IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> ]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1941-12-02]]> 1946-12-11]]> 1941-12-01]]> 1947-02-05]]>
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Alan Brammer]]> Frank Schilder]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1940-01-27]]>
Five photographs. From top to bottom, left to right:

#1: Three airmen in tunics, two with brevets, sitting on a couch. Captioned: 'FRIEND'.

#2: A group of army and RAF servicemen, all wearing battledress, sitting and standing in two rows. Most have army or RAF brevet. In the background a single story hut with trees behind. It is captioned: 'BEFORE ARNHEM GLIDER PILOTS AND AIRBORNE TROOP'.

#3: Five sergeant aircrew in tunics with brevets. Seated in front, from left to right, a bomb aimer, pilot and air gunner, standing behind, left to right, a navigator and air gunner Bernard Ross. It is captioned: 'CREW'.

#4: Nine trainee airmen wearing battledress and forage caps with trainee bands and one sergeant navigator. Five are sitting and five are standing. Behind them is a corrugated iron wall or fence. The sergeant, centre-front, has a dog standing in front of him.  Bernard Ross is seated front row, second from the right. It is captioned: 'PASSING OUT WITH BOB'.

#5: Six aircrew in Sidcot flying suits, two wearing flying helmets. Bernard Ross is second from the left. Behind them is a large building. It is captioned: 'NEWLY KITTED OUT IN FLYING KIT'.

On the reverse is a handwritten list of RAF ranks and their rank badge descriptions.

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> British Army]]>
Market Gardens Veterans' Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> British Army]]> Netherlands]]> Market Gardens Veterans' Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Netherlands]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hertfordshire]]> England--Bushey]]> 1944-09]]> 1997-06-06]]> Great Britain. Air Ministry]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1942-10]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> North Africa]]> 1945-12]]> Detailed description of patrol activity at Beacon "B". Followed by detailed description of patrol activity in target area after bombing. Detailed description of patrol activity a Beacon "S". Finally short description of patrol activity to Beacon "Q" and Sylt area.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Sylt]]> Germany--Bremen]]> E W Hugh White]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Runnymede]]> India]]> India--Kohima]]> England--Surrey]]> 1953]]> Roy J de Niese]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sri Lanka--Ratmalana]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Surrey]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Saskatchewan--North Battleford]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Harrogate]]> Fiji]]> Fiji--Nadi]]> Australia]]> Saskatchewan]]> 1942-02]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-11-19]]> 1944-11]]> 1945-02]]> E Keen]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Aldershot]]> 1990-03-17]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> New Zealand]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Leeds]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Hull]]> Germany--Brunsbüttel (Schleswig-Holstein)]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Scotland--Glasgow]]> Scotland--Perth]]> Wales--Cardiff]]> 1943-08-27]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> 1943-08-23]]> R B Spencer]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> British Army]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Great Shelford]]> 1943-12-22]]> On the reverse '98 Entry B Class Halton 7.5.43' and 12 signatures.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> 1943-05-07]]> Bottom right - newspaper cutting - account of an undated operation against Skoda Works. ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter W Cunliffe]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-04-16]]> 1943-04-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> K Gill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Chatham]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> New Brunswick]]> 1942-08]]> K Gill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Ontario--Trenton]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> United States]]> Florida--Sarasota]]> Florida]]> Ontario]]> New Brunswick]]> 1942-04-22]]> The Honor Committee]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> United States Army Air Force]]> The photographs were released for publication in newspapers.
The second photograph shows extensive damage with many buildings, oil silos and transport links destroyed. A capsized ship is visible to the right of the jetty into the Loire river. Several bomb craters lie on the line of the railway to the left of the refinery.]]>
Great Britain. Air Ministry]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Stuart Cummins]]> Paul Ross]]> Geolocated]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> France--Donges]]> 1944-07]]>
Aircraft code 'G'.
On the reverse are calculations.


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EJH Roberts]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1943-06-30]]> 1943-07-01]]> Central examination board, RAF school of flying control]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]>