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Jones TJ. Aircraft photographs
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129 aircraft recognition photographs.
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Jones, PW
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Fortress
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Front quarter air-to-air view of an airborne Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
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Royal Air Force
United States Army
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Photograph
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One b/w photograph
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MJonesTJ184141-220105-120163, MJonesTJ184141-220105-120164
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B-17
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Saw, Tony
T Saw
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-12-03
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Saw, T
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An account of the resource
One item. The collection contains a German Ordinance book.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Tony Saw and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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German explosive ordnance book
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Annotated Chf Tech Ken Shaw BEM. Inside cover page with title 'German explosive ordnance (bombs, fuzes, rockets, landmines, grenades and ignitors). Includes page with publisher details and contents page. Cover has Dutch title 'Koninkluke Luchtmacht lesdictaten (Royal air Force teaching notes).
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United States Department of the Army and the Air Force
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1953-03-16
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1953-03-16
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United States
Washington (D.C.)
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Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe
United States Army Air Force
United States Army
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eng
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Text
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Three printed pages and cover
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MSawT[Ser#-DoB]-151203-01
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Ward, Hugh Vivian Toms
Ward, HVT
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38 items. The collection concerns Hugh Vivian Toms Ward (b. 1917, 1150434 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, drawings and documents and an album. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 44 and 463 Squadrons.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Patricia McCabe and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2018-02-11
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Ward, HVT
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Three aircraft dropping supplies
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Three Fairchild Packet C-82 cargo aircraft dropping supplies by parachute. Three parachutes can be seen opening, with their canisters attached below them. On the reverse is written: '13B'.
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Photograph
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One /w photograph
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PWardHVT18010003, PWardHVT18010004
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IBCC Digital Archive
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United States Army
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Ward, Hugh Vivian Toms. Album
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Doughty, James Charles
Doughty, JC
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An account of the resource
40 items. The collection concerns Sergeant James Charles (Jimmy) Doughty (1386802 Royal Air Force) and contains correspondence and photographs. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 102 Squadron and was killed 13 August 1944. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by William James Cuthbert and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW44180884 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44180884 BCX0">Additional information on James Charles Doughty</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44180884 BCX0"> is available via the</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44180884 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":200,"335559740":276}"> </span><a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/207652/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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2018-01-23
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Doughty, JC
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[postmark Cardiff 4 September 1943] [postage stamp]
[underlined] W [/underlined] 206227 Pte Doughty,
Joseph Johnsons Hostel,
1, Crescent [deleted] Hotel [/deleted] St,
Leicester
[page break]
[underlined] 1 [/underlined]
Hut J.8. 2 Squadron
No. 1. Air Crew Training Wing
RAF Station St. Athens
Glams.
S. Wales.
2-9-43.
Dear Winnie,
Sorry I have been so long answering your letter, but it has just reached me from Torquay.
This place is an enlarged version of Eastchurch, but further from a town of any size at all.
As a matter of fact we have only gone outside the camp once since we’ve been here
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
that was on Saturday afternoon, & went to the nearest town, a place called Barry, we left at 3 oclock, [sic] and we got back at 6 oclock. [sic]
We just walked round the town for about 1/2 hr went to the pictures, saw one film & got so browned off we came back.
Still all our evenings are spent either on fatigues or swotting, as we have a weekly exam here, and you are graded. A. B. & C.
A is above average
B “ average & if you get
C it means you have had it.
[page break]
[underlined] 3 [/underlined]
but on our first one today I got [underlined] A [/underlined] (I have to boast about it, because its the only one I’m ever likly [sic] to get.)
We have been doing the theory of flight so far & beleive [sic] me, there’s more on a single wing than I ever though [sic] there was on the whole of a plane.
Tonight I have just finished digging up spuds, so I don’t feel like doing any “genning” (swotting to you).
This course is pretty binding, and some off [sic] the chaps are talking about
[page break]
[underlined] 4 [/underlined]
throwing it in already, but I shall try and stick it, as I dont [sic] see how you can judge a course by one week.
We are in huts containing 30 here, and as all the chaps in the hut are from my old flight, and we all know one another its not so bad. We also have a radio in the hut and that helps a lot.
One of the chap’s has just come in with some new “gen” (information) that Saturday afternoon & Sunday
[page break]
[underlined] 5 [/underlined]
morning are now going to be working days, if that is “pukka” (correct) its just about going to put the lid upon it.
By the way please remember, the explained words, as they are used so often, you just write them down naturally.
Well we are going on to engines tommorrow [sic] having completed the first phrase [sic] of our course, so I’m going to get some shut eye, so I can get a little gen into my thick head. [deleted] [indecipherable word] [/deleted] tommorrow [sic]
[page break]
So [deleted] [indecipherable letters] [/deleted] this is the end of my episle [sic] of events ( I can heard [sic] your sigh of relief).
So best luck
Love
[underlined] Jim [/underlined] 1386802
P.S. excuse pencil as its easier than pen, when in bed.
[underlined] Jim [/underlined]
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Letter from Jimmy Doughty to his sister Winnie
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Describes camp and comments that he had only been outside once to the local town Barry. Writes of his afternoon out in Barry and describe daily evening routine of fatigues or swotting. Mentions weekly exams and grading system and how well he had done. Comments on accommodation and mentions his colleagues and that weekends would now be working days. Concludes with banter.
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J C Doughty
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1943-09-02
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1943-09-02
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Great Britain
Wales--Vale of Glamorgan
England--Leicestershire
England--Leicester
Wales--Barry
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Royal Air Force
United States Army
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eng
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Text
Text. Correspondence
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Six page handwritten letter and envelope
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Pending text-based transcription. Under review
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EDoughtyJCDoughtyW430902
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF St Athan
training
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Oates, James
J Oates
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-12-07
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Oates, J
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An account of the resource
91 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer James Oates (1489926 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents and photographs. He flew paratrooper drops and glider towing operations as a navigator with 196 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Gina E Welsh and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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The Star, June 6th 1944
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A newspaper published on D-day with news of the invasion.
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The Star
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1944-06-06
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France
France--Normandy
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Royal Air Force
British Army
United States Army
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eng
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Text
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One eight page newspaper
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SOatesJ1489926v10004
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Oates, James. Newspaper Cuttings
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1944-06-06
bombing
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952)
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1998/38057/SOatesJ1489926v10003.1.pdf
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Oates, James
J Oates
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-12-07
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Oates, J
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An account of the resource
91 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer James Oates (1489926 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents and photographs. He flew paratrooper drops and glider towing operations as a navigator with 196 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Gina E Welsh and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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The Daily Star June 8, 1944
Description
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A copy of The Star two days after D-Day. It contains war news, adverts, cartoons, local news and intimations.
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1944-06-08
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Great Britain
England--Sheffield
England--Yorkshire
France
France--Normandy
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Royal Air Force
Royal Navy
British Army
United States Army
Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe
Wehrmacht
Language
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eng
Format
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Eight printed pages
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SOatesJ1489926v10003
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Oates, James. Newspaper Cuttings
Temporal Coverage
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1944-06-08
bombing
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
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Weeden, Reginald Charles
R C Weeden
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-04-09
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Weeden, RC
Description
An account of the resource
89 items. The collection concerns Reginald Charles Weeden (b. 1922, 1602823, 153661 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, letters, documents, badges, medal ribbons and photographs. He flew operations as a navigator with 75 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Scott Weeden and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Beginning at 8 a.m., the R.A.F. pounding went on until 7 p.m. Wave after wave of planes went over in the late afternoon. Then the British artillery round the town went into action.
Visibility was perfect and the defences negligible. One air target was a coastal battery only 100 yards from the beach. It had to be pin-pointed – and it was.
The centre of the town is in flames, all civilians have left and the fortifications are softened "in preparation for the coming British assault on land," according to the German News Agency.
SAFE CONDUCTS
The enemy claimed that fire from shore batteries forced a formation of British warships to turn away.
About 4,000,000 surrender leaflets and safe conduct passes were dropped by 9th Air Force Marauders on German positions along the Channel coast last night.
They fell on isolated points of German resistance at Le Havre, Boulogne and Calais and areas in Holland. The bombers met no German aircraft, and all returned safely.
While the Havre battle reached its climax, the Canadian Army entered, without opposition, another good port – Zeebrugge, scene of the famous St. George's Day raid of the last war.
All along the coastal pocket our forces closed rapidly yesterday. The Canadians are slicing the Germans up into isolated units. They are on the outskirts of Blankenberghe, and are reported in Bruges.
TIP CAPTURED
To the south one column cut the main road from Calais to Gravelines and another reached the coast at Wissant, four miles east of Cap Gris Nez.
The Germans have flooded large areas behind Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk.
The bitter fight for another great port is reaching its final stage. Brest is slipping from the German grasp.
American troops have captured Lochrist, at the tip of the Brittany Peninsula, near the besieged fortress.
As the Allied armies closed in on the German frontiers along the whole length of the Siegfried Line they met with stiffening opposition, but an American column drove within seven miles of the frontier town of Aachen and two others crossed into Luxemburg.
An unconfirmed report from U.S. Third Army H.Q. says that American tanks have entered the city of Luxemburg. It is 10 miles from the border at the nearest point.
INTO DITCHES
Another U.S. front-line message says that the battle of the Siegfried Line began in earnest when the first shells fell yesterday on the German town of Bildchen, just across the Belgium frontier near Aachen.
A German News Agency message said: "A major Allied operation on a 60-mile front has been launched between Verviers (16 miles south-west of Aachen) and Arlon (18 miles north-west of Luxemburg).
"The Americans are using tanks on a massed scale in this operation and they have succeeded in making some gains of ground."
German troops jumped out of their escape trains in Holland and Germany yesterday, and ran for the ditches as Air-Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Second T.A.F. switched their all-out effort on to the transport lines carrying them east away from the advancing Allied forces.
MOVE BARRIERS
By mid-afternoon at least ten trains had been destroyed.
Germany attempts to reinforce the Belfort Gap have met with staggering blows from the air force.
In the last three days Allied planes have destroyed 60 loaded trains and wrecked 60 more locomotives.
Troops moving up by road were constantly harassed and a tank column was knocked out.
Marauders and Havocs of the U.S. Ninth Air Force yesterday opened their first round of the "battle of the German frontier" by bombing immediately ahead of General George Patton's southern wing to remove barriers in the path of the American Third Army's advance toward Nancy.
The Americans here captured their first Maginot line fort at the point of the bayonet.
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51 items. The collection concerns Bill Eyles DFM (900473 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book. notebooks, correspondence and photographs. He flew a tour as a bomb aimer with 78 Squadron and later a second tour with 35 Squadron Pathfinders.
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23 items. An oral history interview with Flying Officer Arthur Woolf (1922 - 2021, 1579552, 157533 Royal Air Force) his log book, a memoir, correspondence, documents, a newspaper cutting and photographs. He flew operations as a wireless operator with 630 Squadron and became a member of the Guinea Pig Club.
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[Air Crew Association Badge]
ROYAL AIRFORCE [sic] CAREER & EXPERIENCES IN WORLD WAR TWO.
F/O ARTHUR S. WOOLF.
No. 630 Squadron, No. 5 Group.
BOMBER COMMAND.
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[photograph]
R.A.F. CAREER AND EXPERIENCES IN WW2.
F/O ARTHUR S. WOOLF.
630 SQUADRON. No.5 GROUP.
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[Bomber Command Crest]
[5 Group Headquarters Crest] [630 Squadron Crest]
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R.A.F. CAREER AND EXPERIENCES IN WW2.
F/O ARTHUR S. WOOLF.
As a youngster I was always thrilled by the thought of flying, so volunteered for aircrew and eventually in 1941 reported to Padgate R.A.F. Recruitment Centre at the age of 19. I was very much a home-loving boy from a close-knit family of just four, my older brother being already in the R.A.F. was serving in the Middle East.
I was first posted to Blackpool for 'square bashing', morse code training etc. Then on to Yatesbury in Wiltshire, No.2 Radio School, after which, due apparently to a 'log jam' of trainees (or a cock-up of some sort!) we were all individually posted out to various U.K. R.A.F. stations for "Radio experience". In my case this was to Martlesham Heath, an old pre-war airfield a few miles north of Ipswich on the east coast, where I became one of the station's Signal Section, though I still wore my white flash in my forage cap and was still untrained aircrew. It was here that I 'cadged' my very first and very unofficial flight, it was on one of my off duty days. Of all things it was in an old Walrus aircraft of the Air-Sea Rescue Squadron based there. I was crammed into the tiny space available and we chugged down the East coast just a few feet above the sea. I was thrilled to pieces!.
My second flight, this time semi-official, was in a Hampden on a practice bombing trip to Orford Ness bombing range just off the east coast, when I was supposed to try to fix a u/s radio. My, I was really progressing. From a Walrus to a Hampden! I must have been mad to go anyway near either of them, but where ignorance is bliss.......
After seven or eight months at Martlesham I was posted to the Aircrew Reception Centre at St. Johns Wood, London, much to my disgust. This seemed very much like a backward step in my R.A.F. career, just doing more 'square bashing' in the local streets, but it only lasted a couple of weeks or so, when I was then moved to I.T.W. at Bridgenorth. At the end of this course, at the Passing-Out Parade, it was announced that I had achieved the highest pass marks in all the various subjects ever attained since this course had commenced and I was presented with two hundred cigarettes to mark the occasion. Being a non-smoker at that time my colleagues benefited [sic]!
My next posting was to Yatesbury again, but this time on a more advanced signals course which included flying, officially this time, on air signals training, first in De Haviland Dominies, and later in Proctors. I continued obtaining high marks in virtually all subjects and just prior to the final tests and in the middle of lectures one morning I was told to
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report to the Adjutant. Without being told why, I was questioned by him at length about my family background, my education and further studies, my interests etc., and then dismissed back to normal training with the rest of the squad. At the end of this course and before being posted to A.F.U. at Dumfries in Scotland, we were given our three stripes, although it was stressed that we were still under training and we were not to think that we could go throwing our weight around as "real sergeants"!
The A.F.U. course at Dumfries, where we flew in Ansons, lasted some two months or so and followed by O.T.U. at Upper Heyford, flying in Wellingtons, the faithful old "Wimpeys". It was here that we crewed up and it was done in the following manner. Each category of aircrew was told that they had so many days in which to find a crew, otherwise they would be "appointed" and teamed up with the "leftovers". We all felt that this would be a bit of a scourge and was to be avoided at all costs. In my own case, that evening I got talking to a Navigator type who said that he had just teamed up with the 'Yank' Pilot, Bill Adams who had crossed over from the U.S.A. into Canada to join the R.C.A.F. before the U.S. entered the war. Needless to say I agree to be their Wireless Operator and in no time at all we had a full crew, comprising a 'Yank' Pilot, and a 'Yank' Mid-Upper Gunner who had also crossed into Canada to join the R.C.A.F., a 'Canadian' Bomb Aimer (commissioned), a 'Canadian' Rear-Gunner, and three 'Brits'., one of whom was a 'Welshman' in fact.
Before we had even begun our 'Wimpey' circuits-and-bumps I was, for the second time in my R.A.F. training career, told to report to the Adjutant, where I was told, to my great astonishment, that I had been awarded my Commission. I was given a travel warrant, countless clothing coupons and a 48 hour pass to get home to Birmingham to buy all my Officer requirements, – a very extensive list was provided. For the next few weeks I almost felt like a Blackpool 'sprog' again, walking around in my brand new Pilot Officer uniform, especially in the Officer's Mess, but before too long I became Flying Officer, my uniform got to look more 'seasoned' and I became more used to the required "Officer and Gentleman" code.
After finishing our Upper Heyford O.T.U. course, during which as a crew we became quite 'bonded', possibly due as much to our off-duty time together (i.e. drinking sessions and such) as to our actual flying and training together, we were posted to Scampton.
Here, among much else, I attended courts martial, strictly under instruction I hasten to add!
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Our next move, as a crew, was to Conversion Unit No. 1654 at Wigsley, flying four-engined aircraft for the first time, the dreaded Stirling. We duly experienced here the usual type of problem that seemed to be associated with this aircraft when all flying was cancelled for a few days because of undercarriage problems. This was whilst an Air Ministry modification requirement was incorporated into all the Stations' Aircraft. It was at this time that I learned how to "play the dice" (the game of crap) from my American and Canadian co-trainees and enjoyed quite a slice of beginners luck.
Finally our last posting in training was to No.5 Lancaster Flying School at Syerston for a surprisingly rather brief conversion on to Lanc's., consisting of only sixteen hours flying training in this beautiful aircraft, over a period of two weeks. During this time I did however, on one of our training flights out over the Wash, manage to wangle a "go" in the rear turret for the one and only time and to fire off the guns into the sea.
Then we waited with somewhat bated breath and some excitement to hear which Squadron in No.5 Group we were to go to. This was to be No.630 Squadron at East Kirkby in the fenlands of Lincolnshire, about 14 miles from Boston; we were driven off in a van with all our gear, joking and laughing but all of us I think, wondering what the immediate future held.
