IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection B]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Zimbabwe]]> Zimbabwe--Harare]]> 1941]]>
Joined RAF in 1938 and Bomber Command in 1941 as an air gunner. Started operations in 1942 and completed first tour of 31 trips at end of November 1942. Says was badly shot up on last trip to Hamburg returning with two wounded and one killed. Completed second operational tour with operation to Clermond Ferrand.

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#1 is a side view
#2 is a plan view, from above.
They are captioned 'Bristol Blenheim Mk IV Bomber photographed while being flown by Wing Commander Arnold Louis Christian 1941'.]]>
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RNZAF]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> New Zealand]]> New Zealand--Wellington]]> 1941]]> This is a document which has been completed on behalf of the sister of Bronislaw Soltysiak, as she was looking for him. The Red Cross reunited many Polish Families after the war. This is a request for information of his current whereabouts.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Teresa Boyes]]> pol]]> fra]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Poland]]> Romania]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> 1946-03-14]]> 1916-11-26]]> 1939]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Hull]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike French]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Belgium]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Bramsche (Osnabruck)]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Geldern]]> Germany--Grevenbroich]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Itzehoe]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kevelaer]]> Germany--Oldenburg]]> Germany--Wassenberg]]> Germany--Weeze]]> Germany--Wegberg]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Xanten]]> Netherlands--Zutphen]]> Scotland--Highlands]]> France]]> Netherlands]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1942-08-28]]> 1942-08-29]]> 1945-01-03]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-21]]> 1945-01-22]]> 1945-01-23]]> 1945-01-29]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-10]]> 1945-02-11]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-16]]> 1945-03-04]]> 1945-03-30]]> 1945-04-11]]> 1945-04-18]]> 1945-04-19]]> 1945-04-21]]> 1945-04-24]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1945-04-26]]> 1945-05-02]]>