Ministry of Aircraft Production]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Air Publication 1480]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Germany]]> 1944-11]]> On the reverse each man is identified.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Alan Brammer]]> Chris Cann]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944-11]]> On the reverse the six have signed their name and handwritten is 'Nov 44 On return from the "Tirpitz" raid'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> 1944-11]]> ]]> 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--Shaftesbury]]> England--Isle of Wight]]> England--Southampton]]> England--Nottingham]]> England--Newark (Nottinghamshire)]]> 1944-11]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1944-11]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1944-11]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Newark (Nottinghamshire)]]> 1944-11]]> Alan was posted to Bradfield Park for training and then to No. 2 Air Observers’ School in Edmonton, Canada. He was given a commission as a pilot officer and went to the Advanced Flying Unit at RAF Wigtown in Scotland, followed by the Operational Training Unit at RAF Lichfield. Alan describes the process of crewing up. He trained on Wellingtons and then went to the Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Winthorpe. Alan describes the night they had to parachute from their Stirling after a trip to the coast of Holland.
After Lancaster Finishing School, Alan was posted to 617 Squadron where the Commanding Officer was J B “Willie” Tait. His first operation in November 1944 was to bomb the Urft Dam in Germany but it was too cloudy to release the 12,000 lb Tallboy bomb on board. A second attempt was also unsuccessful. Alan then refers to two operations in the Netherlands where U-boat pens were bombed. Bergen was another operation. On 25 April 1945, their target was Berchtesgaden, their last operation leading a Main Force Group of 400 aircraft.

Alan then went to 467 Squadron at RAF Metheringham. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they were no longer required to go to Okanawa. Alan returned to Australia in February 1946 and joined Shell company in Sidney. ]]>
John Horsburgh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Queensland]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Queensland--Brisbane]]> 1942]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1944-01]]> 1944-09-24]]> 1944-11]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1946-02]]>
Captioned 'Cartoon in The Tatler November 1944.']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--York]]> 1944-11]]> Charles M Ameresekere]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Neuss]]> France--Calais]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-09-30]]> 1941-11-03]]> 1941-12-13]]> 1942-02-20]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1942-09-26]]> 1942-11-30]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-11]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-08-16]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-11]]> 1944-12]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1951]]> 1953]]> 1955]]> 1962]]> 1970]]> 1974-03-20]]> Charles M Ameresekera]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Neuss]]> France--Calais]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-09-30]]> 1941-11-03]]> 1941-12-13]]> 1942-02-20]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1942-09-26]]> 1942-11-30]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-11]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-08-16]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-11]]> 1944-12]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1951]]> 1953]]> 1955]]> Roy J de Niese]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sri Lanka--Ratmalana]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Surrey]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Saskatchewan--North Battleford]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Harrogate]]> Fiji]]> Fiji--Nadi]]> Australia]]> Saskatchewan]]> 1942-02]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-11-19]]> 1944-11]]> 1945-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> 1944-11]]> The second shows a well camouflaged vehicle, captioned Armoury Wagon'. Third shows four servicemen sitting on a mound of earth, captioned 'German strong point'. Page is captioned Gilze - Rijen, Holland.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Tilburg]]> 1944-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943-05]]> 1943-06]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-11]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-10]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Carol Gibson]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1944-11]]>
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From information kindly provided by the donor. 'Andrewartha crew In snow . Blurred.']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> 1944-11]]> P J Hogan]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Lichfield]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> England--Selby]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-11]]> 1980-10-12]]> 1980-11-02]]> 1944-07]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-04]]>
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at Blackpool, Yatesbury as radio operator and subsequently at Martlesham and Bridgnorth. Crewing up at RAF Upper Heyford while on OTU flying Wellington. This was followed by four engine training on Stirling then Lancaster before posting to 630 Squadron at RAF East Kirkby. Describes operations mentioning types of target, losses, attack by Ju-88. Continues with account of daylight operation to Caen and later Paris. Describes operation to Stuttgart in July 1944 when they were attacked by night fighter and badly damaged as well as he being injured. After aborting the operation fire forced them to bale out. Continues with account of his injuries, capture, transfer to and experiences at POW hospital near Nancy. Describes liberation by American forces and being flown back to England and then to RAF Hospital. Concludes with account of 15 month hospital treatment, discharge from the RAF, membership of the Guinea Pig Club and trying to trace members of his crew in the mid 1980s. At the end photographs of Arthur Woolf, of him in hospital and of the French family who helped him after he was shot down and injured.]]>
A S Woolf]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Babs Nichols]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> France]]> France--Caen]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France]]> France--Nancy]]> France--Verdun]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Reading]]> France--Meurthe-et-Moselle]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1941]]> 1944-11]]>
Joan Layne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sam Harper-Coulson]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Grantham]]> 1944-11]]> T J and P W Jones]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Atlantic Ocean--Skagerrak]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> France]]> France--Rennes]]> Germany--Aachen]]> France--Lille]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> France--Amiens]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-09-17]]> 1943-04]]> 1943-07]]> 1943-08-29]]> 1943-11]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-11]]> J Beisly]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-11]]>