalier.
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Memorabilia from Photographic course
Christmas dinner menu, signatures of dinner participants, airmen and generator and two cartoons
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Photograph 1 - the Christmas dinner menu at RAF Farnborough with a cartoon of a German reconnaissance aircraft being shot down.
Photograph 2 - the signatures of some of the participants.
Captioned 'Christmas dinner, R.A.F. Farnborough Photographic Course, Dec 24th 1944.' [sic]
Photograph 3 - five airmen around a generator captioned 'Coventry Climax generator for Photographic Trailor' [sic].
Photographs 4 and 5 are of two cartoons relating to the photographic unit. Captioned 'Certificate awarded to Air Crews for Night Photographs of enemy targets. Designed and drawn by R.G. Cavalier'.
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1940-12
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Five b/w photographs on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
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PCavalierRG17010004
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Royal Air Force
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1940-12
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Great Britain
England--Hampshire
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
arts and crafts
RAF Farnborough
training
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Staves, Malcom Ely
M E Staves
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77 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer Malcom Staves (1924 - 2012, 1591418, 203137 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, items, documents, photographs, and training notebooks. He flew operations as a wireless operator with 207 Squadron. <br /><br />There is also a sub collection concerning Flight Lieutenant <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1020">D A MacArthur.</a><br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Christina Chatwin and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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2016-02-26
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Staves, ME
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No. 1591418 STAVES, M.E. COURSE 86.
[underlined] “GEN” [/underlined]
Form 619.
ROYAL AIR FORCE.
Notebook for use in Schools.
91/3471. Wt.3390. 900M. Bks. 8/42. J.D. & Co. Ltd.
[page break]
[Blank page]
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[underlined] H/F D/F ORGANISATION [/underlined]
[underlined] BLOCK LETTERS [/underlined] NAVIGATIONAL AID ONLY = TYPE 1 FLYING [missing text]
BLOCK LETTERS PRACTICE TYPE 1 FLYING [missing text]
SMALL LETTERS PRACTICE no Bomber Code = OK for AP1927
X BLOCK LETTERS EMERGENCY ONLY
[underlined] QDM’S [/underlined] When tuning back approx. to an HF/DF stn ask for a freq check when calling stn up.
[underlined] QDY [/underlined] Your magnetic course to steer with zero wind to reach me is 190° There is a balloon barrage within 60 miles of me on that track
[underlined] JBY 90 [/underlined] There is a balloon barrage 90 mls away from me on that track
[underlined] JBY 50 – 100 1020 K [/underlined] There are balloon barrages at 50 and 100 miles from me on that track
[underlined] Series of QDM’s [/underlined] – c/s v c/s QDL – QDM K
This is generally when A/C wants to home to a drome when in an emergency.
When wanting to land at another drome
When A/C is in trouble always send message in Bomber Code to the drome stating the emergency.
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[underlined] BASE FREQUENCIES. [/underlined]
[underlined] LOCALS [/underlined] 1CJ 4520 K/U.
[underlined] X COUNTRY [/underlined] Z6v 8945 K/U
to pass messages to flying control
To relieve the main HF/DF stn of extra work
BASE D/F H3D 4185 K/U
[underlined] Collective Call signs. [/underlined]
92 Group x/c. JYS[symbol]
BULLSEYE. SDS[symbol]
NICKELS & A/S/R LZZ[symbol]
16 OTU x/c NJW[symbol]
[page break]
[underlined] M/F D/F ORGANISATION [/underlined]
[a] [underlined] 16 SECTIONS [/underlined] [b] [underlined] BY DAY AND NIGHT [/underlined] [c] [underlined] AIR SEA RESCUE [/underlined]
[a] DC8 [symbol] C/S I[symbol]T QTF K [b] C Section [c] SECTION J
[a] C/S [symbol] DC8 R. I[symbol]T QTG K [b] F Section
[a] DC8 [symbol] C/S R. C/S – [b] L Section
[a] C/S [symbol] DC8 R. QTF [b] [underlined] M [/underlined] Section
[a] DC8 [symbol] C/S R [symbol] [b] R (0800 to 1800 only)
[a] [underlined] BY DAY OR WHEN SPECIALLY BRIEFED [/underlined] [b] [underlined] ONLY WHEN BRIEFED. [/underlined]
[a] B SECTION [b] A SECTION
[a] D SECTION [b] G SECTION
[a] E SECTION [b] H SECTION
[a] K SECTION [b] [underlined] N [/underlined] SECTION
[a] O SECTION
[a] Q SECTION
[underlined] WHEN TO IDENTIFY ON MF/DF [/underlined]