We were allocated to 'B' Flight and the first week was spent in settling in and on day and night checks and training flights, during which time Bill Adams, our Pilot, went as "second dickie" on an operational flight. Then came our first "trip", which was to Saumer in central France to bomb an important railway junction, a flight of about 6½ hours. Boy! did that aircrew breakfast in the Mess (with an egg!) taste good after debriefing. It was a good feeling with our first "op" safely under our belt, and our initial fears now faced up to and if not overcome, then at least dealt with.
So we settled into a[deleted]n[/deleted] very busy and very exciting life. We were involved just a few hours before the D-day landings, bombing a heavy coastal battery in a bid to help to weaken the enemy defences against our invading forces.
At the briefing we were given dire warnings not to stray from the unusually circuitous route and we guessed that this was "it", the long awaited invasion of Europe, which was confirmed on awakening the following day.
In our first three weeks of action we did nine operational flights and the last of these, which was to Wesseling, just south of Cologne, to bomb a synthetic oil plant, was the "hairiest". From the time we crossed the Dutch coast to the target and back again we continuously encountered German
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night fighters, searchlights and/or heavy ack-ack, we saw many aircraft going down in flames in the darkness.
Of the thirty or so aircraft despatched from East Kirkby (Nos. 630 & 57 Squadrons) eleven were lost (77 men)!
Our ops. continued, to many varying types of targets. During one of these, on our return journey we were attacked from below by a Junkers 88 being used as a night fighter; although we immediately went into the conventional corkscrew avoiding action, his first gunburst caused some damage to the rear of the aircraft and the rear turret was put completely out of action. We were a sitting duck but either by complete luck or by brilliant shooting, Johnny Keisow, our U.S.A. Mid-Upper Gunner, scored "a Hit" although he was catching only occasional brief glimpses of the JU 88 due to the corkscrew action of our aircraft. The attack on us immediately ceased and the enemy aircraft started pulling away on a long sweep on to a reciprocal course away from us. We were able to resume normal flight and from the astrodome I was able to watch as the JU 88, now with flames coming from it, gradually lost height and after a while disappeared into the cloud-base below. We felt like giving three cheers over the intercom but it was strictly necessary to be particularly alert at this possible vulnerable time in case [inserted] any [/inserted] of the JU 88's "mates" were in the vicinity.
Our 13th op. was a daylight raid on vital bridges and German troop concentrations at Caen, where the Allied ground advance had been seriously held up. It was exciting being able for the first time to see "what was going on" in the lovely dawn sunrise, though again the ack-ack was extremely formidable and I saw a Lanc., flying in alongside us, across the French coast, receive a direct hit and just disintegrate into fragments, and any member of the crew possibly surviving was out of the question. It came as something of a shock, actually seeing the moment of destruction so close at hand, it was a case of "There [inserted] but [/inserted] for the grace of God go I".
The 14th trip was, surprisingly, also a daylight op., this time to an aircraft factory at Thiverney, a few miles north of Paris.
So on to the night of 24/25th July 1944, our 16th op., which was to Stuttgart. All went well until we were approximately over the French/German border when we were suddenly attacked by a night-fighter and suffered very considerable damage, which included the loss of our port inner engine and, not least of all, yours truly. I had been hit in the left hip and buttock and quite soon was losing blood at quite a rate. We were in some trouble and our Pilot quickly decided that we must abort the op., ditch the bombs, then head back, hoping to reach Allied Forces territory in northern France on
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which to crash-land, or to bale out. Soon however, flames began licking from the damaged engine and within a very short time the flames grew and spread rapidly and we were told to bale out. I was by now, not in a very good condition and I remember wondering whether I was going to "make it". I remember virtually nothing of getting out of the aircraft or of my parachute descent but the next thing I knew was coming-to in a field in the dark, with my parachute all around me and in addition to earlier wounds, an absolutely agonising pain in my left thigh.
On hearing voices I shouted and it proved to be a French farming family out looking for survivors of the stricken aircraft. I was carried on a step-ladder which was used as a stretcher, to a barn and there laid on straw. The French lady was extremely caring, constantly bathing my forehead and also feeding me soup.
Sometime after daybreak a French gendarme arrived and after earnest conversation with my "hosts" departed and it was not too long after there was the sound of a vehicle pulling up outside, followed by the appearance of a German soldier in the doorway. My heart sank into my shoes! I was taken in a small truck to a P.O.W. hospital in Nancy, in eastern France, where, I learned much later, I was the first 'Brit' to arrive, the other existing patients being mainly French Colonial troops, many of them originally captured in North Africa.
My first week there is more than a little vague in my mind, during which I was, apparently, somewhat delirious, due to delayed treatment for my broken femur, and probably my other wounds. Later, though still painful, my leg was put in traction by means of weights suspended from cords on pulleys over the end of my bed from a 'pin' through my knee. The resulting agony if anyone as much as brushed by [inserted] the [/inserted] weights was intense! Eventually however, after some weeks, my leg was put into what should have been plaster but was actually more like concrete, and with no padding.
This cast covered my lower torso from the waist and then on down to the ball of my left foot and on drying out became extremely tight around my ankle, I was unable to get the staff even to examine it, so I had to put up with the agony I was in.
Food was very poor, consisting largely of black beans and some sort of macaroni just boiled in water. How I longed for the lovely breakfasts and meals we had in our mess in "Blighty". We did get some Red Cross parcels which were a Godsend.
Then, suddenly, after all sorts of rumours about how near the Allied Forces were, the Germans decided to evacuate the whole hospital to Germany, with the exception of four of us, who they considered were too ill to move. We four were moved down into a cellar below the hospital and a French
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Army doctor and a French Colonial orderly were left to look after us.
One of the other three 'types' was Dickie Richardson, an R.A.F. Wireless Operator, who had been transferred from another hospital, and was very severely burned over much of his body, – he was blind, and had a hand amputated. In spite of all this and being bandaged literally from head to foot he was a wonderful character. He was a Midlander, from Worcester, knew Birmingham, and there was something of a natural affinity between us in the particular circumstances. We spent about 10 days in the cellar, fed by local nuns. Towards the end of that period shell-fire broke out on the town above (at our ceiling level), which was later followed by small-arms fire, and then we could hear tremendous cheering; the Yanks (General Patton's U.S. Third Army) had arrived!
Within a short time a U.S. infantry lieutenant had somehow been directed to us in the cellar. Cigarettes were the first order of the day. Soon after his departure U.S. 'medics' arrived to give us some basic and much needed medical attention.
Within an hour army ambulances had arrived and we were transported to a field hospital, all under canvas and a few miles from Nancy.
Subsequent transfers to other field hospitals again under canvas, took us further west during the next few days but to my dismay 'Dickie' and I became separated and I was quite upset because I somehow felt 'responsible' for him. During these moves, and much to my utter relief, my 'plaster' cast was removed by the U.S. medics, the old one was replaced by a much better quality padded cast, only to reveal two very large gangrenous-like wounds on the instep and heel of my foot, caused by the too-tight cast.
I was eventually flown back from Verdun to an airfield somewhere near Reading. I was the only 'Limey' in the hospital plane, a Dakota, the rest being all U.S. infantry stretcher cases, virtually straight from the front lines. In due course I arrived at R.A.F. Hospital, Wroughton, near Swindon, where I was treated for about two months before being transported to the Queen Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead in Sussex, the hospital base of the world famous plastic surgeon, Archibald McIndoe (later knighted), the most impressive and wonderful person I ever met and knew in my whole life. To my surprise and delight I was settled into a bed just next-but-one to 'Dickie' Richardson!
Although by comparison to most of the other patients here, who were all fliers, my medical problems seemed small, as they mostly had all been terribly burned. Even so, the gangrenous matter in my foot had eaten through three of the tendons and I came close to having the foot amputated, but in the end this was avoided and I underwent numerous skin-
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grafting operations and duly qualified as one of Archie McIndoe's (the Boss) Guinea Pigs, a matter of which I am very proud.
My hospital treatment lasted some fifteen months in all. Following this I was medically discharged from the R.A.F. but my Guinea Pig friends have remained my dearest and closest over the ensuing years since 1944 and our Annual Reunions in East Grinstead, lasting for three or four days, are something special, though only about 25% of us still survive, of which some sixty or so are now fit and well enough to attend. 'Dickie' Richardson remained a very wonderful friend and character in spite of his blindness and all his other incapacities until he passed away three years ago in 1997.
Just a few years ago after the end of the war, having through the International Red Cross, traced the whereabouts of the French farming family Dupré, who had found me and looked after me that night in 1944, I wrote to them, sent them parcels, later motored across France with my wife, on route to an Italian holiday, to meet them again and to thank them. I was greeted with flags and bunting strung across from building to building in this so very rural and tiny hamlet of Tramont Lassus in eastern France and though there were some language problems, with the aid of books, paper, arms, hands, my whiskey and their home-made Mirabelle spirit, a great time was had by all! During the day I was taken to the barn in which I had lain and also some distance across the fields etc. was shown the site of our Lanc's final demise, there still, though a little overgrown were the five indentations in the earth of our aircraft's nose and four engines, with small pieces of metal still around, one of which I was able to bring home as a souvenir. I still have it.
Many years later in the mid-1980's I had the irresistible urge to trace my old surviving crew-mates again, our two Gunners, Ross Lough (Canada) and Johnny Keisow (U.S.A.) both having been killed when we were shot down.
What a task it turned out to be and in all took me over three years. My file just grew and grew as I corresponded with all sorts of organisations, associations, groups and individuals in the U.S.A., Canada and the U.K. and finally succeeded as follows:-
Pilot, Bill Adams (U.S.A.): Died in Boston U.S.A in 1979.
Flt/Eng. Trev. Tanner: Although Welsh, settled in Western Canada and just after the war and together with my wife, I visited him on two or three occasions prior to his death in 1998.
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After our 'set-to' in 1944, shortly after bailing out, the above two teamed up and were taken under the wing of a French family, again farmers, and awaited the arrival of the Allied troops pushing east. They eventually reached the U.K. safely.
Bomb Aimer, Eddie Wood ("Woodie") (Canada): Lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and I am in regular touch, having also visited him, in the company of my wife.
Navigator, R.A. ("George") Toogood: lives in Radstock, near Bath, the nearest, yet was the most difficult to trace. We are now in regular touch and meet once or twice a year with our wives.
These two also got together after safely bailing out and undertook the very daunting and sometimes dangerous walk to neutral Switzerland, where they were interned, in reasonable conditions, until they were repatriated to the U.K.
So to the present and our autumn years. My wife and I live quietly and contentedly. I am Member (No. 1367) of the Aircrew Association, Solihull Branch, whose monthly meetings I attend as often as possible and at whose request I have put my memories on paper.
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[photograph]
A/C Arthur Woolf age 19 years in 1941
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Flying Officer A.S. Woolf recovering in an R.A.F. hospital in the West Country. November 1944.
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Photograph taken in the 1950's at Tramont Lassus, Eastern France with the French family Dupré, my 'saviours' on 24/25th July 1944.
From left to right
Rose, Myself, Charles, Henri with Mère in front.
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Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
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First page has head and shoulders portrait of Arthur Woolf wearing uniform tunic with half brevet, medal ribbons and peaked cap. Next page has badges for Bomber Command, 5 Group and 630 Squadron.
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at Blackpool, Yatesbury as radio operator and subsequently at Martlesham and Bridgnorth. Crewing up at RAF Upper Heyford while on OTU flying Wellington. This was followed by four engine training on Stirling then Lancaster before posting to 630 Squadron at RAF East Kirkby. Describes operations mentioning types of target, losses, attack by Ju-88. Continues with account of daylight operation to Caen and later Paris. Describes operation to Stuttgart in July 1944 when they were attacked by night fighter and badly damaged as well as he being injured. After aborting the operation fire forced them to bale out. Continues with account of his injuries, capture, transfer to and experiences at POW hospital near Nancy. Describes liberation by American forces and being flown back to England and then to RAF Hospital. Concludes with account of 15 month hospital treatment, discharge from the RAF, membership of the Guinea Pig Club and trying to trace members of his crew in the mid 1980s. At the end photographs of Arthur Woolf, of him in hospital and of the French family who helped him after he was shot down and injured.
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eng
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
United States Army
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Blackpool
England--Shropshire
England--Suffolk
Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Lincolnshire
Germany
Germany--Cologne
France
France--Caen
France--Paris
Germany--Stuttgart
France
France--Nancy
France--Verdun
England--Berkshire
England--Reading
France--Meurthe-et-Moselle
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1944-07-24
1944-07-25
1941
1944-11
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Babs Nichols
5 Group
630 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
bale out
bombing
C-47
crewing up
Dominie
Guinea Pig Club
Hampden
Heavy Conversion Unit
Initial Training Wing
Ju 88
killed in action
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960)
military discipline
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Operational Training Unit
prisoner of war
Proctor
promotion
RAF Bridgnorth
RAF Dumfries
RAF East Kirkby
RAF Martlesham Heath
RAF Scampton
RAF Syerston
RAF Upper Heyford
RAF Wigsley
RAF Wroughton
RAF Yatesbury
shot down
Stirling
training
Walrus
Wellington
wireless operator
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Woolf, Arthur Sidney
A S Woolf
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An account of the resource
23 items. An oral history interview with Flying Officer Arthur Woolf (1922 - 2021, 1579552, 157533 Royal Air Force) his log book, a memoir, correspondence, documents, a newspaper cutting and photographs. He flew operations as a wireless operator with 630 Squadron and became a member of the Guinea Pig Club.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Arthur Woolf and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2017-06-29
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Woolf, AS
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FREED BY AMERICANS, FLOWN BACK HOME
FLYING OFFICER A.S. WOOLF, of Erdington, member of a bomber crew forced to bale out during a raid on Stuttgart, received leg injuries in landing and was taken prisoner. Later he was transferred to a German hospital near Nancy, where he remained for two months before being freed by American forces. He was flown to this country, and is now making good progress at an R.A.F. hospital in the West Country.
[picture]
[Page break]
Japan ceases to be Great Naval Power
THE extent of the damage inflicted on the Japanese Fleet by the American Navy in the triple battle of the Philippines was so great that it is considered impossible for Japanese shipyards to repair the damage in reasonable time ever again to challenge the now undisputed sea power of the U.S.
Not a single major ship got away undamaged, and if the Americans are able to bring the destructive power of their great air arm to bear on Japan’s [missing words] the Japanese Fleet will be out for good.
The entire Japanese carrier fleet is believed to have been destroyed, says Reuter.
Three carriers have been listed as sunk in the Japanese force which Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet smashed between Formosa and Luzon, and there is no evidence any carriers escaped.
The Japanese are not believed to possess any other carriers ready for action although some are being built.
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Freed by Americans flown back home
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Account of Flying Officer A S Woolf baling out of bomber after an attack on Stuttgart, injured and transferred to German hospital near Nancy he was liberated by American forces and flown home. On the reverse 'Japan ceases to be great naval power' article.
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One newspaper cutting
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eng
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NWoolfAS170629-01
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
United States Army
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France
France--Nancy
Germany
Germany--Stuttgart
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David Bloomfield
Anne-Marie Watson
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bale out
prisoner of war
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Woolf, Arthur Sidney
A S Woolf
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An account of the resource
23 items. An oral history interview with Flying Officer Arthur Woolf (1922 - 2021, 1579552, 157533 Royal Air Force) his log book, a memoir, correspondence, documents, a newspaper cutting and photographs. He flew operations as a wireless operator with 630 Squadron and became a member of the Guinea Pig Club.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Arthur Woolf and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-06-29
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Woolf, AS
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[envelope front]
F.O. Arthur Woolf 157533
RAF Station East Kirkby
Near Boston, Lincolnshire
[Post Office Stamp]
ARMY POSTAL SERVICE SEP 16 1944
Mr. and Mrs. Woolf
31 Ismere Road
Birmingham
England
[[page break]
Sept 15, 1944
Dear Mum and Dad,
I am now in a medical installation of the army of the United States, I’m getting better, so please don’t worry. Please inform Sheila. Will soon be able to write myself.
All my love,
Arthur
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Letter from Arthur Woolf to his parents
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Informs them he is in a United States Army medical facility and getting better.
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A Woolf
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1944-09-15
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One page handwritten letter and envelope
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eng
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EWoolfASWoolfC-[Mo]440915
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
United States Army
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Great Britain
England--West Midlands
England--Birmingham
England--Lincolnshire
England--Warwickshire
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1944-09-15
1944-09-16
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David Bloomfield
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RAF East Kirkby
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Brooks, William Alfred
W A Brooks
Brooks, Chunky
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2020-01-17
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Brooks, WA
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37 items. The collection concerns William Alfred Brooks (b. 1922, 1318320 Royal Air Force). He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 10 Squadron before being shot down and becoming a prisoner of war. The collections contains photographs and correspondence and his prisoner of war log. The collection also contains a photo album of military service in Singapore.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Peter Nicol and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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A crowd of prisoners of war
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Large closely packed crowd, some US army soldiers in foreground.
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PBrooksWA2002
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United States Army
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prisoner of war
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Altar of the Fatherland
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Altar of the Fatherland with US Army cars and others in front. On the reverse 'The Kings Palace Naples'.
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010127,
PSeaggerA16010128
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Civilian
United States Army
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Italy
Italy--Rome
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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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12 Photographs of Second Camp Stalag 3A
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Photo 1 captioned 'View of Sleeping Bunks', shows three tiers of bunks.
