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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/301/32123/LMcPhersonGM430468v1.2.pdf
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McPherson, Gerald
Gerald Murray McPherson
Gerald M McPherson
Gerald McPherson
G M McPherson
G McPherson
Description
An account of the resource
Four items An oral history interview with Gerald Murray McPherson (430468 Royal Australian Air Force) and his flying log book and two photographs.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Gerald Murray McPherson and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-02-21
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McPherson, GM
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Gerald McPherson air gunner's flying log book
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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LMcPhersonGM430468v1
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Pending review
Description
An account of the resource
Air gunner’s flying log book for G M McPherson, covering the period from 29 August 1943 to 9 April 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed RCAF McDonald, RAF Turweston, RAF Silverstone, RAF Shepherds Grove, RAF Feltwell, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Wratting Common, RAF Tuddenham and RAF Stradishall. Aircraft flown in were Battle, Oxford, Wellington, Stirling, and Lancaster. He flew a total of 37 operations with 186 squadron, 31 daylight and 6 night. Targets were Flushing, Coblenz, WestKappelle, Ickern, Dortmund, Heinsberg, Homberg, Fulda, Cologne, Schwammanauel, Merseburg, Osterfeld, Witten, Vohwinkel, Castrop Rauxel, Erkenscwick, Hohenbudberg, Dresden, Wesel, Gelsenkirchen, Kamen, Datteln, Hattingen, Munster, Hamm and Kiel. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Clarson.
Contributor
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Mike Connock
Terry Hancock
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Canada
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
England--Buckinghamshire
England--Norfolk
England--Northamptonshire
England--Suffolk
Germany--Aachen Region
Germany--Castrop-Rauxel
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Dortmund Region
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Fulda
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Hattingen
Germany--Homberg (Kassel)
Germany--Kamen
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Koblenz
Germany--Krefeld
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Osterfeld
Germany--Remscheid
Germany--Wesel (Kreis)
Germany--Witten
Manitoba--Portage la Prairie
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Netherlands--Walcheren
Germany--Münster in Westfalen
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Germany--Heinsberg (Heinsberg)
Manitoba
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1943
1944-10-28
1944-10-29
1944-11-06
1944-11-11
1944-11-15
1944-11-16
1944-11-20
1944-11-21
1944-11-26
1944-11-27
1944-12-02
1944-12-05
1944-12-06
1944-12-07
1944-12-11
1944-12-12
1944-12-28
1944-12-31
1945-01-03
1945-01-15
1945-01-28
1945-02-09
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-18
1945-02-19
1945-02-22
1945-02-25
1945-02-27
1945-02-28
1945-03-02
1945-03-05
1945-03-06
1945-03-09
1945-03-18
1945-03-21
1945-03-23
1945-03-27
1945-04-09
1945-04-10
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
15 Squadron
1651 HCU
1657 HCU
17 OTU
186 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
Battle
Bombing and Gunnery School
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
RAF Feltwell
RAF Mildenhall
RAF Shepherds Grove
RAF Silverstone
RAF Stradishall
RAF Tuddenham
RAF Turweston
RAF Wratting Common
Stirling
training
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/194/27300/LAdamsHG424504v1.1.pdf
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Title
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Adams, Herbert
Herbert Adams
H Adams
Herbert G Adams
Description
An account of the resource
88 items. Collection concerns Herbert George Adams DFC, Legion d'Honour (b. 1924, 424509 Royal Australian Air Force). He flew operations as a navigator with 467 Squadron. Collection contains an oral history interview, photographs of people and places, several memoirs about his training and bombing operations, letters to his family, his flying logbook and notes on navigation.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Herbert Adams and catalogued by Nigel Huckins and Trevor Hardcastle.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-02-15
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Adams, HG
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Title
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H G Adams’ Royal Australian Air Force observer’s air gunner’s and W/T operator’s flying log book
Description
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Royal Australian Air Force observer’s air gunner’s and W/T operator’s flying log book for H G Adams, navigator, covering the period from 11 May 1943 to 23 August 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAAF Cootamundra, RAAF Evans Head, RAAF Parkes, RAF Llandwrog, RAF Lichfield, RAF Swinderby, RAF Syerston, RAF Waddington and RAF Wigsley. Aircraft flown in were, Anson, Battle, Wellington, Stirling and Lancaster. He flew a total of 29 operations with 467 squadron, 10 daylight and 19night operations. Targets were, Le Havre, Stuttgart, Boulogne, Bremerhaven, Monchen Gladbach, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Karlsruhe, Kaiserlautern, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Flushing, Bergen, Walcheren, Dusseldorf, Ems-Weser Canal, Harburg, Duren, Trondheim, Urft Dam, Munich, Gdynia, Rheydt, Royan and Brux. His pilot on operations was Flying officer G-Buchanan.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LAdamsHG424504v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Australian Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Australia
Czech Republic
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Poland
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Staffordshire
France
France--Boulogne-sur-Mer
France--Le Havre
France--Royan
Atlantic Ocean--English Channel
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Bremerhaven
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Düren (Cologne)
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Euskirchen Region
Germany--Kaiserslautern
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Mönchengladbach
