The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Foskett, William. Biography]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shellingford]]> United States]]> Georgia--Atlanta]]> Georgia--Macon]]> Georgia--Albany]]> Florida--Arcadia]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Picton]]> Ontario]]> France]]> France--Biarritz]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> France--Gennevilliers]]> Germany--Kiel]]> France--Saumur]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Goes]]> Netherlands--Hoek van Holland]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Ostfriesland]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> France--Wissembourg]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Netherlands--Heerenveen]]> Germany--Traben-Trarbach]]> Germany--Fischbach]]> France--Bischwiller]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Gladbeck]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Italy]]> Italy--Udine]]> England--Newquay]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> Slovenia--Log pod Mangartom]]> Slovenia]]> Germany]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Andover]]> Germany]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Italy]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Poland]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Germany]]> Germany--Frankfurt (Oder)]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Texel]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Harwich]]> England--Norfolk]]> Netherlands--Leeuwarden]]> Netherlands--Terschelling]]> Germany--Schleswig]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Germany--Oldenburg]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)]]> Germany--Fürstenwalde (Brandenburg)]]> Germany--Jüterbog]]> Poland]]> Germany--Brandis (Saxony)]]> Denmark]]> Denmark--Ålborg]]> Poland--Kołobrzeg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--Den Helder]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> Air Marshall Sir Ralph Sorley]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. 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Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> Alberta--Banff]]> Alberta--Lake Louise]]> England--London]]> Australia]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> Queensland]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> England--Taunton]]> Ontario--Cornwall]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Pulborough]]> England--Kingston upon Thames]]> Scotland--Aberdeen]]> England--Fordingbridge]]> England--Bristol]]> England--Nottingham]]> England--Princes Risborough]]> England--Olney]]> England--Southampton]]> England--Cheshire]]> United States]]> Texas]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> Victoria]]> England--Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead)]]> Poland]]> Great Britain]]> Ontario]]> Alberta]]> Germany]]> Lithuania]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Glen Turner]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Tilly Foster]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Italy]]> Alps]]> New Zealand]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> 1940-11-15]]> 1943-04-12]]> At the outbreak of war, he left the Post Office and was employed building naval vessels at a boat yard on the Thames in Chertsey. It was here that he first heard about RAF Air Sea Rescue, which he successfully enrolled into. Following training at various establishments he was posted to Newhaven on High Speed Launch 190 as a gunner.
Lawrence describes rescue operations: a Spitfire leading them to an airman in a dinghy; a Wellington aircrew rescued close to Le Havre on 17 July 1943; a German wireless operator who baled out from a downed Ju 88 and his parachute being divided amongst the crew, and finally rescuing the United States serviceman T G Giles who baled out of a P-38.
Occasionally they would come across mines that had broken free. These would be guarded until the Navy arrived and detonated them. This would result in the surface being covered in stunned fish which the crew would be able to scoop up.]]>
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