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Eyles, Bill
C W Eyles
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-04-10
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Eyles, CW
Description
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51 items. The collection concerns Bill Eyles DFM (900473 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book. notebooks, correspondence and photographs. He flew a tour as a bomb aimer with 78 Squadron and later a second tour with 35 Squadron Pathfinders.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Hazel King and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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21/22 June 1943 KREFELD – Halifax DT768 'W'
Position: 5120N 0643E Time: 0213 hrs Speed: 175-145 Heading: 316M[?]
Visibility: Very clear, moonlight.
Unidentified a/c first seen 1,000 yds range at the same height as Bomber on Port quarter. E/A opened fire with a 5 secs burst which went wide of the Halifax. At this time the Halifax was taking necessary evasive action from Searchlights nearby and E/A was not seen again. Halifax was not coned at the time and there was no Flak in the area. IFF on. [missing word] damage to Bomber. Halifax did not open fire.
R/G: Sgt R BARGER (135529)
4 B&GS, Canada
10 OTU, Abingdon
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Title
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Combat report
Description
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Reports by Sergeant T Barger of attack by enemy aircraft during operation to Krefeld 22 June 1943.
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R Barger
Format
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One page typewritten document
Language
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eng
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Text
Identifier
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MEylesCW900473-170410-26
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Germany--Krefeld
Canada
Ontario--Elgin (County)
England--Oxfordshire
Great Britain
Ontario
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
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1943-06-21
1943-06-22
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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Sue Smith
10 OTU
air gunner
aircrew
Halifax
Operational Training Unit
RAF Abingdon
training