1. IFF U/S
2. When approaching coast below 2000 feet
3. When approaching coast 20/30 miles off track
4. When approaching British Isles from N or W of Shetlands
5. If returning Early or Late (about 30 mins).
6. If accompanied by an unidentified aircraft.
[underlined] Identification [/underlined]
M/F C/S [symbol] A/C C/S QTC K
C/S [symbol] C/S RK
C/S [symbol] C/S [underlined] 15 secs [/underlined] C/S K
[underlined] OR [/underlined] C/S [symbol] C/S I[symbol]T QTF [underlined] 15 sec [/underlined] C/S K
C/S [symbol] C/S. QTF – 1206N – 1540E – 1 = 1020 K.
C/S [symbol] C/S R [symbol]
[page break]
[underlined] FIXES [/underlined]
1st Class 2 1st Class [indecipherable word]
2nd Class 1 1st Class [indecipherable word] & 2 others of 2nd or 3rd
3rd Class [indecipherable word] but 1st Class [indecipherable word]
If M/F Section is being called by a member of A/C at the same time Control will send to his other stations the following so that the A/C will know in what order to call the control.
[Call signs]
[underlined] DISTRESS PROCEDURE [/underlined] [underlined] [symbol] IFF DISTRESS [/underlined]
[underlined] NONE IMMEDIATE [/underlined]
[Call signs]
[underlined] IMMEDIATE [/underlined]
[Call signs]
[page break]
[Blank page]
[page break]
[Blank page]
[page break]
[underlined] PROCEDURE FOR LOCAL AND X-COUNTRY FLIGHTS [/underlined]
COLLECT FOLLOWING FROM DSO – BOMBER CODE – BOMBER COVER – N/F & H/F D/F FLIMSY – BEACON SCHEDULE – VERIFICATION CARD – LOG BOOK – AP 1927 3026 (2 CODE).
NOTE BASIC QFE & SEE W/T BOARD FOR LIST OF W/T STNS WHICH ARE U/S
CHECK ALL A/C W/T EQUIPMENT ETC BEFORE TAKE OFF AFTER AIRBORNE CHECK AGAIN.
[underlined] LOCAL. [/underlined]
MUST ALWAYS CONTACT BASE D/F H3D and BASE OPS 1CJ every hour. Base D/F QDM BASE OPS FREQ CHECK.
Listen out to Broadcast from 1CJ at the 1 hr + 10 mins and 1 hr + 40 mins. Pilot should be informed after every broadcast.
[underlined] X-COUNTRY [/underlined]
Same Procedure as Local until Airborne
Airborne Signal – z6v [symbol] C/S Position Base 1020 K
Over to H3D Get QDM
Every hour Position message must be sent to z6v (Base Ops) If cannot get through call up W/T Stn in 92 group or Hixham [sic] or Ossington (93 group), and ask them to transmit message to base (QJK) [deleted] (If can’t get them call away TYPE 1 F.G.) [/deleted]
Listen out to all Group B/Casts V3A 3550 K/U at the usual times. If B/Cast missed go over to Base ops z6v at 1 hr + 25 mins and 1 hr + 55 mins.
Then obtain as many contacts & loops as possible
When over sea Trailing AE must be reeled out and
[Call signs]
[page break]
M/F section turned up on Tx. (Can get QMF if desired). When over sea must get M/F contact every hour.
When crossing coast to sea must always get a QDM from W/T stn nearest or one allotted to A/C. must not go out to sea until obtained. (Also send pos. messg [sic] to base 10 mins before crossing coast.)
[underlined] Message to Base with Position:- [/underlined]
[Call signs]
If using Bomber Code a day old always start message with = 99 [underlined] 14 [/underlined].