Germany--Munich
Germany--Rheydt
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Netherlands--Walcheren
New South Wales--Cootamundra
New South Wales--Evans Head
New South Wales--Parkes
Norway--Bergen
Norway--Trondheim
Poland--Gdynia
Norway
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Urft Dam
New South Wales
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Czech Republic--Most
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1943
1944-09-10
1944-09-12
1944-09-13
1944-09-17
1944-09-18
1944-09-19
1944-09-20
1944-09-23
1944-09-24
1944-09-26
1944-09-27
1944-09-28
1944-10-08
1944-10-16
1944-10-17
1944-10-19
1944-10-20
1944-10-23
1944-10-28
1944-10-29
1944-10-30
1944-11-02
1944-11-06
1944-11-11
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-11-23
1944-12-11
1944-12-17
1944-12-18
1944-12-19
1944-12-27
1945-01-01
1945-01-04
1945-01-07
1945-01-08
1945-01-16
1945-01-17
1945-06-19
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
1654 HCU
1660 HCU
27 OTU
467 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
air gunner
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
Battle
bomb aimer
Bombing and Gunnery School
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
navigator
Operational Training Unit
RAF Lichfield
RAF Llandwrog
RAF Swinderby
RAF Syerston
RAF Waddington
RAF Wigsley
Stirling
training
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1209/42998/LWyldeHJ1565564v2.1.pdf
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Title
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Wylde, Herbert James
H J Wylde
Description
An account of the resource
49 items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant Herbert James Wylde (1922 - 2021, Royal Air Force) his log books, maps, documents and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 90 Squadron.
The collection was catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-12-18
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Wylde, HJ
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H J Wylde's flying log book for aircrew other than pilot. Two
Identifier
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LWyldeHJ1565564v2
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Format
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One booklet
Description
An account of the resource
Flying log book for aircrew other than pilot for H J Wylde, bomb aimer, covering the period from 12 May 1943 to 12 July 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School RCAF Dafoe, No. 1 Central Navigation School RCAF Rivers, No. 1 Bombing and Gunnery School RCAF Jarvis, No. 2 Advanced Flying School RAF Millom, No. 11 Operational Training Unit RAF Wescott and RAF Oakley, 1653 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF Chedburgh, 3 Lancaster Finishing School RAF Feltwell, 90 Squadron RAF Tuddenham and 26 Operational Training Unit RAF Wing and RAF Little Horwood. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Bolingbroke, Wellington, Stirling, and Lancaster. He flew a total of 38 operations with 90 Squadron, 27 daylight and 11 night operations. Targets were Walcheren, Saarbrucken, Dortmund, Wilhelmshaven, Cologne, Wesseling, Bottrop, Homburg, Solingen, Heinsberg, Oberhausen, Siegen, Sweden, Rheydt, Vohwinkel, Nurnberg, Ludwigshafen, Munich, Krefeld, Wanne Eickel, Dresden, Chemnitz and Wesel.
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Canada
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Sweden
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
England--Buckinghamshire
England--Cumbria
England--Norfolk
England--Suffolk
Germany--Bottrop
Germany--Chemnitz
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Homberg (Kassel)
Germany--Krefeld
Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)
Germany--Rheydt
Germany--Saarbrücken
Germany--Solingen
Germany--Siegen
Germany--Wanne-Eickel
Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Wesseling
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Germany--Wuppertal
Manitoba
Netherlands--Walcheren
Ontario--Jarvis
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan--Dafoe
Germany--Heinsberg (Heinsberg)
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Manitoba--Rivers
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1943
1944-10-04
1944-10-05
1944-10-06
1944-10-07
1944-10-15
1944-10-16
1944-10-28
1944-10-30
1944-10-31
1944-11-02
1944-11-04
1944-11-05
1944-11-08
1944-11-15
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-27
1944-11-30
1944-12-02
1944-12-04
1944-12-15
1944-12-19
1944-12-20
1944-12-27
1944-12-28
1944-12-31
1945-01-01
1945-01-02
1945-01-03
1945-01-05
1945-01-07
1945-01-08
1945-01-11
1945-01-13
1945-01-14
1945-01-28
1945-01-29
1945-02-03
1945-02-04
1945-02-06
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-15
1945-02-16
1945-02-18
1945-02-20
1945-02-21
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mike Connock
11 OTU
1653 HCU
26 OTU
90 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
Bolingbroke
bomb aimer
Bombing and Gunnery School
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Cook’s tour
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Operational Training Unit
RAF Chedburgh
RAF Feltwell
RAF Little Horwood
RAF Millom
RAF Oakley
RAF Tuddenham
RAF Westcott
RAF Wing
Stirling
training
Wellington
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/286/17755/LKirbyH1637087v1.1.pdf
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Title
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Kirby, Harold
Harold V A Kirby
H V A Kirby
Harold Kirby
H Kirby
Description
An account of the resource
Nine items. Two oral history interviews with Warrant Officer Harold Kirby (1923 - 2022, 1637087 Royal Air Force), his log book, photographs and documents. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 467, 97 and 156 Squadrons.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-07-10
2015-09-21
2016-06-11
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Kirby, H
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Warrant Officer Harold Kirby 1637087 was born in Kilbourne, Loncon in 1923, his job after leaving school was in the accounting department at London Electric Supplies. He initially tried to volunteer for the RAF but failed the medical, at that time. He was subsequently drafted in 1942. Skill training started with training as a Flight Mechanic, but during this was asked to volunteer to rain as a Flight Engineer. His first posting was as an Aircraft Fitter at No.460 Squadron, RAF Binbrook, although only for 6 months.
