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McBean, Lachie
Lachlan William McBean
Lachlan W McBean
Lachlan McBean
L W McBean
L McBean
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An account of the resource
117 Items. Collection concerns Lachlan William "Lachie" McBean (1924 - 2019, 430629 Royal Australian Air Force). He was a pilot whose crew had just finished their course at a Heavy Conversion Unit when the European war ended. Collection consist of an oral history interview and photographs of people, places and aircraft.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lachlan McBean and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-10-22
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McBean, LW
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Glenwood Springs
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View along railway track with hills beyond, right and left. Trees and telegraph poles to the left. Ground is snow covered. Captioned 'Colorado River near Glenwood Springs'.
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One b/w photograph mounted on an album page
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Photograph
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PMcBeanLW16010003
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Civilian
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United States
Colorado
Colorado--Glenwood Springs
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McBean, Lachie
Lachlan William McBean
Lachlan W McBean
Lachlan McBean
L W McBean
L McBean
Description
An account of the resource
117 Items. Collection concerns Lachlan William "Lachie" McBean (1924 - 2019, 430629 Royal Australian Air Force). He was a pilot whose crew had just finished their course at a Heavy Conversion Unit when the European war ended. Collection consist of an oral history interview and photographs of people, places and aircraft.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lachlan McBean and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-10-22
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McBean, LW
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Three men in the snow
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Three men standing in snow. The two on the left are wearing battledress and the one on the right a flying suit. The man in the centre has pilot's brevet. In the background a train and mountains. Captioned 'In the Rockies at entrance to the Moffat Tunnel (Length 7 3/4 miles, altitude 10,000 ft), W/O Jack Wallis, Dick Hilton, Captain Golding (AIF)'.
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One b/w photogarph mounted on an album page
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Photograph
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PMcBeanLW16010001
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Royal Air Force
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United States
Colorado
Colorado--Moffat Tunnel
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aircrew
pilot
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Cothliff, Ken 427 and 429 Squadrons
Description
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151 items. The collection contains photographs of personnel from 427 and 429 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Ken Cothliff and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Cothliff, K
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[a] POSN [b] RANK [c] NAME [d] NUMBER [e] HOME [f] AGE
[a] CAPT [b] Sgt. [c] Ganley C.J. [d] R176328 [e] [indecipherable name]. [f] 26
[a] NAV [b] F/O [c] Rennie A. [d] J26338 [e] Edmonton. [f] 33
[a] AB [b] F/O [c] Bolt J.W.G. [d] J35104 [e] Indianapolis. [f] 22
[a] WOP [b] F/S [c] Podborski V.B. [d] R131656 [e] Rocky Ford. [f] 22
[a] FE [b] Sgt. [c] Watmough S.G. [d] 1591752 [e] Leeds. [f] 19
[a] R/AG [b] Sgt. [c] Logan J.G. [d] R215890 [e] Kenora. [f] 33.
[a] MU/AG [b] P/O [c] Conroy V.A. [d] J39808 [e] [indecipherable name]. Alb. [f] 26.
1659 H.C.U. 82 O.T.U. Ossington.
[photograph]
181 LMG F/O GANLEY. 427
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Sergeant CJ Ganley and Crew
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Seven airmen arranged in a row. Their names are listed in a caption above. On the image is annotated '181. LMG. F/O Ganley. 427'
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One b/w photograph
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PCothliffKB15030042
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Canadian Air Force
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Canada
Alberta--Edmonton
United States
Indiana--Indianapolis
Colorado--Rocky Ford
Great Britain
England--Leeds
Ontario--Kenora
Colorado
Indiana
Ontario
Alberta
England--Yorkshire
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Steve Baldwin
1659 HCU
427 Squadron
82 OTU
air gunner
aircrew
bomb aimer
flight engineer
Heavy Conversion Unit
navigator
Operational Training Unit
pilot
training
wireless operator
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[photograph]
Southwark ‘Pathfinder’ on goodwill mission
WARRANT Officer A.J. Pearce, DFM, of 70, Whitworth House, Falmouth-rd., [sic] Southwark, is to be rear gunner of a Lancaster bomber of the famous No. 35 Squadron, RAF, when the unit flies to the United States shortly on a goodwill mission.
Altogether 16 Lancaster bombers and two York aircraft are to visit America to take part in Air Forces Day on August 1. They will visit New York, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Denver, Long Beach, California, San Antonio, Texas West, Palm Beach and Florida.
During the war W/O Pearce completed 44 operations against the enemy, including a period of service with the Pathfinder Force. He was awarded the DFM in December, 1945.
Born at Blackfriars in 1923, he was educated at St. Michael’s School, Camberwell, and he enlisted in March, 1943.
No. 35 Squadron is a veteran bomber and Pathfinder squadron and was to have formed part of “Tiger Force,” organised to join American Super-Fortresses, in bombing Japan.
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Southwark 'Pathfinder' on goodwill mission
Description
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Top left - Arthur Pearce in the rear turret of a Lancaster.
Bottom right - Arthur Pearce leaning out of the rear door of a Lancaster rear turret which is rotated fully to port.
Bottom left - newspaper cutting title 'Southwark "Pathfinder" on goodwill mission'. States that Warrant Officer A.J. Pearce of Southwark will be a rear gunner of a Lancaster of 35 Squadron when it flies to the United States on a goodwill mission. 16 Lancasters and two Yorks will visit America to take part in Air Forces day on 1 August. They will visit New York, St Louis, Los Angeles, Denver, Long Beach, San Antonio and West Palm Beach. It adds that during the war W/O Pearce completed 44 operations including some with pathfinder force. He was awarded the DFM in December 1945.