If cannot get QDM before going out to sea from the allotted Hf/DF stn send position message to base.
If an emergency over sea and cannot get own M/F section can call up any M/F section [underlined] QFE [/underlined] in Bomber Code – Request Station Barometric Pressure (Own Drome)
Asking [underlined] another [/underlined] drome for QFE – Send in B/Code
Request [underlined] Diversion [/underlined] Station Barometric Pressure
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[underlined] DAILY INSPECTIONS. [/underlined]
1/ [underlined] External Check of Aerials [/underlined] 1154/55 TR1196 IFF. GEE. SBA.
See that all strands are connected. Clear of rust. Tightness.
[underlined] Inside Check of Aerials [/underlined]
Security of insulations and leads. Check SBA. [symbol] locking.
Check to see if 2 trailing [symbol] Reel out 20 [deleted] yards [/deleted] feet to see if wire is frayed. Security [symbol] Plunger O.K.
2/ [underlined] R1154/55. [/underlined] – Take Ace readings on N CE.
Check for Security, cleanliness, and that all plugs and connections are O.K. Check Supply Plugs and leads. Tune Rx on all Ranges and tune in a loop D/F stn and take Bearing on Visual & Aural. See that plug to loop [symbol] is secure.
Tune full Ranges of Tx & see that dip and aerial current is normal. Valve emmission [sic] test on yellow range 400 K/U reading 200 amps.
See that spare 750 m/a fuses are carried on Tx.
Check to see if fuse is carried in case of Type 52 Res fracture. Check Longdex Relay for change in note on Stand by.
3/ [underlined] A1134 [/underlined]
Change Acc. 2v14a & test voltage of HT battery.
Should not be less than 110 volts (one lead to 4 pin plug and other earthed).
Security of leads and plugs. Then test all intercomm [sic] positions for good volume, and security
Check all call lights. Rotate R/Gunners turret to see if i/c is O.K. Test Emergency R/G’s lead.
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Check the S.B.A. on BA position [underlined] ie [/underlined] see that the meter works. Check the i/c on MIX & i/c positions.
Test the Emergency i/c
Test the TR1196 on D and A Ranges
[underlined] ie [/underlined] Critic from Mixer Zebra – how do you hear me? over.
Test the Aldis Lamp.
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[underlined] DINGHY SEARCH – SIGHTING REPORTS. [/underlined]
[underlined] PROCEDURE AT OTU [/underlined]
[underlined] Sighting Dinghy [/underlined]
Call allotted M/F section & inform them in B/Code.
I.F.F. ON and switch to “Distress”. Inform Section “J” circling Dinghy with IFF to Distress
Call sign of all ASR launches – MHB followed by 2 figures over 46 – Launches identify by flashing identification No. Either Launch homes to A/C or A/C gives launch Q.D.M’s when crew is taken aboard dinghy inform Section “J” IFF OFF and returning to base.
[underlined] ORGANISED SEARCH [/underlined]
[underlined] A/C W/T [/underlined] C/S – WCF + 2 figures eg WCF49
[underlined] A/C R/T [/underlined] C/S PLAINSONG + 2 figures eg Plainsong 49.
ASR launch W/T MHB + ident figures (on deck)
ASR launch R/T C/S SEAGULL + ident figures on deck.
Collective C/S of 92 group LZZC
Base to coast normal cross-country procedure
Allotted an M/F section “D” for 16 OTU sometimes section “K”
Over the sea Sect “J” 30N on 385 K/cs.
B/Cast on Sect “J” for 5 mins at 1 hr & 1/2 hr ([indecipherable words] C/S (No figures))
Listen out on Group Freq and on 500 K/cs for remainder of time. W/T ident on 500 K/cs at 1 hr + 15 and 1 hr + 45
Send message to Sect “J” – Fix on B/Code IFF to DISTRESS & maintain height and inform Sect “J”
Call surface craft using MHB on 500 K/cs AP 1927 or PL A.S.R. launch either asks for
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C/S and – to home to A/C or sends e/s v – for A/C to send him QDM’s
If navigational aid required eg Fix, must call up Section “D” and use own A/C C/S. Then working normal with the AGR C/S.