Photo 2 captioned 'Table and Bench Seat' shows two men at the table, one seated.
Photo 3 is of a church, captioned 'Converted Hut by Russian POW for Worshipping'.
Photo 4 is of rows of tents with men squatting and eating, captioned 'View of American Compound'.
Photo 5 is looking through barbed wire at prisoners walking in a circle, captioned 'Daily Exercise walking perimeter of compound'.
Photo 6 is of five people in uniform, one man has an accordion, captioned 'Group of Russian's [sic] soon after our release'.
Photo 7 is a cemetery, captioned 'View of Local Cemetery. Attended funeral, Basingstoke lad buried here'.
Photo 8 is a tented area, fence with washing on it and people walking about, captioned 'Another view of American compound'.
Photo 9 is of four men using a pole to carry a large cooking pot, captioned 'Soup ration for 250 men +F'.
Photo 10 is of a football match watched by large numbers of prisoners, captioned 'Playing Fields'.
Photo 11 is of prisoners and American troops captioned 'First Americans to arrive speaking of there [sic] plans for us'.
Photo 12 is of two topless men with their hands raised, by a wall. Two soldiers with rifles are standing facing them. A third soldier is standing by the prisoners. It is captioned 'Photograph in camera when found'.
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1945
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12 b/w photographs from a scrapbook (two to a page)
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eng
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Photograph
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SHookerFJ1805487v10013,
SHookerFJ1805487v10014,
SHookerFJ1805487v10015,
SHookerFJ1805487v10016,
SHookerFJ1805487v10017,
SHookerFJ1805487v10018
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Royal Air Force
United States Army Air Force
United States Army
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Germany
Germany--Luckenwalde
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1945
final resting place
prisoner of war
sport
Stalag 3A
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Brooker, William Harry
W H Brooker
Miller James
J Miller
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An account of the resource
11 items. The collection concerns brothers in law James Miller (b. 1919) and
William Harry Brooker (b.1920). It contains propaganda leaflets, two photographs, a NSDAP Car flag, documents and a memoir.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Ann Brookfield and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-04-02
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Brooker, WH-Miller, J
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STERNENBANNER
Herausgeber : U.S.A. Kriegsinformationsamt London, 29. November 1943
[photograph]
Ein verwundeter deutscher Soldat wird in Italien von einem amerikanischen Soldaten des Sanitätskorps in Sicherheit gebracht. Gegen Ende November waren kaum bedeutende Veränderungen an der italienischen Front zu verzeichnen. Die alliierten Armeen erzielten örtliche Bodengewinne und verbesserten, trotz heftigen deutschen Widerstandes, ihre Stellungen.
“Ein Flugzeug alle fünf Minuten”
Ein amtlicher Bericht des USA Kriegsproduktionsamtes enthüllte, das simmer grördert warden. Charles E. Wilson, der stellvertretende Leiter dieses Amtes, gab hierzu folgende Einzelheiten bekannt:
“Seit Juli 1940 wurden in Amerika mehr als 140.000 Militärflugzeuge fertiggestellt, Im Oktober bauten wir 8.362 Maschinen, was einer Jahresproduktion von 100.000 Flugzeugen entspicht. In anderen Worten – beinahe alle fünf Minute nein Flugzeug. Noch wichtiger ist die Tatsache, dass wir der Erzeugung grosser vielmotoriger Maschinen, die kriegswichtige Ziele in allen Teilen Europas und Japans angreifen können, grösste Bedeutung beimessen. Im Oktober beispielsweise haben wir dreimal so viele viermotorige Bomber hergestellt, wie im vergangenen Januar. Unsere Bomberproduktion hat sich, verglichen mit Januar, im Oktober verdoppelt. Wir haben jedoch noch keineswegs unsere industrielle Leistungsfähigkeit voll ausgenützt.”
“Seit Juli 1940 haben wir mehr als 30.000 Schiffe aller Kategorien gebaut. In dieser Zahl sind nahezu 600 Kriegsschiffe für unsere Flotte – Schlachtschiffe, Kreuzer, Flugzeugträger, Zerstörer, Unterseeboote und andere Kriegsschiffe inbegriffen.”
“Die grosse Anzahl der von uns konstruierten neuen Kriegs- und Handelsschiffe ermöglicht e suns, Duetschland und Japan entscheidende Schläge zu versetzen.”
Neuer Höhepunkt der alliierten Luftoffensive
Die grosse alliierte Luftoffensive erreichte gegen Ende November einen neuen Höhepunkt. Kriegswichtige Ziele in vielen Teilen des Reiches und der Vasallenländer wurden in den letzten November – wochen von Westen und Süden, bei Tag und Nacht, von gewaltigen britischen und amerikanischen Bombergeschwadern angegriffen.
Berlin wurde damit zu der am schwersten bombardierten Start der Welt. In den drei Nachtangriffen – vom 18. auf den 19., 22. auf den 23. und 23. auf den 24. November – fielen allein mehr als 5.000.000 kg Bomben auf die Reichshauptstadt.
Das wuchtigste Bombardement erfolgte in der Nacht vom 22. auf den 23. November. Gegen acht Uhr abends hatte Berlin Fliegeralarm, 2.300.000 kg Bomben auf die Reichshauptstadt abgeworfen – mit anderen Worten ungefähr 77.000 kg in der Minute oder mehr als 1.250 kg in der Sekunde. Von den eingesetzten mächtigen Bomberverbänden kehrten 26 Maschinen nicht zurück.
Die RAF versetzte Berlin dabit in einer einzigen Nacht einen Schag, der fünfmal so heftig war, wie der konzentrierteste Angriff der Luftwaffe auf London.
In der darauffolgendemn Nacht unternahmen Bomberkräfte einen weiteren Grossangriff auf Berlin. Der Widerstand seitens der Nachtjäger war bei beiden Einflügen verhältnismässig gering und auch der Flak gelang es nicht, wirkungsvoll einzugreifen. 20 alliierte Bomber wurden hierbei vermisst.
Der Umfang und die zunehmende Wucht der alliierten Luftoffensive sind klar aus den nachstehenden Ziffern ersichtlich, welche die auf deutsche Industriestädte in diesem Jahre bis zum 25. November gefallenen Bombenlasten angeben:
Berlin 12.000.000 kg
Hamburg 10.000.000 kg
Essen 8.000.000 kg
Hannover 8.000.000 kg
Köln 8.000.000 kg
Mannheim-Lugwigshafen 7.000.000 kg
Berlin ist ein äusserst wichtiges Angriffsziel als Reichshauptstadt und Sitz der Nationalsozialistischen Partei; seine Rüstungswerke beschäftigen 10% der gesamten deutschen Industriearbeiterschaft; es ist der führende Bahn- und Flugverkehrsknotenpunkt Europas, da dort die 12 bedeutendsten Eisenbahnlinien zusammenlaufen.
In einer Betrachtung über die verstärkte Flugtätigkeit gegen Berlin schrieb der Londoner Evening Standard am 23. November: “Die deutsche Haupstaqdt erhält jetzt eine Kostprobe des gleichen ‘totalen Krieges’, den das deutsche Oberkommando vor zwei Jahren, allerdings mit unzuriechenden Waffen gegen England zu führen versuchte.”
Im November richteten sich Fliegerangriffe gegen viele kriegswichtige Anlagen in den deutsch-besetzten und Satellitenstaaten. Rüstungswerke, und Verkehrswege in Norwegen, Frankreich, Bulgarien, Italien und Griechenland erlitten Beschädigungen. Sofia, eines der wichtigsten Verkehrszentren im Balken, wurde zweimal von amerikanischen Kampfflugzeugen bombardiert.
Dieser Monat began mit dem dritten schweren Angriff auf die gewaltigen Messerschmitt-Werke in Wiener Neustadt in Österreich, der von amerikanischen Liberator-Bombern der neuen 15. Luftflotte ausgeführt wurde. Sie hat die Aufgabe, deutsche militärische und wehrwirtschaftliche Ziele vom Süden her anzugreifen.
Mitte November erfolgten von England, Nordafrika und Italien aus, heftige alliierte Luftangriffe auf die Verkehrslinien, die von Deutschland und Frankreich nach Itanien führen.
Am 16. November wurden Deutschlands wichtigster Bezugsquelle von Molybdän – das zur Härtung von Stahl und Erzeugung von Werkzeugmaschinen benötigt wird – von schweren alliierden Bombern, die von England aus Knaben in Norwegen angriffen, erhebliche Beschädigungen zugefügt. Luftaufnahmen zeigten Bombentreffer im Bergwerksgebiet und den Gebäuden, in denen die Molydbän-Erze der ganzen Umgebung verarbeitet warden.
Zwei Tage später flogen alliierte Luftstreitkräfte wieder in Norwegen ein und bombardierten die Reparatur- und Instandhaltungswerkstätten der Luftwaffe in Kjeller, in der Nähe von Oslo.
Deutsche Fligplätze in Griechenland und auf Kreta wurden vom Süden und Flugfelder in Frankreich und den Niederlanden vom Westen her, angegriffen.
Am 26. November griff der stärkste Verband schwerer amerikanischer Bomber, der jemals von Stützpunkten in England bei des Flottenstützpunktes Brenen an. Selbst der gewaltige Fliegerangriff auf Wilhelmshaven, der am 3. November erfolgte, wurde damit in den Schatten gestellt. Von den Operationen dieses Tages, an dem leichte und mittlere Kampfflugzeuge auch militärische Ziele in Frankreich bombardierten, kehrten 34 alliierte Bomber und 5 Jäger nicht zurück. 61 deutsche Maschinen wurden abgeschossen.
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Der Kommandant eines deutschen U-bootes spricht mit einem amerikanischen Offizier an Bord eines Flugzeugträgers, dessen Maschinen das Unterseeboot im Atlantik versenkten. Im August, September und Oktober wurden 60 deutsche U-Boote, einer amtlichen alliierten Verlautbarung vom 10. November zufolge, zerstört.
Alliierte Hilfe für Kriegsopfer
President Roosevelt übermittelte dem Kongress, im Zusammenhang mit dem Hilfs-und Wiederaufbauabkommen, folgende Botschaft:
“Die Vertreter von 43 Nationen und Völkern haben gemeinsam mit unserer Regierung am 9. November 1943 eine Vereinbarung zur Schaffung eines internationalen Amtes für Hilfe und Wiederaufbau unterzeichnet, dessen Aufgabe es ist, den befreitten Gebieten beizustehen.”
“Die Organisation wird die befreiten Völker mit Medikamenten, Lebensmitteln, Kleidern und anderen dringend benötigten Artikern des täglichen Bedarfes versorgen, um ihre Lebenskraft wiederherzustellen; den der Feind hat die unterworfenen Länder ausgeplündert, um die Kriegsmaschine der Achsenmächte zu stärken.”
“Das Amt für Hilfe und Wiederaufbau wird jedoch nur die ersten Schritte in dem gewaltigen Hilfswerk für die Opfer des Krieges ergreifen können. Den grössten Teil dieser Aufgabe warden die befreiten Völker selbst zu lösen haben. Es kann die befreiten Nationen nur darin unterstützen, sich selbst zu helfen, um die Kraft wiederzugewinnen, ihre zerstörten Heimstätten, ihre verwüsteten Fabfiken und ihre ausgeplünderten Bauernhöfe wiederaufzubauen.”
“Der Krieg könnte wesentlich verkürzt warden, wenn die Volksmassen der Gebiete, die wir befrieen, organisiert warden, um den Armeen der Vereinten Nationen beizustehen.”
“Eine neue französische Armee, wurde
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Auf dieser Konferenz in Hot Springs in den Vereinigten Staaten wurden Uebereinkommen hinsichtlich des Amtes der Vereinten Nationen für Hilfe und Wiederaufbau getroffen. Am 9. November unterzeichneten 44 Nationen, die 88% der Bevölkerung der Welt verkörpern, ein gegenseitiges Hilfsabkommen zur Behebung der Verwüstungen dieser Krieges.
Wie deutsche Kriegsgefangene in den Vereinigten Staaten leben
In einem abgeleegenen Tal am Fusse des Alleghany Gebirges in West-Virginia befindet sich ein Lager, in dem mehr als tausend junge Deutsche untergebracht sind. Sie verrichten dort ihre Arbeiten, spielen Fussball, singen Volkslieder. Die von ihnen verzehrten Speisen sind von Köchen aus ihrer Mitte zubereitet.
Diese Deutsc hen sind Kriegsgefangene. Die moisten gehörten in Nordafrika gekämpft. Sie stamen aus allen Teilen des Reiches.
Die Kriegsgefangenen sind in Kompanien von je 250 Mann eingeteilt. Da es in diesem Lager keine Offiziere gibt, können sie ihre Führer aus der Riehe der Unteroffiziere wählen.
Je 50 Mann bewohnen eine Baracke. Radioapparate stehen zu ihrer Verfügung. Es steht ihnen frei, amerikanische Zeitungen in englischer und deutscher Sprache zu lessen. Sie stellten bald fest, dass die amerikanische Presse neben den alliierten auch die deutschen Wehrmachtsberichte im Wortlaut veröffentlicht. Die Kriegsgefangenen erkannten ferner, dass es den amerikanischen Zeitungen nicht darum zu tun ist, ihren Lesern ein einseitiges Bild der aktuellen Ereignisse zu vermitteln. Selbst mitten im Kriege scheuen sie sich nicht, die Politik ihrer Regierung zu kritisieren.
Apfelstrudel und Backhuhn
Die Kriegsgefangenen erhalten die gleiche Kost, wie amerikanische Soldaten ihres Dienstgrades. Sie bereiten sich das Essen selbst auf deutsche Art zu, verwandeln die Zutaten für einen amelikanischen Apfelkuchen in einen Apfelstrudel und ziehen einem amerikanischen Backhuhn ein Brathuhn mit Füllung vor. Man kann sich von jedem Gericht soviel nehmen, wie man will.
Von Zeit zu Zeit treffen Liebesgabenpakete aus der Heimat ein, die moistens Süssigkeiten und Tabak enthalten.
Die Kriegsgefangenen stehen um halb sieben Uhr früh auf und um 11 Uhr nachts wird das Licht ausgelöscht. Sie betätigen sich als Tischler, reparieren Schuhe und reinigen ihre Wäsche; ausserhalb des Lagers arbeiten sie bei Bauern der Umgebung. Für ihre Arbeit im Lager bekommen sie täglich 80 cents (4 Reichsmark). Die Hälfte ihres Lohnes wird, für die Zeit nach dem Krieg, in einer Bank hinderlegt, die andere Hälfte sie sich in der Kantine Zigaretten, Schokolade oder leichte Getränke kaufen können.
Fussball ist der beliebteste Sport in der Freizeit. Es wird viel gesungen, Lieder aus alter Zeit, Lieder von “Wein und Weib,” vom Mondschein und dem Vaterland.
Kein Fluchtversuch
Bisher ist noch niemals ein Fluchtversuch unternommen worden. Eines Nachts wurdwn 200 Kriegsgefangene aufgeboten, um ein Waldfeuer zu löschen; sie arbeiteten in einem ferngelegenen Wald bis zum Morgengrauen mit langen Messern, Äxten und Pickeln. Aber nicht ein einziger versuchte zu entkommen. Die disziplin im Lager und die Moral der Leute sind ausgezeichnet.
Speisekarte aus einem Kriegsgefangenenlager
Auf Grund von Kapitel II, Artikel II, Vertragsnummer 846, Genfer Konvention vom 27. Juli 1929, entsprechen die Rationen für Kriegsgefangene, die sich in amerikanischen Händen befinden, derjenigen der Soldaten des amerikanischen Heeres.
Eine typische Speisekarte, aus einem amerikanischen Kriegsgefangenenlager, ist nachstehend abgedruckt:
Frühstück: Pfirsichkompott, Haferflocken, Milch, Rührcier, Marmelade, Butter, geröstete Brotscheiben, Kaffee.
Mittagessen: Tomatenscheiben, Rinderbraten, Bratkartoffeln, gebakkener Kürbis, Brot, Butter, Pfirsiche, heisser Kakao.
Abendessen: Gebratene Wurst, Bohnengemüse, Käse, Salzkartoffeln, Brot, Apfelmarmelade, Nachspeise, Kaffee.
Cordell Hull: “Sicherheit für Allen ach diesem Kriege”
Staatssekretär Cordell Hull erstattete am 18. November dem Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten in Washington einen Bericht über die Moskauer Konferenz.
Als Cordell Hull den Sitzungssaal betrat, in dem sich die Mitglieder des Senats und des Repräsentantenhauses versammelt hatten, begrüsste ihn ein Sturm des amerikanischen Nation an den Staatsmann, der trotz seiner 72 Jahre die lange und anstrengende Lreise von Washington nach Moskau unternommen hatte, um an der Konferenz teilzunehmen.
Cordell Hull erklärte:
“Der Krieg hat einen Punkt erreicht, da sich die Vereinten Nationen in jedem Teil der Welt in der Offensive befinden. Unsere Feinde erleiden eine Niederlage nach der anderen. Die Zeit wird kommen, wenn ihr verzweifeltes Unternehmen die Welt zu zerstören, endgültig vernichtet sein wird.”