After Flight Engineer training at St Athan and then training on the Short Stirling and then the Lancaster with 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Winthorpe, the first solo flight for the crew, the port landing gear would not lock, during the landing the gear collapsed, although there were no injuries.
First operational unit was No.467 Squadron at RAF Waddington a mainly Australian Squadron, the crew were here for July and August 1944, One operation 3/4th August 1944, to the V1 storage site at Trossy Saint Maximin had another bomber flying above their aircraft and dropping their bombs, one going through the wing, narrowly missing vital structures, this resulted in a gear up landing, due to hydraulic loss, but again there were no injuries resulting.
He was then posted along with the crew to No 97 Squadron, based at RAF Coningsby a pathfinder squadron, tasked to mark the targets for other aircraft,
In total two tours were completed before the end of the European war, after finishing as a Flight Engineer, Harold trained as a RADAR mechanic, before leaving the RAF.
Andy St.Denis
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Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Title
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Harold Kirby’s flight engineers log book
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Format
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One colour photocopy of a booklet
Language
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eng
Identifier
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LKirbyH1637087v1
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944
1944-07
1944-08
1945
1944-07-12
1944-07-13
1944-07-17
1944-07-20
1944-07-21
1944-07-22
1944-07-23
1944-07-24
1944-07-25
1944-07-26
1944-07-27
1944-07-28
1944-07-29
1944-07-30
1944-08-01
1944-08-02
1944-08-03
1944-08-19
1944-08-24
1944-08-25
1944-08-26
1944-08-27
1944-08-29
1944-08-30
1944-08-31
1944-09-18
1944-09-19
1944-09-23
1944-09-24
1944-10-14
1944-10-15
1944-10-28
1944-10-29
1944-11-06
1944-11-07
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-11-23
1944-11-26
1944-11-27
1944-12-04
1944-12-05
1944-12-06
1944-12-07
1944-12-09
1944-12-17
1944-12-18
1944-12-19
1945-01-07
1945-01-08
1945-01-13
1945-01-14
1945-02-07
1945-02-08
1945-02-09
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-20
1945-02-21
1945-02-22
1945-03-03
1945-03-04
1945-03-05
1945-03-06
1945-03-07
1945-03-20
1945-03-21
1945-03-22
1945-04-08
1945-04-09
1945-04-16
1945-04-17
1945-04-18
1945-04-19
1945-04-25
1945-04-26
Contributor
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Mike Connock
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Text. Log book and record book
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Belgium
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Great Britain
Norway
Poland
Russia (Federation)
Belgium--Kortrijk
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Czech Republic--Chomutov
Czech Republic--Plzeň
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
France--Caen
France--Calmont
France--Creil Region
France--Givors
France--Hesdin
France--La Pallice
France--Lens
France--L'Isle-Adam
France--Villers-Bocage (Calvados)
Germany--Braunschweig
Germany--Darmstadt
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Giessen (Hesse)
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Heilbronn
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Leipzig Region
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Mönchengladbach
Germany--Munich
Germany--Sassnitz
Germany--Stuttgart
Norway--Bergen
Norway--Tønsberg
Norway--Trondheim
Poland--Gdynia
Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)
Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
Germany--Münster in Westfalen
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Description
An account of the resource
Flight engineers log book (Copy) for H Kirby covering the period from 26 April 1944 to 24 May 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Winthorpe, RAF Syerston, RAF Waddington and RAF Coningsby. Aircraft flown in were Stirling and Lancaster. He flew a total of 44 operations. 6 daylight and 10 night operations with 467 squadron and 28 night operations with 97 squadron pathfinder force. Targets were Culmont Chalindrey, Caen, Courtrai, Kiel, Stuttgart, Givors, Cahagny, Siracourt, Cassan, Trossy St Maxim, La Pallice, Darmstadt, Konigsberg, Rollencourt, Mönchengladbach, Munster, Brunswick, Bergen, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Trondheim, Munich, Heilbronn, Giessen, Gdynia, Politz, Ladbergen, Dresden, Gravenhorst, Bohlen, Sassnitz, Hamburg, Lutzkendorf, Pilsen, Komatau and Tonsberg. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Ryan.
