IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Rutland]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Conncock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> Italy]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> India--Delhi]]> India--Kolkata]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943-06-03]]> 1943-06-04]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-11]]> 1943-08-15]]> 1943-08-16]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-09-01]]> 1943-09-03]]> 1943-09-04]]> 1943-09-06]]> 1943-09-07]]> 1943-09-27]]> 1943-09-28]]> 1943-01-01]]> 1943-01-02]]> 1943-01-03]]> 1943-01-04]]> 1943-01-05]]> 1943-01-07]]> 1943-01-08]]> 1943-01-20]]> 1943-01-21]]> 1943-11-10]]> 1943-11-11]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-24]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1943-12-16]]> 1943-12-17]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-21]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> Top right - seven aircrew wearing a variety of uniform or flying clothes standing in line under the nose of a Lancaster. Captioned 'Lancaster III, 1943, (self, Alfie, Doug, "Shorty", Dickie, "Mo", "Bloody"), Metheringham, 106 Squadron, Bomber Command, 1st tour'.
Bottom left - eleven airmen (air and ground crew) sitting and standing in two rows with one man in rear turret of a Lancaster ZN-Z. Captioned 'Lancaster III 1945, (Doug, "Bloody", self, "Shorty", Bill, Syd, Jack, Pete, "Sport", "Taff", "Dixie"), Metheringham 106 Squadron, 2nd tour'.
Bottom right - seven airmen all wearing battledress with brevet sitting and standing in two rows in front of a Nissen hut. Captioned 'Doug, "Sport", "Bloody", Pete, "Dixie", self, "Shorty", 106 Squadron Metheringham, 1945. 2nd tour, (F/O Cunnison, F/O Sandford DFC, F/O Blood DFM, F/O Lynch DFM, F/O Dean DFC, Self, F/O Groombridge DFM)'.]]>
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> MIke Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> United States]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--West Midlands]]> Florida--Miami]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Netherlands--Ameland Island]]> Florida]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943-04-26]]> 1943-04-27]]> 1943-04-28]]> 1943-04-30]]> 1943-05-01]]> Squadron Leader Payne. The book also records flights on Operation Exodus, Cook's Tours and one Operation Dodge flight.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Laon]]> France--Rouen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bocholt]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Salzgitter]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1950]]> 1955]]> 1956]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-11]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-28]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-09-03]]> 1943-09-04]]> 1943-09-06]]> 1943-09-07]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-06]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1943-12-16]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-23]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-01]]> 1944-01-02]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-03-29]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-30]]> 1945-05-04]]> 1945-05-23]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> Wales--Anglesey]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> England--Rutland]]> 1940-09-13]]> 1941-12]]> 1942-01-28]]> He was stationed at RAF Stoke Orchard (No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School), RCAF Station Neepawa (No. 35 Elementary Flying Training School), RCAF Station Carberry (No. 33 Service Flying Training School), RAF Carlisle (No. 15 Elementary Flying Training School), RAF Church Lawford (No. 18 (P) Advanced Flying Unit), RAF Desborough (No. 84 Operational Training Unit), RAF Wratting Common (No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit), RAF Feltwell (No. 3 Lancaster Finishing School), RAF Witchford (115 Squadron), RAF Langar (1669 HCU), RAF North Luffenham (1653 HCU), RAF Waterbeach (514 Squadron), RAF Syerston (1333 Transport Support Conversion Unit), RAF Almaza, RAF Aqir, RAF Kabrit (78 Squadron), RAF Palam (AHQ(I) Communications Squadron), RAF Fassburg, RAF Lubeck, RAF Bassingbourn and RAF Waterbeach (24(C) Squadron), RAF Marham (115 Squadron and Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight), Bassingbourn (No. 231 OCU), RAF Boscombe Down (Handling Squadron), RAF Lyneham (216 Squadron) and RAF Watton (51 Squadron).
Aircraft in which flown: DH82C, Anson, DH82A, Oxford, Wellington X, Stirling I, Stirling III, Lancaster I, Lancaster II, Lancaster III, Dakota III, Horsa, Dakota IV, Halifax VII, York, Harvard, Lancastrian, Valetta, Washington, Meteor, Canberra, Varsity, Firefly, Pembroke, Valiant, Sea Venom, Vampire, Jet Provost, Sea Devon, Hunter, Pioneer, Whirlwind, Chipmunk, Comet, Beverley, Seamew, Venom, Javelin, Gannet, Swift, Vulcan, Hastings, Victor, Skeeter, Prentice, Auster, Devon, Heron, Bristol Freighter, Dragonfly, Shackleton, Viscount, Sea Prince, Sycamore, Sea Balliol, Lincoln, Sea Hawk.