“Aber während wir alle unsere Kräfte sammeln, um den Kreig zu gewinnen, sahen wir ganz klar ein, dass die Früchte des Sieges uns leicht verloren gehen könnten, wenn wir uns nicht über jene wesentlichen Grundsätze einegen, die die Wiederkehr der Tragödie eines Kreiges unmöglich Machen. Es war uns ebenso klar, dass unverzüglich eine Organisation geschaffen warden müsste, die diese Grundsätze zur Geltung bringt. Die Moskauer Konferenz bedeutet einen wichtigen schritt sowohl in unserem Bemühen, den Kreig zu verkürzen, als auch für die Zukunft vorzukehren.”
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Cordell Hull
“Die Konferenz war vom ungeheuren Umschwung in der militärischen Lage beherrscht. So schwer die Aufgaben noch sind, die wir zu bewältigen haben, es wird immer klarer, dass in naher Zukunft dem Fein dimmer mehr Gebiete entrissen warden und dass “Deutschland selbst mit seinen Vasallen den Weg des faschistischen Italiens wird gehen müssen. Diese Umstände haben neue Probleme erzeugt, die durch gemeinsame Aktionen der Alliierten gemeistert warden müssen. Unsere Beratungen in Moskau behandelten die Aktionen, die notwendig sind, um das Ende des Krieges zu beschleunigen, ferner die Pläne für die Zeit unmittelbar nach dem Kriegsende und endlich die Grundpläne für die Nachkriegswelt.”
“Wir haben uns verständigt und wichtige Vereinbarungen abgeschlossen. Es gibt keine Geheimverträge, niemand hat solche vorgeschlagen.”
“Es war uns Amerikanern eine besondere Genugtuung, dass dieser Grundsatz beschlossen wurde, den nirgendwo hat dieser Grundsatz weitere Anwendung gefunden als in der Familie der amerikanischen Nationen.”
Cordell Hull betonte die Wichtigkeit der Erklärung der vier Grossmächte, dass sie nach dem Ende der Feindse’igkeiten ihre Streitkräfte nicht auf Gebieten anderer Staaten einsetzen warden, ausser für jene Zwecke, die in der Erklärung ins Auge gefasst wurden; aber auch dann nur nach gemeinsamer Beratung.
“Mit dieser Erklärung,” fuhr Cordell Hull fort, “haben die Vereinigten Staaten, Grossbritannien, die Sowjetunion und China die Grundlagen gemeinsamer Arbeit für den Aufbau einer Welt gelegt, die es allen friedliebenden Nationen – gleichviel ob gross oder klein – ermöglichen wird, in Frieden und Sicherheit zu leben, die Frieheiten und Rechte eines zivilisierten Daseins zu bewahren und an den wachsenden Möglichkeiten wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und geistigen Fortschritts teilzuhaben.”
“Die Moskauer Konferenz beschloss, einen europäisischen beratenden Ausschuss mit dem Sitz in London einzusetzen. Er selbst wird keine executive Gewalt besitzen. Seine einzige Aufgabe wird es sein, die Regierungen der Vereinigten Staaten, Grossbritanniens und der Sowjetunion zu beraten und nicht-militärische Probleme in Beziehung zu den feindlichen Gebieten zu behandein.”
“Für die Behandlung der Probleme, die sich aus der Unterwerfung Italiens ergeben, wurde ein Rat eingesetzt, dem ausser den Vertretern der drei Grossmächte, Vertretern des französischen Komitees der Nationalen Befreiung und der jugoslawischen und griechischen Regierungen angehören warden.”
“In ihrer Erklärung über Italien hat die Konferenz eine Anzahl von Grundsätzen entwickelt, die für die demokratische Wiederherstellung des inneren politischen Aufbaues des Landes massgebend sein warden. Diese Grundsätze,wie Religionsfreiheit, Rede- und Versammlungsfreiheit und Pressefreiheit, bilden die grundlegenden Menschenrechte jeder zivilisierten Gemeinschaft.”
“Die Konferenz hat ferner den gewalt samen Raub des unglücklichen Österreichs als null und nichtig erklärt. Österreichs soll al sein freier und unabhängiger Staat wieder aufgerichtet warden. Gleichzeitig wurde jedoch dem österreichischen Volke zur Kenntnis gebracht, dass die Behandlung Österreichs nach einer endgültigen Prüfung vom Ausmass des Beitrages abhängig sein wird, den das österreichische Volk selbst für die Besiegung Deutschlands und Befreiung seines eigenen Landes leistet.”
“Die Konferenz bot auch die Gelegenheit, für eine feierliche Erklärung der Regierungschefs der drei Grossmächte über die barbarischen und verabscheuungswürdigen Verbrechen, die von den Naziführern an den gehetzten und verfolgten Einwohnern der besetzten Gebiete verübt wunden. Ihre Opfer sind Angehörige aller Rassen und Religionen. Aber die Juden hat Hitler als besondere Opfer seiner brutalen Wut ausersehen. Alle diese Verbrechen warden ihre angemessene Bestrafung finden.”
“Von überragendster Bedeutung war jedoch der Geist internationaler Zusammenarbeit, der die Konferenz beherrschte und seinen praktischen Ausdruck in den wie auch für die Nachkriegszeit, fand.”
“Ich bin als Amerikaner stolz,” so schloss Cordell Hull, “dass die beiden Häuser des Kongresses mit überwältigen den. Mehrheiten in Beschlüssen ihren Willen ausgesorochen haben, dass unser Land mit anderen souveränen Nationen am Aufbau eines wirksamen Systems internationaler Zusammenarbeit teilnehme, eines Systems, das den Weltfreiden sichert.”
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Amerikanisches Allerlei
Die Neue Schule für Sozialforschung in New York feierte im Herbst ihren zehnten Gründungstag. In 1933 hoffte Dr. Alvin Johnson ein Institut zu schaffen, um deutschen Wissenschaftlern, durch Hitler ihrer Posten beraubt, die Möglichkeit zu geben, wieder ihren Beruf ausüben zu können. Dadurch, dass den deutschen Gelehrten in rascher Reihenfolge die Wissenschafter Österreichs, der Tschechoslowakei, Italiens, Frankreichs, Polens, Belgiens, Norwegens und Griechenlands folgten, entwickelte sich das bescheiden begonnene Institut innerhalb kurzer Zeit zu einer der führenden Schulen für Sozialwissenschaften. Die Fakultät, die ursprünglich nur 10 deutsche Lehrer zählte, wuchs auf 22 Dauer- und 11 GastProfessoren an. sowie sechs Dozenten und viele Assistenten.
Im letzten Jahr hat sich Amerikas Eisenbahnverkehr fast verdoppelt: 24 Stunden im Tag fährt alle sechs Minute nein Truppentransport los, und alle vier Sekunden ein Güterzug ab.
Philip Murray, Präsident der CIO (Congress of Industrial Orgamisations), einer der grössten Arbeitervereinigungen Amerikas, sprach über die Judenverfolgungen in Dänemark: “Voller Genugtung erfahren wir, dass ungefähr 5.000 dänische Juden und 3.000 weitere Dänen nach Schweden entkommen sind. Die menschliche Art und Weise, in der Schweden den Verfolgten Unterkunft gewährt hat, verdient die grösste Anerkennung. Die dänische Arbeiterschaft hat uns bewiesen, dass es ihr nicht an Mut fehlt. Der von jeher bekannte dänische Gerechtigkeitssinn hat sich wiederum durchgesetzt: - Die dänischen Arbeiter haben sich nicht von den Nazis einschüchtern lassen und sind ihren jüdischen Kameraden brav zur Seite gestanden.”
Der Leiter des amerikanischen Wohnbauamtes erklärte, dass im Rahmen des Kriegswohnbauprogrammes, bis zum 1. November dieses Jahres 600.000 Wohnhäuser gebaut wurden. Über 80.000 weitere Wohnhäuser sin dim Bau.
Amerikanische Elitetruppen beteiligten sic him November an grossangelegten Manövern an der englischen Küste. Dies gehört zu ihrer Ausbildung für die “Zweite Front.”
Bei den Manövern wurden Panzerkampfwagen, Artillerie, Pakverbände, Flammenwerfer, mittlere Bomber, Jäger und neuartige Waffen, die bei Landungsoperationen zum Einsatz kommen warden, verwendet.
Die Bilder auf dieser Seite zeigen interessante Einzelheiten dieser Invasionsübungen:
1. Truppen in voller Ausrüstung benützen Netze, mit deren Hilfe sie schnell von der Schiffen in die Landungsboote gelangen können.
2. Die Soldaten stürmen mit ihrer Ausrüstung ans Ufer.
3. Diese Amphibien-Fahrzeuge bewegen sich ebenso gut zu Lande, wie zu Wasser. Sie versorgen die Truppen am Ufer mit Kriegsmaterial und anderen Vorräten, die auf Schiffen mitgeführt wurden.
4. Ein M-4 Tank überwindet alle Geländeschwierigkeiten.
5. Die hier abgebildete Waffe ist ein für die Bekämpfung von Panzerwagen bestimmtes Raketengeschütz. Die amerikanischen Soldaten nennen es “Bazooka.” Zwei Mann genügen zu seiner Bedienung, es wiegt nicht viel und wird wie ein Gewehr gehandhabt. In Nordafrika, Sizilien und Italien hat es sich ausserordentlich gut bewährt.
Die Invasionsübungen sollten einer wirklichen Schlacht, soweit als möglich, gleichen. Es wunde scharf geschossen, Explosionen von Füllpulver 31 ereigneten sich, Stacheldraht, natürliche und künstliche Hindernisse alle Art, mussten überwunden warden, um die Verhältnisse an der Front realistisch darzustellen.
Wachsende USA Hilfe für die Sowjetunion
In Washington wurden im November die neuesten Ziffern über das, der Sowjetunion im Rahmen des Leih- und Pachtabkommens gelieferte Kriegmaterial, amtlich bekanntgegeben.
Die nachstehenden Mengen von Kriegsmaterial wurden bis zum 30. September 1943 in die U.S.S.R. befördert:
Mehr als 6.500 Flugzeuge
Mehr als 3.000 Panzerkampfwagen
Mehr als 125.000 Maschinenpistolen
Mehr als 145.000 Lastkraftwagen
Mehr als 25.000 PKW
Mehr als 200.000 Feldtelphone
Mehr als 1.000.000 Tonnen Stahl und Stahlprodukte
Mehr als 300.000 Tonnen nicht-eisenhaltiger Metalle
Mehr als 300.000 Tonnen Chemikalien und Sprengstoffe
Mehr als 500.000 Tonnen PetroleumProdukte.
Die nach der Sowjetunion verschifften Nahrungsmittel, die hauptsächlich aus Weizen, Mehl, Fleisch, Ölen und Fetten bestanden, hatten den Zweck, den Verlust der von den deutschen Truppen besetzten fruchtbaren Gerbiete auszugleichen. Mehr als 10.000 Tonnen Saatgetreide wurden ebenfalls nach Russland geschafft. Obwohl Nahrungsmittel nur einen Bruchteil der amerikanischen Gesamtlieferungen bildeten, haben sie sich doch als ausserordentliche Hilfe für die russischen Streitkräfte und die Zivilbevölkerung erwiesen.
USA Lebensmittelproduktion
Claude Wickard, der Leiter des amerikanischen Landwirtschaftsamtes, gab bekannt: “Die Landwirtschaftsproduktion in den Vereinigten ~Staaen ist dieses Jahr um ungefähr 43 Prozent höher als während derselben Zeitspanne im ersten Weltkrieg.
Alliierte Hilfe
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zum Beispiel, bereits geschaffen. Immer mehr Italiener aus Sizilien und Italien kämpfen bereits Schulter an Schulter mit den Soldaten der Vereinten Nationen auf ihrem Marsch nach Berlin. Viele sind mit dem Bau von Strassen und militärischen Einrcihtungen beschäftigt, die unsere Kriegsoperationen erfordern. Millionen warten auf den Augenblick, wenn auch sie zum Schlag gegen den Feind ausholen können.”
“Diese Völker woollen keine milden Gaben. Sie woollen die Kraft wiederfinden, um zu kämpfen und ihren Anteil zur Sicherung des Friedens beizutragen. Den befreiten Nationen während des Krieges zu helfen, ist eine militärische Notwendigkeit, aber auch ein Gebot der Menschlichkeit.”
“Die Verwüstungen und Zerrüttungen, welche die Kriegsmaschinen der Deutschen und Japaner verursacht haben, sind so ungeheuer, dass dieser Weltkatastrophe nur durch eine gemeinsame Aktion der 44 Vereinten Nationen Einhalt geboten warden kann. Die Vereinbarung, die das Amt für Hilfe und Wiederaufbau ins Leben rief, sieht daher vor, dass jede Nation, ihren Mitteln entsprechend, zu diesem gemeinsamen Werk beitragen soll. Jede Nation wird selbst entscheiden, wieveil und was sie beisteuern kann.”
“Die Art und die Grösse des Beitrages der Vereinigten Staaten wird, im Einklang mit den Bestimmungen des Hilfs-und Wiederaufbauabkommens, vom Kongress auf verfassungsmässige Weise festgesetzt warden.”
“Vorläufig empfehle ich dem Kongress, einen Gesetzesentwurf anzunehmen, der die Mittel bereitstellt, um den Vereinigten Staaten die Teilnahme am Amte für Hilfe und Wiederaufbau zu gestatten.”
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
Neue Ölanlage
Die Sun Oil Company hat in Pennsylvanien die grösste Anlage zur Herstellung hochgradigen Flugzeugbenzins fertiggestellt und sie bereits in Betrieb genommen. Die wöchentliche Produktion dieser Anlage genügt, um mehr als 2.000 viermotorige Bomber mit Triebstoff für Flüge von England nach Berlin und zurück, zu versorgen.
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Beginn des dritten Kriegswinters im Osten
“Heute morgen war die Erde Weiss. Der erste Schnee ist hier bei un sim Süden der Ostfront gefallen. Der Wind ist kalt und die Tage sind kurz,” so leitete der Kriegsberichterstatter Heinz Mägerlein im deutschen Rundfunk am 21. November seinen Frontbereicht ein.
“Der Winter steht vor der Türe,” so fuhr er fort. “Es ist der dritte Winter, der deutsche Soldaten in der östlichen Weite in schwerstem Ringen sieht . . . Keiner von uns weicht den Gedanken aus, die erster Schnee und erste Kälte auslösen. Keener hat Illusionen . . .”
Als für die deutsche Armee der dritte Winter im Osten began, tobten blutige Schlachten am Westufer des Dnjepr, wo die Russen starke Brückenköpfe errichtet hatten und Schlachten am Zusammenfluss des Sosh und des Dnjepr südlich Gomels, nördlich und südlich Kiews, bei Tscherkassy, bei Krementschug und bei Dnjepropetrowsk.
Die Sowjets hatten eine eigene Armee für den Winterfeldzug bereitgestellt, ausgerüstet mit all den Erfordernissen und Waffen für Operationen in Eis und Schnee. Die Rote Winterarmee war für die grosse russische Sommeroffensive nicht beansprucht worden. Die deutsche Armee, die gehofft hatte, sich in der Dnjeprlinie eingraben und dort überwintern zu können, kämpfte verweifelt bei Kriwoirog und bei Gomel, wo sie die Pripjetsümpfe im Rücken hatte.
Die Russen sturmten am 6. November Kiew, die Hauptstadtder Ukraine und Russlands drittgrösste Stadt, nachdem sie sie vorher eingeschlossen hatten. Gleich darauf treiben sie die Deutschen mehr als hundert Kilometer weiter gegen den Westen. Sie eroberten Shitomir, Korosten und Owrutsch und durchschnitten die Eisenbahnlinie, die den Norden mit dem Süden der Fronten verbindet. Erst jetzt versuchten die Deutschen Gegenangriffe. Sie eroberten Shitomir zurück – es war der erste wesentliche Erfolg, den sie nach vielen Monaten in Russland erzielt haben – und drangen eine Strecke gegen den Osten vor. Die Russen setzten dem deutschen Vormarsch heftigen Widerstand entgegen, um ihn zum Stehen zu bringen und nötigten die Deutschen, von allen Frontabschnitten Verstärkungen heranzuführen. Nördlich von diesem Abschnitt errichtete die Rote Armee einen Brückenkopf am Westufer des Dnjepr bei Rjetschiza. Gomel am Flusse Sosh, der dort vom Osten in den Dnjepr mündet, wurde abgesschnitten und am 26. November zurückerobert. Von dort drang die Rote Armee tief in das Gebiet Weissrusslands.
