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Aircraft flown were Anson, Bolingbroke, Battle, Wellington, Stirling, B17.

Bill flew a total of 36 operations with 214 Squadron, only one of which was a day operation. The targets included Frisian Islands, Karlsruhe, Gennevilliers, Kiel, Brunswick, Saumur, Aulnoye, Gelsenkirchen, Goes, Stuttgart, Russelsheim, off Denmark, off Emden, Darmstadt, Wissembourg, Heereveen, Traben-Trarbach, Fischbach, Bischwiller, Bochum, Cologne & Mannheim, Essen, Saarbruken, Koblenz & Gladbeck, Mönchengladbach, Krefeld, Dortmund Ems Canal, Giessen.
His pilot for his first operation was Flight Sergeant Gilbert and his second, Squadron Leader Jeffries. For the rest of his operations his pilot was Flying Officer Corke.
During operations he fulfilled the role of bomb aimer, air gunner and second navigator at various times. As well as bombing carried out a number of Window, Mandrel and Big Ben Special Duties operations.
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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]]>
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his experience of finding a German butterfly bomb close to his home, Geoff described how after an air raid the local children would explore the local area looking for shrapnel. On this particular day when he was about 13, he and a friend found this device which looked different, he asked a soldier what it might be but he didn’t know. His friends father did not want it in their house and Geoff’s father said the same thing although they did not know what it was. Geoff was standing outside their house when a bomb disposal team came by probably looking for the bomblets. They told Geoff to drop it they then surrounded it with sandbags and detonated it with a small explosive charge which blew out some of the house windows. Geoff considered himself to be lucky as although they had mistreated the device it had not exploded, he also made the point that no one knew what they were as the authorities decided not to issue any information about the bomblets. He could not remember any anti aircraft guns locally but did remembers a large gun nearby.
Geoff described how his father a fisherman had build an Anderson air-raid shelter in their back garden and when the sirens alerted them to a raid the whole family gathered there. He described how one night a German aircraft caught in the searchlight beam dived down and dropped their bomb quite close to the house. He made the point that air raids on Grimsby were not that frequent unlike Hull just across the river, although Grimsby at that time was a major fishing port where literally you could cross the harbour stepping from one trawler to the next. Geoff remembered that early in the war the aircraft they saw were German but later on the large formations of Lancasters were evident.
Having left school at 14 he went to work at the local Rolls Royce dealership as an apprentice but disliked the work. Just post the European war conscription was still in place but Geoff volunteered to join the army for five years as you could choose your job and were paid more. He was trained as a signaller, his initial posting was the army headquarters in Paris which as it was just post war Eisenhour and Montgomery were there. Geoff was then posted to Egypt which was very different to Paris, living in tents awful food. Another lucky escape happened there, with a group of soldiers they were digging trenches by hand to be used as latrines, a fellow corporal told Geoff take your troops and go for a break then come back and relieve me, but the trench collapsed and killed them as Geoff and his group were on break.
Having completed his time in the army Geoff became a lorry driver during the week and a taxi driver at the weekend and he remembered the filming of Memphis Belle at RAF Binbrook.
Almost as a postscript Geoff remembered another lucky escape, early in the war in many towns and cities the school children were evacuated to safer areas to escape the German bombers. He remembers being gathered at school expecting to be told that they were being evacuated to Canada but a ship carrying evacuees had been sunk near the Canadian coast so the plan was abandoned. ]]>
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His pilot on all operations was F/O Lasham.

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RH page course photograph four rows posed in front of an Anson. Part of the caption ' The white flashes have now left our caps. The Flight after receiving their brevet'.

Additional information kindly provided by André Jans of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Sangatte]]> 1944-09-20]]>
RH page, caption 'Souvenir of the return boat trip on the Queen Mary'. ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Stuart Cummins]]> Pending geolocation]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Saint-Lô]]> 1943-07-30]]> RH page tourist photographs of Cape Town, page captioned 'Capetown March 43'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> France--Vire (Calvados)]]> 1943-03]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-06]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Orléans]]> 1944-05-19]]> 1944-05-20]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Le Havre]]> 1944-09-10]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Calais]]> 1944-09-20]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> France]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Calais]]> 1944-06-02]]> 1944-06-03]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Vire (Calvados)]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Flers-de-l'Orne]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-10]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Saint-Lô]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1944-07-30]]> Geoff Blamires]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Le Havre]]> 1944-07-31]]>