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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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A brief description of the operation, his nav plot and a map showing the target.
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Edward King
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1944-08-01
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Saint-Riquier
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text. Memoir
Map
Text
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Three items, a note of target, times and brief description a navigation log and a map showing the target.
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SKingEJ182986v10149, SKingEJ182986v10150, SKingEJ182986v10151
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1944-08-01
Title
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Coulon Villiers, Edward King's last operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[UNDERLINED]STUTTGART [/UNDERLINED]
[Underlined] 24 July 1944 [/underlined]
Airborne 2150
Landed -520
Our second trip to Stuttgart. Last time we got well shot up by fighters. This time quite a quiet trip.
[Page Break]
[Route Map]
[Inserted][underlined] STUTTGART [/underlined][/inserted]
[Inserted][underlined] T [/underlined][/inserted]
[Page Break]
[Navigation Plot Map]
[Page Break]
[Photograph]
STUTTGART. After three heavy attacks by aircraft of Bomber Command at the end of July, 1944, large areas of the city were left devastated. This photograph shows the central area, about 50 acres, S.W. of the main station where many public building have been gutted or entirely destroyed.
34 35
[Page Break]
[Newspaper article]
RAF DECOY ATTACKS
FOIL NAZIS
STUTTGART WAS GOAL
Decoy raids were made by the RAF on Monday night when Halifaxes and Lancasters “in great strength” penetrated deep into heavily defended areas of Germany.
Stuttgart, which was the main target, is 300 miles from the nearest point on the enemy coat.
Two feint attacks were therefore carried out on towns well inside Germany to mislead the enemy fighter packs as much as possible.
The result was the although the Stuttgart bombers had to make a round journey of 1,700 lies – most of it over enemy territory – fighters never succeeded in intercepting them in any real strength.
Here and there along the route flares went down and fighters followed. A considerable number of fighter flares were dropped over Stuttgart while the attack was on.
But on the whole the fighters seemed to have been misled by our tactics.
2,500 Tons
Through Stuttgart had been attacked several times before by the RAF heavies there were large industrial area of the great engineering and transport centre which remained comparatively undamaged.
More than 30,000 heavy incendiaries on addition to a great weight of high explosive bombs were showered down on the target area in a swift “Saturation” raid.
It is estimated that a load of 2,500 tons were dropped.
The crew found patchy cloud over the town.
Very soon the fires were burning beneath the clouds. They grew steadily as they attack went on.
On Way to Batter Germany Pilots Saw the Big Attack
[Italics] From JAMES STUART Evening Standard Air Reporter [/Italics]
EAST ANGLIAN BOMBER STATION. Tuesday
Air chief Marshall Sir Arthur Harris again sent his main bomber force to Germany last night to strike another blow at the Nazis at home.
Stuttgart was the main target for the Lancasters and Halifaxes which, in a short time unloaded well over 2000 tons of bombs through heavy cloud on to the town.
Other heavy bombers attacked lying bomb sites in France while Mosquitoes bombed objective in Berlin, Frankfurt and Aachen were also bombed.
Although Bomber Command had about 1000 aircraft out. The bulk of them smashed Stuttgart,
A big sprawling city in Southern Germany, shielded by hills.
From all these operations 23 of our aircraft are missing.
With a population of nearly half a million people Stuttgart is a big engineering centre, where the Daimler-Benz concern builders of airplane engines and motor vehicles of all types and the Bosch magnetos and electrical works have their headquarters.
Bosch is and important concern supplying the electrical equipment and sparking plugs for German aircraft and motor industries.
In addition to these industries vital to the Nazis war effort factories in Stuttgart have been turning our parts for flying bombs.
For most of this squadron a New Zealander Lancaster unity commanded by R.J.A. Leslie, A.F.C., of New Plymouth, New Zealand, it was an uneventful flight although Luftwaffe put up scores of night fighters after the attack had begun, and the ground defences poured up a heavy volume of flak.
Wing Commander Leslie, when he arrived over the target, found the cloud was about 4000ft. thick but he said there was a big red glow,
“As we went in over the Normandy beachhead,” he told me, “We could see that a big artillery barrage was going on. The flashes from guns were lighting up the sky.”
For Flight Lieutenant Atkinson, of Pudsey, near Leeds navigator, it was his third visit to Stuttgart. His first was on 1938 – on holiday to Germany. “It was a beautiful old city in those days.” He said.
Sergeant Frank Matthewman a Yorkshire flight engineer, said : “There were plenty of fires burning in Stuttgart when we left.”
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Description
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A very brief description of the operation, his navigation plot and a map showing the target. There are also some newspaper clippings, one showing the damage to Stuttgart and others giving comments from bomber crew members when taking part in a raid on Stuttgart.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-24
1944-07-25
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
Germany--Stuttgart
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text. Memoir
Photograph
Map
Text
Format
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Five items, a description of the operation, a navigation plot, a map, and two newspaper clippings
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SKingEJ182986v10142, SKingEJ182986v10143, SKingEJ182986v10144, SKingEJ182986v10146, SKingEJ182986v10148
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1944-07-24
1944-07-25
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Pending text-based transcription. Under review
Title
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Stuttgart, Edward King's 29th operation of his tour
Contributor
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Claire Monk
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] MONT CANDON
P – Plane Base. [/underlined]
Airborne 0635
Landed 1015
Daylight raid. Target covered by cloud but bombed as instructed by Oboe Mosquito.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted][underlined] MONT CANDON. [/underlined][/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
3 blows at fly-bomb bases
DEFENSIVE measures against pilotless planes have had further successes.
In the past 24 hours, said the Air Ministry last night, flying bombs have been brought down by A.D.G.B. fighters and by the ground defences.
The robot installations in Northern France were attacked twice yesterday, first by U.S. Fortresses and Liberators, then in the afternoon by Lancasters of Bomber Command.
Small forces of Liberators also bombed the installations, among other targets, on Saturday afternoon, when eight German fighters were shot down for a loss of a bomber and two fighters.
Both the U.S. attacks were made through cloud.
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A brief account of the daylight operation. Described as a P Plane base, a newspaper cutting refers to pilotless planes, the V 1. There is his navigation plot and a map showing the target.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-23
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Dieppe
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text. Memoir
Map
Text
Format
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Four items, a description of the operation, a navigation plot, a map, a newspaper cutting
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10138, SKingEJ182986v10139,
SKingEJ182986v10140, SKingEJ182986v10141
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Date
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1944-07-23
Title
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Mont Candon, Edward King's 28th operation of his tour
Contributor
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Sue Smith
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
V-1
V-weapon
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] HOMBERG [/underlined]
[underlined] Synthetic Oil Plant. 20th July, 1944 [/underlined]
Airborne 2330
Landed 0310
A very active night flight with attacks by Messerschmidt 109 and two Junkers 88s, not to mention 2 rockets. Flak very active. Large explosions caused by bombing.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted][underlined] HOMBERG [/underlined][/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
HOMBERG
[page break]
The "Daddy" Of All Explosions
"A tremendous sheet of flame spurted from the target area and, as black smoke rose, the markers disappeared. It was the 'Daddy' of all explosions."
"The explosion was the biggest I have ever seen. It must have shaken the country for hundreds of miles. Although we were flying at over 19,000ft. it lit the heavens and the Lancasters all around us."
The speakers were Flying Officer D.S. Parry, a pilot, of Kensington, W.. and Squadron Leader H. Lee-Warner. A.F.C., of Parkstone, Dorset.
They had just returned from Homberg in the Ruhr, where they had bombed a synthetic oil plant, and the explosion had been the result.
Largest Plants
Homberg was only one of the R.A.F.'s night objectives. Other Lancasters and Halifaxes bombed the synthetic oil plant at Bottrop-Wilhelm. These two plants were the largest still working in the Ruhr.
Two other forces of R.A.F. heavy bombers – altogether about 1000 bombers are believed to have been sent – struck with success at Courtrai railyards, Belgium.
Big Raid On Ruhr Oil
AN Air Ministry communique today stated:
"Yesterday afternoon, and again in the evening, Lancasters and Halifaxes of RAF Bomber Command, covered by Spitfires, attacked a number of flying bomb installations, and a site believed to be connected with the enemy's threatened use of long-range rockets, in Northern France.
"Last night, aircraft of RAF Bomber Command made heavy attacks on the large synthetic oil plants at Homberg, and Bottrop-Welheim in the Ruhr.
"Both attacks were highly concentrated, and smoke from large fires rose to a great height.
"A force of Mosquitos attacked Hamburg, and Halifaxes attacked a flying bomb installation in Northern France."
"Mines were laid in enemy waters. From these operations 31 of our bombers are missing."
The RAF were out in very great strength during the night. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris sent to Germany two separate forces of Lancasters and Halifaxes to attack Homberg and Bottrop-Welheim.
The two oil plants attacked are the two largest concerns still working in the Ruhr.
Two further forces were despatched to make a heavy attack on the railway centre at Courtrai, in Belgium.
All three of the main northern routes from Germany through Belgium to France by way of Ghent, Brussels, and Roosendall. converge at Courtrai, where these are the largest and most convenient railway yards in this area for sorting military traffic before it passes on to the Normandy battlefield.
Swiss radio, quoting an official communique said that five U.S. bombers were intercepted by Swiss fighters today and forced to land.
HOMBERG SYNTHETIC OIL PLANT WAS THE NIGHT'S TARGET.
15 SQDN – 15 STARTED, 13 PRIMARY, 1 ABORTIVE, 1 MISSING
90 SQDN – 27 STARTED, 23 PRIMARY, 1 ABORTIVE, 3 MISSING
622 SQDN – 15 STARTED, 12 PRIMARY, 1 ABORTIVE, 2 MISSING
75 SQDN – 26 STARTED, 19 PRIMARY, 7 MISSING
115 SQDN – 22 STARTED, 20 PRIMARY, 1 OUTSTANDING, 1 MISSING.
514 SQDN – 24 STARTED, 17 PRIMARY, 1 ABORTIVE, 4 MISSING.
WEATHER OVER THE TARGET WAS CLEAR WITH SOME INDUSTRIAL HAZE,. RED AND GREEN MARKERS WERE CONCENTRATED AND THE BOBBING [sic] WAS GOOD. ONE LARGE EXPLOSION WAS CAUSED WITH SMOKE UP TO 15,000 FEET. MOST [deleted] CRESS [/deleted] CREWS WERE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE ATTACK.