1661 HCU
467 Squadron
8 Group
97 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944)
crash
flight engineer
forced landing
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Lancaster Mk 3
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Pathfinders
pilot
RAF Coningsby
RAF Syerston
RAF Waddington
RAF Winthorpe
Stirling
tactical support for Normandy troops
training
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Pollock, Henry
Henry Pollock
H A J Pollock
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Pollock, HAJ
Description
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49 items. An oral history interview with Henry Albert James Pollock (b. 1924, 2220546, 187029 Royal Air Force) his log book, documents and photographs. Henry Pollock completed 36 operations as a rear gunner with 78 squadron from RAF Breighton. After the war, he served in the Far East.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Henry Albert James Pollock and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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2016-10-11
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Henry Pollock’s navigator’s, air bombers and air gunner’s flying log book
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Navigator’s, air bombers and air gunner’s flying log book for H A J Pollock, air gunner, covering the period from 22 October 1943 to 20 May 1955. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and post war flying with number 3 flying training school. He was stationed at RAF Andreas, RAF Abingdon, RAF Stanton Harcourt, RAF Rufforth, RAF Breighton and RAF Feltwell. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Whitley, Martinet, Halifax, Dakota, Liberator, Prentice, Harvard, Provost and Meteor. He flew a total of 36 operations with 78 squadron, 18 Daylight and 17 night operations with 78 squadron and one with number 10 operational training unit. Targets were Compiegne, Mount Candon, Blainville, St Martin L’Hortiers, Caen, Acquet, Bottrop, Kiel, Foret du Croc, Foret du Nieppe, Prouville, Bois de Cassan, Brest, Foret du Marmal, Brunswick, Quensay, Tirlemont, Watten, Homberg-Meerbeck, Lumbres, Soesterberg, Le Havre, Kattegat, Munster, Neuss, Kleve, Duisburg, Wilhelshaven, Essen, Westkappelle and Sterkrade. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Selby.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Mike Connock
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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LPollockHAJ187029v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
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1943
1944
1945
1946
1944-02-29
1944-06-27
1944-06-28
1944-06-29
1944-07-01
1944-07-18
1944-07-19
1944-07-20
1944-07-21
1944-07-23
1944-07-24
1944-07-25
1944-07-26
1944-07-28
1944-08-01
1944-08-03
1944-08-05
1944-08-07
1944-08-08
1944-08-09
1944-08-12
1944-08-13
1944-08-14
1944-08-15
1944-08-25
1944-08-27
1944-09-01
1944-09-03
1944-09-10
1944-09-11
1944-09-12
1944-09-15
1944-09-16
1944-09-23
1944-09-24
1944-10-04
1944-10-07
1944-10-14
1944-10-15
1944-10-23
1944-10-28
1944-10-29
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
Spatial Coverage
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Belgium
France
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
Atlantic Ocean--English Channel
Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea)
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
Belgium--Tienen
England--Norfolk
England--Oxfordshire
England--Yorkshire
France--Abbeville Region
France--Brest
France--Caen Region
France--Dieppe (Arrondissement)
France--Caen
France--Compiègne
France--L'Isle-Adam
France--Le Havre
France--Locquignol
France--Lumbres
France--Manche
France--Morbecque
France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray
France--Watten
Germany--Bottrop
Germany--Braunschweig
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Essen
Germany--Kassel Region
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Neuss
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man
Netherlands--Soesterberg
Netherlands--Zeeland (Province)
Germany--Münster in Westfalen
Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
France--Forêt du Croc
10 OTU
1663 HCU
78 Squadron
air gunner
Air Gunnery School
aircrew
Anson
B-24
bombing
bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944)
C-47
Flying Training School
Halifax
Harvard
Heavy Conversion Unit
Martinet
Meteor
mine laying
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Operational Training Unit
RAF Abingdon
RAF Andreas
RAF Breighton
RAF Feltwell
RAF Rufforth
RAF Stanton Harcourt
tactical support for Normandy troops
training
V-1
V-weapon
Whitley
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Title
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Ford, Terry. Aerial Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
15 target photographs from Terry Ford's operations with 75 Squadron.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Ford, T
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Title
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Homberg
Description
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A vertical aerial photograph of Homberg during a daytime operation. The ground detail is not clear and there are several bomb explosions and some smoke in the centre. Annotated '2329 MEP 21.11.44//8” 20,000. 80[degrees] 1509 HOMBERG Z IHC 4000 IN 14GP500DT.2MC500DT. C37 SECS. F/O FORD. Y.75'.
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1944-11-21
Format
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One b/w photograph
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PFordTA17030014
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Germany
Germany--Homberg (Kassel)
Temporal Coverage
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1944-11-21
75 Squadron
aerial photograph
bombing
Lancaster
RAF Mepal
target photograph
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Ford, Terry. Album One
Description
An account of the resource
18 items. Photographs and documents of Terry Ford's service including target photographs, press cuttings and propaganda leaflets. It contains some images taken inside an aircraft during operations.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Ford, T
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[Photograph]
Homberg.
