Served at RAF Halton, RAF Wittering, RAF Hornchurch, RAF Eastchurch, RAF Harrogate, RAF Little Rissington, RAF Market Harborough, RAF Scampton, RAF Wiglsey, RAF Syerston, RAF Skellingthorpe, RAF Wymeswold, RAF Castle Donington,

Aircraft flown were DH 82 Tiger Moth, Stearman, Valiant, Harvard, Commodore, Catalina, Anson, Oxford, Wellington X, Stirling III, Norseman (C64), Lancaster, Dakota, Sea Otter, Auster, York, Sunderland.

Carried out 5 day and 27 night operations with 50 Squadron to Darmstadt, Bremerhaven, Rheydt, Kaiserslautern, Munster, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Nuremberg, Flushing docks, Bergen, Dusseldorf, the Dortmund-Ems Canal, the Mitteland Canal, Harburg, Duren, Heilbronn, the Urft Dam, Heimbach, Munich, Politz, Houffalize, Leuna, Brux, Siegen, the Rositz Oil Refinery, the Bohlen Synthetic Oil Plant, Wurzburg. He also carried out two Operation Exodus flights.

Awarded the DFC after an operation during which his aircraft was hit by bombs from another aircraft above him. He successfully flew his aircraft back to England. Includes various newspaper clippings.]]>
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He flew as a second pilot on operations with Flight Lieutenant Washer.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea)]]> France--Calais]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Pont-Remy]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Emmerich]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Leuna]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Osterfeld]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Solingen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Manitoba--Neepawa]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Prince Edward Island--Charlottetown]]> Saskatchewan--Weyburn]]> Scotland--Inverness]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Poland]]> Prince Edward Island]]> Saskatchewan]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> Manitoba]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-31]]> 1944-09-03]]> 1944-09-05]]> 1944-09-06]]> 1944-09-08]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-24]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-09-29]]> 1944-09-30]]> 1944-10-03]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-18]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-10-21]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-24]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-07]]> 1944-11-14]]> 1944-11-15]]> 1944-11-20]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-03]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> Photo 1 is an airman and two civilians sitting in front of a sign for a park, captioned 'Pete Phil & Self at Prince Edward National Park.
Photo 2 is two civilians and an airman standing in front of a farm, captioned 'We three'.
Photo 3 is Terry Ford leaning on the doorway of a shingle faced hut, captioned 'Taken one summer's evening by Pete'.]]>
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Photo 1 is six men on a beach, captioned 'At Keppoch Beach day before we left'.
Photo 2 is 12 airmen standing on the station platform, captioned 'On station at Sackville, N.B.'
Photo 3 is four airmen on the station platform, captioned Fil examines his ticket to New York'.
Photo 4 is four airmen standing on the platform, identified as 'Fanny A. Ian Dunlop Self John Cox'.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> United States]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> Florida--Pensacola]]> Florida--Saufley Field]]> Michigan--Grosse Ile]]> Prince Edward Island--Charlottetown]]> Florida]]> Michigan]]> Prince Edward Island]]> 1942]]> 1943]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Second generation]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany--Bremerhaven]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Prince Edward Island]]> 1943]]> 1944-11-14]]> 1945]]> Dick underwent intensive map training on his return and went to the Advanced Flying Unit in Wigtown on Ansons. He proceeded to the Operational Training Unit at RAF Upper Heyford on Oxfords, where he was introduced to Loran. He had just started a tour as a Mosquito Pathfinder navigator before VE Day. He describes the aircraft, Oboe, and the pattern of their operations. Dick participated in Cook’s Tours to the Ruhr Valley. He was in 608 Squadron but it was disbanded and so he was posted to 692 Squadron, another Group 8 unit, at RAF Gransden Lodge. This was also disbanded, and Dick was sent to RAF Blyton for a re-selection board where he was sent on a flight mechanic engines course at RAF Credenhill. He was posted to the 254 torpedo Beaufighter Squadron at Langham until he was demobilised.]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Scotland--Aberdeenshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Ontario--Goderich]]> Alberta]]> Prince Edward Island]]> Prince Edward Island--Charlottetown]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Ontario--Belleville]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-05-08]]> Bill returned to Scotland and converted to bomb aiming. He crewed up at RAF Castle Donington and went to RAF Sandtoft and RAF Hemswell to the Lancaster Finishing School. Bill was transferred to 166 Squadron at RAF Kirmington, flying Lancasters. They then went to RAF Scampton as 153 Squadron. Bill conducted 29 operations and one which was aborted because of engine problems. Bill then trained as an equipment officer, being sent to RAF Strubby. He then demobilised and returned to his job in local government.
The interview discusses relationships between commissioned and non-commissioned crew, Bill’s thoughts on Dresden, Bomber Command and Arthur Harris, and the awarding of medals. ]]>
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