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Relates to photographs C3518, C2397, C3214, C3229, C3206, C3207, C3835, C4192, C4375, CH13328.]]>
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Relates to photographs C3518, C3229, C3206, C4375, CH13328, C3835, C4192.]]>
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On the left and right - RAF bases and operations carried out from them.
On the right - a map on northern Europe and United Kingdom showing routes to targets in France, Italy, Germany and Poland. At the bottom - labelled '5 Group Bomber Command 1942-1944'.
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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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John was born in 1919 to a poor but educated family. He was the youngest of eight children. At the age of 17 he started training as a teacher but war had broken out. He was accepted by the RAF as aircrew and after brief training in Jamaica was shipped to New Orleans then onward to Canada.
He trained as a Navigator and after crew selection at Kinloss, training on Whitleys he was sent to Pocklington, Yorkshire.
He completed 33 operations - there is great detail about the operations.
After the war he transferred to Transport Command and flew Hastings and Comets around the world. He was a successful athlete for the RAF.
Included is a eulogy for John written by his nephew, Mark Johnson.

An appendix covers a colleague, John Ebanks who served as a bomb aimer at RAF Oakington. He undertook 50 operations.


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2. Outside view of multi story building with 'Miramare' in large letters on the top.
3. Two rows of hospital beds in an ornate room, some occupied, with nurses, orderlies and one officer standing in a group in the background. 4. View of a city from an upper floor of a building. In the foreground right the entrance to a railway stations. Building go up hill to the left.
5. Interior image showing arches and steps with notice board and scattered potted plants.
6. Ballroom set up as hospital ward with nurses and orderlies sitting on or standing by beds. Ceiling has paper chain decorations.]]>
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