[underlined] When sending “GEE” FIX [/underlined]
Northern NO
North Eastern NE
Eastern EA
Channell CH
Southern SO
S. Western SW
“Sent in G co-ordinates and sent in two 7 character groups followed by the Chain letter”
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[a] CHAIN [b] SERIES [c] R/F [d] STUD [e] ALD [f] BLINKS [g] PULSES
[a] EASTERN [b] 2 [c] 25 [d] 5 [e] 1 [f] 2 [g] ABCD SW Germany Rads
[a] SOUTHERN [b] 3 [c] 25/24 [d] 1/2 [e] 1/2 [f] 3 [g] ABC France
[a] NORTHERN [b] 4 [c] 25 [d] 1 [e] 1 [f] – [g] ABCD Iceland & Norway
[a] N EASTERN [b] 6 [c] 25 [d] 2 [e] 1 [f] 1 [g] ABC N & NW Germany
[a] S WESTERN [b] 5 [c] 24 [d] 3 [e] 3 [f] – [g] W France & Atlantic
[Diagram and text]
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[underlined] R/T PROCEDURE [/underlined]
[underlined] PHRASES FOR USE OF A/C [/underlined]
STARTER. [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] Starter Battery required
SPARKS [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] |I require Wireless Mechanic
PLUMBER [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] I require Engineer
ALEC [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] I require Electrician
CLOCK [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] I require Instrument Repairer
BOGGED [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] Bogged No 2 North End
DUNLOP [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] I have tyre trouble (dispersal)
HYDRO [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] I have Hydraulic trouble & require assistance
BROWNING [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] I require Armourer
CONJUROR [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] I require Radar mechanic
BOTTLE [underlined] MEANS. [/underlined] I require air bottle
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Signalling in a Wimpy
1/ Navigation Lights
2. Identification Lights
3. [Indecipherable word] Lights
4. Aldis Lamp
5. Verey Pistol
6. Call Lights System
Call Light Code
AAA. – Enemy A/C Sighted
Dashes of 5 secs. – All Clear
Series of Dots – Commence to corkscrew to port.
Series of Dashes – Commence to corkscrew to starboard.
A long dash until upon big pilot means Resume Normal Flying
A Slow NNN. – Send member of crew to Rear Turret.
[page break]
[underlined] Radio Counter-Measures [/underlined]
[a] [underlined] Method [/underlined] [b] [underlined] Counter Measure [/underlined]
[a] FREYA Radio location [b] mandril
[a] WUERZBERG/AI } Searchlight(Blue)(Radio Controlled)/Searchlight on fighter { CARPET(PFFF)/WINDOWS/BOOZER
[a] AI [b] Ground Grocer
[a] R/T – HF [b] TINSEL
[a] R/T VHF/BENITO } [b] {AIRBORNE CIGAR/GROUND CIGAR
[a] RUNNING COMMENTARY (HF) [b] CORONA
[a] [deleted words] [b] SPECIAL TINSEL
[a] W/T RUNNING COMMENTARY (HF) [b] W/T CORONA
[a] RUNNING COMMENTARY (MF) [b] DART BOARD
GEE
H2S
MONICA
VISUAL MONICA
FISH POND
[page break]
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[page break]
[underlined] Parachute Drill [/underlined]
1/ [underlined] NORMAL BALE OUT [/underlined]
This method should only be used when the capt. is sure he can control the A/C in flight for at least another 5 mins. On all other occasions use (2) The Emergency Bale Out.
[underlined] The NORMAL BALE OUT [/underlined]
1/ Capt. gives crew the order “Put on Parachutes” and gives height. (ie) Put on Parachutes 4000 feet.
2/ All crew acknowledge the warning & fasten on parachute.
3/ Navigator warns wireless operator & then moves forward to release Air Bomber from the front turret.
4/ All crew move forward to the front escape hatch with the exception of the rear gunner who remains in his turret with guns to port.
5/ Navigator informs crew of the aproximate [sic] position of A/C.
6/ Wireless Op. then transmits message & Mid Upper jettisons Trailing [symbol]
7. When the captain wishes the crew to abandon A/C he gives the order to each member of the crew individually eg. Hello Wireless Op. Jump Jump.