Deutsche Propaganda
Das deutsche Propagandaministerium hatte den Rückzug im Sommer mit der Behauptung gerechtfertigt, dass dadurch die Verbindungslinien verkürzt und die Kampfkraft der Truppen aufgespart warden würde. Nichts von alledem wurde erreicht. Denn die deutschen Verbindungslinien mussten unter dem Drunk der unnachgiebigen russischen Angriffe gewechselt warden; sie wurden umso komplizierter, je tiefer die Russen in die deutschen Linien brachen. Als die Russen über die Nogaische Steppe gegen die Dnjeprmündung vordrangen, schnitten sie die Krim völlig zu Lande ab. Die Rote Armee durchbrach an vielen Punkten die Eisenbahnlinien von Westen nach Osten und von Norden nach Süden. Nach der Eroberung von Korosten trennten sie die Verbindung zweischen der nördlichen und südlichen Front; übrig blieb nur eine Eisenbahnstrecke 150 Kilometer weiter gegen den Westen.
Ebensowenig gelang es, die deutsche Kampfkraft aufzusparen. Marschall Stalin erklärte am 6. November, dass die Deutschen 4.000.000 Mann an Toten, Verwundeten und Gefangenen während der vergangenen 12 Monate verloren hatten und überdies aus drei Vierteln der Gebiete vertrieben worden waren, die sie einst in Russland besetzt hatten.
DIE STIMME AMERIKAS
Auf Mittelwelle weitergeleitet vom britischen Rundfunk:
ZEIT 09.00 METER 1500, 373, 49, 41, 31.
21.00 METER 373, 285, 49, 42, 41, 31.
Auf Kurzwelle allstündlich um Viertel nach:
[table]
Arbeiterprogramm täglich um 06.15 und 20.15
Sie hören Kriegsgefangenenpost in den unterstrichenen Programmen
“Noch niemals . . .”
Adolf Hitler erklärte am 8. November 1941 in einer Rede anlässlich des 18. Jahrestages des Münchner Putsches:
“Noch niemals ist ein Riesenreich in kürzerer Zeit zertrümmert und niedergeschlagen worden, als dieses Mal Sowjetrussland.”
Bei der gleichen Gelegenheit bemerkte der Führer:
“Ich habe auf gewissen Gebieten überhaupt keine Experten. Bei mir genügt immer mein Kopf ganz allein.
. . Wenn also wirklich eine Veränderung irgendwo stattfinden soll, dann entsteht das zunächst in meinen Gehirn und nicht im Gehirn anderer, auch nicht in dem von Experten.”
Die Überschreitung des Dnjepr
[picture]
Auf dieser Karte sind die Stellen ersichtlich, an denen die Russen den Dnjepr überschritten und tief in die deeutschen Linien eindrangen.
[26. Nov. 1943]
Japaner von Stützpunkten vertrieben
Im Laufe dieses Herbstes richteten sich die Angriffe der Alliierten zu Lande, zu Wasser und aus der Luft gegen von den Japanern besetzte Inseln im Stützpunkte beherrschen die Seewege nach Japan über die Philippinen und Hollänadisch-Ostindien.
Die Stadt Rabaul auf Neu-Britannien ist die Schlüsselstellung, die japanische Truppen- und Kriegsmaterialtransporte passieren müssen, um von im Norden gelegenen Stützpunkten die Kampffronten im südwestlichen Stillen Ozean zu erreichen. Vom 13. Oktober bis zum 14. November bombardierten die Alliierten dieser Stützpunkt immer wieder heftig. Die Angriffe wurden von Landflugzeugen und Maschinen ausgeführt, die von Flugzeugträgern aufstiegen. Japanische Kriegsund Handelsschiffe, Hafenanlagen und Flugplätze, sowie mehr als 400 Flugzeuge, wurden hierbei zerstört.
Immer weiter ihren Ring um Rabaul verfengend, vertrieben die alliierten weiter südwestlich die Japaner aus ihren Stützpunkten Salamaua, Lae und Finschhafen an der Nordküste von Neu-Guinea, einer Insel, die grosser ist, als Deutschland, Österreich, Ungarn und die TschechoSlowakei zusammengenommen. Im Süden eroberten die Alliierten schon zu Beginn des vergangenen Sommers Stützpunkte auf den Inseln Woodlark und Trobriend.
Südlich Rabaul landeten alliierte Streitkräfte auf Bougainville, der einzig übrig bleibenden Insel der Salomonen in Richtung auf Neu-Britannien. Marinesoldaten landeten am 1. November in der AugustaBucht. Alliierte Infanterie folgte ihnen. Gegenangriffe der Japaner wurder zurückgeschlagen und der Brückenkopf erweitert und ausgebaut.
Nach einem schweren Bombardement durch Kriegsschiffe und Flieger, die von Flugzeugträgern aus operierten, landeten am 20. November amerikanische Marinesoldaten auf den Inselgruppe im Stillen Ozean. Die zu der Gilbert-Inselgruppe gehörige Betio-Insel wurde am 23. November von amerikanischer Marineinfanterie besetzt.
Die Herrschaft über diese Inseln würde es den Alliierten ermöglichen, die Stützpunkte der Japaner im mittleren Stillen Ozean auf der Marshall- und Karolinen-Inselgruppe, zu umgehen.
Auch die Marshall- und Wake-Inseln, nördlich der Inselgruppe Gilbert, wurden von amerikanischen Bombern angegriffen.
Inzwischen feierten die Japaner einen Phantasie-Sieg. Die New York Times äussertte sich am 16. November über den angeblich grossen japanischen Sieg in einer Seeschlacht mit folgenden Worten:
“Dies ist eines der erstaunlichsten Betrugsversuche der Geschichte. Vor zwei Wochen began Radio Tokio damit, Berichte über eine Reihe von See- und Luftgefechten bei Bougainville zu senden. Nach und nach behaupteten die Japaner hundert amerikanische Kriegsschiffe, darunter zwei Flugzeugträger, vier Schlachtschiffe und zwei Kreuzer ausser Gefecht gesetzt und 268 Flugzuge abgeschossen zu haben. Wie das Marineministerium der Vereinigten Staaten feststellt, wurden diese Schlachten nie ausgefochten und daher auch keine amerikanischen Kriegsschiffe versenkt. Das einzige wirkliche Gefecht, das sich bei Bougainville abspielte, war die Zerstreuung leichter japanischer Seestreitkräfte.”
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ELIZABETHAN NEWS
Series 10, No. 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943 Two Cents
[underlined] TUNISIA [/underlined]
ALLIED ADVANCE NEAR MATEUR
Picked German troops were thrown out of strong positions near Mateur by British infantry supported by tanks and aircraft, states a message from Allied headquarters in north Africa. They occupied several high points and
[map depicting the Axis defense [sic] line and the Allied attacks]
beat off a number of strong enemy counter-attacks.
German reinforcements rushed up to assist in the attacks were heavily bombed by Allied aircraft and fell back in disorder.
A brief later message states that in another outbreak of fighting a very important line of hills 15 miles west of Mateur and 20 miles south of Bizerte have been captured after a fierce battle.
Flying Fortresses bombed Sfax, where a big power station was left in flames. Sousse was also heavily attacked.
New Fifth U.S. Army
A new Fifth United States Army, commanded by Lieut.-General Mark Clark, is being formed in Tunisia to fight with the British First Army.
U.S. AND BRITISH PLANES IN SWEEPS OVER BURMA
American and British aircraft carried out attacks on many Japanese positions throughout Burma during the day.
American planes attacked enemy positions at Mandalay and shot up railway yards and timber warehouses, while R.A.F. machines raided river and coastal craft along the whole west coast of Burma, damaging over 60 of them.
Two direct hits were made on a large Japanese ship in the Irrawady river and it was left in flames.
CHILE TO BREAK WITH AXIS
The Chile Government is expected to break off diplomatic relations with the Axis Power next Friday. This will leave Argentina as the one remaining larger south American Republic friendly towards Germany, Italy and Japan.
In the Caucasus
GERMANS FLEEING BEFORE SMASHING RED ARMY BLOWS
Moscow announced in a midday message yesterday that the Germans are in full retreat in the Caucasus following the capture by the Russians of Nalchik and that six more towns were captured during the day’s advance.
Another arm of the great Russian Caucasus offensive struck in the vicinity of Mozdok, east of Nalchik, and it is reported that 500,000 crack German troops are fleeing before the fierce attacks of Russian tanks, artillery and Cossack regiments.
In their retreat the Germans are blowing up bridges and mining roads in efforts to check the Red Army advance. Pravda says the retreat is becoming disordered and that the Cossacks are causing very severe losses to German and Rumanian troops.
Narrow Bottle-Neck
The Russians are pursuing the enemy down a narrow bottle-neck and more than 150,000 Axis troops are believed to be in danger of isolation if the soviet forces can continue their westward drive. It is thought that a number of Germans have managed to escape the trap but this does not lessen the importance of the Soviet advance.
Large quantities of German artillery have fallen into Soviet hands and many prisoners have been taken. The enemy dead is placed at a very high figure and special Russian forces are remaining in the rear to bury them.
Surprise Attack
To the south and south-west of Stalingrad Soviet troops are still moving forward in spite of desperate German efforts to stem the advance.
To the west of the city Russian forces launched a surprise blow and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy.
Forging Ahead
The Red Army is forging ahead in the middle Don area, and south-west of Velikie Luki the capture of several inhabited localities is claimed.
78TH U.S. CONGRESS OPENED
Senator Sam Raeburn of Texas was again elected Speaker of the House of Representatives by a majority of 11 votes over Senator Martin of Massachusetts, when the 78th Congress of the United States was opened in Washington yesterday.
Thousand of Bills will be dealt with during the session.
PRESIDENT LEBRUN MYSTERY
The Fighting French radio at Brazzaville stated yesterday that President Lebrun had arrived in north Africa.
Rallying Effect
This was denied in London although it was pointed out that if the President did reach north Africa it would have a great rallying effect on all Frenchmen everywhere.
12,000 TONS OF BOMBS ON MALTA DURING 1942
More than 12,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Malta during 1942 by Axis aircraft, it was revealed yesterday. In reply the island ground and air defences destroyed 955 enemy aircraft, and there were 300 “probables.” R.A.F. fighters destroyed 773 of the planes, while 182 were shot down by ground defences. R.A.F. losses were 195 planes, but the pilots of 89 were saved.
Convoy Attacks
In addition, island-based planes attacked 46 enemy convoys, 6 single ships and 5 naval vessels. More than 50 ships were definitely sunk and 40 probably sank after attacks. Eighty-three ships were set on fire and their cargoes destroyed.
BRITISH NEARING MISURATA
An unconfirmed report by Radio Morocco says that the British Eighth Army is on the outskirts of Misurata, 125 miles from Tripoli and less than 200 miles from the Tunisian border.
[underlined] SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC [/underlined]
JAPANESE SHIPS BLASTED IN RABAUL RAID
Allied aircraft made a very heavy raid on Japanese shipping concentrations at Rabaul on Tuesday, according to a south-west Pacific report. The planes attacked in two waves and bombed the targets from medium height, destroying nine and probably ten Japanese ships, totalling more than 50,000 tons. They were set on fire with direct hits and when last seen were in a sinking condition.
Seven Planes Destroyed
Munda, on New Georgia island, and Bougainville were also attacked by Allied planes. Seven Japanese planes were destroyed during the raids for the loss of two American fighters.
Japanese Fleet Massing
Messages from the south-west Pacific indicate that the Japanese are massing a large fleet in the Solomons – New Britain area for another attempt to land troops on Guadalcanal to try to seize Henderson airfield.
NEW EASTERN STATES’ PETROL AND OIL FUEL CUTS
The O.P.A. announced in Washington yesterday that all pleasure motoring will cease on the eastern seaboard from noon on Thursday.
Heating Cuts
Heating fuel cuts in the eastern States are expected shortly and it was stated yesterday that people would have to decide between running their cars or heating their houses.
Massachusetts Shortage
Oil fuel is reported to be so low in Massachusetts, says a Boston message, that many houses and apartments will be soon untenable.
United States shipyards are now launching four merchant ships daily and by May the figure will be raised to five a day.
ODDS AND ENDS
PETS
A column in a London newspaper headed “Unlovable Pets: No. 1, The Goat”, ended: “Goat’s milk is very rich, nutritious, unappetising and obnoxious. It turns red litmus paper blue. So do goats,”
At the foot of the column was added: “(Tomorrow – No. 2: Pierre Laval.)”
[symbol] “He made his bed, now he’s lying out of it.”
EMBARRASING
A man was troubled by an inability to remember names, at times even those of old friends. He was dining one day and looked up from his newspaper to see a familiar face. But the name escaped him.
He stood, shook hands warmly with the man, and said: “How are you, where have you been? Will you join me?” and other polite remarks while he was trying to recall the name.
“I’m the waiter, sir,” said the embarrassed fellow.
[symbol] Married life is like a bath – not so hot after you get used to it.
COULD BE
Golfing on links adjoining the Paramount studios, Bob Hope passed a set where a Western mob scene was being filmed. The crowd of extras, ugly, tough, unshaven, had little to do except shout and shake their fists.
“Paramount shareholders, I presume,” said Hope to his companions.
[symbol] “Her waist, like the Equator, is an imaginary line.”
BLOOD CURDLING
A practical joker stepped into a hotel elevator with a friend and began talking as though continuing a conversation: “So I turned on the light and there was this girl in the middle of the floor. Her throat was slit and there was a great puddle of blood. Beside the body was a knife. I was in a spot. If I called the police, there’d be a nasty row, and if I didn’t somebody’d find me there. So I took out my handkerchief and carefully . . .”
At this point the elevator stopped and the two men stepped out, leaving everybody in the car goggle-eyed with astonishment.
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Front page of military newsheet, Series 10 Issue 1. Two cents. Covering world wide military activity. Leading articles cover advances by the allied forces in North Africa and Russian successes in the East. Shorter reports on attacks on the Japanese base at Rabaul and air attacks over Burma. Other notes mention the campaign based around Malta and the shortage of fuel in the eastern American states. There is also an Odds and Ends column.
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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.
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ELIZABETHAN NEWS
Series 10. No. 3 SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1943 Two Cents
In the South-West Pacific
PAPUAN CAMPAIGN IN FINAL STAGES
Last Japs. Face Destruction
Messages from General MacArthur’s headquarters yesterday announced that the campaign in Papua is now in its final stages, with the remnants of the Japanese forces at Sananada facing almost certain destruction, and that Allied bombers are striking at an enemy convoy approaching Lae, the Japanese New Guinea base.
[map depicting the Allied Base in New Guinea/Papua and the proximity to the tip of Australia]
One of the main objects of the campaign in Papua was the elimination of 15,000 Japanese troops under General Horii. With the complete enveloping of Sananada this is practically accomplished and with their destruction Papua will be entirely cleared of the enemy.
In addition, several thousand enemy reinforcements have been drowned or killed in attempts to land.
(Sananada is as well fortified as Gona and Buna and more difficult to approach. At Gona and Buna the Japanese, although outnumbered and cut off from sea aid by Allied predominance in the air, and weakened by disease, defended these positions almost to the last man. That such tenacious troops holding such defensively strong positions should be worn down and overwhelmed, speaks highly not only of the courage and skill of the United States and Australian troops but also of the care and thoroughness with which General MacArthur’s lieutenants prepared and organised the counter-attack.
Bombers Pounding Convoy
Allied aircraft are reported to be repeatedly attacking Japanese transports and escorting warships, totalling ten vessels, attempting to reinforce Lae.
Two large transports laden with troops were sunk with all on board during a night attack, and a 500-pound bomb scored a direct hit on another troopship, which was left in a severely damaged condition. Another was disabled and later sank.
A large number of enemy planes are protecting the convoy, and so far 18 have been shot down and five badly damaged.
The attack is continuing.
[underlined] TUNISIA [/underlined]
ITALIANS ROUTED IN ATTACK
Bad weather has stopped operations on the main fronts.
A French camel corps attacked a position held by 500 Italians and killed or captured 250 of them. The rest fled.
Tunis and Sfax Raided
Tunis was raided by medium and heavy bombers and the electric power station and shipping in the harbour were hit. Three direct hits completely destroyed the power house in a raid on Sfax.
Bomber Command aircraft raided targets in the Ruhr during Thursday night. All planes returned safely.
[underlined] TRIPOLITANA [/underlined]
OUTPOST CAPTURED AFTER THREE DAYS’ BATTLE
Fighting French forces have captured an outpost 65 miles east of Mazouk after three days of land and air battles.
Large supplies and numbers of troops are moving into forward positions for the coming attack against the Axis forces.
AIR ATTACKS ON TRANSPORTS
R.A.F. fighters and bombers made heavy attacks on transports 40 miles from Tripoli. Fighter-bombers made low level attacks on enemy transports on the coastal road and machine-gunned lorries loaded with troops and stores. At least one Me.109 was destroyed and others damaged in air battles.
Palermo Raided
A force of United States bombers attacked Palermo harbour and scored hits on dock installations. In raids on Tunis and Sousse hits were scored on railways and large fires were started at Sousse, where a ship was hit.
DAY RAIDERS OVER BRITAIN
Seven German planes attacked towns on the south-west British coast yesterday afternoon. Bombs were dropped causing some damage and casualties.
The raiders were finally chased out to sea by four Spitfires.
Berlin claims that a new bomb-proof submarine base has been built near Brest.
TWIN DON THRUST CONTINUES
GERMANS IN RETREAT AT ALL POINTS
The Russians are continuing their two-pronged thrust down the lower Don with the Russian armies converging from 80 to 40 miles apart in one day.
