Brian Wright]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> India]]> India--Kolkata]]> India--New Delhi]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> India--New Delhi]]> India--Bilāspur (Chhattīsgarh : District)]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> Claude Auchinleck]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Laura Morgan]]> eng]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> British Army]]> Royal Indian Air Force]]> India]]> India--New Delhi]]> 1947-08-17]]> Doug Petty]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shildon]]> England--Torquay]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> India--New Delhi]]> Germany]]> India]]> England--Devon]]> England--Durham (County)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
The bombing operations he took part in are described, as is his investiture and his time in India as an administrative officer.

Cruickshank then moves to Instructing before returning to Operations including Nuremberg. He then describes the transition to civilian life after his demobilisation from the RAF, poor health and his attempt to build a business in post war Britain.

Some of the photographs mentioned were donated separately and some are recorded as separate items.]]>
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Item 2 is an article about local businesses supporting the RAF. It also describes Commonwealth and British pilots.]]>
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His crew dropped food for the starving Dutch as part of Operation Manna. After the war he served with Transport Command on Yorks. He continued moving around and spent time on B-29s then Canberras at Marham. Later he and his family were sent to Kuala Lumpur then Penang on Dakotas.
On his return he was posted to Abingdon on Beverleys. This included trips to Nairobi.
He transferred to Haydock as a radio controller, after which he left the RAF and became a teacher.]]>
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Top right - in the foreground a single storey building with three two storey building behind. Captioned 'Officer's mess and quarters, Mauripur airport, Karachi'.
Bottom left - interior of large room with occupied tables on right and bar to left of door on rear wall. A man in local dress stands on the left. Captioned 'Lounge in terminal building, Palam airport, New Delhi'.
Bottom right - view through aircraft window of flooded landscape. Captioned 'floods in southern India, during monsoon 1946'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Pakistan]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> India]]> India--New Delhi]]> 1946]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> India]]> India--New Delhi]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Stilgoe]]> Photograph]]> India]]> India--New Delhi]]>