]]> Harold Kirby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1942-08]]> 1946-11]]> He flew a total of 32 operations (6 day, 26 night). Targets in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Poland were: Bohlen, Bremen, Brunswick, Dortmund, Dresden, Duren, Dusseldorf, Flushing, Gdynia, Gravenhorst, Houffalize, Ladbergen, Lutzkendorf, Merseburg, Molbis, Munich, Nordhausen, Nurnberg, Politz, Rheydt, Rositz, Siegen, Trondheim and Wurzburg. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Burns, Flying Officer MacFarlane and Flying Officer Lambert. Includes numerous comments on operations, including “COULDN’T CLIMB OVER ALPS OPENED BOMB DOORS & TOBBOGANED (sic) OVER” and “ATTACKED BY 5 JU88’S 2 SHOT DOWN”.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Germany--Altenburg (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rheydt]]> Germany--Saxony]]> Germany--Saxony-Anhalt]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Steinfurt (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Würzburg]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Northern Ireland--Down (County)]]> Norway--Trondheim]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Scotland--Ross and Cromarty]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-03]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-07]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-11-24]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-19]]> 1944-12-27]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-08]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-02-19]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-02-22]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-12]]> 1945-03-14]]> 1945-03-15]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-17]]> 1945-04-04]]> 1945-04-07]]> 1945-04-08]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Poland]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1943-12-16]]> 1943-12-17]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1944-01-01]]> 1944-01-02]]> 1944-01-03]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-06]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-15]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-22]]> 1944-01-27]]>
Also a page with images of the log book front cover and the summary of training. Above the images it is annotated: "Below is all that's entered in his bomb aimers training log book, (Observers and Air Gunners Flying Log Book) the rest of the pages are blank."
Below the images is the statement: "I have also included my fathers and my own birth certificates."]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> British Army]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1939-12-18]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Wendover]]> 1938-04]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Aylesbury]]> Patricia Hook]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Wiltshire]]> 1943-12-01]]> 1944-03-13]]>
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Red Deer Region]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> France]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Valognes Region]]> France--Reims Region]]> France--Argentan]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> France--Limoges]]> France--Vitry-le-François]]> France--Creil]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France--Etaples]]> France--Lorient]]> France--La Pallice]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Brest]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Netherlands--IJmuiden]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Norway--Tromsø]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Roetgen]]> Germany--Altenbeken]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Sassnitz]]> Germany--Arnsberg]]> Germany--Vlotho]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Poland--Świnoujście]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Poland]]> 1942-09-19]]> 1942-12-09]]> 1942-11-18]]> 1943-04-02]]> 1943-08-03]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-11-02]]> 1944-04-04]]> 1943-11-02]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-19]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-14]]> 1944-28-07]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-02]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-10]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-15]]> 1944-09-26]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-29]]> 1944-11-12]]> 1944-11-17]]> 1945-01-12]]> 1945-02-05]]> 1945-02-06]]> 1945-02-24]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-13]]> 1945-03-19]]> 1945-03-27]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-19]]> 1945-06-15]]> 1945-08-24]]> 1944-07-30]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Princes Risborough]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Bushey]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Rutland]]> 1939-01-26]]> 1941-07-05]]> 1941-08-02]]> 1942-10-01]]> 1942-12-28]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1944]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1952]]> 1965]]> On the reverse '98 Entry B Class Halton 7.5.43' and 12 signatures.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> 1943-05-07]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> 1930]]> First is of the three story brick accommodation blocks arranged around a square with some apprentices running, caption '10 times round the square'.
The second is looking from the accommodation blocks out onto the square with the apprentices on parade and the Station band standing by, captioned 'A.O.C's Parade'.
Third is of 18 young men posed in three rows out side an accommodation block, captioned 'Day one in the RAF at Halton'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> 1938-01-27]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Milton Keynes]]> 1944]]> RAF Halton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> 1947-04-18]]> He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and lists his operations he was involved in.

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WH Brooker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Orange]]> Victoria--Geelong]]> New South Wales--Harden]]> Victoria]]> New South Wales--Lismore]]> South Australia--Adelaide]]> Great Britain]]> England--Newcastle upon Tyne]]> England--High Wycombe]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> France--Brest]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Orléans]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Victoria]]> France]]> New South Wales]]> South Australia]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> 1944]]>