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1946-07
Format
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Two b/w photographs and one newspaper cutting mounted on an album page
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Photograph
Identifier
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PPearceAT16030035
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
United States Army Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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United States
New York (State)--New York
Missouri--Saint Louis
California--Los Angeles
Colorado--Denver
California--Long Beach
Florida--West Palm Beach
Texas--San Antonio
Great Britain
England--London
Florida
California
Colorado
Missouri
New York (State)
Texas
Temporal Coverage
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1946-08-01
1945-12
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Steve Baldwin
35 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
Distinguished Flying Medal
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
Pathfinders
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Lowry Field on July 25. Plans are underway to fete the British flyers and make their visit to Lowry as pleasant as possible. This is one of the many points which the RAF Squadron will visit on a five-week goodwill tour of the United States. Open house at Lowry Field is planned for the 27th of July. At this time the public will be given a chance to inspect this sample of the might of the British Air Arm.
Flying the famed Lancaster bombers that helped smash Germany’s industrial war plants in night raids at the height of the Allied air offensive, R.A.F. fliers will land at Lowry Field to begin their three-day visit to the Denver area. Invited to the United States by the Army Air Forces, Squadron 35 (Pathfinder), Royal Air Force Bomber Command is touring the country, taking part in several events along the way. Arriving at Mitchell Field, New York, on July 17, the group of sixteen Lancasters and two Yorks, commanded by Wing Commander A.F.L. Craig assembled before beginning its “Good Will” tour.
Upon their arrival in New York last Wednesday, members of the group were extended a warm welcome. Among the activities held in their honor [sic] were a baseball game, dinner, dance, and open house entertainment. Similar programs are being planned for their visits to Scott Field and other AAF installations in this country.
The squadron will stop at Scott Field, near Bellevue, Illinois on July 21. After leaving Lowry Field, the group will take off for a scheduled arrival at Long Beach, California on the 28th. on August 1, the unit will take part in the program for the Army Air Forces Day at Los Angeles. Next scheduled stop on the itinerary will be Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, when the group leaves Long Beach, on August 3. From Kelly the R.A.F. fliers will take off for Morrison Field, near West Palm Beach, Florida, arriving there on August 7. Next will be Andrews Field, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. On August 18 a return
[photograph]
[photograph]
The mass formation will be manned by 110 enlisted men, 30 warrant officers, 61 company grade officers, and eight field grade officers. Total strength will be 209, including two British newspapermen.
Veteran of some of the toughest air combat in the European theatre, the 35th Squadron will complete project “Good Will” under the direction of Group Captain R.C.M. Collard, Station Commander at Gravelly, Huntington, England. Wing Commander Craig of Gravelly, a 23-year-old flier with a brilliant war record will conduct the group on its five-week tour. Craig holds the Distinguished Service Order and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Britain’s largest bombers, the four-engine Lancasters of Squadron 35 which carried the war to Germany completed every mission but one. Chosen to form part of the R.A.R.’s “Tiger Force,” No. 35 was making preparations to join American B-29’s on Okinawa for the massed air offensive against Japan when surrender came, cancelling the project. Still clad in their “tropical Dress,” the R.A.F. Lancasters are white on top and black underneath.
Much of the fame which was attained by the 35th Squadron came from their successes as one of the four squadrons which went to make up the nucleus of the “Pathfinder Force.” This was the RAF’s solution to the difficulties encountered in maintaining accuracy in bombing on night missions over Europe. Early in the war it became apparent that night bombing would be much more effective if an unmistakable beacon were created near the target by fire-raising parties. Hence the “Pathfinder Force” was established. The four squadrons chosen were selected because of special skills in navigation and the use of special equipment. Their mission was to locate targets in the dark and provide the guiding beacon by setting them afire with incendiary bombs and by dropping flares.
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Goodwill visit to United States
Description
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Newspaper cutting with three air-to-air view photographs of Lancasters.
Article states that 16 Lancasters of 35 Pathfinder Squadron will arrive 27 July 1946 on three day visit to Denver area. They arrived in the United States at Mitchel Field New York on 17 July 1946. Mentions they will visit Scott Field Bellevue. Long Beach California, San Antonio, Morrison Field West Palm Beach and Andrews Field Washington DC. Mentions party consists of 110 enlisted men m 20 warrant officers and 61 officers. Mentions would have been part of Tiger Force.
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1946-07
1946-08
Format
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One newspaper cutting mounted on an album page
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Photograph
Identifier
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PPearceAT16030024
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
United States Army Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
United States
Colorado--Denver
California--Long Beach
Texas--San Antonio
New York (State)--New York
Illinois--Belleville
Florida--West Palm Beach
Maryland
Washington (D.C.)
Florida
California
Colorado
Illinois
New York (State)
Texas
Temporal Coverage
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1946-07
1946-08
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Steve Baldwin
35 Squadron
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
Pathfinders
Tiger force
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Famed RAF Squadron to visit Lowry
Description
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Top - newspaper cutting with two photographs - left air-to-air view showing three Lancasters and on the right an air-to air view of three Lancasters in echelon starboard. Text states that this page has several pictures of Lancasters from famed 35 Squadron which participated in 13,000 hours of night flying as well as 1,000 hours of daylight bombing during the war. Goodwill tour to last five weeks.