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Description
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A brief description of the op to a synthetic oil plant, reports being attacked by Me 109 and two Ju 88's, his navigation plot, a print of what the H2S return of the target should look like and a page, partly newspaper cuttings and partly a report of the raid by squadrons.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-20
1944-07-21
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
Germany--Homberg (Kassel)
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map
Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text. Memoir
Text
Format
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Four items, a typewritten account of the operation, a navigation plot, a radar return plot, newspaper cuttings with part of an official report
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10134, SKingEJ182986v10135, SKingEJ182986v10136, SKingEJ182986v10137
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Date
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1944-07-20
1944-07-21
Contributor
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Sue Smith
Title
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Homberg, Edward King's 27th op of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Ju 88
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
Me 109
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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[underlined]CAEN[/underlined]
[underlined] Troop concentration [/underlined]
Airbprne [sic] 0345
Landed 0740
Attack by 1,000 bombers on troop concentrations and steel works at Caen. A complete wipe-out.
[Page Break]
[Route Map]
[inserted] [underlined]CAEN [/underlined][/inserted]
[Page Break]
[Target Map]
[Page Break]
5,000 TONS IN 41 MINUTES
R.A.F.’S FIRST 1,000 BOMBER DAY RAID
EYE-WITNESS ON NORMANY BLOW
[Italics] George Fyfe, Special Correspondent of THE DAILY TELEPGRAPH, below gives an eye-witness description of yesterday’s operation in which over 2,000 bombers dropped 7, 000 tone of H.E.
Of this total the R.A.F., making their first day raid by over 2,000 bombers, dropped over 5,000 tons in 41 minutes. This was the first such battle fought by Bomber Command against the German Army.[/Italics]
FROM GEORGE FYFE,
Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent
WITH THE TACTICAL AIR FORCE IN FRANCE, Tuesday.
I have just witnessed the biggest, most awe-inspiring this that has ever happened in the history of air warfare.
Without the slightest warning Britain and America have thrown a massive weight of their fighter and bomber attack against a single target.
They have often said that in good times they would be able to do so. Now they have done it.
The enemy is reeling under the blow. It has momentarily paralysed him.
Now within a few minutes of the end of this terrific attack, I try to get back to the point at which it began, only two hours or so ago. For within that brief period a great area has apparently been wiped clean of the enemy: devastated, blotted out.
My eyes are smarting my face grimy, my nostrils assailed by the acrid smell of high explosive, and my head still buzzes from the noise of the A.A., the unceasing hum of the aero engines, the swishing sound of the shells, just like that of a train travelling high overhead, and above all, the sharp, ear-splitting crack of the batteries of guns that opened up immediately behind me when the turn of the artillery came.
FACTORY TARGET
A.A. Too Late
This is what happened this morning I stood in a French road that gave me a full view of a huge factory, that at Colombelles which, with 14 chimneys, has provided the enemy with perfect observation posts.
I watched I noticed a speck in the sky. It was a Mosquito. Directly afterwards it dropped a cascade of coloured lights, then a second and a third. All fell on the factory.
There was no doubt of their meaning. The Germans, who had been completely surprised, came into action with their A.A. guns.
But it was too late. Already a Lancaster was overhead and dropping its bombs. A second arrived, and in a perfectly straight line sites missiles went into the factory buildings.
The accuracy of it all was amazing. In the next instant the explosions has produced a straight line of black smoke that indicated the target.
By this time the full force of the German A.A. fire was in operation. But it had not the slightest visible effect on the heavy bombers, both Lancasters and Halifaxes, which were now on the scene.
Majestically in a great cloud they were approaching. As each passed over, its shower of bombs, plainly observable, went down on the hapless factory.
As they passed on to turn for home, fresh waves succeeded them. As far as the eye could see, the sky was full of our heavy bombers.
“OPERATION CLOBBER”
Secret Planning”
“Operation Clobber” was on. That was the name that had been used to conceal our intentions. “Clobber” means an effective air attack. Very few people indeed were aware of that night and day wok in the week-end when the plans were perfected.
They were meant to be a complete surprise to the Germans. In this respect success was undoubted.
The attack on the factory, which was devoted to the manufacture of steel, was merely the opening part of the show. Nothing could have been more highly spectacular. No fewer than 450 of our heavies dealt with it.
They arrived dead on time. Within a matter of seconds a mass of black smoke enveloped the factory.
Into this smoke more and more bombs were dropped. Gradually the blue sky darkened and the moon disappeared.
The density of the smoke was greater than anything one had ever seen before. It crept upwards and outwards over an enormous area, leaving at its base a jet-black line.
There were no flames. The all-pervading black spread until it filled practically the whole sky. It was just like an eclipse of the sun.
Standing as I was within two or three miles of the target I wondered more than once whether stray bombs might not fall near. But they did not.
One Mosquito after another dropped fresh “markers” of coloured flares. The density of the smoke was such that the lights disappeared from view almost at once.
Yet, as I say, this was but the prelude. The flattening of the big factory was just one part of an attack that was intended to smother all enemy opposition before our tanks and infantry advanced.
WHOLE AREA COVERED
Craters as Obstacles
In effect we had chosen the area lying between the two rivers to our left flanks.
Coming in from the Channel the Lancasters and Halifaxes took the right side of the area that was to be covered, and that had as its main feature the steel works.
They were out not only to destroy the place but to make craters which would be so deep and numerous that the enemy would find it impossible to bring tanks across the.
The left side of the area was dealt with just as effectively by another 450 of our “heavies.” It was particularly important because of the large number of guns that were mounted in various villages.
Finally they had to be a frontal bombing.
The heavy bombers, reinforced now by 750 flying Fortresses and Liberators, flew on through the dense smoke that was rising from the factory, and from the demolished villages and strong points opposite, and showered their high explosive on a line well ahead.
Thus we ploughed three sides of an enormous “box.” Having done this, we brought in the medium bombers of the Ninth United States Army Air Force.
Their task was to clear of human life all within the “box,” but to do it in such a way that they would not form craters which would impede our tanks in their advance,
Therefore they dropped fragmentation bombs, colloquially known as “frags,” over the whole if this inner area.
Just as thorough was the treatment adopted for the area outside. Hundreds of the Allies’ Typhoon bombers and rocket carriers circled it, looking for every sign of enemy movement, and dealing with it instantly.
As they did this, another ring operating much further afield, consisting of hundreds of Thunderbolts, took on the task of destroying all attempts to bring up reserves.
NO REPITE
Pilots’ Many Sorties
When the big attack was over and the way had been cleared, it was hoped, for the advance of the Allied forces, the great fleets of aircraft the Allies now possess in Normandy went out without cessation. Pilots had no respite.
Immediately they returned to their airfield they refuelled in record time and were away again.
Fighters maintained unending patrols; others took up two 1,000lb bombs or rocket projectiles and hunted the enemy down relentlessly.
Others again were stationed on the “cab rank,” ready at a signal to dash towards any target that had been spotted from a visual control post.
The control post was located in a captured German tank flying the R.A.F. flag.
Meanwhile the pilots of the Ninth United Stated Air Force were steadily cutting bridges at distant point, sweeping the roads, attacking transport, and preventing, so far as they could, the slightest enemy movement.
Air Chief Marshall Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, C-in-C. of the Allied Air Force, flew to Normandy for the operation and spent much of the time watching the bombing.
GREAT RIAD WAS “FORST OF DAY”
PLANNED TO THE MINUTE
The Air Ministry stated yesterday that the 5,000 tons of bombs dropped between 5.45a.m. and 6.26 a.m. was the first operation of a day during which all the Allied Air Forced gave continuous and close support to the armies in Normandy.
Of all the planes engaged between 5.45 a.m. and 10 a.m., during which the 7,000 tons were dropped, nine bombers are missing.
[Page Break]
[Photograph]
CAEN BURNING
The great battle for Caen was still raging after a week of fierce fighting: These photographs were taken on “D” Day after the town has been subjected to its first terrific pounding from the air by the Allied Air Forces
[Photograph]
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[Page Break]
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
TACTICAL BOMBING IN SUPPORT OF THE ARMY
A request was received from a Division to assist in liquidating a powerful enemy strong point housed in the steelworks of Societe Metallurgique de Normandie on the South bank of the Rover ORNE near CAEN. Pinpoint bombing accuracy was essential as our own troop positions were only 1,500 yards away on the opposite bank. 70 Mitchell and Bostons of 2 Group T.A.F. were detailed on 22.6.44.
Top picture shows the first box bursting across the centre of plant; subsequent boxes followed in quick succession completely plastering the works.
Bottom picture shows the attack well developed.
The following message of thanks was received from the Division: “The Division wish to convey to the crews concerned their very warm thanks for the operation which was highly successful and of a very great help. “
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Caen, Edward King's 26th operation of his tour
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Six items covering operations around Caen. The first is Edward's description of the operation, against troop concentrations. The second is his navigation plot. The third is a print of the expected H2S return of the target. Fourth is a collection of newspaper cuttings describing the first 1,000 bomber operation carried out during daylight. Fifth is a cutting, two photographs shows the damage to Caen after a series of raids on D Day. This shows the utter devastation to the city caused by these attacks.
The sixth is of a pair of photographs captioned 'Tactical bombing in support of the Army' that reports the tactical bombing that was undertaken a few days after the heavy bomber operation to on Caen. The first shows the initial bombs exploding in the middle of the target. The second shows the attack well under way with the target almost obscured by bombs exploding and fires.
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1944-07-18
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Caen
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Air Force
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eng
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
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Map
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A text document, a navigation plot, print of a radar scan, three newspaper cuttings
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SKingEJ182986v10123, SKingEJ182986v10124, SKingEJ182986v10125, SKingEJ182986v10126, SKingEJ182986v10127, SKingEJ182986v10130
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Edward King
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1944-07-18
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Pending text-based transcription. Under review
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Claire Monk
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Mildenhall
tactical support for Normandy troops
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] CHALONS-SUR-MARNE [/underlined].