Soviet forces are closely pursuing the Germans on the north bank, while on the north bank the Red Army has smashed all attempts to hold up their advance, with Russian tanks over-running German infantry positions and inflicting very heavy losses.
At Nikolyskaya, on the north bank, Soviet forces battered back the Germans with tanks and heavy artillery, and at another point south of the Don, said to be only 70 miles from Rostov, the enemy were completely routed. South-west of Velikie-Luki, the Germans made several fruitless attacks against the Russians.
40 Places Recaptured
Moscow later claimed that in the northern Caucasus the German are now in full retreat and that over 40 more places have been recaptured. The Germans are setting fire to villages and blowing up bridges as they retire.
One tank unit alone killed more than 500 officers and men, and a party of “tommy” gunners killed another 100.
Berlin Admits Reverses
Berlin admitted yesterday that the German armies in Russia were on the defensive on all fronts, and a German radio broadcast explained to the people that their troops were being slowly withdrawn from their present positions in order to shorten their line.
(London military observers note that the Russian offensive may soon, by effectively threatening Rostov, place the Germans in the Caucasus in a critical position.)
ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH PRAISED
President Roosevet’s [sic] address to Congress received endorsement from the entire national press yesterday, states a London message.
The Times describes the speech as one which “breathed a high sense of purpose without once losing the characteristic sense of realities.”
All the morning papers praised the President for a full and frank statement of the war on all fronts.
FAMOUS SUBMARINE RETURNS
A famous British submarine, the Thresher, has returned to a home port after completing thirteen patrols in 18 months. The vessel has two V.C.s and a D.S.O. among the crew.
During the long spell at sea the submarine journeyed near 40,000 miles and sank eleven Axis merchant ships and four supply ships.
RUSSIA-BOUND CONVOY ATTACK BEATEN OFF
The British Admiralty announced yesterday that on December 31 naval vessels escorting a large convoy to Russia were attacked by an enemy force off northern Norway. The British force, comprised a number of destroyers while the German units included one pocket battleship, a large cruiser and several destroyers.
Two Hours Fight
The fight lasted for more than two hours in semi-darkness and falling snow. The destroyers had frustrated four enemy attacks on the convoy when a large force of heavier British ships arrived and the enemy fled.
Two German vessels were sunk or badly damaged and two British ships suffered damage and casualties. The convoy arrived safely at a Russian port without loss or damage carrying large supplies of war material.
The German radio admitted that the U-boats are facing grave difficulties against Allied shipping and that the date was distant when ships sunk by U-boats could not be replaced.
ODDS AND ENDS
CLEARING THE AIR
Recently Stalin gave a banquet for the Red Army general staff and Communist party leaders.
When he arrived, he took his seat on the dais and, raising a glass of vodka, said, “Comrades, I now give a toast to the great Stalin . . . to the wonderful Stalin . . . to Stalin the leader of Russia’s warriors. And I sincerely hope that this is the last I will hear about him at this affair.”
[symbol] Suggested sign for Hitler’s Russia front: “Opened by Mistake.”
SHOCK
A patriotic lady who sent out the following invitation to an officer at a nearby army post: “Mr. and Mrs. Browne request the pleasure of Captain Green’s company at dinner,” was dismayed at the reply she received.
“With the exception of five men on leave and three on sick list,” the reply read, “Captain Green’s company accept with pleasure your invitation to dinner.”
[symbol] “Too bad. He was a window cleaner and stepped back to admire his work.”
TRUTHFUL
The Colonel had insisted to his Negro cook that the turkey be a domestic, corn-fed bird, no wild fowl. He cut into a beautiful done-to-perfection bird, frowned, cut again, then sent for Sam.
“Didn’t I tell you I wanted a domestic turkey?” he thundered. “Yah, suh, dat’s a domestic, corn-fed fowl.”
“What about this shot I’m finding?”
Sam shuffled from one foot to the other. “Dat shot, Colonel suh, were meant fo’ me.”
[symbol] “He was so lit up the air-raid warden had to take him home under an umbrella.”
PREPAREDNESS
“The Fall of a Woman” will be the subject for Sunday evening at the First Baptist Church. Real facts and truths will be revealed. The eleven fans have been reconditioned and will be used to cool the building. – From the COMMERCE (Texas) JOURNAL.
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Front page of a newsheet covering world wide military activity, Series 10 No 3, Two cents. Lead articles about Papuan campaign in the Pacific and Russian successes. Other reports cover North African campaign, German attacks on the south coast and operations at sea. There is also an Odds and Ends column.
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123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre.
The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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U.S. ARMY SPECIAL SERVICE
IN COOPERATION WITH USO-CAMP SHOWS
Presents
ANNABELLA
IN
“BLITHE SPIRIT”
An Improbable Farce
BY
NOEL COWARD
SPECIAL SERVICE SECTION
MEDITERRANEAN THEATER [sic] OF OPERATIONS
[page break]
“BLITHE SPIRIT”
An Improbable Farce
In three Acts and Six Scenes
By
NOEL COWARD
The Cast
(In the order of their appearance)
Ruth Condomine – LEONA MARICLE
Edith – ALFREDA WALLACE
Charles Condomine – DON RANDOLPH
Dr. Bradman – OSCAR STIRLING
Mrs. Bradman – Edna Peckham
Madame Arcati – ADELAIDE KLEIN
Elivira ANNABELLA
The action of the play takes place in the living room of Charles Condomine’s house in Kent, England.
ACT I – A Summer evening
ACT II Scene 1. – The next morning
Scene 2. – Late the following afternoon
Scene 3. – Early evening. A few days later
ACT III Scene 1. – After dinner. A few days later
Scene 2. – Several hours later
Between acts there will be a five minute intermission. Between the scenes the curtain will be closed and opened immediately to denote a lapse of time.
Manager of Unit – DON RANDOLPH
Setting by – PAUL MORRISON
Costumes by – ROSE BOGDANOF
Directed by – ROBERT H. GORDON
Stage Manager – BEN ROSS
Officer in Charge – LT. MAURICE SILBERSTEIN
Production Assistants – PVT. EMERLY L. KIMBALL – PFC. FRED ULLOM.
[page break]
The Players
Annabella (ELVIRA), first a French movie star, then a Hollywood star, and more recently a Broadway stage star, was born in Paris. After starring in the British technicolor [sic] picture WINGS OF THE MORNING, she came to Hollywood and made SUEZ, which established her as an international star. Annabella is now an American citizen and married to Lieutenant Tyrone Power of the Marine Air Corps. She was recently starring on Broadway in JACOBOWSKY AND THE COLONEL, which she left to join this overseas unit of BLITHE SPIRIT.
Donald Randolph (CHARLES CONDOMINE), with 18 years of professional acting experience behind him, was recently featured in the leading role in ANGEL STREET, one of Broadway’s current hits. He left this play to go overseas with BLITHE SPIRIT. After playing with many stock companies and road companies of New York successes, he made his Broadway debut in 1932 in THE FATAL ALIBI with Charles Laughton. Since then he had played principal roles in many Broadway plays including LADY IN THE DARK, HAMLET, RICHARD II, THE NAKED GENIUS, THE SUN FIELD, ERRANT LADY, STRANGE GODS, THE MAN FROM CAIRO and CRIME MARCHES ON.
Leona Maricle (RUTH CONDOMINE) was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. She came to New York to study at the American Academy of Drama and made her Broadway debut in THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN. Later she appeared in many other New York plays including ONCE IN A LIFETIME, SEX FABLE, DARE TOWER and THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR IT. After that she went to Hollywood where she appeared in many films such as THE HARD WAY, with Ida Lupino, THEODORA GOES WILD, with Irene Dunne, THIS THING CALLED LOVE with Rosalind Russell, JOHNNY EAGER, with Robert Taylor, and many others.
Adelaide Klein (MADAME ARCATI) is a native New Yorker. As a child she had ambitions to be a concert singer. While studying voice, she did Little Theater [sic] work on the side. Her first job was as a singer on radio. Later she did straight acting roles and soon became a prominent radio actress. In her 12 years in radio, she has been heard on MARCH OF TIME, ELLERY QUEEN, BIG SISTER, MARY MARLIN, LIFE COULD BE BEAUTIFUL and CAVALCADE OF AMERICA. On the Broadway stage, Miss Klein appeared in BROOKLYN, USA and UNCLE HARRY.
Edna Peckham (MRS BRADMAN) calls Hartford, Connecticut her home town. She played for two years with Ethel Barrymore in New York and on the road. Other New York plays in which she appeared are TOVARICH, TOWER NORTH, INTERFERENCE, GUEST IN THE HOUSE and WHISPERING WIRES. About two years ago she played at active isolated camps with the First Defence Command and also made private tours of military bases in the States with Malcolm Atterbury. Miss Pockham is married to Oscar Stirling of this company.
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Oscar Stirling (DR. BRADMAN) was born in England where as a youth he worked in magic and variety shows. In the First World War he served for three and a half years in the British Army. After the war he went into dramatic work in England, appearing with Arthur Boucher and Sir Martin Harvey. In 1923 he came to America where he remained to play in such attractions as LAUGHING LADY, JOURNEY’S END, TOVARICH, ACCENT ON YOUTH, KIND LADY and GUEST IN THE HOUSE.
Alfreda Wallace (Edith) was born in Montreal, Canada. In 1938 she won the Dominion Drama Festival prize and was sponsored by Charles Coburn in his summer school at Schenectady, N.Y. She toured with Air Marshall Bishop’s Air Cadet League of Canada, and appeared in the film THE COMMANDOS STRIKE AT DAWN, with Paul Muni, Lillian Gish and Anna Lee. Last year she was with the Boston company of JUNIOR MISS. Miss Wallace has already made one overseas tour with Camp Shows to Brazil.
Ben Ross (STAGE MANAGER) is another native New Yorker. He was an actor for several years before deciding that production was his first field in the theatre. He acted on Broadway in such plays as THE YOUNG GO FIRST, SING OUT THE NEWS, MEDICINE SHOW and BROOKLYN, USA. New York productions he has stage managed include EVE OF ST MARK, THE DAY WILL COME, LISTEN PROFESSOR, and ONLY THE HEART. He also directed a road company of EVE OF ST. MARK.
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Noel Coward comic play put on by the US Army Special Service, starring Annabella.
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P J Copus
Copus, James
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Nine items. Two oral history interviews with Warrant Officer Percy James Copus (1922 - 2016, 1430308 Royal Air Force) who flew operations as a mid-upper gunner with 97 Squadron. The collection also includes photographs of himself and family, and account and maps of his last operation of the 27 March 1943 on Frankfurt, when his Lancaster was shot down and he became a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by James Copus and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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A few minutes before 7 o’clock in the evening of 22nd March 1944 I took off on my last operational sortie as the mid-upper gunner of Lancaster OF-P ND351. By the end of that night I was a prisoner of war having bailed out of the aircraft as it fell crippled and burning, the victim of a German night-fighter.
This is the story of that night and the year in captivity that followed..................
[Hand written signature] W/O James Copus 97 Sqn. POW STALAGLUFT 1. 2011. Love from Daddy. [/hand written signature]
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TARGET – FRANKFURT
By P.J. Copus
An extract from 97 Flight Operation Records 22-23 Mar 1944 :-
TARGET – Frankfurt Lancaster III OF-P ND351
P/O R.E. Cooper, Sgt. F.S. Witcher, F/Sgt. McFayden, Sgts. H. Lunt, H.A. Smith, P.J. Copus, R.R. Hinde.
Op 18.50 aircraft missing (4 x TI, 1 x 4000lb, 2 x 1000lb, 600 x 4lb incs, 40 x 4lb incs).
TARGET AHEAD!
We have made our turn to the south of Hanover at 18,000 feet. The target, Frankfurt, is now directly ahead of the aircraft and already burning. My attention is elsewhere, however. The Flak, which we can do nothing about anyway, has stopped, a sure indication that fighters are up. An “own goal” by the Flak crews would mean a double-quick transfer to the Russian front. Any night-fighter attack will come from the rear of the aircraft. Only the rear gunner and myself, the mid-upper turret gunner can offer return fire and so we are a fighter’s primary targets in the hope that he can silence our guns and finish off the aircraft without risk. We are well-aware that the odds are stacked heavily in his favour:
each of our Lancaster’s four Merlin engines produces a double row of exhaust flames
we have shiny turrets which can reflect any stray light
the fighter pilot can quickly re-position his aircraft to improve his view of anything suspicious whereas we have a full bomb-load and can only manoeuvre very gently for fear of tearing the wings off the aeroplane!
Should we be spotted then we [italic] must [/italic] see the slender, head-on fighter profile he gets within range, a very tall order indeed considering that we have to search all that volume of the night sky within our range of vision to the rear of the aircraft. Our rifle-calibre machine guns mean that the best we can hope for, should we be attacked, is to put the fighter pilot off his aim or maybe even make him break off his attack and perhaps lose us again in the darkness. However, since it is possible that the fighter was equipped with radar that he used to find us a second time. In an exchange of fire, we are at a severe disadvantage since the fighter has 20mm cannon as well as machine guns and the resulting weight of fire exceeds our own. Taking all these factors into account means that our chances of survival depend almost entirely on the size of the night sky which although apparently empty contains our friends and our foes in unequal proportions; there are many more of the latter, ground-based as well as airborne, who are as determined to prevent our
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reaching the target as we are to get there. The element of surprise is no longer a factor. Other aircraft in front of us have already released their bombs and the target is literally sprinkled with fires. The fighters will be more concerned with preventing additional attacks than shooting down aircraft that have already bombed. The chances of being seen in silhouette against the ground fires by a fighter pilot increase as we draw nearer the target. Our course, height and speed were all fixed before we took off in order to reduce the chances of not only of a collision over the target but also of bombs falling on aircraft flying at a lower level. In spite of these precautions, instruments inevitably have minor calibration tolerances and variations of a few hundred feet are number of occurrences is impossible to quantify since survivors of such an eventuality are improbable.
It is as well that we are all too preoccupied to think too carefully about the multitude of situations quite apart from enemy action that could kill us in the blink of an eye.
THE BEGINNING
Our training as a complete crew had involved many 8-hour flights around the UK almost always at night on what were primarily navigation exercises. However, their indirect purpose was to get us all functioning as a team. Apart from that we gunners were just along for the ride. On completion of training in Lancasters we were posted to ....... a Stirling station! In that remarkable manner which it seems only the Military can achieve, we had been wrongly directed and no-one knew anything about us. Our pilot, F/O Cooper told us to stay put and that he would arrange something. He disappeared for two days. On his return he announced that he had fixed us up with a Pathfinder Squadron, No.97.
This is how, one day in late December, we arrived at Bourn in Cambridgeshire. Only a fortnight previously, on the night of 16/17th. December, known as “Black Thursday”, Bomber Command has experienced its worst bad-weather losses of the war, a tragedy which cruelly emphasises the fact that the enemy lurks not only in human form. We were posted to Bourn as a contribution towards making up 97 Squadron’s share of the losses.
THE ATTACK
That night 22nd./23rd. March no-one saw the fighter, a Messerschmitt Bf110, in time. His first attack was probably at the end of a gentle climb from behind and below. The climb reduces the speed differential that the fighter needs to catch the target thereby avoiding the risk of an overshoot or even a collision. This tactic also meant that the bulk of the Lancaster on top of which I was sitting, hid the fighter from my view and even the rear gunner’s view downward is restricted enough to hide the approaching fighter. In any event that initial attack knocked out the hydraulics which operated the turrets. I was then in the embarrassing position of being able to do nothing
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but watch the ‘110’ flying alongside, straight and level, slightly below us and 200 to 300 metres off our starboard wing. The ‘110’s relative position enabled the gunner, facing aft in the rear of the cockpit to fire bursts from his machine gun with zero deflection into our fuel tanks and number three and four engines. The results were exactly what one would expect; both engines burst into flames. Some of his rounds, passing within inches of my head shattered my turret at about the same time as our pilot ordered over the intercom “Prepare to abandon aircraft” and then very quickly afterwards “Abandon aircraft”. All members of the crew acknowledged the order including the rear gunner who by some miracle had survived the initial attack. The bomb-aimer jettisoned the bomb-load. We were on our way down, both starboard engines blazing furiously.