Bottom newspaper cutting with two photographs, on left - Lancaster parked with several men around it. Right - Lancaster on ground viewed from port front quarter. In the background further Lancasters lined up. Text notes that some of planes pictured were used by members of 35 (Pathfinder) Squadron in offensive against Germany. The crew were awarded 295 DFCs, 173 DFMs and 19 Service Orders. 35 Squadron was scheduled to join AAF in a mass air offensive against Japan.
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1946
Format
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Two newspaper cuttings mounted on an album page
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Photograph
Identifier
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PPearceAT16030016, PPearceAT16030018
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
United States Army Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
United States
Colorado--Denver
Colorado
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1946-07
1946-08
Rights
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35 Squadron
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Flying Medal
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
Pathfinders
Tiger force
-
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[Photograph]
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
FIFTEEN BRITISH LANCASTER BOMBERS of the royal air force arrived at Lowry field Thursday and many top-ranking officers and enlisted men were on hand to greet them. Shown here shortly after the lead plane had landed are, left to right, Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Lowe, Lowry commanding officer; Group Capt. R.C.M. Collard, in charge of the nationwide R.A.F. tour, and Wing Commander A. J.L. Craig, commanding officer of the R.A.F. squadron.
Denver was the “Target” Thursday of a formation of fifteen British Lancaster bombers of royal air force squadron 35. The planes made a simulated bombing run over the city before landing at Lowry field for a three-day stay as part of a nationwide goodwill tour.
The first plane, piloted by Wing Comdr. A.J.L. Craig, who is commanding the squadron, landed at 2.39 p.m., and the rest of the flight at thirty-second intervals.
The Lowry field band honoured the visitors with “God Save the King” and followed with “The Star Spangled Banner” while and honor [sic] guard of more than 100 Lowry field officers and men stood at attention.
Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Lowe, commanding officer of Lowry field, was introduced to Wing Commander Craig by Group Capt. R.C.M. Collard, in charge of the nationwide tour, who had arrived earlier in a York transport plane, piloted by Squadron Leader Anthony B.J. Pearson.
The big Lancasters will be displayed to the public from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday. General Lowe and Cyril Ward, acting British consul in Denver, will be hosts to the more than 200 crewmen of the planes at an open house.
Chancellor and Mrs. Caleb F. Gates of Denver university will honor the visitors at a reception in the Mary Reed library from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday.
The group will be taken on a tour of the city Saturday morning and will be met by Governor Vivian and Mayor Stapleton on the capitol steps.
The Lancasters were brought to the United States to take part in the Army Air Forces day celebration Aug. 1 in Los Angeles.
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Goodwill visit to United States
Description
An account of the resource
Left top - photograph of B-29, Lancaster and Avro York lined up parked on airfield. Spectators are walking in front.
Middle left - air-to-air view showing formation of Lancasters over open countryside.
Third row left - photograph of group of men in front of wooden hut. One man on the left wearing shorts, many others wearing uniform.
Bottom left - a side view of a Lancaster on ground with engines running.
Right a newspaper cutting with photograph of a Wing Commander A.J.L. Craig, offficer commanding 35 Squadron in flying suit shaking hands with Brig Gen Thomas M Lowe, Lowry Field commanding officer. Between is Group Captain R.C.M. Collard. Notes that Denver was the 'target' of formation of 15 British Lancasters who made simulated bombing run over the city before landing at Lowry Field.
Date
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1946-07
Format
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Four b/w photographs and a newspaper cutting mounted on an album page
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Photograph
Identifier
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PPearceAT16030014
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
United States Army Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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United States
Colorado--Denver
Colorado
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1946-07
Rights
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Bradley Froggatt
35 Squadron
B-29
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
York
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Transcription
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[photograph]
[photograph]
CHOSEN FOR U.S. GOODWILL TOUR
Chosen to take part in the R.A.F.’s goodwill mission to the U.S.A., called by the Americans “Project Goodwill,” are two local men – W.O. Arthur Pearse (21), D.F.M., Whitworth House, Falmouth-rd., Elephant and Castle (picture here), and A.C.1. J.B. Lumsden (20), 150, Burbage-rd., Herne Hill. [photograph] Pearce will fly out as the rear gunner of a Lancaster bomber, and Lumsden will accompany the mission, which is being undertaken by the famous No. 35 (Lancaster) squadron, as a member of the ground staff. They will visit cities all over the U.S., and will take part in Air Forces Day on 1st August.
Pearce, who was so keen to join the R.A.F. that he studied at home in preparation, completed 44 operations against the enemy during the war, including a period of service with the Pathfinder Force. He was awarded the D.F.M. in 1943 for his part in the bombing of Hamburg. He was educated at St. Michael’s School, Camberwell. On Saturday, he was best man at his brother’s wedding and announced his engagement to one of the bridesmaids, Miss M. Betts. Lumsden will be paying his second visit to the U.S. He has friends in New York.
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Wing Commander A.J.L. Craig, who at the age of 23 is in command of the famed 35th “Pathfinder” Squadron of the Royal Air Force, is shown in a characteristic pose, looking toward the skies. Story of the 35th’s visit to Lowry is on back page.