[underlined] Railway Marshalling Yards [/underlined],
Airborne 2200
Landed 0420
[page break]
[map]
[inserted][underlined] CHALONS SUR MARNE. [/underlined][/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
Railway Marshalling Yard CHALONS-sur-MARNE (France)
[page break]
CHALONS-SUR-MARNE:
3/4 LANCASTERS OF 1 GROUP, 86/100 LANCASTERS OF
3 GROUP, 14/14 LANCASTERS AND 3/XX 2/3 MOSQUITOES F XX OF 8 (PF)
GROUP ATTACKED THE RAIL CENTRE. 8/10THS TO 10/10THS CLOUD
PREVAILED WITH BASE AT 8/10,000FT. VISIBILITY WAS GOOD BELOW. MOST CREWS VSUALLY [sic] IDENTIFIED LAND MARKS MARKERS WERE SEEN TO BE WELL CONCENTRATED AND ACCURATELY PLACED FOLLOWED BY A SUCCESSFUL ATTACK. HEAVY SMOKE AND FIRES EX DEVELOPED BEFORE THE ATTACK WAS CONCLUDED. FLAK WAS SLIGHT, BUT SEVERAL COMBATS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. 1 LANCASTER IS MISSING.
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Four items, the first a title page, the second Edward's navigation plot, the third a print of the expected H2S return and fourth part of an official report on the operation. This gives the number of aircraft taking part and their group, a weather report, a summary of the raid and aircraft losses.
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-14
1944-07-15
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Châlons-sur-Marne (Arrondissement)
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Map
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Two typewritten documents, a navigation plot, an expected H2S plot
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SKingEJ182986v10119, SKingEJ182986v10120, SKingEJ182986v10121, SKingEJ182986v10122
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-07-14
1944-07-15
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Sue Smith
Title
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Chalons-sur-Marne, Edward King's 25th operation on his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined]NUCOURT [/underlined]
[underlined] P-Plane Base [/underlined] [underlined] 10th July 1944£ [sic] [/underlined]
Airborne 0355
Landed 0745
Once again there was a cloud cover over target so bombed on instruments.
[Page Break]
[Route Map]
[underlined]NUCOURT [/underlined]
[Page Break]
[Map]
[Page Break]
ATTACKS ON FLYING BOMB STORAGE
Photographs on this page and opposite show the attention paid by allied aircraft to the limestone caves at NUCOURT and ST. LEU D’ESSERENT II which were underground storage dumps housing the war heads for the flying bombs: at NUCOURT (above), several areas of subsidence (A) reveals the vastness and the damage to these caves, at (B) can be seen the various entrances. ST. LEU D’ESSERENT II (opposite) large areas can be seen which have subsided (C) and the entrances (D) have been blocked by direct hits or near misses. The French in peace time uses these caves for mushroom growing. Inset: is an action picture of Bomber Command’s attack on yet another storage dump, this one is at BIENNAIS.
[Page Break]
THEY DON’T ALL REACH ENGLAND!
Apart from the large number of Flying Bombs which are shot down over the sea before they reach the country an increasing number appear to be crashing immediately on take-off. The launching sites on these two pages are four of the many sites where things have not gone to according to plan. In each case (A) represents the launching platform; (B) the craters and blast marks where “bombs” have exploded; and (C) in Fig. 2 are crashed “bombs” which have not exploded. Note also the skid marks across the fields and the characteristic difference between the bomb craters of allied bombing and the craters caused by exploding Flying Bombs.
[Page Break]
[Newspaper]
ANOTHER FLYING BOMB CAVE DEPOT HIT.
BOMMER COMMAND early yesterday struck an effective blow at the robot planes. Chief target of a force of Halifaxes and Lancasters was a depot at Nucourt, some 25 miles north-west of Paris, which had been attacked in daylight on Saturday.
Flying bombs are sent here from Germany for inspection sorting and partial assembly in caves under 30ft. of chalky soil.
In an 18-minute attack starting shortly after 1.30 a.m., the bombers scored direct hits on the depot.
Their aim was to complete a partial collapse of a hillside above the caves wrought by American bombers some weeks ago, and ta [sic] smash up roads and railways lading to the tunnels.
BIG EXPLOSION
Two big explosions followed the attack.
A SECOND DAYLIGHT OPERATION TOOK PLACE IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE 10TH. THIS TIME A FULL SCALE [DELETED]0 [/DELTED] EFFORT – 130 LANCASTERS TAKING PART. THE TARGET WAS A F/B SUPPLY SITE THIS TIME AT NUCOURT AND THE FIGURES WERE MADE UP BY:-
15 SQUADRON 13 DETAILED 12 PRIMARY 1 ABORTIVE
[DELETED] 66 [/DELETED] [INSERTED] XXX [/INSERTED]
622 SQUADRON 13 DETAILED 13 PRIMARY
90 SQUADRON 24 DETAILED 12 [DELETED] indecipherable number][/DELETED] [INSERTED] 23[/INSERTED] PRIMARY 1 ABORTIVE
514 SQUADRON 27 DETAILED 26 PRIMARY 1 WITHDRAWN
115 SQUADRON 26 DETAILED 26 PRIMARY
75 SQUADRON 27 DETAILED 27 PRIMARY
ONCE AGAIN THE WEATHER WAS VERY UNFAVOURABLE, THE TARGET BEING OBSCURED BY 10/10 CLOUD [DELETED] [INDECIPHERABLE WORD ] [INSERTED] X [/INSERTED] SO QUICKLY THAT ONLY ONE OR TWO CREWS WERE ABLE TO BOMB ON THEM. THE REMAINDER BOMBED ON CEE AND IT IS [DELETED] [INDECIPHERABLE WORD ] [INSERTED] X [/INSERTED] FEARED THAT THIS ATTACK WILL ALSO PROVE VERY SCATTERES NO PHOTOS ARE YET TO HADXXX TO HAND, BUT THEY ARE REPORTED TO BE MOSTLY CLOUD STUDIES.
THERE WAS A LITTLE FLAK FROM TARGET BUT NO FIGTHERS WERE SEEN. AN A/C OF 622 SQUADRON ON ROUT [SIC] TO THE TRAGET REPORTED CONSIDERABLE MOVEMENT OF TRANSPORT AONG A ROAD INTO A WOOD AND THIS MAY PROVE VERY VALUABLE.
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Six items, first a brief description by Edward again using the term P plane to describe the V-1. Second is Edward's navigation plot, third is the expected H2S return over the target. Fourth and fifth are press clippings reporting damage to Flying Bomb storage sites at Nucourt and St Leu D'Esserent. The first captioned 'Attacks on Flying Bomb storage dumps'. As the target is a series of caves damage not obvious, but lots of craters.
The second cutting is captioned 'They don't all reach England!' There is a series of photographs indicating V-1s having exploded just after launch and one that crashed but did not explode.
The sixth is part of an official report of the raid showing the aircraft and their squadrons and a summary of the raid. There is also a newspaper cutting reporting a raid on Nucourt.
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-10
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Nucourt
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Physical object
Map
Format
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Two typewritten documents, an expected radar return, three press clippings
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10113, SKingEJ182986v10114, SKingEJ182986v10115, SKingEJ182986v10116, SKingEJ182986v10117, SKingEJ182986v10118
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Pending text-based transcription. Under review
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-07-10
Contributor
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Claire Monk
Title
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Nucourt, Edward King's 24th operation of his tour
115 Squadron
15 Squadron
514 Squadron
622 Squadron
75 Squadron
90 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
V-1
V-weapon
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] LINZ EUX [/underlined]
[underlined] P – Plane Base 9th July, 1944 [/underlined]
Airborne 1220
Landed 1615
Full cloud cover over target so bombed on instruments.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted][underlined] LINZEUX. [/underlined][/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
Bomber Command aircraft attacked military installations in Northern France, and laid mines in enemy waters last night without loss.
A REDUCED FORCE OF 50 LANCASTERS WENT OUT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON TO A CONSTRUCTIONAL WORKS AT LINZIEUX FROM THE FOLLOWING SQUADRONS:-
15 SQDN – 13 DETAILED, 11 PRIMARY, 1 RETURNED EARLY, 1 BROUGHT BOMBS BACK.
622 SQDN – 12 DETAILED, 9 PRIMARY, 1 MISSING, 2 BROUGHT BOMBS BACK.
75 SQDN – 25 DETAILED, 25 PRIMARY.
VERY POOR WEATHER WAS ENCOUNTERED AND FORMATION FLYING WAS REPORTED 'TRICKY'. OVER THE TARGET THERE WAS 6-8/10THS CLOUD WITH A FEW GAPS AND MASTER BOMBER INSTRUCTED CREWS TO BOMB ON GEE OR D.R. AND THEN TOLD HIS DEPUTY TO TRY TO MARK. A FEW ORXXX FEW CREWS SAW THE T.I’S WHICH QUICKLY DISAPPEARED INTO CLOUD AND THE MAJORITY BOMBED ON GEE AND A FEW VISUALLY THROUGH BREAKE [sic] IN CLLXXX IN CLOUD. BOMBING WAS DESCRIBED AS WIDESPREAD AND THIS IS BORNE OUT BY THE PHOTOGRAPHS IT HAS BEEN POSSIBLE TO PLOT, THESE BEING SPREAD OUT FROM 3 – 7 MILES MAINLY TO SOUTH-EAST OF TARGET. PLOTTINGS GIVEN BELOW.
THERE WAS LITTLE FLAK OVER THE TARGET, BUT F/75 WAS HIT AND FELL 5000 FEET BEFORE RE-GAINING CONTROL, THE M/U GUNNER BEING WOUNDED. NO FIGHTERS WERE SEEN.
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Four items, Edward's brief description of the operation, the second his navigation plot, third is a map showing the target and fourth part of an official report of the operation. This includes the number and squadrons of the aircraft that took part, the weather which gave heavy cloud cover which in turn led to poor accuracy. It also includes a summary of the operation and there is a very short press cutting reporting raids on Northern France.
