Covers his operational tour and bombing operations.]]> Bob Smith]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Heinsberg (Heinsberg)]]> France]]> France--Beauvoir-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> United States]]> Michigan--Detroit]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> France--Châlons-en-Champagne]]> France--Caen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Sylt]]> France--Somme]]> France--Aire-sur-la-Lys]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Gironde Estuary]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Brest]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> France--Falaise Region]]> France--Royan]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Glasgow]]> Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)]]> Sweden]]> Denmark]]> Sweden--Malmö]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> France--Calais]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Europe--Kattegat Region]]> Norway]]> Norway--Oslo]]> Denmark--Frederikshavn]]> France--Strasbourg]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Emmerich]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Germany--Essen]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Belgium--Charleroi]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Netherlands--Veere]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Aachen Region]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Fulda]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Osterfeld]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Australia]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> Queensland--Brisbane]]> Scotland--Inverness]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Colchester]]> Germany--Merseburg Region]]> 1944]]> E R James]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Diary]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Creil]]> France--Paris]]> France--Blaye]]> France--Caen]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> France]]> Germany]]> Poland]]> Netherlands]]> Russia (Federation)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-04]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-29]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-15]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-12]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-17]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-16]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1944-12-03]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-13]]> 1944-12-15]]> 1944-12-18]]> Eric Horsham]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Roger Dunsford]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> BHorshamESHorshamESv10002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cardington]]> England--Torquay]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--London]]> England--London]]> England--London]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Devon]]> 1942]]> 1944-11-16]]> Included is a photograph of the damage sustained to the Halifax's wing.
He details his operations mostly over Germany but also France. He refers to Flying Officer Leonard Cheshire being posted to his squadron.
On the last page is a photograph of his crew in front of a Halifax. Each member is identified -

Jimmy Finney Mid Upper Gunner From- Hull.

Eric Horsham Flt Engineer From- Woolwich.

Owen Shirley Navigator From- Carsholton.

Edgar Francis Pilot From- Stoke St Michael.

John Morris Bomb Aimer From- Highgate,London.

Alan Shepherd Wireless Operator From- Ringwood.

Ron Alderton Rear Gunner From- London
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His first operational posting was 51 Squadron at Snaith. He covers each operation in detail. Interspersed with the details are explanations of electronic systems and tactics used.
During one operation he was shot down and parachuted behind the German lines. Eventually he was taken prisoner, interrogated then transferred to Stalag Luft 7. As the Russians got nearer they were forced to walk west. Later they were transferred by train to Stalag IIIA.
The account then jumps to reunions in the 1980s, then returns to the last few days at the camp as the war ends.
He reached home on 15th May.

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Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Winchester]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Norway]]> Norway--Oslo]]> Germany]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Essen]]> France]]> France--La Capelle-en-Thiérache]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Abbeville]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Guernsey]]> Italy]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Northern Ireland--Enniskillen]]> England--Nottingham]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Rutland]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> England--Shropshire]]> Gibraltar]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Channel Islands]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Northern Ireland--Antrim (County)]]> 1934-10-10]]> 1935-07-12]]> 1936-05-13]]> 1939-09-03]]> 1940-05-17]]> 1940-05-21]]> 1940-06-26]]> 1940-06-11]]> 1941-07-01]]> 1943-05-20]]> 1943-06-20]]> 1944-01-18]]> J E F Mitchell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Alan Pinchbeck]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Norway]]> Norway--Stavanger]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Maastricht]]> Germany]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Jülich]]> France]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Amiens]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> France--Abbeville]]> Germany--Kiel Canal]]> Germany--Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1939-09-03]]> 1939-10-12]]> 1939-10-16]]> 1939-11-08]]> 1939-12-04]]> 1939-12-17]]> 1939-12-30]]> 1940-01-13]]> 1940-01-17]]> 1940-01-03]]> 1940-04-17]]> 1940-04-30]]> 1940-05-13]]> 1940-05-15]]> 1940-05-19]]> 1940-05-21]]> 1940-05-23]]> 1940-06-01]]> 1940-06-03]]> 1940-06-04]]> 1940-06-07]]> 1940-06-08]]> 1940-06-10]]> 1940-06-11]]> 1940-06-13]]> 1940-06-14]]> 1940-06-17]]> 1940-06-18]]> 1940-06-20]]> 1940-06-26]]> 1940-06-28]]> 1940-07-01]]> William Homewood]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> South Africa]]> Germany]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Oppau]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Worms]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Heide (Schleswig-Holstein)]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Dülmen]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Germany--Jülich]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Map]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Belgium--Turnhout]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-05-25]]> 1943-05-26]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PHorshamES1807]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> Germany--Jülich]]> 1944-11-16]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Belgium--Charleroi]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-12-18]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Germany]]> France]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Kiel]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Calais]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Homburg (Saarland)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Goch]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Elbe River Estuary]]> Germany--Dithmarschen Region]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-14]]> 1944-09-15]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-25]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-10-09]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-09-30]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-20]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1945-02-04]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-02-27]]> 1945-03-02]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-21]]> 1945-03-24]]> 1945-03-25]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Essen]]> Netherlands]]> Germany--Freising]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Soest]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Goch]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Leipzig Region]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Witten]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1945-03-18]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-09]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-21]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-29]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-29]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1944-12-12]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-18]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-12]]> 1945-03-13]]> 1945-03-15]]> 1945-03-18]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Dülmen]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Worms]]> Germany--Mainz]]> Germany--Heide (Schleswig-Holstein)]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>