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Top left - eight Lancasters parked in pairs on airfield with runway behind them. In the foreground a hangar. To the left three B-17s. Top right - newspaper cutting 'Chosen for U.S. Goodwill tour'. Two local men chosen to take part names as W.O Arthur Pearce and AC1 J B Lumsden. Tour undertaken by 35 Squadron who will visit cites across the United States. Pearce completed 44 operations and was awarded DFM. Middle left - a group of servicemen and civilian men and women at threshold of runway seeing off aircraft. Photograph taken from rear turret. Bottom left - newspaper cutting with head and shoulders portrait of Wing Commander A.J.L. Craig (age 23) who is in command of 35 Squadron. Story of visit to Lowry on the back page. Middle right - air to ground view of city with square grids of streets. Bottom right - air to ground view of airfield with Lancasters, B-29, C-47 and other aircraft. There is also the shadows of aircraft flying overhead in formation.
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1946-08
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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Sunday July 28, 1946 – ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS – 32
Society Sidelights
RAF Entertained at Tea Dance
By DARLENE WYCOFF
The Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack hung side by side in the Renaissance Room of the Mary Reed Library Friday afternoon while a large group of RAF officers and men were entertained at a tea dance by Chancellor and Mrs. Caleb F. Gates of Denver University, the English Speaking Union and the British Consulate.
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Mrs. Gates
But the party was not confined to the library alone for almost everywhere one looked on the DU campus there were men of the Royal Air Force being escorted about by pretty coeds. Mrs. Gates is still chuckling over one young coed she spoke to early in the afternoon. The young lady had been standing in a corner alone when Mrs. Gates spoke to her and inquired if she were having a good time. The attractive miss replied, "Oh yes, I'm just standing over here so that I can look for a tall one. Oh pardon me, there's one now." and swish, she was gone.
Many socialites turned out for the tea to welcome the Britishers to Denver. Among them were Judge and Mrs Elliott [indecipherable word] Mrs. William Hough, Mrs. Virginia Hardin Stearns, Capt. Mary Converse and others.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Lowe of Lowry Field was on hand to greet the visitors, as were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Darvall who will leave Denver next week for a vacation in California before going to his new post with the British Embassy in Washington.
Another amusing note at the RAF tea, was the conversation between three Englishmen, Lt. Reginald Weeden, Lt. Kenneth Clarke and war correspondent, Mike Fry, from Reuters in London.
Seems they had ridden out to Denver University on the No. 5 street car, and Mr. Fry was describing the ride as follows: “It was terrible, I thought riding in a Lancaster bomber was rough, but this yellow peril has both a forward and aft pitch. And you know the funniest part of it was, all the other people took it quite normally, just as though they weren't being tossed about at all."
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Information Handbook
Lowry Field
(AAF TRAINING COMMAND)
DENVER, COLORADO
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DENVER, THE MILE HIGH CITY, WITH THE ROCKIES IN THE BACKGROUND
25th JULY Denver 27th JULY
[Map of Downtown Area of Denver]
DOWNTOWN AREA
TELEPHONE CENTERS FOR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN INDICATED BY SHADED BUILDINGS
[inserted] 1801 GRANT ST. NORMA [indecipherable word] Phone CHELSEA 3752. [/inserted]
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Item 1 is a newspaper cutting about airmen being entertained at Denver.
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1946-07
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1946-07
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Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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Operation Goodwill
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A map of North America with a route plotted on it. Airfields visited are listed from Gravely and back. It is captioned '"Operation Goodwill" 8th July to 29th Aug 1946.'
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1946
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1946-07
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MY TRIP FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK, ON ROUTE TO UNITED KINGDOM
[underlined] WITH R.A.A.F. 1943 [/underlined]
[underlined] AUS 426442. SGT H.E. SHAKSPEARE. [/underlined]
One of the first United States cities we reached the first big city was San Francisco. As we approached the city the sun was setting. It was a glorious sunset, the colors [sic] running in broad stripes, like futuristic daubs from a painter's brush, and varying in color from lilac, rust and maroon near the horizon to pale greens and blues and ochres, vivid yellows and oranges higher up, and shell pink merging into crimson where the last flickering rays of the sun caught the cumulus clouds above the horizon.
We didn't see the San Francisco skyline that night, because darkness fell quickly, but we did see thousand [sic] of pinpoints of light on the rising slopes behind the waterfront, and we did get a glimpse of the two great bridges for which the city is famous – the Golden Gate Bridge – the two great supporting columns of which are known as the Golden Gate – and the Oakland Bridge, the biggest in the world. The Golden Gate Bridge is 2 1/2 miles long and the Oakland Bridge, which links the two sides of the harbor, [sic] and Treasure Island, is seven or eight miles long. No leave in San Francisco, although we stopped there overnight, but next morning we saw a lot of the harbor (which is normally [missing letter]hrouded by mist, and was to some extent that morning.) We embarked on [missing word] ferry which took us on a 45-minute trip across the harbor to Oakland. On that trip we saw miles and miles of docks, which for layout and facilities generally were superior to anything in Australia; we saw Treasure Island in more detail; Alcatraz, the famous prison island known as “The Rock”, from which escape is said to be impossible; we saw our first skyscrapers, two or three huge buildings of what seemed to be 20 or 30 stories [sic]. Then we went ashore again, and straight on to a train. In next to no time the chaps had got busy with chalk, and the outside of each Pullman car carried such inscriptions as "Australia to Berlin," "If you're a peach, you're welcome here," and drawings of boomerangs and kookaburras, and tankards of foaming beer. The chaps were in a particularly good humour at finding sleeping cars awaiting them, and their spirits were still further improved when our first meal on the train came along. It was served, as all the meals on the train have been served, to us in our compartments, and still steaming hot when we received it. The food was first class – well-cooked, appetisin[missing letter] and varied, and the standard did not fall off during the entire trip. Occasionally with a meal, as on the first day, we were issued with a stick of candy, or a packet of cigarettes, or something of the kind, contributed, we understand, by unions and other organizations, in contrast to our Australian Comforts Fund system.