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-09
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Hesdin
Coverage
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal New Zealand Air Force
Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Map
Text
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Two text documents, a navigation plot, a map, a press clipping
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SKingEJ182986v10109, SKingEJ182986v10110, SKingEJ182986v10111, SKingEJ182986v10112
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-07-09
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Sue Smith
Title
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Linzeux, Edward King's 23rd operation of his tour
15 Squadron
622 Squadron
75 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Mildenhall
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Title
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Vaires. [/underlined]
[underlined] Railway Marshalling Yards. 7th July, 1944 [/underlined]
Airborne 2250
Landed 0325
Marshalling Yards near to Parais [sic] devastated.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted][underlined] VAIRES. [/underlined][/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
[photograph]
PARIS/VAIRES MARSHALLING YARD DEVASTED
As the result of daylight attacks by aircraft of Bomber Command on 11th and 18th July, 1944, fresh concentrations of bomb craters and extensive damage can be seen throughout the Marshalling Yards at PARIS/VAIRES. The greater part of the damage from previous raids has not yet been repaired and this, together with the latest damage, presents a scene of chaos over the entire area of the Yard. Large numbers of wagons are damaged and derailed and practically all tracks through the yard are cut.
23
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[photograph]
[page break]
VAIRES RAILWAY CETTRE [sic] WAS THE NIGHT'S TARGET, 100 LANCASTERS SETTING OUT:-
15 SQUADRON, 17 LANCASTERS STARTED, 17 PRIMARY.
90 SQUADRON, 19 LANCASTERS STARTED, 17 PRIMARY, 2 ABORTIVE
514 SQUADRON, 21 LANCASTERS STARTED, 19 PRIMARY, 2 ABORTIVE
75 SQUADRON, 21 LANCASTERS STARTED, 18 PRIMARY, 3 ABORTIVE
115 SQUADRON, 22 LANCASTERS STARTED, 22 PRIMARY.
WEATHER WAS CLEAR AND NEARLY ALL CREWS WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE TARGET VISUALLY. RED, GREEN AND YELLOW MARKERS WERE CONCENTRATED AND WELL PLACED. BOMBING WAS MAINLY ON REDS AND GREENS AS DIRECTED BY MASTER BOMBER. MUCH SMOKE DEVELOPED AND THERE WERE TWO EXPLOSIONS, ONE OF WHICH WAS VERY LARGE. VERY LITTLE FLAK WAS ENCOUNTERED. ONLY TWO SQUADRONS REPORT FIGHTERS HAVING 6 COMBATS IN THE PARIS AREA AND CLAIMING ONE JU.88 DESTROYED. PRELIMINARY PLOTTINGS DENOTE A GOOD ATTACK.
PARIS – VAIRES.
ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE BOMBS APPEAR TO HAVE FALLEN OUTSIDE THE TARGET AREA TO THE NORTH-EAST OF THE POINT OF AIM THERE IS A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF FRESH CRATERS ACROSS THE WHOLE WIDTH OF THE YARD AND PRINCIPALLY IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS.
THE TRANSHIPMENT SHED HAS HAD ONE OR TWO DIRECT HITS BUT IS NOT SEVERELY DAMAGED.
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Five items, Edward's brief description of the operation, his navigation plot, the expected H2S return over the target, two press cuttings, one with the caption'Paris/Vaires marshalling yard devastation' showing the Vaires rail yard after the attacks, many craters from this and earlier raids. The second without caption but showing a bombed rail yard. Many craters damaging both track and waggons. There is also part of an official report on the operation that gives the number of aircraft involved and their squadron, the weather and a summary of the operation.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-07
1944-07-08
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Vaires-sur-Marne
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Photograph
Map
Format
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Two typewritten documents, a navigation plot, an H2S return, two press clippings
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SKingEJ182986v10101, SKingEJ182986v10102, SKingEJ182986v10103, SKingEJ182986v10104, SKingEJ182986v10106, SKingEJ182986v10108
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-07-07
1944-07-08
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Sue Smith
Title
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Vaires, Edward King's 22nd operation on his tour
115 Squadron
15 Squadron
514 Squadron
75 Squadron
90 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] WIZERNES [/underlined]
[underlined] V2 Base [/underlined] [underlined] 5th July, 1944 [/underlined]
Airborne 2250
Landed 0130
Concrete construction for launching of V2 rockets completely destroyed.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted][underlined] WIZERNES. [/underlined][inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
[photograph]
THE RESULT OF BOMBER COMMANDS 12,000 lb. BOMB ATTACKS ON ONE OF THE ENEMY'S V.2 ROCKET SITES
These remarkable low level oblique photographs were taken by two R.A.F. Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft of the large concrete structures at WIZERNES. The construction, built on the edge of a quarry is mainly underground and is believed to be connected with the enemy's threatened long range rocket, V.2 weapon. The above photograph shows the site after an attack which disrupted the communications in the quarry and damaged the 100ft. high crane. The two photographs opposite were taken after R.A.F. aircraft attacked the installation with 12,000 lb. bombs and by comparison with the above photograph it will be seen that the quarry face has subsided away from the massive concrete dome, revealing the buttresses; the crane has been destroyed and all the tunnel entrances blocked. The whole area now presents a scene of considerable chaos.
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[page break]
[photograph]
[photograph]
27
[page break]
Flying Bombs
Sites Hit
During the night R.A.F bombers attacked the flying bomb installations and other military objectives in Northern France in strength.
Squadrons of Mosquitoes attacked a synthetic air plant at Buer-Scnolven, near Gelsenkirchen. Germany, and other targets in the Ruhr Mines were laid and six aircraft[missing letter] were lost.
R.A.F. Lancasters made a deep night penetration through fighter defended areas in France to attack the railway marshalling yards at Dijon.
Supporting the American advance down the Cherbourg Peninsula, Mosquitoes went out last night to attack railways, road junctions and encampments in woods behind the German lines. Targets were at Villedieu. Hyenville and Granville.
WIZERNES
15 SQUADRON 15 DETAILED 1 WITHDRWN [sic], 13 PRIMARY 1 MISSING [indecipherable word] CONSTRUCTION 90 SQDN 10 DETAILED 10 PRIMARY SITE 622 SQDN 15 DETAILED 15 PRIMARY
THIS ATTACK FELL GENERALLY 750 YARDS TO 1000 YARDS WEST OF THE A.P., BUT MANY BOMB[deleted]S[/deleted] BURSTS ARE ACTUALLY ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE.
WIZERNES
THE WHOLE TARGET AREA NOW APPEARS ONE MASS OF CRATERS. REPAIRS ARE POSSIBLY IN PROGRESS ON THE W. SIDE OF THE "DOME" SHAPED UNIT. THE RAILWAY LINES AND OTHER ROAD APPROACHES HAVE BEEN SEVERED IN MANY PLACES. THE WHOLE AREA IN ALL OTHER RESPECTS APPEARS TO LACK ANY SIGNS OF ACTIVITY.
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Six items, Edward's very brief description of the operation, his navigation plot, the expected H2S return over the target. Two press clipping, captioned 'The result of Bomber Commands 12,000 lb bomb attacks on one of the Enemy's V.2 rocket sites'. The first photograph is an oblique low level reconnaissance showing the quarry construction site and concrete 'dome' after the operation described by Edward.
The second clipping shows the same area a few days later after the 'Tallboys' had been used.
The last item is part of an official report on the operation that Edward took part in, it gives details of the aircraft and their squadrons that took part, a summary of the raid, 'not very accurate but the surrounding infrastructure had been damaged'. There is also a small press cutting referring to operations over northern Europe in general.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-05
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Photograph
Physical object
Text
Format
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Two typed documents, a navigation plot, an H2S plot, three press cuttings
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10093, SKingEJ182986v10094, SKingEJ182986v10095, SKingEJ182986v10096, SKingEJ182986v10098, SKingEJ182986v10100
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-07-05
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Sue Smith
Title
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Wizernes, Edward King's 21st operation of his tour
15 Squadron
622 Squadron
90 Squadron
aerial photograph
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
Mosquito
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
reconnaissance photograph
Tallboy
V-2
V-weapon
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] BEAUVOIR [/underlined]
[underlined] P – Plane Base [/underlined] [underlined] 2nd July 1944 [/underlined]
Airborne 1250
Landed 1640
Formation daylight raid. Full cloud cover until past English coast then breaking to 5/10. Target obscured by c[missing letters] [deleted] cloud [/deleted] cloud so orbited until clear patch seen. Target wiped out. Saw St. Valery on way out – also Dieppe in the distance. Little opposition with only light flak bursting some 6000 feet below us.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted] BEAUVOIR. [/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
R.A.F. BOMB BY DAY IN ANOTHER '1,000' RAID
"U.S. Heavies Hit Hanover"
From FRANK STARR
'Evening News' War Reporter at Supreme Headquarters
R.A.F. Bomber Command, which in the night again sent out more than 1,000 Lancasters and Halifaxes to attack railway communications and military targets in Normandy and other parts of France and Germany, made air history.
For the first time in any theatre of war, part of the huge force of night bombers bombed in daylight with fighter escort. Nearly the whole of the great force was airborne over England while the sun was setting, and most crossed the Channel coast when more than an hour remained before darkness.
It was one formation of these night bombers which attacked their targets before dark, with R.A.F. day fighters escorting and covering them.
(III) BEAUVOIR SUPPLY SITE WAS ATTACKED BY 118/119 LANCASTERS OF 3 GROUP 2/2 LANCASTERS AND 4/5 MOSQUITES [sic] OF 8(PF) GROUP.
CLOUD WAS VARIABLE AND DRIFTING, OCCASIONAL CLEAR PATCHES OCCURRING OVER THE TARGET. THE M/B [Master Bomber] AT FIRST INSTRUCTED THE MAIN FORCE TO ORBIT AND LATER TO BOMB BY MEANS OF NAVIGATIONAL AIDS, BUT SHORTLY AFTERWARDS [letter deleted] THE M/B SAW THE A/P [Aiming Point] AND RELEASED HIS YELLOW T I' S [Target Indicators] AND CREWS WERE ABLE TO BOMB THEM. BOMBING WAS FAIRLY CONCENTRATED, BUT CLOUD CONDITIONS PREVENTED AN ACCURATE ASSESSMENT. FLAK WAS NEGLIGIBLE AND NO FIGHTERS SEEN.
STRIKE PHOTOS SHOW BOMB BURSTS CLOSE TO AND AROUND THE TARGET AREA BUT THERE IS TOO MUCH CLOUD TO ASSESS HOW HEAVILY THE TARGET HAS BEEN HIT.
BEAUVOIR.
