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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Jean Massie]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Gibraltar]]> Pyrenees]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-08-05]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tilly Foster]]> Jean Massie]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Libya]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Oxford]]> England--Shropshire]]> Italy--Naples]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> In 1941 Charles was posted to Canada to complete training at RAF De Winton, learning to fly a Chipmunk and then converted to four engine aircraft: 'I got a pair of Air Force wings which is my pride and joy. Best thing I’ve ever done in my life'. Canada was described as being nice, vast, and cold, inhabited by friendly people, with plenty of fine food that wasn’t available in Britain. Very few details are given about wartime service. After the end of war, he went on to serve in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force as an engineer and representative of Meteor jets, which he also flown. Charles also became an Air Training Corps superintendent. Describes his involvement in one of the 550 Squadron reunions at RAF North Killingholme where they discussed Operation Manna. Talks about PA474 Phantom, a 550 Squadron aircraft.]]> Julian Maslin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jean Massie]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cambridge]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> Alberta--De Winton]]> Alberta]]> 1941]]> Brenda Jones]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Jean Massie]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Sweden]]> Atlantic Ocean--Skagerrak]]> Alberta]]> Manitoba]]> Ontario]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Devon]]> England--London]]> England--Stratford-upon-Avon]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Suffolk]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Ontario--Hamilton]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Iris met Maurice at the New Zealand Officers Club in London and they married eight months later at a church that had been bombed the day before at Clapham Common. Maurice was born in June 1922 in Newcastle. In January 1940 he joined the Royal Air Force and from 1944 he flew as a New Zealand Lancaster pilot with 75 Squadron Maurice had completed a full tour of operations. In July 2019, Norman McDonald and Alf Bannon were the only two surviving members of his crew, still alive in New Zealand. Maurice never expressed regrets about what he had done during the war. His brother Charlie had been a prisoner of war. After Maurice finished a tour in December 1944, having done four years, he and Iris went back to New Zealand. Their first daughter, Marcia, was born in 1945 and Andrea followed. They stayed in New Zealand for 19 years before returning to England. Before the war Maurice had worked in a warehouse. After the war he became manager of the linen department of a warehouse in Auckland. On return to England he got a job with Paton & Baldwin Wools.]]> Glen Turner]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Adalberto Di Corato]]> Tilly Foster]]> Jean Massie]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Balloon Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> New Zealand]]> Switzerland]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--London]]> England--Stockport]]> New Zealand--Auckland]]> Wales--Swansea]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1940]]> 1944]]> Allied troops arrived and repatriation to the United Kingdom was carried out by C-47 aircraft. On arrival in England, he and other returning men were taken to RAF Cosford where they were given baths, clean beds and new uniforms. Rehabilitation courses were provided, and John served at RAF Cranwell until he was demobbed.]]> Gary Clarke]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> Tilly Foster]]> Jean Massie]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Oberursel]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Poland]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Diepholz]]> 1943-06]]> 1944-01]]> 1944-06]]>