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Third is of Jack standing by a large ship's wheel engraved Gorge Foch, reverse captioned 'Aug 62 Dartmouth, German training ship'.]]>
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Photo 2 - a street scene of a narrow alley in a town.

Photo 3 - the front of the Officer's Club/NAAFI.

Photo 4 is a man with his arms round two women. All are wearing swim suits.

Item 5 - a Christmas greetings card with a view of Limassol and annotated
'19.12.46 To Denis with best wishes From Loulla with love xx.'

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]]> Mike Connock]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Norwich]]> England--Hemsby]]> Cyprus]]> England--Caister-on-Sea]]> 1947]]> 1955]]> Sheila Bibb]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Second generation]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wassenberg]]> Cyprus]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> He spent some time in Greece, taking part in intruder exercises, and also recalls his time spent near Tobruk and tells of his experiences including visiting a German war memorial. John participated in the Suez Canal crisis, and details his operations in Cyprus and Egypt, and the problems that this created from a navigational point of view. He tells about his meetings with Flight Lieutenant John Garstin and also Wing Commander Nath, the most decorated pilot of the Indian Air Force and the part they played in his life. John flew the T2 Canberra named Willie Howe 725 now on display at Duxford.
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Mark Hunt]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Second generation]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Cyprus]]> Greece]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Libya]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> England--Duxford (Cambridgeshire)]]> 1956]]> 1957]]>
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Howell discusses the change from Bomber Command to Strike Command, and feelings around the RAF giving up its nuclear strike capability to the navy. He examines the role of captaincy and piloting. Howell outlines how crews came together and describes target study. He also relates his experience of Quick Reaction Alert. Howell describes low level flying in North America and the United States and flying to Libya, Cyprus and Malta. He was trained to do air-to-air refuelling.

Howell enjoyed teaching people to fly and trained the first women at RAF Swinderby. He delineates the training he co-ordinated at RAF Bawtry and the RAF Staff College, Bracknell. His final posting was to RAF Support Command at Brampton. He was also involved in Royal Navy elementary flying training at RAF Topcliffe.

In retirement, Howell spent 20 years restoring a Hawker Demon.]]>
Nigel Moore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending OH transcription]]> Sound]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> United States]]> Libya]]> Cyprus]]> Malta]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Cyprus]]> Israel]]> Israel--ʻEn Shemer]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Navy]]> Cyprus]]> Cyprus--Famagusta]]> Israel]]> Israel--Haifa]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> 1946]]> Donald then trained at Rothesay as a submarine detection (ASDIC) operator before joining HMS Essington. He served on the Arctic convoys and recalls surviving a torpedo attack in the English Channel and being shelled from Guernsey whilst hunting a submarine.
After the war Donald entered the church and became a Royal Air Force Chaplain and he tells amusing stories of his RAF service. His first posting was to RAF Halton, where his wartime medal ribbons earned him respect, despite arriving late on parade with oily hands from a recalcitrant bicycle chain. Then he moved to RAF Innesworth where he arranged a guard of honour for a friend's wedding, which impressed his Air Chief Marshall.
Donald was then posted to Aden, describing accommodation, training, and service anecdotes. From Aden, he was posted to RAF Cranwell where he set up a Sunday School, taught cadets to dive and took them to Cyprus to assist in some marine research. He recalls travelling around the Mediterranean to perform pipeline inspections and to referee boxing matches.
His final post was administering Bomber, Fighter and Coastal Commands, for which he flew around numerous RAF stations.
He also describes flying in a Vulcan and a Victor with his pilot brother and speaks of his emotion on visiting the National Arboretum and reading the names of the dead from HMS Blackwood, which was hit by the torpedo that missed Essington.
In later life he received the Ushakov medal and the Légion d'honneur.]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Navy]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Cyprus]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Scotland--Rothesay]]>