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
2329 MEP 21.11.44// 8” 20,000’ 080° 1509 HOMBERG Z
IHC4000IN,14GP 500DT. 2MC 500DT. C.37 Secs F/O FORD Y.75
ABOVE LEFT :- The operation on HOMBERG oil refinery on 20/11/44 was an unfortunate one for our squadron because we lost 3 aircraft. The photo is of an aircraft which exploded as we neared the target and the photo at BOTTOM LEFT shows the burning pieces of an aircraft dropping after it had had a direct hit. ABOVE :- Bombs exploding in a built-up area when we attacked the same target the next day.
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Homberg and a Lancaster exploding in mid-air
Description
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Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is an air-to-air photograph of an aircraft exploding after a direct hit.
Photo 2 is an air-to-air photograph of burning pieces of an aircraft after a direct hit.
Photo 3 is a vertical aerial photograph of Homberg being bombed.
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1944-11-20
1944-11-21
Format
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Three b/w photographs on an album page
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PFordTA17040012, PFordTA17040013
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-11-20
1944-11-21
Contributor
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David Bloomfield
Anne-Marie Watson
aerial photograph
anti-aircraft fire
bombing
Lancaster
RAF Mepal
target photograph
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Title
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Catty, Martin Arthur. Navigation records and charts
Description
An account of the resource
35 Navigation records and charts to targets in Germany.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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SCattyMA164193v1
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Homberg Syn Oil Plant
Homberg Synthetic Oil Plant
Description
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Navigational computation and a chart for an operation to the Homberg synthetic oil plant.
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Martin Catty
Date
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1944-11-21
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Two printed sheets with handwritten calculations and one printed chart with a plotted route
Language
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eng
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SCattyMA164193v10008-0001,
SCattyMA164193v10008-0002,
SCattyMA164193v10008-0003
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
Germany--Meerbeck
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-11-21
Type
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log
Map
514 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
navigator
RAF Waterbeach
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Davies, Edward
E Davies
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An account of the resource
An oral history interview with Edward 'Sonny' Davies (b. 1924).
The collection was catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-05-25
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Davies, E
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LD: Okay, this is an interview for the International Bomber Command Centre. The interviewee -
ED: No, not International, Bomber Command, RAF!
LD: RAF! Bomber Command Centre. The interviewee is Sonny Davies and the interviewer -
ED: Edward Davies, the name Sonny is a family name.
LD: Okay, Edward Davies. The interviewer is Laura Dixon and we are in [bleep] Cardiff on the 26th May. Okay, so hi Sonny, or Edward, thank you for having me.
ED: Call me Sonny.
LD: Oh, I can call you Sonny, okay, right, that’s fine. Can you tell be a bit about your early life before the Bomber Command?
ED: Before?
LD: Yes, what you were doing before the war broke out.
ED: Well I was in school until I was fourteen. I left school at fourteen, I went to work then in a solicitor’s office for a short while, then the war came and I joined the RAF, at seventeen. I only joined the RAF because I didn’t want to go in the Army and be ploughing through mud and muck, so I said I can apply.
LD: Okay, so you volunteered. You didn’t, you weren’t called, you volunteered.
ED: Volunteered. All aircrew were volunteers. They were all [emphasis] volunteers.
LD: Okay, so you were a tail gunner?
ED: I was.
LD: So, can you tell us more of what that involves.
ED: Well, there was seven of us in the crew, pilot, navigator, wireless operator, bomb aimer, two gunners, seven of us all together [outside voices]. Happy days, they were rough at times. What’s that? I enjoyed. You all right there?
[Other]: I’m just going to shut the door so, cause there was somebody coming in and I didn’t want them to interrupt your flow.
ED: So that was it. To form the crew, we were all trained individually, gunners, navigators, bomb aimers, pilots and then some time they put us all into one great aircraft hangar and we sorted out our own crew. I can see my old pilot, he was old, he was thirty four! [Chuckling] I thought to myself that guy is a family man, he’s not going to be a hero, he’s not going to go for medals. I said to him, I said do you want a gunner, he said yeah, so I said you’ve got one, so that’s when I joined the crew. He wasn’t going to be a hero in all this war. I wanted to survive. Which I did. You’re very quiet.
[Other]: I love listening to your stories Uncle Sonny, I’d listen to them all day!
LD: Aw! So what kind of training did you have to do and how long did that take?
ED: Training is lasted about nine months really, for a gunner. It wasn’t a long time for a gunner. [Knock]
[Other]: There you go. Just pop over there. Okay. Thank you ever so much.
LD: Thank you.
ED: Yup. So that was it. I did me training, there were four machine guns, Browning 303 machine guns, and I was sat going backwards, I was in the back end of the plane. Those were the days I spent!
LD: So what were the conditions like in those planes?
ED: Sorry?
LD: What were the conditions like? Not very good.
