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Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> United States]]> Georgia--Moody Air Force Base]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> France]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Wesseling]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Lanvéoc]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Caen]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> France--Givors]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Kaiserslautern]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> Belgium]]> Poland]]> 1943-07-21]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-09-05]]> 1943-09-06]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-11-02]]> 1943-11-10]]> 1943-12-23]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-02-03]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-28]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-19]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1946-04-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-05-31]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending OH transcription]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Germany]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Arnstein (Main-Spessart)]]> Poland]]> Poland--Opole (Voivodeship)]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Canada]]> Manitoba--Brandon]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Bad Tölz]]> Manitoba]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1945-01-19]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-04-21]]> ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Pending review]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> France]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Aube]]> France--Aubigny-sur-Nère]]> France--Calais]]> France--Dieppe]]> France--Poitiers]]> France--Saint-Cyr-l'École]]> France--Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne)]]> France--Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines]]> France--Thoiry (Yvelines)]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Maldon]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Barnetby le Wold]]> England--Barton-upon-Humber]]> England--Brigg]]> England--Caistor (Rural District)]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Market Rasen]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Diepholz]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau]]> Germany--Geilenkirchen]]> Germany--Gerolstein]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hennef-Sieg]]> Germany--Lehnin (Kloster Lehnin)]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Nordstemmen]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Steinheim (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Treuenbrietzen]]> Germany--Welver]]> Germany--Westerburg]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Apeldoorn]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Netherlands--Oisterwijk]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10]]> 1943-11]]> 1943-12]]> 1944-01]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-05]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-09]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-11]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-05]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-12]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Royal Air Force ex-Prisoner of War Association. Darch, NJ]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Poetry]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cara Walmsley]]> Pending review]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicester]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1943-12-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Photograph]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Moray]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Italy]]> Italy--Bari]]> Italy--Naples]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Right - document titled "The Reckoning". Giving details of bomber commands sorties, aircraft and aircrew losses, and asking whether sacrifice was worth results.
Bottom left - three short documents giving some account of operations on flying bomb site (2) and Brest. Gives number and type of aircraft used, target, results and losses.
Bottom left - photograph of a crashed Wellington wheels up in a field. Captioned 'A Wimpey completes the course at 85 OTU Bruntingthorpe 1944'.
Bottom right - document entitles "Aircrew casualties" listing bomber command casualties during the war up to 31 May 1947.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> France]]> France--Morbecque]]> France--Creil]]> France--Brest]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-25]]>
Right - three short documents one partially obscured two relating to flying bomb sites, and one to Hamburg. Documents give account of operations against these targets including number and type of aircraft, targets, results, losses and civilian casualties. Hamburg document has comment that 431 Squadron flying from Croft lost 5 of its 17 aircraft on the raid.
Bottom - outline map from east England eats Germany showing route to Hamburg and return as well as combats.]]>
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Top left - newspaper cutting providing account of plan for attack on Merville battery including saturation bombing by Lancasters and ground attack. Goes on with account of actual event including fact that air attack was a complete failure.
Middle right - extract from Ned Sparkes's log book from 2 June 1944 to 28 Juune 1944 with operations to Calais, Meurville, Conde-sur-Moreau, Le Mans, Arras, Boulogne and Wizernes.
Below - seven short documents with accounts of seven operations including types of aircraft used, target, details, results, losses and civilian casualties.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France]]> France--Calais]]> France--Merville-Franceville-Plage]]> France--Condé-sur-Noireau]]> France--Arras]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-28]]>
Underneath - six short documents with accounts of these six operations detailing number and types of aircraft used, results, civilian casualties, other details and losses.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Saint-Ghislain]]> Germany]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Essen]]> France]]> France--Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme]]> France--Somain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-30]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-03]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-11]]> Right - target token (le Mans). Consist of artwork of Wellington and Halifax, target photograph and name of crew: P/O Pitt, F/O Page, F/S Meddings, Sgt McIntyre, F/S Heron, Sgt Sparkes, P/O Badgery. Signed by AOC 6 Group.
Below - explanatory note on target tokens - given by AOC 6 Group with a bottle of whiskey to all crews who obtained a photograph of aiming point.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Text]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> France]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Lyon]]> 1944-03-13]]> 1944-03-14]]>
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