THE WHOLE TARGET AREA IS SATURATED WITH CRATERS. THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS ARE REFERENCES TO THE TARGET INTERPRETATION:-
Z2. Z3. Z4. DESTROYED
Z1 Z2. DAMAGED
Y. SMALLER OF THE TWO BUILDINGS IS DEMOLISHED AND HALF OF THE LARGER BUILDING IS DEMOLISHED
W DAMAGED BY DIRECT HIT AND BY NEAR MISSES.
V1. PARTLY DEMOLISHED AND REMAINDER SEVERELY DAMAGED.
V2. FURTHER DAMAGE BY NEAR MISSES.
U LARGELY OBLITERATED.
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Description
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Four items, Edward's description of the operation, he refers to the target as a P plane base, the operation report refers to it as a storage site, his navigation plot, a map of the area close to the target showing their track and the target. Part of an official report of the operation giving the number and type of aircraft involved and a detailed assessment of the operation which despite the cloud was effective. Attached to this there is a press clipping describing the day's air activities.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-02
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Frévent (Pas-de-Calais)
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map
Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Format
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Two typed documents, a navigation plot, a map
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10089, SKingEJ182986v10090, SKingEJ182986v10091, SKingEJ182986v10092
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1944-07-02
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Sue Smith
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Beauvoir, Edward King's 20th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
Master Bomber
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Mildenhall
V-1
V-weapon
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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2020-11-22
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[underlined] VILLERS BOCAGE [/underlined] [underlined] 30th June, 1944 [/underlined]
[underlined] Panzer Concentrations in Woods. [/underlined]
Daylight operation at request of Field Marshall Montgomery. Formation flight with very heavy fighter escort. Very good visability [sic] & weather. Many ships seen in [deleted word] Channel and at the beachheads with many wrecked landing craft. H.M.S. "Rodney" observed near to the beaches with convoys everywhere. Landing strips in Normandy see in operation with Liberators, Spitfires and Lightnings. Cherbourg seen[deleted] i [/deleted] in distance. Bayeaux very peaceful. Only light flak seen but it was very accura[missing letters] Fighter escort mainly Spitfires with a few Tempests.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted] VILLERS BOCAGE [/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
DAY 30TH JUNE 1944.
3 GROUP ADOPTED A NEW ROLE YESTERDAY WHEN THEY MADE A DAYLIGHT ATTACK ON VILLERS BO[deleted]S[/deleted]CAGE. APART FROM THE DAWN ATTACK ON 'D' DAY THIS WAS THE FIRST FULLSCALE OPERATION CARRIED OUT BY THIS GROUP OVER ENEMY TERRITORY BY DAY, SINCE THE BREST DAYS OF 1941.
127 LANCASTERS TOOK OFF FROM.
15 SQUADRON. – 17 DETAILED. – 16 PRIMARY. – 1 ABORTIVE.
622 SQUADRON. – 14 DETAILED. – 13 PRIMARY. – 1 CANCELLED.
90 SQUADRON. – 19 DETAILED. – 19 PRIMARY.
115 SQUADRON. – 27 DETAILED. – 27 PRIMARY.
514 SQUADRON. – 29 DETAILED. – 27 PRIMARY. – 1 ABORTIVE. – 1 MISSING.
THESE IN COMPANY WITH 105 HALIFAXES OF 4 GROUP SET OUT IN IT IS HOPED, GOOD FORMATION WITH FIGHTER COVER. THERE WAS 3.5/10 CLOUD AND MOST OF THE CREWS WERE ABLE TO SEE THE TARGET AREA QUITE CLEARLY THROUGH GAPS IN THE CLOUD. HOWEVER, OWING TO THE TERRIFIC CLOUD OF SMOKE AND DUST CAUSED BY THE HALIFAXES WHO WENT IN FIRST, THE AIMING POINT WAS COMPLETELY OBSCURED AND VERY FEW SAW THE MARKERS. THIS DID NOT PREVENT A GOOD ATTACK AND BOMBING WAS CARRIED OUT ON INSTRUCTIONS OF MASTER BOMBER ON CONCENTRATION OF SMOKE, THE MAJORITY FROM 10/12,000 FT. BUT A NUMBER CAME DOWN BELOW CLOUD AND BOMBED FROM 3,600 TO 4,000 FT.
SOME EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPHS WERE OBTAINED BY ALL SQUADRONS AND ABOUT 90% SHOW THE AIMING POINT OR WHAT WAS THE VILLAGE COVERED BY CLOUDS OF SMOKE AND VERY LITTLE BOMBING APPEARS TO BE OFF THE TARGET. THE VILLAGE AND RODS [sic] SEEM TO BE OBLITERRATED [sic], AND IT IS HOPED MANY 'PANZERS' WITH IT.
THERE WERE SOME SCATTERED ACCURATE LIGHT AND HEAVY FLAK IN TARGET AREA, SEVERAL AIRCRAFT BEING HIT. THIS IS BELIEVED TO ACOUND [sic] FOR THE ONE LANCASTER AND ONE HALIFAX CASUALTIES.
NO ENEMY FIGHTERS WERE SEEN
ONE OF 75 SQDN WAS HIT BY FLAK OVER TARGET AND FORCED DOWN, BUT MANAGED TO LAND ON ONE OF THE LANDING STRIPS BEHIND OUR LINES, THE ONLY CASUALTY BEING ONE MEMBER OF CREW SLIGHTLY WOUNDED BY FLAK.
VILLERS BOCAGE
THE WHOLE AREA IS A MASS OF CRATERS. ALL THE AREAS ARE STILL BLOCKED.
[page break]
[photograph]
What Monty ordered
THE bombs going down in bottom centre of picture were part of the 1,000 tons dropped by the R.A.F. on a special target in answer to a call from the battle-line in Normandy
The target was a forest in the Villers Bocage area which held concentrations of German tanks. More than 250 Lancaster and Halifax night bombers, with fighter cover, made the daylight attack
The picture was taken at the height of the attack when the target was a sea of smoke and fire. In 12 minutes Rommel's armour was obliterated
"Your action will not be forgotten by the enemy," said Gen. Montgomery in his message of thanks to Bomber Command
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Five items, Edward's description of the operation to bomb Panzer concentrations in woods, requested by Field Marshall Montgomery. As the operation was in daylight Edward was able to describe the scene not too long after D Day. There is also Edwards navigation plot, a map showing the target area with their track and the target. Part of an official report on the operation, it details the aircraft from 3 Group that took part and their squadrons, together with 4 Group Halifax aircraft with a heavy fighter escort. It makes the point that this is the first full scale operation by 3 Group in daylight since D Day. The visibility was good until obscured by dust created by the bombs exploding, the operation was judged a success. There is also a press cutting captioned 'What Monty ordered' describing the operation.
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Edward King
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1944-06-30
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Villers-Bocage (Calvados)
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map
Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Photograph
Format
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Two typewritten documents, a nav plot, a map, a press cutting
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SKingEJ182986v10084, SKingEJ182986v10085, SKingEJ182986v10086, SKingEJ182986v10087, SKingEJ182986v10088
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-06-30
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Sue Smith
Title
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Villers Bocage, Edward King's 19th operation of his tour
115 Squadron
15 Squadron
3 Group
4 Group
514 Squadron
622 Squadron
90 Squadron
aircrew
B-24
bombing
Halifax
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
P-38
RAF Mildenhall
Spitfire
tactical support for Normandy troops
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Title
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] L’HAY [/underlined]
[underlined] P - Plane Base 23rd June, 1944 [/underlined]
Airborne 2250
Landed 0105
Flak seen at Calais and Dunkirk. Fired on by Lancaster on route home.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted] L’HAY [/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
'HEAVIES' CRACK DOWN ON 4 FLY-BOMB BASES
One Vanishes in Yellow Flare
STRONG forces of Lancasters and Halifaxes of Bomber Command attacked flying bomb installations in the Pas de Calais last night. Forces of Thunderbolts and heavies were seen over the same target to-day.
Four installations were bombed in the night. One force of Halifaxes appeared to have caught the Germans napping. All was quiet when the attack began, and it was only after a heavy concentration of bombs had gone down that the enemy opened fire.
There were several explosions in the target area before the attack came to an end, one of them going off in a vivid yellow flash.
During the flight the crews saw flying bombs coming from the direction of France. An air-gunner saw one of them blow up on the way.
Heavy Explosion
Lancaster crews which attacked another installation reported that the target area was well marked by Pathfinders, and the attack appears to have been well concentrted.[sic]
One of the pilots, Flying Officer W. Searston, of Alfreton, Derby, saw one very large explosion.
"We were leaving the target," he said. ("when there was a terrific white flash which lit up the clouds, and for a moment obliterated the coloured markers below."
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Four items, Edward's brief description, referring to P planes, reports being attacked by a Lancaster on the way home, his navigation plot, a map of the area near the target, a press cutting describing the days air activities mainly attacking V-1 sites.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-06-23
1944-06-24
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map
Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Format
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One typewritten document, a nav plot, a map
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10080, SKingEJ182986v10081, SKingEJ182986v10082, SKingEJ182986v10083
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-06-23
1944-06-24
Contributor
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Sue Smith
Title
A name given to the resource
L'Hay, Edward King's 18th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Halifax
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
V-1
V-weapon
-
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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Three items, Edward's brief description of the operation, to marshalling yards at Montdidier, their own bomb aimer sick so took wing commander. Due to low cloud over target ordered to return with their bombs. Edward's planned navigation plot and a map of the intended target area with their intended track and target marked.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-06-17
1944-06-18
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Montdidier (Hauts-de-France)
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map
Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Format
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One typewritten document, a map, a navigation plot
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10077, SKingEJ182986v10078, SKingEJ182986v10079
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-06-17
1944-06-18
Title
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Montdidier, Edward King's 17th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Mildenhall
-
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] VALENCIENNES [/underlined]
[underlined] Railway Marshalling Yards. 15th June, 1944 [/underlined]
Airborne 2315
Landed 0245
Chris Morris (Bomb-Aimer) sick so took Doug. Cox.
Quiet trip with little flak.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted][underlined] VALENCIENNES. [/underlined][/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
[photograph]
THE RESULT OF A.E.A.F. ATTACKS ON THE RAILWAY CENTRE AT VALENCIENNES
After several attacks by aircraft of 2nd. T.A.F. and 9th. U.S.A.F. this low altitude reconnaissance photograph shows part of the devastation, at Valenciennes, near the locomotive depot. The double track bridge over Canal de L'Escuat is seen lying on the canal bed preventing any traffic to Lille, Douai and Somain by this line.