Our train pulled out from Oakland on Sunday, May 23rd, 1943[, with American girl stenographers leaning out of their office windows, waving goodbye, and before long we passed through a negro colony of old ramshackle, timber-frame houses, most of them two or three-stories [sic] high. We saw a number of cheerful, grinning negros, but the general impression of the colony was of squalor beside which [inserted] [[symbol] [/inserted] the worst slums in Australia would look like model housing schemes [inserted] [symbol]] [/inserted]. Individually, however, the negros are polite, willing and extremely happy, as our particular car porter, a carbon copy of Stepin Fetchit, has proved.
The next township we came to was one of the prettiest of the whole trip – a charming, sleepy little place called Sacramento, with delightful modern two and three storeyed timber frame homes, painted to merge into the green background of trees and shrubs which grew all
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around them. Lawn ran beneath the trees from house to house, and ther[missing letter] were no fences. When you see a place like this it makes you think how much prettier Australian cities would look without the fences around every suburban block. We all wanted to stop at Sacramento, but we rolled on across the fertile plains of California (climate similar to that of South Australia) on which almost anything grows – tomatoes, apricots, peaches, plums, olives, dates, and every kind of vegetable. There were scores of market gardens on the undulating plains.
Towards nightfall we were running through purple sage, and [inserted symbol] then we passed Winnemucca, and just as darkness fell we entered the [inserted symbol] Feather River Canyon, one of the loveliest pieces of scenery in California. We awoke the next morning, May 24th, 1943, to the beauty of [inserted symbol] Nevada mountains – the Sierra Nevada. Magazines were forgotten, and we spent the entire day looking out of the window. We travelled across[missing letter] the prairies, four or five thousand feet above sea level, and within a few miles of us on either side, were imposing, clearcut mountains, a most denuded of vegetation, for Nevada gets very little rainfall. The country was sparsely populated, but here and there were tiny homestead at the foot of the mountain slopes – mountain slopes from which the Blackfoot Indians rode down at dusk or at dawn in the days of early settlement, and the covered wagons gathered into their hollow circles. This was the country of Billy the Kid, cattle rustlers blazing six-shooters, and saloons. The mountains of Nevada are not something tiny like the Adelaide Hills but huge, majestic, towering peaks, rising to 9,000 and 10,000 feet, and nearly all snow-capped, their summits glistening white in the morning sun.
Then we came to Elko, a tiny little town which seemed to be inhabited by mixed breeds and whites, and here we had a short march, for exercise. Back into the train again and on past big cattle ranche[missing letter] into Utah, but still the mountains on either side. More vegetation on the mountains in Utah, but the peaks still blanketed in snow, and the mountains converging on us on either side. The second night came, and with it another magnificent sunset. This time the sky was mainly pale pink, lilac and crimson, and, with floodwater lying on the left of the line acting as a mirror for the sky and mountain peaks, there were some indescribably beautiful views.
In the afternoon of this second day we passed through Salt Lake City, travelling for miles before reaching it across a great dese[missing letters] of salt, the bed of a dried out lake, from which the city takes its name. Salt Lake City, is, I believe, a Mormon city, but we didn't see [inserted] into [/inserted] much of it.
On the third morning, Tuesday, May 25th, we crossed into Colorado, taking the scenic route after leaving a town called Grand Junctio[missing letter] Then, for probably 100 miles, we wended our way along the banks of the Colorado River through the Glenwood Canyon, which is undoubtedly the most glorious scenery we have seen. We were right down at the bottom of the Canyon, the track running within feet of the river on one side, and a magnificent motor road skirting the other bank. On either side the towering cliffs rose for 1500 feet or more. The river was flowing fast, with frequent rapids which lashed the water into a white fury, and great cliffs on either side were wooded with pines and firs and spruces. They rose in towering columns, with here and there an unusual rock strata which was reminiscent of pictures of the Colliseum [sic]. At every curve or bend in the line a new glistening peak would come into view, and then perhaps a brick red mountain, studded with bottle-green fir trees, the snow piled thick among the firs.
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America is a glorious country. There is no doubt about that. The homes just seem to have sprouted in among the trees, and are usually painted green and white. In the Glenwood Canyon we saw one particularly beautiful home. In front of it, sloping down to the Colorado River was about an acre of lawn, and behind the lawn was a beautiful little two storeyed home, painted green and white. This was the most beautiful stretch of scenery we saw on the entire route. Mountain peak after mountain peak, many of the larger ones snow-covered in endless succession. They formed a great chain on either side, and in between them was the raging water, snarling over the boulders, and forming almost continuous rapids.
Just before midday that day we saw our first sheep in America. They were grazing in lush alfalfa (lucerne in Australia) on the banks of the Colorado, with the thickly timbered mountains, still snow-capped, as a background.
Our train was climbing all the time now into the Rockies, and on the mountain slopes running right down to the train track were fields of taraxacum, small bright yellow weeds, the American counter-part of the Australian dandelion. In their profusion, however, they transformed the mountain slopes into a replica of Wordsworth's field of golden daffodils.
