Julian Maslin]]> This Interview was recorded by Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Norway]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Norway--Tromsø]]> Scotland--Moray]]> 1942]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-11-12]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1944-08]]> Ministry of Aircraft Production]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Air Publication 1480]]> eng]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Germany]]> 1944-08]]> Henry Sturrock's crew and six ground crew in front of a Halifax. The pilot is holding a small dog.

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Alan Brammer]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-09]]> 1945-03]]>

Marga – Elly
Mia – Jaap – Albert
Kees. Robby. Kruithof
Augustus 1944
Berkenlaan 28
Antwerp
Wilrijk]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frank Schilder]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> 1944-08]]>
The second letter expresses sadness at the loss of Frank.]]> G B Thorneycroft]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> 1944-08]]> They had been warned by an English airman that the SS were going to carry out shootings and found refuge on 25th August. They were liberated on 29th August. The SS shot eight Resistance fighters and arrested three (out of 18-20). They had two airmen with them when they attacked the Sainte Catherine road. They had been ordered only to attack isolated Germans to avoid civilian reprisals. The American officer’s machine gun jammed and they were told to leave. They volunteered the following day and although the German command car was at the head of the convoy, they could not do anything.

Second witness statement from a Resistance fighter
The SS managed to shoot down their own aircraft instead of the British aircraft. The pilot bailed out.

Third witness statement (Pierre Madry)
Pierre describes former buildings including where George M. Mikels was imprisoned, the German Staff Headquarters and the prisoner camp. M. Le Monnier testified that the English were shot after being forced to dig their own graves. Against German wishes, the priest, Abbé Vard, came to bless them before burial. Five prisoners were shot. Gordon Brian Lafayette was not in the cemetery. Some bodies had allegedly been repatriated. Five soldiers remained.

Fourth witness statement (Pierre Madry)
An officer from the Wehrmacht was billeted at Pierre’s house and told him he was lucky to be alive after an encounter with some inebriated SS soldiers. The regular German army generally treated people well. They had given concerts and he had played darts with young German soldiers who were afraid of the SS. The camp held around 100 prisoners and George Mikels hid from the SS behind the dairy door.