Damage is widespread both in the Loco Sheds and the large factory on the opposite side of the canal.
184
[page break]
[photograph]
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Five items, Edward's brief description of the operation their bomb aimer was sick so took replacement, quiet trip. Edward's navigation plot, and an indication of the H2S plot when over the target. There are two press clippings, the first has a caption 'The result of A.E.A.F. attacks on the railway centre at Valenciennes'. This refers to the Allied tactical air forces damage to railway engine shed. The upper part of the photograph clearly shows the two large turntables, the round house where the locomotives are housed between trips and the storage tracks occupied by waggons, all badly damaged. Across the centre of the photograph is a canal with a collapsed bridge, below that are large factories again showing signs of bomb damage.
A second cutting shows Munich, no caption, signs of some bomb damage.
Creator
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-06-15
1944-06-16
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Valenciennes
Coverage
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Air Force
United States Army Air Force
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Photograph
Map
Format
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One typewritten document, navigation plot, H2S plot, two press cuttings
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10072, SKingEJ182986v10073, SKingEJ182986v10074, SKingEJ182986v10075, SKingEJ182986v10076
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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1944-06-15
1944-06-16
Title
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Valenciennes, Edward King's 16th operation of his tour
Contributor
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Sue Smith
15 Squadron
aerial photograph
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Mildenhall
reconnaissance photograph
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Ouistreham. [/underlined]
[underlined] Naval Gun Battery [/underlined] [underlined] 6/6/44. [/underlined]
Airborne
[underlined] Landed 0650 [/underlined]
Quiet trip. – Bombed in daylight. No fighters or flak (except for Le Havre).
French country side looked very peaceful on "D"-Day.
[page break]
[Map]
[inserted] [underlined] OUISTREHAM. [/underlined] [/inserted]
[page break]
ALLIES INVADE FRANCE
MASSED RAIDS FOR 16 HOURS
MASSED bombing of Northern France, in support of our invasion Forces, has been going on non-stop for 16 hours since before midnight.
All records in the air were broken today as hundreds of planes, RAF and American, flew a shuttle service across the Channel.
There was little sleep for people in the S.E. coast towns after 3.30 a.m., and people went into the streets to watch the formations going out in the half-light.
They heard the drone of heavy troop-carrying planes, and, as dawn broke, saw the huge tow-planes travelling south over the Channel with gliders streaming out behind.
During the night Bomber Command made their heaviest attack yet on the German batteries along the French coast, says Air Ministry News Service.
There were ten attacks between 11.30 p.m. and dawn, each by 100 or more heavy bombers. In all, Bomber Command sent out 1,300 aircraft.
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Three items, Edward's brief description of the operation, his navigation plot and a press cutting with the caption 'Allies invade France', which describes some of the air activity in support of D Day.
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Edward King
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1944-06-06
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Ouistreham
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
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Map
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One handwritten document, navigation plot, press cutting
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SKingEJ182986v10069, SKingEJ182986v10070, SKingEJ182986v10071
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1944-06-06
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Ouistreham, Edward King's 15th operation of his tour
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Babs Nichols
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944)
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Trappes. [/underlined]
[underlined] Marshalling Yards. [/underlined]
[underlined] 31/5/44 [/underlined]
Airborne 2355
[underlined] Landed 0505 [/underlined].
Thunderstorms & lightning around base – tossed about and iced up
Large fires seen burning in bend of the Seine.
Target – Flak fairly intense. ME109 seen over target about 500 yards away on reciprocal course.
Flak seen coming from Cherbourg & Channel Islands
[page break]
[Map]
[inserted][underlined] TRAPPES. [/underlined][/inserted]
[inserted] 2040F [/inserted]
[page break]
[Map]
TRAPPES
Marshalling Yard
[page break]
[Photograph]
WRECKED LOCOMOTIVES AT TRAPPES RAILWAY YARDS
Above : A railway line wrapped around a locomotive by the force of exploding bombs.
Below : Locomotives torn to pieces after heavy attacks by aircraft of Bomber Command during their concentrated offensive on enemy railway yards in the early part of 1944.
[Photograph]
[page break]
[Photograph]
TRAPPES Marshalling Yard was attacked by aircraft of Bomber Command on the night of 6/7th March, 1944. This photograph covers the N.W. end of the yard and includes the Engine Shed which has been heavily damaged. At least six engines are lying wrecked and there is considerable destruction and derailment of tenders and rolling-stock (arrows) in and adjacent to the Engine Shed. An extremely heavy concentration of craters is seen throughout the yard and practically all the lines have been affected. 2
[page break]
BOMBS SNUFFED OUT
PARIS RAID MARKERS
Through Storms to Hit Rails
Single enemy planes are over Germany, reported the German radio at 10.02 a.m.
A GIGANTIC stream of R.A.F. bombers last night went out over Europe to continue the pounding of the railways feeding the West Wall.
There were three separate attacks on important rail targets - on Terguier, 13 miles south of St. Quentin; on [underlined] Trappes, [/underlined] 16 miles south-west of Paris; and on Saumur, between Nantes and Tours.
In the attack on Trappes, the markers went down – but the first planes to bomb were so accurate that they wiped out the target indicators.
Pathfinders, however, were ready and the target was once more marked. Bombing started afresh.
Flight-Lieutenant E. Wallis, a Lancaster pilot from Coventry, said they had to fly through bad weather on the way.
"There were thunderstorms along the route," he said, "but we were through before they go really nasty. Then it cleared and the weather became as light as day."
-And Pas de Calais
Earlier, at midnight, the R.A.F. rocked towns on this side of the Channel with heavy explosions, which shook houses from Deal to Dungeness and jolted people in their beds. The blast was felt "like repeated puffs of wind."
In one watcher's words. "Hell was let loose" from Calais to Cap Gris Nez. The bombers roared out in a great procession. As some of the bombers were returning over the South-East Coast others were going out to unload their bombs.
Allied planes last night raided several places in Western, North-Western and Southern Germany, said Paris radio this morning. No details are yet available.
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Six items, Edward's description of the operation to the railway centre, commenting on the thunderstorms encountered, his navigation plot, the expected H2S plot of the target with their track marked, a press cutting captioned 'Wrecked locomotives at Trappes railway yards'. This has two ground level photographs showing locomotives and track having been badly damaged. Another press cutting is an air to ground of the yard with text describing the damage from an earlier raid in March 1944. A newspaper cutting describing the previous nights air activity including an attack on Trappes where the bombing was so accurate that it extinguished the Target indicators and the target had to be remarked.
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Edward King
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1944-05-31
1944-06-01
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Soligny-la-Trappe
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Map
Photograph
Text
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A handwritten document, a navigation plot, H2S plot, three press and newspaper clippings
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SKingEJ182986v10061, SKingEJ182986v10062, SKingEJ182986v10063, SKingEJ182986v10064, SKingEJ182986v10066, SKingEJ182986v10068
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-05-31
1944-06-01
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Title
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Trappes, Edward King's 14th operation of his tour
Contributor
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Babs Nichols
15 Squadron
aerial photograph
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 3
Me 109
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
reconnaissance photograph
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Duisburg. [/underlined]
[underlined] 21/5/44. [/underlined]
Airborne 2310
[underlined] Landed 0310 [/underlined]
Cloud over target up to 18-19,000' so flak not seen much. No T.Is seen so over-ran E.T.A. for 3 minutes then bombed. Came out well south of track – across [sic] overflakkee[?].
Attacked by single engined rocket fighter over Belgium – cork screwed and lost him
[page break]
[map]
[underlined] DUISBURG. [/underlined]
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Two items, Edward's description of the operation, and his navigation plot.
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Edward King
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1944-05-21
1944-05-22
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
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Text
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One handwritten document, a navigation plot
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SKingEJ182986v10059,SKingEJ182986v10060
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1944-05-21
1944-05-22
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Duisburg, Edward King's 13th operation of his tour
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Sue Smith
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Le Mans. [/underlined]
[underlined] Marshalling Yards. [/underlined]
[underlined] 19/5/44 [/underlined]
Airborne 2225
[underlined] Landed 0330. [/underlined]
Flak seen from Le Havre on way in, also Le Havre lighthouse.
Target – very concentrated trace. Air Bomber saw sheds and bombed them.
Searchlight tried to get us when crossing the coast coming out but did stall turn through it.
Four small ships seen S.E. of Guernsey in port echelon on course of 120° – probably M.T.B.s or E-boats.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted] LE MANS [/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
LE MANS
Marshalling Yard
[page break]
[photograph]
LE MANS MARSHALLING YARD HEAVILY DAMAGED
Severe damage to all parts of the Yard can be seen after the attack by aircraft of Bomber Command on the night of 13/14th March, 1944. Many wagons in the Marshalling Sidings (A) have been destroyed, derailed and damaged by fire. The Transhipment Sheds (B) have received several direct hits and are heavily damaged. The Engine Sheds (C) have a number of bays destroyed and the Repair Shops are heavily damaged by blast.
[photograph]
B
[photograph]
C
43
[page break]
[underlined] R.A.F. Smash Four Key Rail Towns [/underlined]
THOUSANDS OF TONS RAINED ON FRANCE
Paris and Germany To-day
[italics] Officially announced this afternoon that Flying Fortresses attacked airfields at Orby, Villacoublay, and Campaign, near Rheims, to-dark. They had a very strong fighter escort. [/italics]
[italics] "Evening News" [/italics] Air Correspondent
THE night and day air war on Europe is on again with full fury.
Hundreds of R.A.F. heavies in the night struck at four key rail towns in France, bomber fleets swept out again across the Straits to-day – and Achtungs warned Germany of bomber and fighter formations ranging across the Reich.
The R.A.F. night bombers in great strength struck four simultaneous blows at the French invasion railway system – Boulogne, Orleans, Tours and Le Mans – for the loss of seven planes, one of the smallest losses on record.
All the attacks were made by four-engined Lancasters and Halifaxes, and it is reckoned that the bomb-loads totalled thousands of tons, as the bombers would carry maximum weights on their comparatively short journeys.