At this stage, about 11 a.m. or midday on Tuesday, May 25th, 1943, we were eight or nine thousand feet above sea level, and getting near the summit. About this time we passed through Red Cliff, another quaint little shanty town in a valley, with what appeared to be a mixed population. We were now getting near the snow level. There were snow-covered peaks above us still, but a few miles away on either side, and actually below us, were other peaks carrying snow. The air was bracing. It was a pleasure just to breathe it in. At 2:30 p.m. we reached the summit – 10,240 feet above sea level. Two huge locomotives each 15 feet high had hauled us to that height, and we left one of them behind at the summit, travelling fast down the slopes on the other side past snow fences erected to keep the snow from blocking the line. Then we rolled through Malta, another little shanty town, and at 4 p.m. we came to Salida, a little Midwest place something like an isolated suburb of an Australian capital gone completely American – a miniature King's Cross, with a five and ten cent store (Woolworth's), neon signs, and all the glitter and some of the glamour of the bigger American cities. A colourful little place, and it had a few pretty girls who evoked the long whistle of approbation which our fellows invariably turn on when anything with a figure and a skirt on goes by.
The warm summer sunshine was melting the snow on the mountains and on the eastern side of the Rockies tiny fast-flowing streams were [letters inserted] finding their way down the mountain slopes. Trout fishing is particularly good in this region according to our few American informants on the train, and from the train we could see anglers casting their flies. [inserted three words]
At Salida we took our second exercise march and the local population turned out in force to see us. Little negro boys ran alongside us as we marched, picking up the nickels and Australian pennies that the boys tossed to them. It was nice to stretch our legs and drink in the bracing mountain air nearly 7,000 feet up.
Then on we went again, with here and there a herd of mountain goats, and an isolated cabin or two. At this stage we had been travelling for nearly two days through scenery which for quantity and quality eclipsed anything which most of us had seen in Australia.
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Just before Pueblo, which we reached at tea-time, we passed through the Royal Gorge Canyon, and here again towering cliffs rose almost vertically on either side of us. The railroad on which we travelled was built on a concrete foundation, and seemed in places to over-hang the water – the water in this case being the Arkansas River. If we had had fishing rods with us we could have done some trout fishing of our own in the stream. As we ran through the Canyon we passed unde[missing letter] the world's highest bridge – everything is superlative in the United States – the Royal Gorge Amusement Bridge, which spans the canyon, and is 1700 feet long and 1052 above the canyon.
At Pueblo the women of the town brought "cookies" (a broad descriptive term apparently covering all sorts of small cakes and biscuits), and piles of magazines down to the train. We read them until the daylight faded about 9 p.m. and it was time to go to bed. We had now been through four States – California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado, and had started our journey across Kansas to Kansas City on the border of Missouri.
We awoke on Wednesday, May 26th, 1943, just before we reache[missing letter] Council Grove – just another delightful little country town – and then the railroad wound along between undulating fields, the line itself bordered by wild irises and a pretty little white wildflower, the name of which we did not know. Two more pretty little towns – they are all pretty – Lyndon (population 750 people) and Ottawa (population 10,000) Ottawa being something like Sacramento in miniature, and not to be confused with the Canadian Ottawa. The lack of fences made it look as if the houses had grown of their own accord in among the cottonwood and beech and elm trees. From there we went on to Osawatomie (population 4,000) and here a crowd of negro boys and girls ranging in age from about three to about eight years, posed for their photographs to be taken and then scrambled for Australian pennies and American nickels and dimes, and oranges and apples, and anything else we had to give them. Bare-footed and clad in faded blue jeans or their elder brother[missing letter] long pants rolled up to the knees, their fruit-crammed pockets made grotesque shapes of their skinny little bodies.
On to Paola (3,500 people) – just as pretty as most of the other towns – and then on to Kansas City the second big city we have struck since San Francisco. Kansas City and the great Missouri River we were all waiting for them with keen anticipation – especially as we had an hour there, and were going to take our exercise marching through the city.
And so, at length, we came to Kansas City – bigger than Salt Lake City or Adelaide or Brisbane or Perth with a population of 425,000 and a magnificent railway station fringed with parks and concrete highways. However, as with most of the cities we have seen, the railway station was on the outskirts of the town, and our short march did not take us through the main streets. We passed a number of four and five storey buildings though, and got a big hand from the Kansas City girls. Kansas City has about half a dozen or eight big skyscrapers and is on the border of the State of Missouri, and lies on the Missouri River. As we marched through the streets we all whistled "Waltzing Matilda" and carried out the usual custom of tossing pennies and halfpennies with kangaroos on the backs of them to the negro boys and girls. At Kansas City, as at all the other places, we were staggered by the number of automobiles. Even in the negro quarter near Oakland there had seemed to be motor cars to burn, each ramshackle little home having two or three cars. The Americans seem to drive their cars to work, and
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there were huge car parks outside every factory building. They get four times the Australian petrol ration. We stopped for about three quarters of an hour at Kansas City, and then rolled east again, crossing almost immediately over the Missouri. Kansas City we will remember as the city of bridges. There were bridges everywhere – four huge bridges over the river crammed into a river frontage of 200 or 300 yards and each bridge bigger than Prince's Bridge, Melbourne. The bigg[missing letters] cities have few level crossings, avoiding them by the use of subways an[missing letter] overways. The Missouri is a fine big river, as broad, if not broader [inserted words] than our Murray.