A copy of a map showing where the Lancaster ND 533 crashed and the cemetery where the pilots were buried.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> fra]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> France]]> France--Lyons-la-Forêt]]> 1944-08]]>
Sgt Bird, Sgt Boulton, Sgt Bentley, Sgt Dean, Sgt Beckett.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1944-08]]> 104 Squadron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Fitter]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1944-08]]> ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Pending review]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> France]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Aube]]> France--Aubigny-sur-Nère]]> France--Calais]]> France--Dieppe]]> France--Poitiers]]> France--Saint-Cyr-l'École]]> France--Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne)]]> France--Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines]]> France--Thoiry (Yvelines)]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Maldon]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Barnetby le Wold]]> England--Barton-upon-Humber]]> England--Brigg]]> England--Caistor (Rural District)]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Market Rasen]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Diepholz]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau]]> Germany--Geilenkirchen]]> Germany--Gerolstein]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hennef-Sieg]]> Germany--Lehnin (Kloster Lehnin)]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Nordstemmen]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Steinheim (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Treuenbrietzen]]> Germany--Welver]]> Germany--Westerburg]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Apeldoorn]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Netherlands--Oisterwijk]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10]]> 1943-11]]> 1943-12]]> 1944-01]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-05]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-09]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-11]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-05]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-12]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1944-08]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> France]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1944-08]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Banbury (Oxfordshire)]]> 1944-08]]> R Ward]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> 1944-08]]> 1946-07]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1944-08]]> 1945-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Kent]]> England--Gillingham (Kent)]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Norfolk]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Germany--Essen]]> France]]> France--Le Havre]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-12-23]]> 1939-08-22]]> 1940-09-07]]> 1945-03-23]]> 1941-02]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-01]]> 1944-08]]> RAF Hythe]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hythe (Kent)]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Kent]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1944-08]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Wehrmacht]]> France]]> France--Falaise]]> 1944-08]]> Reg records his operational experiences the day he baled out. His captors were friendly but the food was awful. They were taken by bus to a station in Berlin to catch a train to Frankfurt. The transit camp had good food helped by Red Cross parcels. He was not impressed with the railway wagons nor the camp when they arrived. He describes camp life in detail. He meets colleagues that he trained with and from his squadron. However much of his diary concerns food and camp life. There is a little about studying and sporting activities, principally football. He states the quality of the sporting activities was very good. Drama, plays and musicals were successfully organised. The Russians were treated the worst by the Germans and suffered from no Red Cross parcels. He discusses the other nationals in the camp, including Italians, French and Poles.
Cooking fires figure strongly in his thoughts and the operation of the blower using a wheel to blow air through a fire.
 In January the Germans received news that Reg was now commissioned but before he could be transferred the camp was evacuated to Bavaria by train. The book also contains a receipt issued to Reg for his RAF watch, six poems by six authors about camp life, photos of his girlfriend, his parents and May, Doris and Vera, his sisters, four detailed sketches of camp buildings and interiors, sketches drawn by Reg, a Christmas card for 1944 and ‘the Last Flight of Old Flo’, his Halifax going down in flames over Berlin. ]]>
Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> deu]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Artwork]]> Photograph]]> Text. Poetry]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> Switzerland]]> Germany--Bavaria]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Switzerland--Geneva]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1944-01-26]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-08]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-09]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Staffordshire]]> France--Flers-de-l'Orne]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Maintenon]]> France--Manche]]> France--Nord (Department)]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Oise]]> France--Oisemont (Canton)]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Saintes]]> France--Versailles]]> France--Wimereux]]> France--Yvelines]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Bermesnil]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-07-30]]> Incident 2. Describes watching another aircraft taking off when its flaps fell down and bomb doors opening as it reached take off speed on the runway. Manage take off but took airfield fences with it and subsequently landed wheels up. Problem ascribed to hydraulic problem due to flak damage. Goes on to describe an incident with his own aircraft where a piece of flak shrapnel ricocheted through aircraft causing several different things to happen to mid upper gunner, pilot and the aircraft. Concludes with description of a fire arms incident he was involved in at Moreton-in-the-Marsh where he was an instructor at a later date.]]> J H Thomas]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-10]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cara Walmsley]]> Pending review]]> Pending temporal coverage. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-27]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-01]]> 1944-08-02]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-10]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-29]]> 1944-08-30]]> 1944-09-09]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-29]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-03]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-11-26]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-19]]> 1944-12-21]]> 1944-12-22]]> 1944-12-29]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Text]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Poland]]> Belgium--Kortrijk]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Tyne and Wear]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Caen]]> France--Calais]]> France--Dijon]]> France--Evreux]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Paris]]> France--Siracourt]]> France--Tours]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Uden]]> Netherlands--Westkapelle]]> Poland--Szczecin (Voivodeship)]]> France--Pauillac (Gironde)]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-07-07]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-15]]> Flying log book for W.J. Martin, flight engineer covering the period from 3 April 1944 to 13 November 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations and instructional duties. He was stationed at RAF East Kirkby, RAF St Athan, RAF Swinderby, RAF Syerston, RAF Woolfox Lodge and RAF Cottesmore. Aircraft flown in were Stirling and Lancaster. He flew a total of 30 operations with 57 Squadron, 12 daylight and 18 night. Targets were Caumont, Joigny, Trossy St Maximin, St Leu d'Esserent, L' Isle-Adam, Bordeaux, Brest, Bergueneuse, Deelan, Sequeville de Capagne, Chatellerault, Brunswick, Stettin, Koningsberg, Mönchengladbach, Darmstadt, Stuttgart, Le Havre, Boulogne, Wilhemshaven, Bremmerhaven, Munster, Karlsruhe, Kaiserslauten, Heligoland, minelaying and Trondheim. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Ottewell and Flying Officer Donkin. The log book also records Cook's Tour flights and post war civilian flights as a passenger up to 2007. Notes, photographs and visit to BBMF are also included

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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-02]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-10]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-14]]> 1944-08-16]]> 1944-08-17]]> 1944-08-29]]> 1944-08-30]]> 1944-08-31]]> 1944-09-03]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-18]]> 1944-09-19]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-24]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-09-29]]> 1944-09-30]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-24]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-11-11]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1945-06-25]]> 1945-07-05]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> Pending temporal coverage. Allocated]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Denmark]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Denmark--Copenhagen]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Aulnoye-Aymeries]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Brest]]> France--Caen]]> France--Creil]]> France--Falaise]]> France--La Rochelle]]> France--Lille]]> France--Nieppe]]> France--Paris]]> France--Soligny-la-Trappe]]> France--Villeneuve-lès-Avignon]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-02-03]]> 1944-02-04]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-22]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-02-26]]> 1944-03-03]]> 1944-03-04]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-22]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-03-25]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-04-09]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-29]]> 1944-04-30]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-02]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-29]]> 1944-08-01]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-04]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-10]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-14]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1945-06-05]]> 1945-06-08]]> 1945-06-23]]> 1945-06-29]]> 1945-08-17]]>