IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> ]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> ]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hemsworth, Ron collection. Subsection E]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland]]> 1943-03]]> J D Cotter]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Truro]]> England--Leicestershire]]> France]]> France--Rouen]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Italy]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> France--Soligny-la-Trappe]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Paris]]> France--Tergnier (Canton)]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 2018-08-28]]> 1942-08]]> 1943-02-23]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-05-05]]> 1943-05-14]]> 1943-08]]> 1943-12-03]]> 1943-06-27]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-09-16]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-29]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-10-23]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-12-03]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-04-09]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-17]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-08-24]]> 1943-10-08]]> FG Bower]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> MBowerFG1575473-200123-030002,
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Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1943-02]]> 1943-03]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1943-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield
Roger Dunsford
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eng]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Canada]]> England--Norfolk]]> France--Paris]]> Netherlands--Zeist]]> Netherlands]]> France]]> 1942-04]]> 1943-03]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1943-03]]> Valette studio, Blackpool.]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> Cheshire, Leonard. Aircrew, people, decorations and bomb damage]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1943-03]]> There were some delays as Bomber Command had surplus aircrew. He spent some leave through the Lady Ryder Scheme and went to RAF Padgate. He was sent to RAF Fairoaks and witnessed V2 flying bombs before returning to RAF Padgate. Colin was sent to RAF West Freugh and did dead reckoning navigation. His next destination was 27 Operational Training Unit in Lichfield. Colin describes how they crewed up. He was introduced to the Gee radio navigation system and Wellingtons. He went to a Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Lindholme and encountered Lancasters and H2S.
Colin discusses his impressions of England and his activities. He also outlines how he carried out his role as a navigator.
They transferred to 460 Squadron at RAF Binbrook and started operations in March 1945. Colin describes some of their seven operations, which involved damage to the aircraft on a trip to Saarbrücken; being caught in the searchlights at Potsdam; cancellation mid-route of their trip to Bremen. On 25 April 1945, they flew in the second wave to Berchtesgaden and were hit, losing all but one engine. Some of the crew baled out but the pilot crash-landed the aircraft with the rear gunner because of a missing parachute. Colin was taken to Stalag Luft 7 at Moosburg. They were freed on 29 April 1945 by the American 14th Division, although it took some time to return to England and ultimately Australia.
Colin gives his views on the treatment of Bomber Command and the politics involved.
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Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Sally Coulter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Scotland--Wigtownshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Potsdam]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Germany--Moosburg an der Isar]]> Germany--Ingolstadt]]> Poland]]> Poland--Opole (Voivodeship)]]> 1943]]> 1943-03]]> 1944]]> 1944-02]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1945-04-29]]>
Lioba Suchenwirth]]> Anna Hoyles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> deu]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany]]> 1943-03]]>