John Taplin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> John Taplin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> He also recounts his experience in the RAF after his flying career while awaiting demobilisation.
There is also a list of the operations that Henry carried out.]]>
Henry Sturrock]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> France--Calais]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Goch]]> Germany--Leipzig Region]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-08-19]]> 1944-09-03]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-15]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-25]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-09]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-12]]> 1944-12-24]]> 1944-12-28]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-04]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-03-02]]>
Henry Sturrock's crew and six ground crew in front of a Halifax. The pilot is holding a small dog.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Alan Brammer]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-09]]> 1945-03]]>
Charles Francis Saunders]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> Wales--Carmarthenshire]]> Scotland--Moray]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> 1943-01]]> 2005-07]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1941-07]]> John Taplin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> He then went back to Yatesbury for an aircrew wireless operators course then on to Penrhos for an Air Observers and gunners course. From there John went to 10 OTU at Abingdon, while there he flew on one of the 1,000 bomber operations in a Whitley flying from Stanton Harcourt.
Having finished his course John was posted to 10 Squadron at RAF Leeming, still on the Whitley, the squadron converted to the Halifax, John flew in the Halifax II fitted with Merlin engines. The squadron then moved to RAF Melbourne, in Sept/Oct 1942 John’s crew were posted to Leeming to a new squadron No 408 (RCAF) as part of 6 Group.
On an operation to Hamburg 2/3 February 1943 John’s aircraft was badly damaged and the crew baled out, he recounts the difficulties of bailing out from an out of control aircraft. He landed in a tree and evaded capture for three days.
As a prisoner of war, he exchanged identities with a soldier. He was also on one of the long marches from January to April. ]]>
Stevenage Heritage Project]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Trevor Hardcastle]]> Pending OH transcription]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> 1940]]> 1942]]> 1943-02-02]]> 1943-02-03]]> 1945]]>
Records a total of 25 night operations (plus one with Duties Not Carried Out) with 196 Squadron. Targets in Germany, France and the Netherlands are: Bochum, Brest (minelaying), Cologne, Dortmund, Duisberg, Dusseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Frisians (minelaying), Gelsenkirchen, Heligoland Bight (minelaying), Kiel, Krefeld, Lorient (minelaying), Manheim, Mulheim, St Nazaire, Wuppertal.
Pilots on operations with 196 Squadron were W/O Ritchie and Sgt Sneddon.
Also records 33 operations (23 Night, 10 day, 5 with Duties Not Carried Out) with 355 Squadron against Japanese forces during the Burma campaign 1944-5. Targets in Burma, Thailand and Vietnam include:
Akyab, Amarapura, Andaman Islands, Bangkok, Hanoi, Jumbhorn, Khorat, Kyaukse, Kyetsha, Madaya, Mahlaing, Mandalay, Martaban Point, Martaban, Maymyo, Mokpalin railway yards, Monywa, Myingyan, Myittha, Na Nien, Ramree Island, Rangoon, Tiddim-Impall Road, Yenangyaung, Ywataung.