THE ESCAPE
I tear off my oxygen mask, intercom leads and harness and folding my small seat upwards and out of the way manage to drop from my turret into the aircraft’s fuselage, where it is pitch dark. Although we gunners wear the parachute harness at all times in the aircraft, there is no room for the parachute pack itself in any of the turrets and my own is stored on the port side of the aircraft, aft of my position and opposite the rear fuselage hatch. It takes only a few seconds to find my parachute and clip it onto the harness. The rear hatch is now my emergency exit and I begin wrestling with the release handle. The door is jammed! More determined wrestling. The handle breaks off in my hand! I now have to scramble forward virtually the whole length of the Lancaster’s fuselage encumbered by parachute, heavy flying suit and boots. In pitch blackness! Although the entire fuselage is extremely confined and packed with equipment, this is nothing compared to the gymnastics required to wriggle over the wing-spar. All this must be achieved in the dark making sure that the parachute’s rip-cord does not get snagged and cause premature deployment and with the knowledge that at any moment the aircraft could steepen its dive, suddenly flip into inverted flight or simply explode as the engine fires touch off the fuel tanks in the wing. It is also possible that the fighter could attack again. Any chance of hiding in the night is now gone, our demise highlighted by sheets of flame. There are numerous other scenarios none of which is likely to improve our chances of survival. I dismiss these thoughts and continue floundering towards the under-nose hatch, now the only means of escape. The hatch is in the very forward part of the aircraft and access to it is achieved crawling under the pilot’s instrument panel to the right of his seat. The manoeuvre can be likened to crawling through the knee-hole of a writing desk. The pilot is still at the controls. I can see him clearly. This forward part of the aircraft is illuminated by way of a hole in the fuselage and indicate that I am about to go. He nods briefly in acknowledgement. There appears to be no-one else in the aircraft because I am able to walk upright towards the nose, still in pitch darkness of course, until I simply plunge feet-first through the open hatch! None of us is well-prepared for the experience which follows. Training for bailing out had been limited to little more than a few minutes’ jumping from a bench in the gym and attempting a landing-roll. After all, we all knew for certain that it was only some of the
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other crews who would have to face the experience. That sort of thing happens only to the other chaps..........
This night, however, it is not the ‘other chaps’. It is us. Our lucky mascots, our youthful confidence in ourselves and each other, our training, all now useless. What happens next is uncharted territory!
The slipstream seizes me and whirls me around furiously and noisily. During one of my violent gyrations, I catch a glimpse of the aircraft as I free-fall away from it. I have kept hold of the ripcord handle and knowing now that I am well clear of the aircraft, haul on the handle. The parachute explodes out of the pack as the airstream seizes it. The opening shock is immediate and extremely violent and I am wrenched into an upright position, completely winded and in some considerable pain from the contraction of the parachute harness. The sudden peace and quiet is extraordinary. The only noise is my own laboured breathing. I am hanging apparently nearly motionless. It is cold. Very cold! We were flying at 18,000 feet when attacked and I imagine the aircraft was down to 15,000 feet when I bailed out.
Surprisingly, my all-consuming thought is that it will take a long time to get back home from this operation!
[photo from R.A.F. Museum’s Lancaster September 2010]
The descent takes an enormous but unquantifiable amount of time. I know the ground will be covered in snow and therefore easy to see. Straining my eyes I can see a vague brightness below. I brace myself and wait for the shattering crash of the landing. Nothing happens! What I take to be the ground is a thin layer of low cloud. Just cloud. As I begin to relax a little, comes the landing; surprisingly gentle. I am in a ploughed field covered with snow. My only injury is some bruising and scratching on my face as a result of pitching forward on impact with the ground.
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To borrow the Germans’ own favourite expression in these circumstances “For me, the war is over.”
A PRISONER OF WAR
The field in which I had landed was only yards from a row of houses. Their occupants were on me immediately I landed and I was dragged into one of the houses amid much shouting and bravado. It was widely known that German civilians were not exactly welcoming towards aircrew who fell into their hands and I was very nervous about the whole situation. They shoved me into one corner of the room. My ‘chute has been gathered into an untidy bundle and was dumped beside me. In the other corner were grouped a cross-section of the neighbourhood. They were gesticulating and shouting at me in unintelligible German. Some of the shouting, however, needed no translation! In the circumstances I did not feel at all like a ‘Terrorflieger’ as the Nazis called R.A.F. bomber crews. Some young wide-eyed children were among the crowd. As a gesture of goodwill I took some chocolate from my flying-suit pocked and offered it to them. They recoiled hastily, either not knowing what it was or suspecting it was poisoned perhaps. To prove it was safe I ate a little myself and returned the rest to my pocket but the atmosphere was tense and I hoped that some sort of authority had been alerted and would remove me before something unpleasant happened.
Fortunately, the civil police (they were referred to as ‘gendarmes’) arrived promptly and I was hauled off on foot to the local police station where I was thrown unceremoniously, without food or water, into a damp cell in which the only piece of furniture was a bed. There was not even a blanket. I attempted to sleep but it was extremely cold. In an attempt to keep my feet from freezing I managed to squeeze both into one flying boot.
At some point during the night I was dragged out of the cell and upstairs to an office where I was confronted by the local Bürgermeister (Mayor). There were, he told me, the bodies of several aircrew in the mortuary. If I would tell him the names of my crew he would let me know if any of them were among the dead. I felt unable to cooperate in this ‘kind offer’ which was, of course, a fairly transparent ruse to get more information out of me. My response was perhaps equally transparent but served well enough to show that I knew what he was up to. The crew I had been a last minute arrangement as a substitute. However, I added helpfully, I would be prepared to go to the mortuary and point out anyone I recognised. This offer was refused and I was returned promptly to my cell.
In the morning, after an extremely uncomfortable night, I was brought a cup of ersatz coffee and unidentifiable to eat. Shortly afterwards I was dragged out of the cell and outside where a horse cart was waiting. Surprisingly my ‘chute was returned to me and as I flung it
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into the cart saw Lund, the bomb-aimer, already aboard. He had a leg wound. As I started to climb up into the cart with him, I was pulled back and told that I must walk along behind thus presenting the entire populace who had turned out to watch, with another opportunity to shout and scream abuse as we plodded slowly through the town.
We arrived eventually at some sort of holding area, a single room in an official building into which we were directed. Shortly, after, Lund was taken off to hospital. My parachute was not returned to me and I imagine provided some luxury under-wear for a “Hausfrau” or mistress somewhere. It was not for many years that I discovered that the rear-gunner, Ron Hinde, whom we all knew as “Slick”, although he had acknowledged the order to bail out, had been killed. Exactly what had happened remains a mystery. Clearly something had gone wrong after his acknowledgement of the order to bale [sic] out. As I had discovered there was ample capacity for The Unexpected! The aircraft crashed in woodland outside Hanover and Ron Hinde is buried in Hanover War Cemetery.
It appeared that when the holding areas reached a certain number of inmates, they were moved out for transfer to a permanent camp (Stalag). The first step in the transfer process was to get to Frankfurt. Accompanied by two guards, I was shoved onto a train and began the two-day trip. Progress was very slow, the timetable upset by Bomber Command’s constant rearrangement of the rail network! The guards were pleasant and pointed out landmarks along the way. During one of halts one of my guards announced that he was going to get some water. In due course he returned and sat down, sipping at his water bottle. After a while he offered me the water bottle. “Wasser?” he asked. I took a gulp. Schnapps!
Thus I was delivered to Frankfurt station where a large number of weary and disconsolate aircrew were already gathered. The station was a mess! There were hardly any buildings standing, just several platforms. I did not feel the need to point out that this had been our handiwork! We were crammed into cattle-trucks, thirty per truck. We had no idea where we were going or how long the journey would take. We travelled day and night. There were occasional stops when we were given food and water.
Three days later we arrived at Stalagluft 1.
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[Sketch of location and layout of camp]
The POW camp, Stalagluft 1 was close to the Baltic coast near a town called Barth. There were British and American aircrew there numbering nearly 10000 in total. The days were spent walking about, playing football perhaps, talking, reading. There was a lively black market trade based on Red Cross food parcels. It was not unknown for the guards to join in, running the risk of joining short-sighted Flak crews and other defaulters in Stalingrad!
It can be imagined perhaps that for young men used to an active, adrenalin-fuelled life, the resulting boredom was a particular form of torture. The reader must remember too, that we had no idea no long this would go on and how it would end. One of the original inmates of the camp had been shot in the middle of September 1939 only a few weeks into the war. How were we new arrivals to know that our own confinement wouldn’t be just as long..... or longer!?
[page break]
[photo of the camp]
But for the resilience of youth and the comradeship, it would have been easy to fall into hopelessness and despair.
One of the first people I met on entering the camp was a chap who had been on the same gunnery course as me on the Isle of Man. A fortnight after my arrival, our pilot F/O Cooper turned up. Although I was unaware of it at the time, he had been wounded in the back when we were shot down and had been in hospital since that time.
The most senior German officer whom we saw regularly during his “rounds” of the camp was a Major Mueller. He was a decent chap, clearly one of the “old school” bearing a duelling scar across one cheek. He was not above joining in and on one occasion, after watching some Americans fencing; took over one “foil” (actually a stick) to show them how it was done. Of course, the camp was run entirely by the Luftwaffe, much preferable, we all felt, to Wehrmacht personnel who not doubt gave their prisoners a much harder time. There was the empathy of airmen albeit on different sides.
The Germans routinely produced their version of The News riddled of course with propaganda: a rain of V.1’s and V.2’s had reduced London to rubble: the Wehrmacht was pushing the Red Army back into Russia: an attempted Allied invasion had been thrown back into the sea while a German invasion was imminent and so on. Fortunately we had our own sources – the BBC via an illicit
[page break]
radio hidden somewhere in the camp. It was not therefore entirely unexpected one night, 30th April 1945, after we were locked up as usual, all the Germans fled! We already knew, as they did, that the Red Army was approaching. We were not overjoyed at the prospect of being liberated by the Russians and were somewhat concerned by what might happen. Had we known then what is known now about how the Russians sometimes handled these situations, we would have been even more concerned!
LIBERATION
For some days after the departure of our guards the only signs of our liberators were in the distance. In the meantime our own officers advised us not to venture outside the camp confines. Free to explore the entire camp we discovered a hoard of Red Cross parcels which the Germans had stopped distributing since December. This windfall allowed us to celebrate in some style. The Russians’ eventual arrival was marked by an hour-long speech , delivered in Russian by a senior officer. Since hardly anyone understood a word we were obliged to follow the speaker’s lead and applaud or cheer at what seemed to be suitable pauses in his oratory. Thereafter we saw very little of the Red Army, a situation which suited us very well!
It was two weeks before we were picked up. Our removal from the camp had been expedited we found out much later, by the highest possible authority. The Russians had apparently revealed that they intended to move us all to Odessa from where we could be shipped home. Or so they said. The British and American Governments did not believe at least the latter part of this stated intention and the mission to pick us up was put together in something of a hurry and without consultation with our liberators. The suspicion was that the Russians intended to hold us hostages to improve their bargaining position when it came to dividing up the spoils of war.
We were marched in batches to the airfield on the southern outskirts of the town. On the way we passed within yards of the perimeter of a concentration camp. The occupants did not appear “liberated”. It is probable that they had simply swapped one captor for another. We knew of the existence of this camp because several of the inmates having presumably escaped in the chaos after the Russians’ arrival had turned up at the gates of our camp begging for food and sanctuary. To have rendered any form of assistance, not that there was much we could have done, would have meant the end of all of us had the Russians discovered that we had helped them.
I returned to England in a USAF B-17. We were eventually taken to Biggin Hill where we were told that none of us would fly again with the R.A.F. and given two weeks’ leave to make up our minds whether to stay on or not. In a “Land Fit for Heroes” there was little on offer in the way of employment and so I elected to stay on in the R.A.F. and chose[sic] to join a transport unit. Here I learned to drive and acquired my driving licence which stood me in good stead for my eventual transfer to “civvy street”.
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Account of Jim Copus's last operation to Frankfurt during which his 97 Squadron Lancaster was shot down by a Me 110 night fighter. Includes the task of air gunners, the engagement by the night fighter which disabled all hydraulics including those to his turret. His difficulties in escaping from the aircraft, parachuting and capture by hostile civilians before being handed to civil police. His treatment as a prisoner and his journey to prisoner of war camp at Stalag Luft 1 at Barth. Life in camp, liberation by the Russians and repatriation by United States Army Air Force B-17 to England. Includes photographs of Jim Corpus as a wartime airman, prisoner of war and at the RAF Museum in 2010 as well as one of the prisoner of war camp. In addition there are hand drawn maps of north Germany and the Baltic locating Barth and a diagram of the Stalag Luft 1 camp.
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James Corpus
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eng
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Germany
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1944-03-27
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air gunner
aircrew
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bale out
final resting place
Lancaster
Me 110
prisoner of war
RAF Biggin Hill
RAF Bourn
shot down
Stalag Luft 1
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North, Johnny
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31 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey John 'Johnny' North, DFC, (173836, Royal Air Force) who served as a rear gunner on 428, 76 and 35 Squadrons flying Wellington, Halifax and Lancaster. He was called up in 1940 from his job as a tailor in Saville Row where he returned after the war. He was shot down on an operation to Duisburg on 21 February 1945. The collection contains his logbook, an account of his shooting down, capture and time as a prisoner of war, including documentation, forced march to another camp in 1945, liberation and repatriation. The collection includes membership documents for Royal Air Force Association, Pathfinders Association and Caterpillar Club as well as personnel documentation, Pathfinder badge correspondence and photographs of crew and squadron as well as other memorabilia.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Carole Bishopp and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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GEOFFREY JOHN NORTH. REAR GUNNER.
PART 1. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”.
21/2/45 20.05 [inserted] R [/inserted] LANCASTER F/LT TROPMAN D.F.C. REAR GUNNER. OP.DUISBERG.
21.02.45. Bailed out at 23.05, landed 23.20 S/C 23.59.
Walked 12 miles.
22.02.45 Captured 10 am by civil police. 10.12 police station. 12.02 jail. 14.06 motorbike to front line. Watch etc. taken. Marched 8 miles via transit camp with 8 soldiers to burning village. Slept on straw in abandoned school.
23.02.45. First food – bread, marg, tinned meat, tea. Marched 14 miles via Rhine Ferry to transit camp. Lt. Lindsey - ? one of “Geoff’s” crew.
24.02.45. Soup! Horse and cart to Stalag at Bocholt. Five to a cell, radiator, pallias[?] & 1 blanket. Comfort!
25.02.45 – 26.02.45 Bocholt Stalag (POW camp).
27.02.45 Bocholt to Hansderf(?) marched 8 miles Munster.
28.02.45 Left Hansderf.
1.03.45 Travelling.
2.03.45 Arrived Kassell, “Legless” Aussie – as in “no legs”.
3.03.45 Arrived Oberursel [left to right arrow] 6/03.45.
7.03.45 Arrived Dulag Luft. Hot shower, food, beds, clothing, soap, hair cut etc.
8.3.45 Left Dulag.
9.03.45 Train bombed at Neidernhausen by U.S.A. marauders, walked 5k to Eppstein.
10.03.45. Eppstein. 11.03.45 Left Eppstein at night.
12.03.45 – 14.03.45 Travelling.
15.03.45 Arrived at Stanlayer? [?] Staumlager? [?] THANK GOD.
PART 2 The Trek.
[deleted] Lasted until [/deleted]
[page break]
04/04/45. Left kreigsgefanginenlager [sic] der Luft 3 POW camp, on the march, slept in pine woods.
5.04.45 Dive-bombed by USA Thunderbolts. Reached outskirts of Neumarket at 15.00 hrs. Raining at 18.00, soup at 23.00.
6.04.45 Fall in at 02.00, marched in rain until 06.00, slept in pine wood in rain. S/C 10.00. Reached Berching Stadt. Issued bread, honey, tinned meat. Traded for bottles and matches. Slept church.
7.04.45. Left column just after Beilingries [Beilngries] bathing pool.
8.04.45. Lift to top of hill, walked on alone, caught up with column. Frosty.
9.04.45. With column all day. Issued parcels at Neustadt. Bridge mined.
10.04.45. Stayed near Neustadt all day with sick Lou, Joe, Darky/Darby Ben. Wizard farm, barn, eggs, all our own.
11.04.45. French parcel. Bullock wagon for 11km. break at midday, forts? fortress bombing all round us.
12.04.45 Stayed in same village. Lou Green, Joe, Darky/Darby, Ben, Chris & pal. Orchard.
13.04.45 Rejoined main party on the road, marched 5km.
14.04.45 – 15.04.45 Stayed put. Old lady “no trade”.
16.04.45 Marched 10km to Pfeffenhousen.[sic] Kiwi and myself. Large spud issue.
17.04.45 Marched 10km. to Obermunchen. 3 eggs. 20 french fags.
18.04.45. left Obermunchen 17.00, marched 7km. to Neider Munchen.
19.04.45. Stayed at Neider Munchen. Acquired a new bottle.
20.04.45. Marched 8km, arrived Moosburg Stalag.
PART 3.
KRIEGIE NO MORE.
[page break]
29.04.45. Fighting heard at 09.00. Stars and Stripes raised in camp at 12.30. Tanks and jeeps in compound at 14.30.
01.05.45. Issue white bread, flour, good soup. Kiwi acquired frying pan, rhubarb.
02.05.45. Rice and rhubarb pancakes.
03.05.45. Doughnuts.
04.05.45. Into town. Mirror, pictures, rhubarb, potatoes. Killed pig.
05.05.45. Wood from house. Celery onions and parsnips acquired. Pork shop and chips for breakfast.
06.05.45. Pork chops, roast and mashed spuds, parsnips. Plum pudding. Killed a rabbit. Announced 10,000 leaving tomorrow (Moosburg – 80,000 detained).