Paris Hit To-day
After this night attack Paris radio reported that U.S. planes attacked the outskirts of Paris, south-west of the capital, this morning, doing great damage.
Thousands were left homeless by the R.A.F.'s violent night attacks, said the radio.
The R.A.F.s four main targets – marshalling yards, goods depots and railway junctions at Boulogne, Orleans, Tours, and Le Mans – are all vital points on the "spider's web" of railway communications covering Northern France generally
The targets were clearly identified and the bombing was well concentrated, says an R.A.F. communique. Military objectives on the coast of France were also bombed.
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Five items, the first is Edward's description of the operation to the marshalling yards at Le Mans. He describes the anti-aircraft fire, and conditions over the target. Edward's navigation plot, the H2S plot of Le Mans, a press cutting with three photographs of the damage done by Bomber Command in an attack in March, a newspaper cutting describing allied air attacks on rail centres including Le Mans.
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Edward King
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1944-05-19
1944-05-20
Spatial Coverage
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France
Germany
England--Suffolk
France--Le Mans
Great Britain
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Photograph
Text
Map
Format
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A handwritten note, a navigation log, H2S plot, a press cutting with two photographs, a newspaper cutting
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SKingEJ182986v10053, SKingEJ182986v10054, SKingEJ182986v10055, SKingEJ182986v10056, SKingEJ182986v10058
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-05-19
1944-05-20
Contributor
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Peter Bradbury
Title
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Le Mans, Edward King's 12th operation on his tour
15 Squadron
aerial photograph
aircrew
anti-aircraft fire
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
reconnaissance photograph
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Louvain [/underlined]
[underlined] Marshalling Yards. [/underlined]
[underlined] 11/7/44 [/underlined]
Airborne 2240.
[underlined] Landed 0125. [/underlined]
No moon.
Master searchlight caught us when crossing Dutch Islands but evaded it by means of a stall turn.
Flak seen Antwerp & Brussells.
Target – good T.Is. with neglible [sic] defences.
Ground rocket fired at us but turned starboard & evaded it.
MARSHALLING YARDS
[page break]
[map]
[inserted] [underlined] LOUVAIN. [/underlined] [/inserted]
[page break]
[newspaper cutting]
INVASION BLITZ AGAIN
RAILYARDS BY NIGHT
Boulogne and Louvain
The railway yards at Boulogne and Louvain, key points on the railways of North-West Europe, were among the targets attacked by Lancasters and Halifaxes of Bomber Command on Thursday night.
Both objectives were firmly identified and heavily bombed, said the Air Ministry.
Military objectives in France and Belgium were likewise hammered. A very violent explosion was the response to bombing made on one target on the French coast. Débris was thrown 1,000ft up. Several crews said they thought an ammunition dump had been blown up.
Some of the targets, both in France and Belgium, being near to built-up areas, a number of crews brought their bombs back, as visibility over the target areas was not good.
Bomber aircraft also laid mines in enemy waters. From these operations 16 aircraft are missing.
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Three items, Edward's description of the operation against the marshalling yards, he describes the events, flak and conditions over the target. Edwards navigation plot, a newspaper clipping describes the allied air activity including against Louvain.
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Edward King
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1944-05-11
1944-05-12
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Belgium
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
Belgium--Louvain
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
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Map
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1944-05-11
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SKingEJ182986v10050; SKingEJ182986v10051; SKingEJ182986v10052
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Sue Smith
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Louvain, Edward King's 11th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 3
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
searchlight
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Cap Gris Neg [/underlined]
[underlined] Naval Gun Battery. [/underlined]
[underlined] 8/5/44. [/underlined]
Airborne 2225
[underlined] Landed 0050 [/underlined]
Full Moon.
Target seen whilst still over England. Bombed visually. No flak.
The White Cliffs of Dover looked fine in the Moonlight.
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
BIGGEST BANGS OVER CHANNEL
Dover windows smashed
Express Staff Reporter
DOVER, Tuesday. - The heaviest explosions ever heard on the South Coast since the war began shook houses, people into the streets just before midnight.
A few minutes beforehand Allied bombers had been heard passing over South-East Coast towns.
The explosions began with loud A.A. fire; then the ground trembled, violent bangs shook walls and shattered glass.
Flashes were seen as vividly as when the German long-range guns go into action.
The explosions continued at the rate of about five a second, reaching the intensity of rapid gunfire.
The R.A.F. were believed to be dropping blockbusters. The tremors came from the direction of Calais and the Dunkirk areas.
During the day Allied bombing on the other side of the Straits was intense.
Aircraft moved over in an intermittent procession. Before lunch several formations of heavies passed over; within a few moments explosions shook the Dover front; in Folkestone doors were jarred open.
COAST ROCKED BY FRENCH EXPLOSIONS
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
South-East Coast Town, Wednesday.
Some of the heaviest explosions of the war rocked South Coast towns last night.
Soon after dark heavy explosions from the French coast shook houses in Dover. Windows rattled and doors vibrated.
Flashes were seen while the explosions were occurring. R.A.F. planes were heard crossing the Straits and returning, apparently in a concentrated attack on the Calais area. They seemed to be running a shuttle service.
This was the heaviest attack heard on this side of the Channel since the days just after Dunkirk. The explosions continued for nearly half an hour.
Shortly after 11.30 there was a further series of explosions, lasting without a break for 15 minutes.
They were so violent that houses shook at Folkestone and other towns.
Soon after midnight there were others, even heavier than before. For nearly a minute at a time, windows and doors shook violently. This attack lasted for about 10 minutes.
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Four items, Edward's description of the operation against a gun battery, his navigation plot, a map showing the target and newspaper cuttings describing cross channel operations and heavy explosions.
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-05-08
1944-05-09
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France
Great Britain
England--Dover
England--Suffolk
France--Cap Gris Nez
England--Kent
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
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Map
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Handwritten document, map, newspaper cuttings
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SKingEJ182986v10046, SKingEJ182986v10047, SKingEJ182986v10048, SKingEJ182986v10049
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-05-08
1944-05-09
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Sue Smith
Title
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Cap Gris Nez, Edward King's 10th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Nantes. [/underlined]
[underlined] Chateau Bougon Aerodrome [/underlined]
[underlined] 7/5/44 [/underlined].
Airborne 0015
[underlined] Landed 0605 [/underlined]
Full Moon – Quiet on way in to target.
Target – Flak very accurate. Good T.Is & Master of Ceremonies. Bomb Aimer saw runways with bombs bursting on it. Pall of black smoke up to 10,000’ with fires burning on ground.
Defences at Vannes quite concentrated light flak – had to go round them.
[page break]
[map]
[inserted][underlined] NANTES. [underlined][/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
NANTES
Aircraft Assembly Works (S.N.C.A. du SUO-OUEST)
Chateau Bougon Airfield
[page break]
6-POINT MOON BLITZ ON FRANCE
The R.A.F.s moonlight precision bombing experts – specially-trained “ace” squadrons – were switched in strength on to German bomber bases and ammunition dumps in France in the night, whites the [italics] Evening News [/italics] Air Correspondent.
Swift and concentrated bombing attacks were carried out on at least three heavy and medium bomber airfields in Western and Central France. The other targets in a six-point attack on France included two ammunition dumps.
Leverkusen, the big chemical centre north of Cologne, was also attacked, and the regular mining of enemy waters was continued. Nine aircraft are missing.
The airfields, at which there are also aircraft repair depots, were; Rennes, inland from St. Malo; Nantes, inland from St. Nazaire; and Tours, Central France.
Following up recent British and American daylight attacks, these latest blows were in the nature of “pot-boiling” raids of a tactical type, designed to smash runways, grounded aircraft, hangars, and depots, and put important Luftwaffe installations out of action for days or perhaps weeks.
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Four items,Edward's description of the operation to the Chateau Bougon aerodrome, his navigation plot, the expected H2S return of the target, a newspaper cutting referring to Bomber Command bombing by moonlight.
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Edward King
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1944-05-07
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Nantes
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Map
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Handwritten document, navigation plot, H2S plot, newspaper clipping
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SKingEJ182986v10042, SKingEJ182986v10043, SKingEJ182986v10044, SKingEJ182986v10045
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-05-07
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Jan Waller
Title
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Nantes, Edward King's 9th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 3
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
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An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Chambly. [/underlined]
[underlined] 1/5/44 [/underlined]
Airborne 2220
[underlined] Landed 0220 [/underlined]
Flak seen from Dieppe on way to target.
Target – no flak with good marking and master of ceremonies.
Attacked by rocket fighter (single – engined) in target area but corkscrewed starboard and evaded it.
Aerodrome with three runways seen near second turning point out of the target.
Two lots of trace seen, probably combats.
[inserted] MARSHALLING YARDS [/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
[inserted] [underlined] CHAMBLY [/underlined] [/inserted]
[page break]
[map]
BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE
[page break]
[photograph]
Vital French rail depot is smashed
Until the night of May 1 the railway yards at Chambly, north of Paris, were claimed to be among the most important in Europe. They contained the best-equipped permanent way depot on the Continent
These “before and after” pictures show how an attack on Chambly by Bomber Command on the night of May 1 reduced this vital German transport link to a wilderness of scrap metal and rubble
[photograph]
R.A.F. Launch 6-Prong Moon Blitz
3,000 TONS RAINED ON INVASION TARGETS
Then France Bombed To-day
[italics] “Evening News” Air Correspondent [/italics]
HUNDREDS of British heavies rained probably 3,000 tons of bombs on France and Belgium in the night in a great six-pronged moonlight blitz – then, to-day, the cross-Channel attack went on again.
The main objectives were a motor vehicle works at Lyons, aircraft repair works at Tours, an aircraft factory and explosive works at Toulouse, railway stores and equipment at Chambly, north of Paris, and railway yards and facilities at Malines, north-east of Brussels, and at St. Chislain, near Mons.
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Four items, Edward's description of the operation, where he comments on the anti-aircraft fire, conditions over the target, events during the trip and general observations. Edward's navigation plot, the expected H2S plot over the target and newspaper clippings with photographs showing the damage caused during the operation.