During the trip the officers on the train had financed a canteen and made arrangements for us to pick up supplied en route, and we eventually got them at Kansas City – such things as chocolates, razor blades, matches and cigarettes. For tens of miles then we passed through glorious, fertile country, with everywhere green crops, green grass, green trees. All America has seemed green to us. About the only things in the country which are not green are the Americans themselves. They know all the answers. Incidentally, they seem to be tipping Roosevelt strongly for another term as President. Except for one or two States, all the country here seems to be as good and as prosperous as the best in the Commonwealth.
St. Joseph, a typical American small city, was the next place we passed, and just at bedtime we reached Des Moines, almost due north of Kansas City. Travelling this way we missed St. Louis, and did not see a great deal of Missouri. Des Moines is the capital of Iowa, and although we had only fleeting glimpses of the homes on either side of the track, we could see the white circle of lights on the top of one of the skyscrapers, indicating that the city was the capital of the State. Then we went to bed, a little disappointed that we would be crossing the Mississippi while we were asleep. When we awoke on Thursday, May 27th, 1943, we were running through rich country in the State of Illinois and soon crossed the Rock River and came to a place called Sycamore. About midday, after travelling for miles through huge railway yards, we came to a stop on the outskirts of Chicago, so far out in fact that we couldn't see the skyscrapers which the city must have. It is an industrial city of the first magnitude, twice or three times the size of Melbourne. We passed hundreds of warehouses, many of them delapidated [sic], ugly buildings, and in the same quarter we passed through another negro colony, by comparision [sic] with which even the Oakland negro colony was a model suburb. The Americans may find, in the next generation or two that they have a huge slum clearance problem on their hands. At Chicago, for the first time, there seemed to be a preponderance of brick and stone buildings. Nearly all the homes in the other cities ha[missing letter] been of timber-frame construction. We took our exercise march through some better-class negro homes, and we passed a school for negro childre[missing letter] It was their lunch-hour and they came running out on to the road, completely disregarding their teachers, and scrambled for small coins, fighting so tenaciously for the money that at times half a dozen of them were on the ground at the same time. Nearly all roads in and out of Chicago are of concrete, banked on the bends, and we saw many huge motor trailers, and some of their street cars.
Leaving Chicago and its chimney stacks and big industry behind we skirted Lake Michigan, a huge expanse of water about 300 miles long and 60 wide, and swept on into Indiana, picking up water as we went from troughs between the rails. We were travelling right across the north of Indiana, near the State of Michigan, and South Bend,
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another well developed little city, perhaps, 50,000 people was next on the line. America seems to have a lot of cities with populations from 20,000 to 100,000 bridging the gap between their big cities and their country towns. Seeing them makes you realise that Australia could do with more of them.
We all got a most pleasant surprise at Toledo. The maps we had did not show it to be a city of very great size, but when we pulled into the station about 5 p.m. we saw quite a lot of the central railway station there, and could see the outlines of two or three skyscrapers. There was quite a bit of fun on the railway station. The private ownership of railways in this country has resulted in what appears to be considerable duplication. America has 37 per cent of the world's rail-road mileage according to magazine advertisements, and from what we have seen the States must have at least 50 per cent of the world's rolling stock. Anyway, their railway stations have concrete platforms at ground level, with walk-down steps from the trains. At Toledo there were a dozen or so parallel platforms, and sleek stream-lined trains – crack railroad fliers owned by half a dozen different companies – were standing in them, carrying mostly civilian passengers with a sprinkling of service men and women. Beautiful girls, a lot of them were, and although they were separated by 15 or 20 yards our chaps quickly settled down to making friends. [inserted] letters [/inserted] One incident was particularly amusing. Three or four very pretty girls, waiting for their tea in the dining car of one of the sleak expresses nearby beckoned some of our chaps to come over, and a most interesting dialogue in sign language took place because we couldn't leave the train. The girls exhibited all sorts of inducements, including a bottle of whiskey, a packet of cigarettes, and their knives and forks, as much as to say "come over to dinner." [inserted letters] Perhaps it was just as well that their train pulled out at that stage. We pulled out ourselves a little later, giving the thumbs up sign and the two-finger V for Victory signal to all and sundry, and then we were on our way to Cleveland, running round the fringe of Lake Erie, and at one stage crossing a great bridge with broad expanses of water stretching to the horizon on either side. We have seen literally scores of big bridges on our trip.
Toledo and Cleveland are both in Ohio. It was after dark when we reached Cleveland after running through country very similar to that of Tasmania – rich and fertile, and split up into small holdings of 50 or 60 acres, worth about 125 dollars an acre. It has been a real pleasure to see neon signs again in some of the cities at night. At Cleveland we saw a magnificent building with a steeple summit, towering 300 or 400 feet up. Then we were rolling on across the north of Pennsylvania towards New York State. What happens from there we don't know but the rest of the trip will be a subject for later letters. We've all loved the United States so far, but the Yanks can have it. Australia will do us.
[inserted] HARRY SHAKSPEARE RAAF SQUADRON 460 MAY 1943 [/inserted]
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My trip from San Francisco to New York, on route to United Kingdom with RAAF 1943
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Sergeant H E Shakespeare
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1943
1943-05-23
1943-05-24
1943-05-25
1943-05-26
1943-05-27
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Royal Australian Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Air Force
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eng
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Text
Text. Memoir
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Six page typewritten document
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BShakespeareHEShakespeareHEv1
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Detailed description of journey by train across the United States with comments about America and descriptions of many towns and cities passed through. Comments on some of his and his companions' activities. Makes several comparisons with Australia.