07.05.45 Breakfast pork chop & chips. Deloused. Rabbit stew. Corned beef hash, prunes, [underlined] tooth-paste blancmange. [/underlined]
08.05.45. Kiwi and Tom left at 05.30. Fried eggs, spam, spuds, bread, cereal. Victory fudge. Moved out at 5 minutes notice; left camp at 13.15. Convoy to Landshut [deleted one letter] airfield Back to Landshut, in billet 18.00. Krations, bouillon, corned[?] pork roll, plum pudding. GERMAN BEER!!!
09.05.45. Ham and eggs, toast & marmalade. Airfield all day Landshut. Bouillon, corned pork load, spam and tomatoes.
10.05.45. Shredded wheat, ham and eggs. LT. HARRINGTON DAKOTA.B09.35 2.25 to Rheims. Lorry to camp. Meal, corned beef peas potatoes, peaches, coffee. Lorry to Jurincourt. W/O BELIVEAU, Lancaster 18.25/01.35 hrs. to Westcott.
11.05.45. 00.30 lorry to Leighton Buzzard. Train to Cosford. Registration, telegram. Bath, breakfast, bed. 14.00 – 17.00 Doctor, clothing etc.
[page break]
Footnotes.
Kassell – HQ for WEHRKREIS IX, & local sub-camp of Dachau concentration camp; provided forced labour for Henschel facilities. SEVERELY BOMBED.
Oberursel – North West of [deleted] Franf [/deleted] Frankfurt, east of Kronberg. U.S. & G B Airmen passed through, interrogated & “processed” into P.O.W. system. “Transit camp of Luftwaffe”, in town. Name shortened to Dulag Luft, or Dulag.
Neidernhausen – Allies advance in ’44 due to strategic rail importance. Heavily bombed especially on 22.02.45.
14/4/45. Old lady no trade – Geoff told me they had tried to barter with her in exchange for food, but she refused. Maybe terrified of recriminations?
Moosburg – Stalag (POW camp). Originally planned to hold 10,000 prisoners, by end of war some 80,000 detained.
[deleted] Keirgie [/deleted] Kriegie – slang for Allied POW in WWII German POW (internment) camp.
Jurincourt – abandoned (now) military airfield, in Aisne region of France. Built by French air force before WWII, grass runways. Taken over and expanded to become one of the main Luftwaffe air bases during German occupation – fighter and bomber planes. Seized by Allies in ’44, became major USAF base for fighter, bomber, & transport units, for remainder of war.
[page break]
Hasderf / Hansdorf )
Stamlayer /Staumlager ) no trace on internet for these spellings.
11/4/45 “forts bombing - ? Fortress planes?
[page break]
Three months after repatriation Geoff was flying again, 35 Squadron 8 Group, Grarely. [?] He flew three missions in Lancasters, 2 with F/Lt. Ashwell, one with Sq/Ld[?] Baldwin DFC, DFM, DSO.
In September 45, he flew twice as a passenger from Graveley – Tibbenham – Berlin, with F/Lt. England and returning Berlin – Tibbenham – Graveley.
His total Daylight flying time shows 289.40
His total Nightime [sic] flying time was 381.15
Total flying hours 670.55
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Geoffrey North rewritten account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
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A day by day account consisting of three parts. Part one covers his being shot down on 21 February 1945, his capture and journey to prisoner of war camp arriving 15 March 1945 including an mention that his train was bombed by Marauders. Part two covers forced march from prisoner of war camp 'Kreigsgefaninenlager der Luft 3' from 4 April 1945 to to Moosburg on 20 April 1945 and includes account of being strafed by Thunderbolts. Part three covers liberation by United States army on 29 April 1945 to his repatriation by C-47 and Lancaster on 10 May 1945. In part 3 he writes enthusiastically about the meals and food. The account is written lined paper. At the end footnotes concerning Kassel, Oberursel, Neidenhausen, Moosburg, Kriegie and Juvincourt. Followed by some research notes and descriptions of Geoffrey North's flying after his repatriation.
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eng
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BNorthGJNorthGJv2
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Royal Air Force
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Germany
Germany--Bocholt
Germany--Kassel
Germany--Oberursel
Germany--Eppstein im Taunus
Germany--Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Germany--Moosburg an der Isar
Germany--Landshut
France
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England--Buckinghamshire
England--Bedfordshire
England--Shropshire
England--Cambridgeshire
France--Juvincourt-et-Damary
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1945-02-21
1945-02
1945-03
1945-04-04
1945-04
1945-05
1945-05-10
1945-05-11
1945-09
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Geoffrey North
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
David Bloomfield
Anne-Marie Watson
Emily Jennings
35 Squadron
bale out
C-47
Dulag Luft
Lancaster
military living conditions
Operation Exodus (1945)
prisoner of war
RAF Cosford
RAF Graveley
shot down
the long march
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North, Johnny
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31 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey John 'Johnny' North, DFC, (173836, Royal Air Force) who served as a rear gunner on 428, 76 and 35 Squadrons flying Wellington, Halifax and Lancaster. He was called up in 1940 from his job as a tailor in Saville Row where he returned after the war. He was shot down on an operation to Duisburg on 21 February 1945. The collection contains his logbook, an account of his shooting down, capture and time as a prisoner of war, including documentation, forced march to another camp in 1945, liberation and repatriation. The collection includes membership documents for Royal Air Force Association, Pathfinders Association and Caterpillar Club as well as personnel documentation, Pathfinder badge correspondence and photographs of crew and squadron as well as other memorabilia.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Carole Bishopp and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2016-05-20
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PART I
I WANDERED
LONELY AS A
CLOUD !!
21/2/45. Baled out 23.05 landed
23.20. S/C 23.59 walked 12 miles.
22/2/45 Captured 10AM by Civil Police.
10/12 Police Station. 12/2 Jail, 2/6 Motorbike
to front line. Watch etc taken. Marched 8
miles via transit camp with 8 soldiers to
[undecipherable] village. Slept in stairs in
abandoned school.
23/2/45 First Food, Bread Marg. Tinned Meat
Tea. Marched 14 miles via Rhine Ferry to
Transit Camp. Lt Lindsey.
24/2/45 [undecipherable] Horse & Cart to Stalag
at Barchalt. 5 to a cell, radiator, [undecipherable]
& 1 blanket. Comfort!
[Page Break]
25/2/45 Barchalt. 26/2/45 Barchalt
27/2/45 Barchalt to Hansdorf Marched 8
miles through [cross out] Munster.
28/2/45 Left Hansdorf 1/3/45 Travelling
2/3/45 Travelling, Kassell, Legless Aussie
3/3/45 arrived Obereusel. 4/5/45 Obereusel.
5/3/45 Obereusel 6/3/45 Left Obereusel.
7/3/45 Arrived Dulay Luft. 1st Shower,
Food, Beds, Clothing. Soap, Hair Cut, etc.
8/3/45 Left Dulay,
9/3/45 Train Bombed at Niederhausen [inserted] By USA MARAUDERS [/inserted]
Walked 5 k’metre to Eppstein.
10/5/45 Eppstein. 11/5/45 Left Eppstein
at night. travell [crossed out]] 12/3/45 Travelling
13/3/45 Travelling 14/3/45 Travelling
15/3/45 Arrived Stunlayer Thank God!
[Page Break]
PARTII THE TREK
4/4/45 Left Kreigsgefangenenlager der Luft III
on the march. Slept in Pine Wood
5/4/45 Divebombed [inserted] BY USA THUNDER BOLTS [/inserted] Reached outskirts of
Neumarht @1500. Raining at 1800
[undecipherable] at 2300.
6/4/45 Fell in @ 02.00 marched in Rain
till 0600. Slept in pine wood in the
rain. S/C 10.00. Reached Barching Stadt
Ground Bread Honey Tinned Meat, Traded
for bottles & matches. Slept church.
7/4/45 Left column fort before [undecipherable]
Bathing Pond
8/4/45 Lift to top of hill. Walked on
alone caught up column, Frosty.
9/4/45, With column all day. Issued
[Page Break]
Parcel at Nieustadt. Bridge mined.
10/4/45 Stayed near Nieustadt all day with
sick. Wizard Farm, Lau Joe Darky Ben Eggs., all our aim.
11/4/45 French Parcel. Bullock Waggon
for 11 k’ometres. Break at midday, forts
bombing all round us.
12/4/45 Stayed in same village, Lau Green, Joe
Darley, Ben Chris & Me. Orchard.
13/4/54 Refined Mess Party on the
road Marched 5 K’metres
14/4/45 stayed put all day, old lady no trade
15/4/45 Stayed Put.
16/4/45 Marched 10 K’metres to Pfeffenhausen.
Kimi and myself. Large Spud issue
17/4/45 Marched 10 k’metres to Obermunchen
3 Eggs. 20 French Fags
18/4/45 Left Obermunchen 17.00 marched 7
K’metres to Naider Munchen
[Page Break]
PART II CONTD
19/4/45 Stayed Naider Munchen. Acquired
a new bottle.
20/4/45 Marched 8 k’metres. Arrived
Maasburg.
[Page Break]
PART III
KRIEGIE No MORE
29/4/45 Fighting heard @ 09.00. Stars
& Stripes raised in camp at 12.30. Tank
& Jeeps in compound @14.30.
1/5/45 Issue White Bread, Flour, Good
[undecipherable] Kiwi acquired Frying Pan.
Rhubarb
2/5/45 Rice + Rhubarb Pancakes.
3/5/45 Doughnuts
4/5/45[undecipherable] + Mirror Pictures Rhubarb
Potatoes, Killed Pig.
5/5/45 Wood from house. Celery Onions
& Parsnips acquired. Pork Chops & chips
for breakfast.
[deleted] 6/5/45 pork chop and chips [/deleted]
[Page Break]
6/5/45 Pork chops, Roast and Mashed spuds
Parsnips, Plum Pudding. Killed a
Rabbit. Announced 10,000 leaving
Tomorrow
7/5/45 Breakfast Pork chop and chips,
Deloused. Rabbit Stew. Corned Beef
Hash Prunes & Toothpaste blancmange
8/5/45 Kiwi & Tom left @ 05.30, Fried Eggs
Spam Spuds & bread, Cereal. Victory Fudge
Moved out @ 5minutes notice left camp at 13.15
Lorry to Landshut airfield. Back to Landshut &
in billet @1800. K Rations, Bouillon, corned
Pork Roll, Plum Pudding. German Beer!!!
9/5/45 Ham & Egg Toast & Marmalade. Airfield
All day, Landshut Bouillon, Canned Pork Loaf
& Spam and Tomatoes.
16/5/45 Shredded Wheat, Ham & Eggs, LT.
HARRINGTON DAKOTA B 09.35 2.25
[Page Break]
PART III Cont’d
To Rheim. Lorry to Camp. Meal Corned
Beef Peas and Potatoes Peaches Coffee, Lorry
To Juviencourt w/o BELIVEAU. Lancaster
18.25
W 01.35 to Westcolt.
11/5/45 00.30 Lorry to Leighton Buzzard. Train
to Cosford. Registration Telegram Bath [deleted] Bed [/deleted]
& Breakfast & bed. 14.00 – 17.00 Doc
Clothing etc.
12/5/45.
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Geoffrey North account of being shot down and time as prisoner of war
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A day by day account consisting of three parts. Part one covers his being shot down on 21 February 1945, his capture and journey to prisoner of war camp arriving 15 March 1945 including an mention that his train was bombed by Marauders. Part two covers forced march from prisoner of war camp 'Kreigsgefaninenlager der Luft 3' from 4 April 1945 to to Moosburg on 20 April 1945 and includes account of being strafed by Thunderbolts. Part three covers liberation by United States army on 29 April 1945 to his repatriation by C-47 and Lancaster on 10 May 1945. In part 3 he writes enthusiastically about the meals and food. The account is written on American red cross paper.
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Geoffrey North
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eng
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Text. Memoir
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BNorthGJNorthGJv1
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
United States Army
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Germany
Germany--Bocholt
Germany--Kassel
Germany--Oberursel
Germany--Eppstein im Taunus
Germany--Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Germany--Moosburg an der Isar
Germany--Landshut
France
Great Britain
England--Buckinghamshire
England--Aylesbury
England--Bedfordshire
England--Leighton Buzzard
England--Shropshire
England--Telford
France--Reims
Temporal Coverage
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1945-02-21
1945-02
1945-03
1945-04-04
1945-04
1945-04-29
1945-05
1945-05-10
1945-05-11
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Claire Monk
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IBCC Digital Archive
bale out
C-47
Dulag Luft
Lancaster
military living conditions
Operation Exodus (1945)
prisoner of war
RAF Cosford
shot down
the long march
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Cavalier, Reginald George. Album two
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An account of the resource
35 items. The album contains service material, Christmas cards, and propaganda leaflets in German, French and English.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-04-10
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Cavalier, RG
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[picture]
Waiting-
[underlined] in vain [/underlined]
[page break]
[underlined] American soldiers! [/underlined]
She wanted to spend her life in peace and happiness by the side of her husband . . . .
Now he will never come back!
Far away from his country and his people he was sacrificed for foreign interests on the battlefield.
[underlined] HOW MANY AMERICAN WOMEN ARE [/underlined]
already waiting in vain for their husbands? How many mothers for their sons and how many girls for their sweethearts?
What about the girl you love? Will she belong tho [sic] those
WAITING IN VAIN?
AI – 031 – 2 – 44
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Waiting in Vain
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German propaganda leaflet directed at American soldiers. How many of their wives and sweethearts will be waiting in vain for them to return?
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Two sides of a printed sheet
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eng
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SCavalierRG1264567v10023-0001, SCavalierRG1264567v10023-0002
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Civilian
United States Army
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944
Date
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1944-02
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Steve Baldwin
propaganda
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Cavalier, Reginald George. Album two
Description
An account of the resource
35 items. The album contains service material, Christmas cards, and propaganda leaflets in German, French and English.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-04-10
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Cavalier, RG
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Title
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All aboard - Outward Bound
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German propaganda leaflet aimed at Americans fighting in Europe.
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Two sides of a printed sheet
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eng
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SCavalierRG1264567v10021-0001, SCavalierRG1264567v10021-0002
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United States Army
United States Army Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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propaganda
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Cavalier, Reginald George. Album two
Description
An account of the resource
35 items. The album contains service material, Christmas cards, and propaganda leaflets in German, French and English.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-04-10
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Cavalier, RG
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How many new graveyards wait for you behind the Atlantic Wall?
[Page break]
,, IT’S A LONG WAY….”
Since we broke the peace it does seem a darned long way back to it, to the time we used to play bridge at the Browns [sic] and drink a couple of high balls with the Lehmans. It does seem a darned long way from Europe to America.
I wonder, if the folks over there do understand that it’s our duty to die for Morgenthau and La Guardia. I wonder, it’s been all explained to us and so it must be true that it is our Godholy duty to die for F. D. R. but I can’t remember exactly right now how they figured it out. But I do hope, the folks at home do. For else [sic] they must surely think me a goddam idiot to come all this long way just to get myself blown up to kingdom come. You see, Mary and Eva, and the lot of you over on the other side, it’s like this. It’s my darned duty, they swear to me, to kill Germans and to get killed myself. And you wouldn’t have anything to do with a guy what [sic] didn’t do his duty, would you? So it does look a bit hopeless, it does. If I don’t walk right into a German mouse-trap and get myself done in, I’m not doing my duty … by F. D. R. and Morgenthau. So I guess there isn’t any very big [sic] chance of my ever seeing you again … Unless … Unless I should turn round like the proverbial worm and say: Look here buddies, I don’t get why the hell I should go and get myself killed for a crowd of politicians and war-profiteers, for F. D. R. or Ikey Moses or no one! I’d take a risk for you, Mary and Eva, I would. But darned if I can see any sense in getting laid out for the bunch of queer fish that’s sent us over to Europe this time. So cheer up folks! I may see you again after all… even if I have to swim for it.
AW 18
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How many new graveyards wait for you behind the Atlantic Wall?
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German propaganda leaflet directed at American forces in which a soldier questions in a letter home the reason why he is expected to die.
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Two sides of a printed sheet
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eng
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SCavalierRG1264567v10020-0001, SCavalierRG1264567v10020-0002
Coverage
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United States Army
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Anne-Marie Watson
Sally Des Forges
Claire Monk
propaganda
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Cavalier, Reginald George. Album one
Description
An account of the resource
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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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-04-10
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Cavalier, RG
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Visit of General Eisenhower to RAF Hartford Bridge
Description
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Photographs 1 to 4 are of General Eisenhower being shown round a display of photographs. Captioned 'R.A.F. Hartford Bridge. 137 Wing, 2nd T.A.F. 17. April 1944.
General Dwight Eisenhower. Supreme Commander. W/C North 137 Wing
A.V.M. Basil Embery.
A.M. Leigh Mallory.
General Dwight Eisenhower. U.S.A.
W/C North.'
Photographs 5 to 7 (second album page) are captioned: 'General Dwight Eisenhower, G/C McDonald, O.C. 137 Wing, 2nd T.A.F. W/C North'. Photograph 7 includes a photographer in shot.
Date
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1944-04-17
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Seven b/w photographs on two album pages
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Photograph
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PCavalierRG17010023, PCavalierRG17010024
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Royal Air Force
United States Army
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1944-04-17
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
England--Hampshire
Language
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eng
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890 - 1969)
hangar
RAF Hartford Bridge
Second Tactical Air Force