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Flashback 1. Mentions first operation on 300 Squadron at RAF Faldingworth. Continues with account of training in England at Hucknall, Montrose and Western Zoyland. He then trained as an instructor and was posted as a flying instructor. He volunteered for operational duties and eventually was allocated to a bomber squadron at RAF Finningley training on Wellington where he crewed up before posting to RAF Faldingworth, Continues with description of first operation to Wiesbaden and mistakenly landing at RAF Fiskerton on return. Concludes with a 10 year old schoolboy's wish to be a pilot.
Flashback 2. Account of Tadeusz joining the Polish Air Force including the reasons for his ambition, early experience of gliding, labour camp and military training. Continues with account of flying training with various incidents. Describes events during German invasion and escape to Romania.
Flashback 3. Continues with events after arriving in Romania and then travelling onwards by boat to Beirut then onwards to Marseille, Lyon. Gives account of German invasion of France in May 1940 and his escape via Toulouse, Bayonne and St Jean de Luz and then by British ship to Liverpool.
Flashback 4. Writes of changing his name and of his career in the RAF after the war including continuing flying with 300 Squadron and his final operation to Berchtesgaden as well as prisoner of war repatriation flights and food drops in Holland. Continues with account of flying troops back from Italy and a visit to Berlin. He was posted to ferry aircraft of many different types.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Belgium--Liège]]> Belgium--Spa]]> France]]> France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]> Spain]]> Gibraltar]]> Spain--Bilbao]]> 1941-08-05]]> 1941-08]]> 1942-01-15]]> 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]]> Italy]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Le Creusot]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Germany--Saxony]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy--Turin]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1942-11-16]]> 1942-11-17]]> 1942-11-22]]> 1942-11-23]]> 1942-11-28]]> 1942-11-29]]> 1942-11-30]]> 1942-12-16]]> 1942-12-17]]> 1942-12-20]]> 1943-01-15]]> 1943-01-23]]> 1943-02-03]]> 1943-02-04]]> 1943-02-05]]> 1943-02-13]]> 1943-02-14]]> 1943-02-15]]> 1943-02-16]]> 1943-02-17]]> 1943-03-03]]> 1943-03-04]]> 1943-03-08]]> 1943-03-09]]> 1943-03-10]]> 1943-03-11]]> 1943-03-12]]> 1943-04-15]]> 1943-04-16]]> 1943-04-17]]> 1943-04-18]]> 1943-04-20]]> 1943-04-21]]> 1943-05-22]]> 1943-05-23]]> 1943-05-24]]> 1943-05-25]]> 1943-05-26]]> 1943-05-27]]> 1943-06-11]]> 1943-06-12]]> 1943-06-19]]> 1943-06-20]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-15]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-03-27]]> 1945-04-07]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-05-04]]> 1945-05-12]]> 1945-06-13]]> His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Kellaway DSO and Wing Commander Harrison.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Le Creusot]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy--Turin]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1942-11-16]]> 1942-11-17]]> 1942-11-22]]> 1942-11-23]]> 1942-11-28]]> 1942-11-29]]> 1942-11-30]]> 1942-12-16]]> 1942-12-17]]> 1942-12-20]]> 1943-01-15]]> 1943-01-23]]> 1943-02-03]]> 1943-02-04]]> 1943-02-05]]> 1943-02-13]]> 1943-02-14]]> 1943-02-15]]> 1943-02-16]]> 1943-02-17]]> 1943-03-03]]> 1943-03-04]]> 1943-03-08]]> 1943-03-09]]> 1943-03-10]]> 1943-03-11]]> 1943-03-12]]> 1943-04-15]]> 1943-04-16]]> 1943-04-17]]> 1943-04-18]]> 1943-04-20]]> 1943-04-21]]> 1943-05-22]]> 1943-05-23]]> 1943-05-24]]> 1943-05-25]]> 1943-05-26]]> 1943-05-27]]> 1943-06-11]]> 1943-06-12]]> 1943-06-19]]> 1943-06-20]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> Photo 2 are seagulls and clouds
Photo 3 is some men at the side of the ship as it is cruising along.
Photo 4 is three men in uniform on the ship.
Photo 5 is a building at the side of the river.
Photo 6 is a group of men, one in uniform, standing at the railings of the ship.
Photo 7 is a naval vessel approaching the ship.
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Mieczysław Stachiewicz]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> pol]]> Photograph]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> England--Liverpool]]> France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1940-06]]>
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