Mr Raettig]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Margaret Carr]]> David Bloomfield]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Indonesia]]> Pacific Ocean--Alas Strait (Bali Sea)]]> Indonesia--Kalimantan]]> Indonesia--Balikpapan]]> Australia]]> Queensland]]> Queensland--Brisbane]]> Western Australia]]> Western Australia--Fremantle]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Algeria]]> Australia]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> Algeria--Algiers]]> Western Australia--Fremantle]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> Egypt--Port Said]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> England--Liverpool]]> Western Australia]]> New South Wales]]> North Africa]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1945]]> Ken describes how he met his pilot. They initially shot down V-1s flying Mosquitoes. They went to northern France and did cross countries. Ken missed D-Day as he was training on Mark 10 radar at RAF Twinwood Farm. They did intruder raids. He describes going to Linz and Linz and their encounters with fighters. His squadron, along with another Mosquito squadron, were sent to the Channel Islands and was instrumental in the surrender German forces stationed there on 9th May 1945.
Ken was a recipient of Lady Ryder’s Dominion and Allied Services Hospitality Scheme and describes some of the hospitality and leisure pursuits he experienced.
After the war, Ken received the Legion of Honour.
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Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Austria]]> Austria--Linz]]> Canada]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Sussex]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Channel Islands]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Victoria]]> Victoria--Mornington Peninsula]]> Victoria--Mount Martha]]> Western Australia]]> Western Australia--Bunbury]]> Western Australia--Busselton]]> Western Australia--Geraldton]]> Western Australia--Moora]]> 1945]]>
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes individual operations starting with Emden. After 30 operations he was transferred to an Operational Training Unit as an instructor, firstly to Lichfield then to Church Broughton. He then transferred to a Heavy Conversion Unit, training on Halifaxes and Lancasters, based at Skellingthorpe and Swinderby. He was then posted to Waddington with 463 Squadron, RAAF. After several operations he transferred to a specialist gunnery course before returning to 463. Bombing operations were switched to France to assist in hampering German reinforcements after D-day. He describes the various roles of the crew during a flight and how targets were decided by the High Command. He concludes with aids to bombers -GEE, H2S, Oboe and Pathfinders. Also he describes counter measures such as ABC, Tidal and Window.

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1. F/Lt Jim Mundle DFC 23 Bomb Aimer, Glasgow Scotland.
2. Sgt Jim Cann 2, Engineer Scotland.
3. F/Sgt Ian Ellis 21 Rear Gunner, Melbourne Victoria.
4. F/O Paul Wilson, 22, Pilot, Adelaide SA.
5. F/S Don Plumb 24 Navigator, N.S.W.
6 F/S Harry Stokes 2 Mid Upper Gunner Geelong Vic.
7. F/O Gordon Richardson 32 W/Op, Perth WA'.
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