Pilots on operations with 355 Squadron were Squadron Leader MacDougall, Flight Lieutenant Giles, Flight Lieutenant Jackson, Flight Lieutenant Scott, Squadron Leader Falconer, Pilot Officer Dean, Warrant Officer Campbell, Flight Sergeant Turner, Warrant Officer Long and Warrant Officer Painter.]]>
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]]> Burma]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> Netherlands]]> Pakistan]]> Thailand]]> Vietnam]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Scotland--Ross and Cromarty]]> Atlantic Ocean--Helgoland Bight]]> Burma--Akyab (District)]]> Burma--Amarapura]]> Burma--Kyaikto]]> Burma--Kyaukse (District)]]> Burma--Kyaukse (Township)]]> Burma--Magwe Division]]> Burma--Mandalay]]> Burma--Mandalay (Division)]]> Burma--Maymyo]]> Burma--Monywa]]> Burma--Moulmein]]> Burma--Myingyan (District)]]> Burma--Rakhine State]]> Burma--Rangoon]]> Burma--Tiddim]]> Burma--Yenangyaung]]> France--Brest]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> India--Andaman Islands]]> India--Imphāl]]> India--Raipur]]> India--Vadodara]]> Netherlands--Friesland]]> Pakistan--Digri]]> Thailand--Bangkok]]> Thailand--Chumphon]]> Thailand--Khorat Plateau]]> Vietnam--Hanoi]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943-02-25]]> 1943-02-26]]> 1943-03-01]]> 1943-03-05]]> 1943-03-06]]> 1943-03-09]]> 1943-03-12]]> 1943-03-13]]> 1943-03-26]]> 1943-03-27]]> 1943-03-28]]> 1943-03-29]]> 1943-03-30]]> 1943-04-04]]> 1943-04-05]]> 1943-04-10]]> 1943-04-11]]> 1943-04-16]]> 1943-04-17]]> 1943-05-04]]> 1943-05-05]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]> 1943-05-23]]> 1943-05-24]]> 1943-05-25]]> 1943-05-26]]> 1943-05-27]]> 1943-05-28]]> 1943-05-29]]> 1943-05-30]]> 1943-06-02]]> 1943-06-03]]> 1943-06-21]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-06-23]]> 1943-06-24]]> 1943-06-25]]> 1943-06-26]]> 1943-06-28]]> 1943-06-29]]> 1943-07-02]]> 1943-07-03]]> 1943-07-04]]> 1944-03-29]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-04-08]]> 1944-04-09]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-02]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-29]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-30]]> 1944-08-02]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-16]]> 1944-09-19]]> 1944-10-29]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-11-08]]> 1944-11-19]]> 1945-01-21]]> 1945-01-25]]> 1945-01-31]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-05]]> 1945-02-11]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-02-18]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-02-23]]> 1945-02-24]]> 1945-02-28]]> 1945-03-04]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-09]]> 1945-03-19]]> 1945-08-02]]> 1946]]>
The last pages of the logbook contain four b/w photographs of Walter Braithwaite, airmen standing in front of an aircraft and a man playing basketball. ]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Benjamin Turner]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Somme]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Caen]]> France--Palaiseau]]> France--Saint-Lô]]> France--Montreuil]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Lille]]> France--Laon]]> France--Nieppe Forest]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Belgium--Ottignies]]> Germany]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Schleswig-Holstein]]> Germany--Neuruppin]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Canada]]> 1942]]> 1943-09-17]]> 1943-09-18]]> 1943-09-21]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-10-18]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1944-02-08]]> 1944-02-11]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-22]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-28]]> 1944-03-01]]> 1944-03-02]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-08]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-03-29]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-03-31]]> 1944-04-09]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-13]]> 1944-05-24]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-11]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-18]]> 1944-06-19]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-11]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1944-07-17]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-09-09]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-21]]> 1945-02-27]]> 1945-02-28]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-15]]> 1945-04-19]]> 1945-04-20]]> 1945-04-23]]> 1945-04-24]]> 1945-05-16]]> Fred Roberts]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> William Cragg]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text. Poetry]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Baguley]]> William Cragg]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> PCanniffJ1801]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--York]]> 1941-06-14]]> There is also a copy of the Operational Order for Operation Chastise by 617 Squadron. There are also crew lists, and a copy of the squadron 540 for the operation.
It also has the pages from Flight Sergeant Stalley's Log book for the period July to October 1944. He was the rear gunner on Flight Lieutenant Melrose's crew on No 9 Squadron at Bardney. During this period the squadron attacked the Tirpitz twice, once from Archangel.
There is also the Memories and Reflections of the German civil engineer that was in charge of the rebuilding of the dams damaged in the Dams Operation.