8/ All crew will acknowledge the order before leaving A/C eg. Hello Capt. Wop. Jumping.
9/ Captain trims the A/C & is the last to leave.
[page break]
[underlined] Emergency Bale Out [/underlined]
1/ Capt. gives the order Abandon A/C Emergency Jump Jump 4000 feet or indicated height.
2/ All crew acknowledge order. Navigator informs W/OP & after fastening on parachute moves forward to release Bomb Aimer from front turret.
3/ All crew with the exception of Rear Gunner move to escape hatches (those forward of main spar leave through main hatch. Those aft of main spar leave through diamond escape hatch.)
4/ Rear Gunner will acknowledge order rotate turret with guns to port, calling out “Rear Gunner going” as he leaves the A/C
5/ Capt trims A/C and is the last to leave.
[underlined] NOTE [/underlined] Before leaving A/C crew should fasten on parachutes & then take off their helmets. On receiving the order to Abandon they should stand on the rear side of hatch facing forward & leave head first.
[page break]
[underlined] DINGHY LAYOUT [/underlined]
[Diagram]
[underlined] Additional (inside Kite) [/underlined]
Dinghy Radio
Type 4 Pack
Kite Container
[underlined] To Release Dinghy [/underlined]
1/ Pull toggle on Starboard side of mainspar.
2/ Pull toggle on Starboard side of Wing.
3/ Pull Wire on op head (Axe to break cover on wing)
4/ Immersion Switch
5/ Use axe to get dinghy out and inflate up with bellows.
[underlined] Distances of Transmission with Radio [/underlined]
[Calculations]
[page break]
[underlined] DINGHY DRILL FOR WOP [/underlined]
[underlined] Positition [sic] for Ditching [/underlined]
Navigators table facing aft Feet against bulkhead
Hands clasped at back of head & ears. On Intercomm [sic]
[underlined] Actions [/underlined]
1/ At Set.
2/ Acknowledge DDD on call light & take Distress Signals action
3/ Pass Fix to Nav [calculation] Continue distress signals action if time permits
4. On [indecipherable word] from NAV establish intercomm [sic] with Pilot (WOP Standing By) Then back on set and carry on with Distress Sigs Action.
5/ Transmit A/C C/S Clamp Key. Remove Chute Harness. Loosen collar & lie (if room) Take up ditching stn. On intercomm [sic] with Pilot. (Ditching stn Wop).
6/ Disconnect I/C Brace for impact.
7/ A/C Ditches
8/ Go Aft. Assist NAV with emergency equipment.
9/ Get out by Astro Hatch (3rd) & inflate Mae West.
10/ Board Dinghy & get knife.
11/ Cut painter on Capts order.
12/ Set up Dinghy Radio on C’s orders & commence Transmitting. (Time for Transmission – 1/4 to and 1/4 past the hour)
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Malcolm Staves' Notebook on Radio Operations
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Notes written by Malcolm Staves during his wireless operators training course.
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Malcolm Staves
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Royal Air Force
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aircrew
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Cooper, Sydney Foster
Sydney Foster Cooper
Sydney F Cooper
Sydney Cooper
Syd Cooper
S F Cooper
S Cooper
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12 items. Two oral history interviews with Sydney Foster "Syd" Cooper (b. 1921, 1528331 Royal Air Force), photographs and other items.
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2015-10-25
2015-10-28
2017-09-13
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Cooper, SF
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SYD COOPER (SYDNEY FOSTER COOPER)
1) P1030 489 – PHOTO OF 'TECHNICAL WING COMMAND) 514 SQDN WATERBEACH
2) [symbol] 491 – SYD IN TRAINING BACK ROW 4th FROM RIGHT
3) [symbol] 492 – SYD AT GUNNERY SCHOOL
4) [symbol] 493 – COPY OF "OPERA" PROGRAMME - PRODUCTION FOR SQN WHEN IN ITALY BASED NAPLES AT "LSU1"
5) [symbol] 494 – 514 OPERATIONAL RECORD LIST
6) [symbol] 495 – 514 SQN REUNION WATERBEACH – SYD 3rd from left
7) [symbol] 496 – REMEMBRANCE PARADE POYNTON CHESHIRE SYD FRONT 2009
8) [symbol] 500 – SYD
9) [symbol] 501 – SYD Remembrance Parade 2009
10) [symbol] 502 – SYD + HIS BROTHER JACK COOPER (FLEET AIR ARM)
11) [symbol] 503 – PICTURES WHEN SYD BASED ON HALIFAX' AS WOP LEEMING 427 SQN
12) [symbol] 504 - Press cutting of RAF Strikes IN INDIA – SYD WAS IN ITALY AT TIME OF STRIKES + THOUGHTS WERE STRIKES MAY SPREAD
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List of Syd Cooper Photographs
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A list of 12 photographs in the Syd Cooper collection.
