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]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--London]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Oldenburg]]> 1943-09-22]]> Bottom left - Airman to wed airman's widow. Alex Henshaw (test pilot) to wed widow of Count de Chateaubrun killed eight months after wedding in December 1937.
Bottom right - James Stewart at war. Account of actor flying with United States Army Air Force in 1944. Includes photograph with B-24. Right page. Top - newspaper cutting showing photograph of wreckage of one of three planes that crashed in a midlands village. Followed by article concerning crashes with loss of life near Doncaster.]]>
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There is a photograph of the squadron grouped in front of a Mosquito.]]>
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Michael Sheehan]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> British Army]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Sheffield]]> England--Rotherham]]> Germany]]> Germany--Bergen (Celle)--Belsen]]> Korea]]> 1943]]> Keith Dexter]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Diary]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Stow-on-the-Wold]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Stafford]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> 1945-09]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> 1945-08]]> Ian Archer Wynn]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Warrington]]> England--Gainsborough]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> 1942-12-16]]> HM Government]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> After training in York, Bettie was promoted to corporal and became a wireless operator. Following her posting to Trowbridge in Somerset she then went to the War Office Training Board in Leeds and then back to her unit on the Isle of Man. She was due to begin training for a commission when she became pregnant. Jim was posted to South Africa as a wireless operator and on his return became a pilot. Jim did 54 operations with Bomber Command.
Bettie lived in Doncaster with her parents when she had her first child, while Jim was away bringing prisoners of war back home. He was demobbed during that time and went back working for BP. Bettie and Jim lived in Stanwell for 18 months before moving to Nottingham for Jim’s work. He was promoted to administrative Director for BP at the refinery in Scotland. After spending time in Scotland they moved back to Purley, London. Jim left BP and worked for an American company in England until his retirement. The family then lived in Dorset, Minorca and finally Lincoln.
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Aircraft flown in were Anson, Battle, Wellington, Hudson, Tiger Moth, Dakota, Sparrow, Oxford, Proctor and Mosquito.
He flew 3 night operations with 38 Squadron, 42 with 40 Squadron, 8 with 627 Squadron, 45 with 692 squadron and 9 with 128 Squadron, a total of 107. His pilots on operations were Warrant Officer Brodie, Sergeant Le Brog, Squadron Leader Booth, Wing Commander Lockhart, Flight Lieutenant Grainger, Squadron Leader Saunderson, Wing Commander Birkin, Wing Commander Watts, Flying Officer Page, Pilot Officer Burnett, Flying Officer Richardson, Flying Officer Goodwin, Wing Commander Burrough, Flying Officer Boyer and Flight Lieutenant Gallanders.
Targets included Benghazi, mining, Tobruk, El Daba, Alamein, Ras el Manatis, Fuka, Cagliari, Tunis, Bizerte, Duisburg, Cologne, Hamburg, Magdeburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Schweinfurt, Augsburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Koln, Osnabruk, Stuttgart, Friedrichshaven, Leverkusen, Cologne, Gelsenkirchen, Bremen, Homberg, Weisbaden, Saarbruchen, Wanne-Eichel, Castrop, Kiel, Kassel, Brunswick and Cochem.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Roger Dunsford]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-02-16]]> Great Britain. Ministry of Labour and National Service]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> OStavesME203137-160226-060002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-02-16]]> Great Britain. Ministry of Food]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> Great Britain. Air Ministry]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> 1962-03-09]]>