There are two newspaper cuttings from 2005 regarding the military burial of a 640 Squadron crew that had been shot down on the 24 March 1944. One was from The Daily Telegraph from 2 September 2005. There is also a letter George wrote to the Times giving some background to the story.]]>
George Keeling]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944-01-07]]> 1945-04-07]]> 1944-03-24]]> 2005-09-02]]>

Served at RAF Halton, RAF Wittering, RAF Hornchurch, RAF Eastchurch, RAF Harrogate, RAF Little Rissington, RAF Market Harborough, RAF Scampton, RAF Wiglsey, RAF Syerston, RAF Skellingthorpe, RAF Wymeswold, RAF Castle Donington,

Aircraft flown were DH 82 Tiger Moth, Stearman, Valiant, Harvard, Commodore, Catalina, Anson, Oxford, Wellington X, Stirling III, Norseman (C64), Lancaster, Dakota, Sea Otter, Auster, York, Sunderland.

Carried out 5 day and 27 night operations with 50 Squadron to Darmstadt, Bremerhaven, Rheydt, Kaiserslautern, Munster, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Nuremberg, Flushing docks, Bergen, Dusseldorf, the Dortmund-Ems Canal, the Mitteland Canal, Harburg, Duren, Heilbronn, the Urft Dam, Heimbach, Munich, Politz, Houffalize, Leuna, Brux, Siegen, the Rositz Oil Refinery, the Bohlen Synthetic Oil Plant, Wurzburg. He also carried out two Operation Exodus flights.

Awarded the DFC after an operation during which his aircraft was hit by bombs from another aircraft above him. He successfully flew his aircraft back to England. Includes various newspaper clippings.]]>
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]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1945-07-10]]> 1945-07-20]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Douai]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Nieppe Forest]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Paris]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Reims]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> France--Forêt du Croc]]> France--Siracourt]]> France--Somme]]> France--Tours]]> France--Vierzon]]> Germany]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Tilburg]]> Netherlands--Uden]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> France--Œuf-en-Ternois]]> France--Domléger-Longvillers]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-03-25]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-03-27]]> 1944-03-29]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-06-30]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-29]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-01]]> 1944-08-10]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-15]]> 1944-08-16]]> 1944-08-17]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1944-08-27]]> 1944-08-29]]> 1944-08-30]]> 1944-08-31]]> 1944-09-03]]> 1944-09-05]]> 1944-09-06]]> 1944-09-08]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> ]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-05-22]]> 1943-05-23]]> The first flight is recorded at No 7 EFTS , Desford flying in the Tiger Moth, he remained there until 28 September when he moved to No 12 SFTS flying in the Anson. In January 1941 Harold moved to No 10 OTU Abingdon, flying the Whitley. On 15th April Harold was posted to 51 Squadron, Dishforth initially flying the Whitley but almost immediately converting to the Wellington. His first operation was to Kiel on the 18 May 1941 in a Whitley, his remaining operations were in the Wellington. Harold and his crew were posted to 405 Squadron, Driffield on 27 May 1941 and moved to Pocklington on the 26 June 1941 and then undertook operations to Swartze, Cologne, Brest, Dunkirk, Le Havre, Berlin and Dortmund. Harold attended a BAT course at 1502 BAT Flight Abingdon, in February 1942 flying Whitley's. They carried out operations to Heligoland, Essen, and Lubeck. Harold converted to the Halifax April/May 1942. He carried out 19 operations, was injured after a crash on 12 October 1942 and was posted to No 10 OTU on 17 November 1942. Harold acquired a Red endorsement to his Log Book, 'Whitley V BD 377 23 October 1942, Gross carelessness (Non flying) letter ref 916/1405/1595/P1 14 Nov 1942.
He was posted to No 12 OTU on 20 November. The aircraft he flew there on the Gunnery flight included the Whitley, Defiant, Lysander, Wellington and Martinet, he remained there until 10 March 1944 when his Log Book records that he was posted to No 100 Group for Special duties. The second pilot on operations were Pilot Officer Mattey, Sergeant Craig, and Sergeant Farnborough. ]]>
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