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One handwritten list
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eng
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MCooperSF1528331-170913-01
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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427 Squadron
514 Squadron
Halifax
RAF Waterbeach
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Bunce, Sidney
Frederick Sidney George Bunce
F S G Bunce
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Bunce, FSG
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Seven items. An oral history interview with Sidney Bunce (b. 1925, 3006260 Royal Air Force) notes, service material and four photographs. He served as an engine mechanic with 115 Squadron at RAF Witchford and at RAF Wratting Common with 195 Squadron.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Sidney Bunce and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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2016-11-08
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Last Bombing mission 24th April 1945
29th April - 7th May 'MANNA' to Dutch
10th May 'EXODUS' evacuating P.OWs
May/June 'BAEDEKER' low level tours of Germany to see devastation caused.
June/July POST 'MORTEM' testing high/low level saturation simulated daylight raids on Germany to test effectiveness of tactics against radar defences.
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List of immediate post war operations
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Last bombing operation on 24 April 1945, then operation Manna, Exodus, Baedecker and Post Mortem with a brief description of the operations.
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One handwritten sheet
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eng
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MBunceFSG3006260-161115-08
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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1945
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Netherlands
Germany
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Angela Gaffney
Steve Baldwin
115 Squadron
Cook’s tour
Operation Exodus (1945)
Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945)
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Madgett, Hedley Robert
H R Madgett
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250 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Hedley Madgett DFM (1922 - 1943, 147519, 1330340 Royal Air Force), a pilot with 61 Squadron. He was killed 18 August 1943 on the last operation of his tour from RAF Syerston to Peenemünde. The collection consists of letters, postcards and telegrams to his parents while he was training in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition the collection contains memorabilia, documents from the Air Training Corps, artwork, a railway map, diaries, medals as well as his logbook, photographs of people, places and aircraft. Also contains letters of condolence to parents and a sub collection containing a photograph album with 44 items of his time training in Canada'.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Joan Madgett and Carol Gibson, and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Hedley Madgett is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/114690/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/madgett-hr/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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2015-03-17
2019-06-14
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Madgett, H
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Chroni[missing letters]
[missing letters]CULATION IN EXMOUTH AND DISTRICT
[missing letter]ECEMBER 18th, 1943. [inserted] EXMOUTH CHRONICLE [/inserted]
Life Lost on Air Operations
[photograph]
Mrs. Norton, of Ebenezer, Vale-road, Exmouth, has this week received news through the Red Cross that her younger son, Flying Officer Francis Dunsford Norton, D.F.C., age 22, reported missing on August 18th last, had lost his life while on air operations and was laid to rest at Griegswald Weick, Northern Germany.
This gallant officer, who was educated at Bridgend Secondary School and finally at the Exmouth Grammar School, prior to joining the R.A.F.V.R. in 1939, was qualifying for the profession of chartered accountant.
His only brother, Searle, joined the R.A.S.C. and went overseas, taking part in the evacuation of Dunkirk.
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Life lost on operations
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Article on loss of Flying Officer Francis Dunsford Norton lost his life on 18 August 1943. Buried at Griegswald [sic] Weick.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1943-12-18
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One newspaper cutting
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eng
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NMadgettHR190610-06
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany
Germany--Greifswald
Great Britain
England--Devon
England--Exmouth
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1943-08-18
1943-12-18
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Exmouth Chronicle
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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aircrew
final resting place
killed in action
observer