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United States
California--San Francisco
California--Oakland
California--Sacramento
Utah--Salt Lake City
Colorado
Colorado--Grand Junction
Colorado--Red Cliff
Nevada--Elko
Colorado--Salida
Colorado--Pueblo
Kansas--Council Grove
Kansas--Lyndon
Kansas--Ottawa
Kansas--Paola
Kansas--Kansas City
Missouri
Iowa--Des Moines
Illinois
Illinois--Sycamore
Illinois--Chicago
Lake Michigan
Indiana
Indiana--South Bend
Michigan
Ohio--Toledo
Ohio--Cleveland
Australia
Great Britain
New York (State)--New York
Missouri--Saint Joseph
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
460 Squadron
military living conditions
military service conditions
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Beetham, Michael
Sir Michael Beetham
M Beetham
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Five items. The collection concerns Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham GCB, CBE, DFC, AFC, DL (1923 - 2015) and contains his five flying log books. He flew a tour of operations as a pilot with 50 Squadron. After the war he flew on the goodwill tour of the United States with 35 Squadron. He remained in the RAF and rose in rank until his retirement in the 1980s.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Sir Michael Beetham and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-09-09
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Beetham, MJ
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Michael James Beetham’s pilots flying log book. Two
Description
An account of the resource
Pilots flying log book for Michael James Beetham, covering the period from 5 December 1945 to 18 July 1952. Detailing his post war squadron duties, staff duties, flying training and instructor duties and flew the victory day fly past and good will tour of the United States. He was stationed at RAF Graveley, RAF Hemswell, RAF Finningley, RAF Eastleigh, RAF Middleton St. George, RAF Bassingbourn and RAF Andover. Aircraft flown were, Lancaster, Oxford, Lincoln, C-47, B-17, Expiditor, Anson, Wellington, Devon, Valetta, Meteor, Canberra and Proctor. Flying duties were with 35 Squadron, 82 Squadron, Headquarters Bomber Command and Staff College.
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LBeethamMJ19230517v2
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
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1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
Rights
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Contributor
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Mike Connock
Spatial Coverage
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Canada
Ghana
Great Britain
Kenya
Nigeria
South Africa
Tanzania
United States
Zambia
California--Mather Air Force Base
Colorado--Colorado Springs
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Durham (County)
England--Hampshire
England--Huntingdonshire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Suffolk
England--Wiltshire
England--Yorkshire
Ghana--Accra
Ghana--Takoradi
Kenya--Nairobi
Michigan
New York (State)
New York (State)--Mitchel Field
Newfoundland and Labrador--Gander
Ohio
Ontario--Ottawa
Ontario--Trenton
South Africa--Pretoria
Tanzania--Dar es Salaam
Tanzania--Lindi
Tanzania--Mbeya
Tanzania--Tabora
Texas
Washington (D.C.)
Zambia--Ndola
California
Colorado
Ontario
Newfoundland and Labrador
35 Squadron
82 Squadron
aircrew
Anson
B-17
C-47
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
Lincoln
Meteor
Oxford
pilot
Proctor
RAF Andover
RAF Bassingbourn
RAF Eastleigh
RAF Finningley
RAF Graveley
RAF Hemswell
RAF Middleton St George
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/947/10643/LMathersRW55201v2.2.pdf
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Mathers, Ronald
R W Mathers
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An account of the resource
20 items. The collection concerns Wing Commander Ronald Mathers DFC (55201 Royal Air Force) and consists of his log books, photographs, correspondence, his decorations, and copies of two letters from Dwight Eisenhower to Sir Arthur Harris. Ronald Mathers completed a tour of operations as a pilot with 9 Squadron from RAF Bardney. After the war he took part in victory flypasts and a Goodwill tour of the United States with 35 Squadron. The collection also contains a scrapbook of the Goodwill Tour to the United States.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Heidi Peace and Ingrid Peters, and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-07-17
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Mathers, RW
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Ronald Mathers pilots flying log book. Two
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Pilots flying log book for Ronald Mathers covering the period from 1 October 1944 to 24 February 1948. Detailing his flying training, instructor duties and duties with 35 squadron. He was stationed at RAF Swinderby, RAF Finningley, RAF Hullavington, RAF Gravely, RAF Stradishall and RAF Scampton. Aircraft flown were, Stirling, Lancaster, Oxford, Wellington, Hotspur, Auster, Harvard, Reliant, Hudson, Halifax, Dakota, Warwick, Lincoln, Meteor, Spitfire, Buckmaster, Mosquito and Anson. He also flew operation Goodwill to America, visiting Lagens, Gander, Mitchel Field, Scott Field, Lowry Field, Long Beach Field, Kelly Field, Andrew Field and Westover Field.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Mike Connock
Rights
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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.
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LMathersRW55201v2
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Conforms To
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Pending review
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
United States
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Suffolk
England--Wiltshire
England--Yorkshire
California--Long Beach
Colorado--Denver
Illinois--Belleville
Massachusetts--Chicopee
Maryland--Camp Springs
Newfoundland and Labrador--Gander
New York (State)--Long Island
Texas--San Antonio
Azores--Lajes
California
Colorado
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
New York (State)
Texas
Newfoundland and Labrador
Canada
Azores
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1660 HCU
35 Squadron
Anson
C-47
forced landing
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Halifax
Harvard
Heavy Conversion Unit
Hudson
Lancaster
Lincoln
Meteor
Mosquito
Oxford
RAF Finningley
RAF Graveley
RAF Hullavington
RAF Scampton
RAF Stradishall
RAF Swinderby
Spitfire
Stirling
training
Wellington