ED: Basic, absolutely. I was sat, in the back, [chairs being moved] where are we?
LD: There we go.
ED: This will be the back of the turret, the fuselage, the plane fuselage is here, so I was sat there facing backwards, no Perspex in front of me: that was open. So when you were up at twenty thousand feet it was pretty cold. But there you are, we did it.
LD: Yeah. So how many missions did you fly, personally?
ED: I did fifty all together. You did what they called a tour. The first tour you did thirty missions. If you survived that you went out for a bit of a rest and you came back again, did do another twenty and you did that twenty and they said right, you’ve had enough; that’s enough. So fifty missions was the most anybody did. Aye.
[Whisper]
LD: Okay, so how did you keep warm?
ED: We had an electrically heated suit, when it worked. So that’s how we kept warm.
LD: So would you say that the rear gunner is the most dangerous?
ED: Sorry?
LD: Would you say that the rear gunner is the most dangerous?
ED: It was indeed, yeah. Any fighters, they came to the rear gunner first. [Horn sounds] They wanted to get me, but they didn’t! [Laughter] [Car horns]
LD: So when you were flying over these cities or towns were you thinking about the impact it would have on the people or were you just focused on what you had to do?
ED: No, because we knew the impact we’d have because we were bombed ourselves so we knew exactly what they were thinking. Didn’t worry me at all. They did it to us, so we did it to them.
LD: So did you feel nervous at all, or like your life was in danger, or were you not really?
ED: Oh yeah, you were anxious, yeah, every time, you know, you go out to the aircraft, parachute and everything with you and you stand by the aircraft and you’d look at it and think bloody hell, I’m going up there again, I must be mad! But I went and I came back. Up there now, it’s not there now, but I had a big picture of a Lancaster bomber. I gave it to my grandson for him to keep so that it wouldn’t get lost.
LD: Okay, so what was your relationship like with your fellow crew members?
ED: Oh, brothers! We were brothers, yeah. When I retired at sixty five, Irene and myself we said right, going out to Australia, cause three of them were Australian: the navigator, bomb aimer and the wireless operator; they were all Australian. So when I retired we went out to see ‘em, and that was the last time I ever saw them. Yes, we were brothers really.
LD: So at the time were you all a similar age?
ED: Oh yes, the oldest was, well the oldest was the pilot, he was an old man, he was thirty four. That’s why I chose him actually, I looked at him and I said that guy’s too old looking for medals. I’m going to go with them, and I did. And we did fifty, fifty bombing trips.
LD: So did you see any planes getting shot down?
ED: Oh yeah, every time, yeah, aye. You see it explode you know, and say oh damn, there goes another like, you know, and you knew then, seven men: died.
LD: So after the war was over, what did you do?
ED: I went on the railways. My father-in-law was a signalman on the railways, so I went as a signalman on the railway and I worked for forty two years on ‘em. Aye. All right?
LD: Oh yeah, just keeping an eye on the recording, it’s fine.
ED: Yeah, I can see the red light.
LD: Yeah. [Laugh] So how do you think the Bomber Command has been received now?
ED: Unfortunately, not very well. Because you look at Bomber Command and one of the last raids of the war was on Dresden, only people were saying they shouldn’t have bombed Dresden and all that, but Dresden was a passing point for German troops going to the Russian Front, so we had to bomb them. I’m afraid we did a lot of damage to Dresden. Yup.
LD: So do you feel proud of what you did?
ED: Absolutely, yes! Yeah, I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. I know they were trying to get me, [emphasis] but I was trying to get them as well. Aye.
LD: So is there anything else you can think of, anything you’d like to add to that?
ED: Well, we were all young really. As I say, I was flying at seventeen. I was a gunner, I wasn’t a pilot or anything like that, I was just a gunner: I was the defence of the aircraft.
[Other]: Uncle Sonny, do you remember a story you told me about a birthday you had, when you were flying and you were up in the sky, was it your eighteenth?
ED: My twentieth.
[Other]: Your twentieth. That’s quite a good story to tell.
ED: My twentieth birthday: November the 21st 1944. We took off, I believe we were going Cologne, to bomb Cologne. We were flying, shells, everything, me looking out for fighter planes and all of a sudden over the intercom [sings] “Happy Birthday to you!” And everybody was shooting at us, like! [Laughter]
[Other]: Fantastic birthday.
ED: So that was my twentieth birthday.
[Other]: Plenty of fireworks. Fireworks for you.
LD: In some ways.
ED: The real thing!
[Other]: You had a parachute Uncle Sonny, but did you, were you ever trained to use it? Did you ever make a jump?
ED: No. The parachute, I couldn’t wear it in the turret because it was too bulky to put, to keep on. It was actually in the fuselage, on the wall of the fuselage, inside the plane so if I had to get out, I had to open the doors at the back of me, and get out, and then get the parachute, then stick it on if I was lucky.
[Other]: But they never showed you how to use it! [Laughter]
ED: No, no.