Records 30 completed operations (22 night, 8 day) on the following targets in France and Germany: Amaye-Sur-Seulles, Beauvoir, Bec D’Ambes, Biennais, Bordeaux Bassens, Brunswick, Cap Gris Nez, Chambly, Cologne, Coulonvillers, Domleger, Dortmund, Dreux, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Foret de Lucheux, L’Hey, Le Havre, Le Mans, Lens, Lisieux, Montdidier, Nantes, Ouistreham, Vaires (Paris), Valenciennes, Watten and Wissant.
Also includes photographs of various aircraft, various documents, technical notes, medal awards paperwork and VIP passenger lists (including Pandit Neru, Sir Claude Auchinleck).]]>
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Captioned 'Doug and Dickie, Woolfox Lodge 43'.
Right - and airman wearing battledress sitting in a wooden chair in long grass in a woods with a hut in background left. Captioned 'Tired as usual! Woolfox Lodge, March 43'.
Bottom - view down a town street of distant mountain. Trees either side and a stream in the foreground. Captioned 'Cascade Mt & Main street, Banff, Alta, 42 (from post office)'.]]>
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He met his future wife in the Unity bar in Lincoln.
Reg survived a crash on a fighter training session when four of his aircrew died.
He also survived ten operations to Berlin. On one operation they were shot up and lost a lot of fuel and had to make an emergency landing at RAF Wittering where no one could be found because they were at a party, on base.
Arriving back on another operation they found everywhere fogged in but landed at RAF Melbourne where they had to stay for a few days until the fog cleared. They had no clothes to change into, no money and no toothbrushes.
After one operation they landed safely and on powering down the aircraft a bomb, which should have been dropped over Germany, came free and rattled down the bomb bay without exploding.
Once they came back with a large hole in the wing, made by a bomb.
On another op they shot down a JU-88 night fighter.
Bombing operations were directed by a Master Bomber who set flares.
Reg and Fred were given Lincoln Imps as mascots but the night Fred died he had left his mascot on another tunic.
He describes the landing procedures when 40 Lancasters arrive back at the same time, most low on fuel.
His navigator, Fl Lt Frank Swingerd calculated winds aloft and Reg transmitted these to 5 Group aircraft.
He describes the various operating areas of the crew on board the Lancaster.]]>
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Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Potsdam]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> Northern Ireland--Down (County)]]> 1945-03-17]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-03-27]]> 1945-04-05]]> 1945-04-18]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> 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. Bomber Command]]> Egypt]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Oman]]> Singapore]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> North Africa]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> France--Calais]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Saint-Omer Region (Pas-de-Calais)]]> Germany--Borken (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Braunschweig Region]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hattingen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Recklinghausen (Münster)]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Gibraltar]]> Northern Ireland--Ballykelly]]> Oman--Masirah Island]]> Scotland--Kinloss]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> 1955]]> 1956]]> 1957]]> 1958]]> 1959]]> 1960]]> 1961]]> 1962]]> 1963]]> 1964]]> 1965]]> 1944-07-08]]> 1944-09-05]]> 1944-09-06]]> 1944-09-08]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-03]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-01-29]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-02-18]]> 1945-02-19]]> 1945-02-23]]> 1945-02-27]]> 1945-03-09]]> 1945-03-12]]> 1945-03-18]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-03-29]]> 1945-04-04]]> 1945-04-05]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> #2 is a garden and house captioned 'Empingham'.
#3 is a civilian standing in a garden, captioned 'W/Cdr D. Warr King Caveby May 1947'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Rutland]]> 1947]]>
Left - wedding photograph a full length image of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet and holding peaked cap under his arm standing arm in arm with his bride who was wearing wedding dress and holding bouquet. Captioned '4 August 1945. Converting to marital status, St Dunstan's Church North Cheam'.
Top right - six aircrew wearing battledress sitting as a group on grass.
Middle right - six aircrew standing in line under the nose of a Lancaster.
Bottom right - six aircrew sitting in a bunch. Captioned 'Converting to Lancasters Cottesmore, crew top photograph left to right, rear gunner ? Navigator "Ginger Monither, Wireless Op Ken Proctor, Mid Upper Eric ? Flight Eng Self, Skipper Alec Humphries, Bomb Aimer Taff? (on the left bottom photo)'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--London]]> 1945-08-04]]>
B M Smith]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Crawley (West Sussex)]]> England--London]]> England--Middlesex]]> Bahrain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Sussex]]> Bahrain]]> Bahrain--Muḥarraq]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1957]]> 1969]]> 1975]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Staffordshire]]> France--Rennes]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--West Frisian Islands]]> Saskatchewan--Big Quill Lake]]> Manitoba--Brandon Region]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Saskatchewan]]> Netherlands]]> Saskatchewan--Dafoe]]> Manitoba]]> Manitoba--Rivers]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1952]]> 1943-08-19]]> 1943-08-20]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-01]]> 1944-01-02]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1944-01-28]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-02-26]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-19]]> 1944-03-24]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Christian]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Scarborough]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Bexhill]]> Scotland--South Ayrshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kiel Canal]]> 1937]]> 1938]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Rutland]]> 1951-06]]>