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Edward King
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1944-05-01
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Paris Region
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Map
Format
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A handwritten document, navigation plot, H2S plot, newspaper clippings
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10038, SKingEJ182986v10039, SKingEJ182986v10040, SKingEJ182986v10041
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-05-01
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Jan Waller
Title
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Chambly, Edward King's 8th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 3
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
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King, Edward James
E J King
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Essen [/underlined]
[underlined] 26/4/44 [/underlined]
Airborne 2300
[underlined] Landed 0300 [/underlined]
D. R. Compass unserviceable over base. Set course 10 minutes late but cut off corner on sea-leg.
Target area one solid mass of searchlights.
Flak not so heavy as usual.
[page break]
[map]
[page break]
[map]
ESSEN
MARSHALLING YARDS
[page break]
ESSEN BLITZED: LIKE CAKE-WALK
[italics] Krupps City's Defences Weak: [/italics]
5,000 AIR ATTACKS IN 36 HOURS
LUFTWAFFE TRICKED AGAIN BY R.A.F.
ESSEN & SCHWEINFURT LEFT ABLAZE
Some 3,000 tons of high-explosives and incendiaries, it is estimated were dropped by the R.A.F. in its fourth 1,000-bomber raid in little more than a week. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Bomber Command Chief, once again tricked the air defences of Germany by a feint on Hamburg.
But while Mosquitoes pounded HAMBURG with 4,000lb blockbusters, the main force went on to drop about 2,000 tons on ESSEN, Krupps arms city in the Ruhr.
Another strong fleet attacked SCHWEINFURT, home of the Nazis' No. 1 ball-bearing plants in Bavaria. The targets were left a sea of flames.
Well over 1,000 big R.A.F. bombers hammered Essen, Schweinfurt, Hamburg and railyards at Villeneuve St. Georges, near Paris, on Wednesday night.
[page break]
BRILLIANT PLAN
Enemy Kept Guessing
The whole plan for the R.A.F.'s attack on Wednesday night was well conceived and as brilliantly executed.
From about midnight to one o'clock was a dramatic hour over Germany as the enemy fighter packs, massed at various danger points in the Reich, were trying to guess where Bomber Command's blows were going to fall.
One large force of Lancasters and Halifaxes was flying north. Two others were going south. The northern force seemed to be making for Hamburg. What actually happened was that Mosquitoes bombed this target.
From the reports of the crews there can be little doubt that the Nazis sent strong reinforcements to meet this attack, for while the Mosquitoes were there dozens of fighter flares were falling over the city.
Meanwhile the main force had turned towards Essen. Although the Ruhr defences went into action, there seemed to have been only a few fighters to bar the way.
SCHWEINFURT RAID
Dusk-to-Dawn Flight
The strong force of Lancasters which bombed Schweinfurt had much less chance of giving the packs the slip. The route took them on a round flight of some 1,200 miles, most of it over enemy territory. At any point the German packs could intercept the bombers.
The Lancasters were in the air for no less than nine hours. They left England while it was still light. As they crossed the English coast on the return dawn was just breaking.
Essen got the heaviest attack. It opened shortly before half-past one. Some of the bombers arrived over the target just before zero hour. The defences lay low, evidently hoping that the town might still escape.
Then the first bombs and flares went down. In the words of a Halifax pilot, "Every searchlight, torch and lamp they could muster was turned on us. I have never seen so many searchlights before."
By the end of the raid crews reported the whole place seemed to be ablaze, said the Air Ministry last night. "It was one of the best attacks I've been in," commented another pilot.
[page break]
[underlined] Spy Planes Watch [/underlined']
"Essen was last attacked heavily only a month ago, but until then it had been left in peace for nine months. During the Battle of the Ruhr, which opened on the night of March 5 last year, nearly two-thirds of Krupps was either destroyed or damaged, and by the time the battle was over it was estimated that the damage amounted to a loss of six months' output.
"Since then the Germans have been industriously working to repair some of the damage.
"By September the enemy had repaired about a third of the superficial damage and a great deal of work has been put in since.
"Reconnaissance aircraft have Bomber Command fully informed of the progress of the work, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris has allowed it to continue until there was sufficient to merit another major attack.
"Last night widespread fires were left burning in Essen, and crewe [sic] after crew reported that they could see high-explosive bombs bursting in the centre of the fires.
"The defences were almost negligible, and experienced pilots [map] drew an extraordinary contrast between the German defences last night and those of a year ago.
"I flew almost on exactly the same route last midsummer," said Flight-Lieutenant B. Sprackling, A Halifax flight-engineer, of Midhurst, Sussex. "Then we were being pitched all over the sky by bursting flak; this time it was more like a cake-walk.
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Four items, Edward's description of the operation, comments that their D.R. compass went U/S over their base, lots of searchlights but not so much anti-aircraft fire. Edwards nav plot, the expected H2S plot over Essen. Newspaper cuttings describing the operations that night including Essen.
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Edward King
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1944-04-26
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
Germany--Essen
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Text
Map
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A handwritten document, navigation log, H2S plot, newspaper cuttings
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SKingEJ182986v10034, SKingEJ182986v10035, SKingEJ182986v10036, SKingEJ182986v10037
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-04-26
Title
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Essen, Edward King's 6th operation of his tour
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Sue Smith
15 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
searchlight
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King, Edward James
E J King
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46 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Edward James King (b. 1920, 1377691, 182986 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and an album of charts and newspaper cuttings. He flew operations as a navigator with 96 and 15 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Patricia Joan Potter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-11-22
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King, EJ
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[underlined] Laon. [/underlined]
10/4/44
[underlined] EASTER MONDAY. [/underlined]
Airborne 0050
[underlined] Landed 0530 [/underlined]
Full Moon with cloud below to English coast but clearance across Channell [sic] . French Coast & Le Havre seen plainly with Moon shining on bends of the River Seine.
Fighter seen at 01 0 30’ E crossing from port to starboard with navigation lights on – it then dived away and left us.
Target with little flak – T.Is [sic] seen burning on the rails.
Troubled by searchlights from aerodrome at 02 0 E on way back. Flak seen Dieppe Bomb Aimer saw train and wanted to fire at it.
MARSHALLING YARDS
[page break]
[map of route to Laon & return]
[page break]
[aerial photograph of Laon marshalling yard]
[page break]
[aerial photograph]
[page break]
[map of Laon marshalling yard]
[page break]
GREATEST SOFTENING-UP INVASION BLITZ
Air Battles Over Germany To-day: 900-Plane Blow in Night
RAIL TARGETS SMASHED
"Evening News " Air Correspondent
WITH an all-night 900-plane blitz on French and Belgian rail targets, backed up to-day by another mighty offensive against Germany itself, the Allied air forces have stepped up the invasion "softening", to a new level of intensity.
Announcing the 900 plane attack on the rail targets in the night, the Air Ministry say that yards and depots at Ghent, Tours, Tergnier, Aulnoye and [underlined] Leon [/underlined] were all heavily attacked.
Squadrons of Mosquitoes attacked Hanover and objectives in the Ruhr were also bombed. Mines were laid in enemy waters. Twenty-two of our aircraft are missing.
Closely co-related with the attacks by British and American planes on the German aircraft industry and the "military objectives" in Northern France, these railway busting operations seem part of a general plan for softening-up Hitler's transportation system over the whole length of the so-called “invasion coast”.
Working Under Invasion Orders?
Sunday night's attacks on Villeneuve St. Georges and Lille; the series of 16 day and night raids on railway yards and junctions in France and Belgium carried out in March, together with yesterday's and last night's raids, evidently fall within the scope of the plan.
Roughly speaking the attacks have covered a rectangular area 150 miles deep by 250 long extending along the Channel coast from the mouth of the Scheldt to Havre, and running inland as far as the Luxembourg border to Tours, in France.
The region includes Paris, Amiens, Lille, and Le Mans. Use of the R.A.F.’s strategic night bombing force on these almost tactical attacks indicates either:
(1) That the assistance of R.A.F. Bomber Command has been called for by the “Invasion High Command.” under General Eisenhower, or
(2) That weather and moon conditions over Europe are preventing the employment of night bombers in a strategic role, releasing their services for primary targets (not necessarily “high priority” targets nearer home).
Eisenhower Can Call on R.A.F.
It has been assumed that the long range strategic operations of the U.S. “heavies” and R.A.F. Bomber Command are co-ordinated into the Allied war effort from Britain from outside the “Invasion H.Q.” – that is, by the War Cabinet and Combined Chiefs of Staff.
But the services of both day and night heavy bomber squadrons may be asked for at any time by General Eisenhower’s Command when targets of tactical importance are to be liquidated, or when assistance which only heavy bombers can provide, is required.
Here is the location of the R.A.F.’s latest targets: Tergnier, 50 miles inland from the mouth of the Somme; Tours, 150 miles south of Harvre and a similar distance south-west of Paris; Aulnoye, on the Franco-Belgium border; [underlined] Laon [/underlined] , 160 miles from the mouth of the Somme; Ghent, 10 miles from the coast behind Ostend and Zeebrugge.
Paris radio said to-day that, for the second night in succession, the Paris area was raided.
The radio also said that the number of casualties caused by the Allied raids on France on Easter Sunday is now 300 dead, 540 injured, and several hundred homeless.
The number of air-raid casualties since October 1941, totals over 12,000 dead, some 18,000 injured, and over a million homeless, the radio added.
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An account of the resource
Six items, Edwards description of the operation to the Laon marshalling yards, comments that it was Easter Monday, there was a full moon, little anti-aircraft fire. Edwards navigation plot, two press photographs showing the damage to the yards on this and a later operation. The expected H2S return over the target, a newspaper clipping from the Evening News April 11th 1944, speculating that the Bomber Command four engined aircraft had been diverted onto a campaign to destroy communications in support of the forthcoming invasion.
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Edward King
Temporal Coverage
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1944-04-10
Spatial Coverage
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France
Great Britain
England--Suffolk
France--Laon
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Photograph
Text
Map
Format
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One handwritten document, a navigation plot, H2S plot, two b/w photographs, newspaper clipping
Identifier
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SKingEJ182986v10028, SKingEJ182986v10029, SKingEJ182986v10030, SKingEJ182986v10031, SKingEJ182986v10032, SKingEJ182986v10033
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Pending text-based transcription. Under review
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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1944-04-10
Contributor
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Peter Bradbury
Title
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Laon, Edward King's 5th operation of his tour
15 Squadron
aerial photograph
aircrew
bombing
H2S
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
navigator
RAF Mildenhall
reconnaissance photograph