LD: So when you weren’t flying, what would you do in your spare time, on the ground?
ED: Oh, cleaning my guns, you know, that kind of thing, had to keep them in order. And then when I finished the first tour, I went out and I was training other gunners.
LD: So were you able, at any point, to write to family back at home?
ED: Sorry?
LD: Were you ever able to write home, to family?
ED: Oh yeah, we didn’t have telephones! [Laughter]
LD: Of course!
[Other]: Didn’t you bring your crew back home as well once or twice, to Nan?
ED: I did, once, yeah, course they couldn’t go on leave, they were Australian so they couldn’t go to Australia. Bill Hyde. Kevin Curten, and Keith Yates: navigator, bomb aimer, wireless operator.
LD: So when the war was over, you must have felt relieved for it to be over.
ED: To have survived, yeah. Oh yes. Cause the average length of a bomber crew was about six weeks.
LD: Good grief.
ED: You know, bombing, before they got shot down. So again I was lucky. What I found, if you kept your eyes open, if you saw a fighter before he saw you, you’d fire at him and he’d say hello, that guy’s awake, I’m going somewhere else and he’d shoot off looking for somebody else. Aye.
LD: Okay, so is there anything you’d like to add, finally, before we finish?
ED: No, you ask.
LD: I’ve asked all the questions I need now I think, I’ve run out of questions!
[Other]: Do you want to tell them what medals you had? Tell them about your medals.
ED: Oh yes, I had the 1939 to 45 Star, the Aircrew Europe Star, er, another Star, and last year actually, I had a medal from the French government, sent to me last year - sixty three years after the war [chuckle] - and that was a beautiful medal. My niece has got them for safekeeping you know, because I’m moving about all over the place, no I didn’t want to lose them. So I’ve got five medals actually.
LD: So you never had the medals presented to you formally. You always got them just sent to you.
ED: No, they came in a little carboard box. Aye.
LD: So would you rather have been more, would you rather the medals had been actually presented to you by somebody, rather than being sent to you?
ED: No, there were so many, I mean really it would have been too much. I’ve got ‘em, that’s the main thing. I’m sorry I can’t show them to you.
LD: No, that’s fine.
[Other]: When you didn’t have any Perspex on your turret, why was that?
ED: Visibility. There was, I’d be sat in the turret, open in front of me, there’d be Perspex around the side and over the top, so that was the only protection I had, really. And it used to get bloody cold!
LD: So you were never personally injured in any way?
ED: No, I was very lucky. Like I said, if I saw the fighter first, I’d fire at him and he’d probably shoot off looking for somebody else.
[Other]: How many rounds did you have in your guns?
ED: We had, each gun had two thousand rounds, but they fired six hundred rounds a minute so there was only three, three minutes, three and a half minutes at the most, of bullets you had. They used to say, oh you’ve got two thousand rounds there, you’ve got plenty of ammunition. Not when they’re firing six hundred a minute!
[Other]: How long on average, when you were off on a mission, how long were you usually up in the air for?
ED: It all depends on where you’re going, could have been Germany, could have been closer to France, but usually about two and a half to three hours, yes.
[Other]: And you always flew at night was it?
ED: Some daytime.
[Other]: Oh some daytime ops as well, okay.
LD: So did the cold conditions ever affect your health in any way?
ED: I’m ninety three – no! [Much laughter]
[Other]: There’s a nice picture there, look. That’s his crew.
[Other]: Oh yeah! So that’s all your crew in the picture behind us is it?
ED: Oh yeah. Except the pilot, he took the photograph.
[Other]: Should have took two.
ED: That’s Cartwright, he was from Brighton.
[Other]: That’s a fab picture. Did you have a name, did you always fly in the same plane, different Lancasters?
ED: No. The squadron plane, yes. But it wasn’t always the same one.
[Other] Did you name the planes?
ED: No.
[Other]: No. And did you have anything that you had to do for luck, before you got in, did you or any of your crew do anything particular?
ED: Mostly peed on the tail wheel.
[Other]: For good luck.
[Other]: Well it seems to have worked!
LD: So apart from the Australian men, what other nationalities did you come across?
ED: Oh, everyone. Polish, French, you name it, they were all there.
LD: But not many Welsh people?
ED: No, no. Don’t forget there’s only three million Welsh, there’s about fifty million English people. So we didn’t have too many Welsh.
[Other]: And am I right in thinking, you know when you said you went down to volunteer, to join up, did Nana Davies know where you were going?
ED: Nooo!
[Other]: You went without telling her!
[Other]: Without telling his mum!
ED: Aye. Well it would have been that, or being called up for the Army and going through all the muck and mud, and everything else.
[Other]: Did you get a telling off?
ED: Oh yeah! But then, when I survived, that was it.
LD: Would you rather have had another job like a wireless operator, or an engineer, other than a rear gunner?
ED: I’d like to have had, another job, but I don’t know, the gunner was the easiest job to learn like, put it that way.
[Other]: One of the most dangerous though!
ED: It was. Yeah, the old fighters used to come down: rear gunner first.
LD: So overall you look back with pride from -
ED: I do indeed, aye. What is this for?
LD: So it’s for Lincoln University, for the digital archive, and for the new exhibition for the Bomber Command, it’ll be used for the display.
ED: Oh yes, we were around Lincoln.
LD: Have you been to the Centre?
ED: Sorry?
LD: Have you actually been to the Bomber Command Centre? Cause it opened oh, about a month ago now, so it’s brand new.
ED: Oh yeah.
LD: They had a big opening ceremony which was terrific.
ED: They opened one in Green Park in London, Bomber Command Memorial.
[Other]: Did you go down there at all to see that. I don’t think that’s been there very long, has it, that Memorial in London.
ED: No, just over the twelve months. I haven’t been, no.
[Other]: Did you go down to any of the Remembrance Day Parades, in London?
ED: Of course!
[Other]: I thought you did, yeah, I remember Nanny saying.
ED: When you look at it now, there’s not many of us left.
[Other]: No, no, that’s it.
[Other]: And you were 103 Squadron, weren’t you?
ED: Sorry? 103? Yeah.
LD: Did you have a number, like a service number?
ED: 1816587, my number; I was a Warrant Officer. 1816587, that was me, [pause] and nobody else will ever have that number.
LD: Very unique number to have, something you’ll remember for a long time.
ED: Yeah, aye.
LD: Okay, so if there’s anything else you can think of, I think I’m pretty much done.
ED: Well, if you want, my time with the squadron was from August to January. August ‘44 to January ‘45, that was my actual time doing the bombing.
LD: So were you flying every single day?
ED: Well you flew nearly every day because you had to keep training, you know, you weren’t in action every day. No.
[Other]: Is this interview going as a recorded interview or does it go in?
ED: Sorry?
[Other]: I was just wondering how this went into the archive. Does it go in as a paper story or a?
LD: They do make a transcript of it, so they will like type it up but it is for the Digital Archive Oral History Collection, so it will be -
[Other]: To be listened to.
LD: To actually be listened to.
ED: You’ve got a copy of the radio.
[Other]: Yeah, I sent it, Sonny. But remember the Bomber Command said that they couldn’t really, they were worried about complying with copyright, with Radio Wales. Which is why we done it this way then. Peter Jones came back to me, they said look, you know we’re not comfortable with the terms and conditions, why you’ve got to have such a thing I don’t know.
ED: They’ve got my permission to do it.
[Other]: Yeah. So we don’t know, but that’s what, we went through it and we got emails, but Peter said he weren’t comfortable, I suppose he couldn’t control everything that was going to happen to it. But it’s there, and the important man is quite happy for it to be used.
ED: Yeah.
LD: Okay, so that’s all the questions that I have so if you are willing to end the interview, that will be okay.
ED: You carry on, do what you’ve got.
LD: Okay, yeah but I’ve got lots of information there, that’s fine, yeah. Thank you very much everyone, thanks for having me.
ED: My pleasure.
LD: Thank you.
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Interview with Edward Davies
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Laura Dixon
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-05-25
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Sound
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ADaviesE180525
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Pending review
Pending revision of OH transcription
Format
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00:31:20 audio recording
Language
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eng
Description
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Edward Davies (Sonny) joined the RAF at seventeen as a rear gunner. Having crewed up he joined 103 Squadron and flew on fifty operations. Sonny describes being in the rear turret and how close the crew were, so much that they sang to him on his birthday whilst being surrounded by flak. After the war Sonny worked as a railway signalman and after he retired he and his wife visited some of his old crew in Australia.
Temporal Coverage
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1944-11-21
1945
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Contributor
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Anne-Marie Watson
103 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
anti-aircraft fire
bombing
Lancaster
military service conditions
RAF Elsham Wolds
training
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/2093/34640/SWeirG19660703v090005.1.pdf
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Weir, Greg. Flannigan, J and McManus, JB
Description
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Seventeen items. Collection concerns Flt Sgt James Flannigan who flew as a wireless operator/air gunner on 77 and 76 Squadrons in 1941, he failed to return from operations 31 October 1941 and J B McManus (RAAF), a Halifax pilot who flew operations on 466 Squadron in 1944-45. Collection contains their log books, mementos, parade notes, medals, documents and photographs.
Collection catalogued by Nigel Huckins
Date
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2017-04-26
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Weir, G
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J B McManus - pilot's flying log book
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Format
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One booklet
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Pending review
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SWeirG19660703v090005
Description
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Flying Log Book for J B McManus, pilot. Covers the period from 22 December 1942 to 29 April 1948 and his training, operations and post-war flying in Australia and Japan. He was based at RAF Clyffe Pypard, RAF Wymeswold, RAF Weston on the Green, RAF Moreton in Marsh, RAF Rufforth, RAF Driffield, RAF Edzell and RAF Hawarden. Aircraft flown were Tiger Moth, Wirraway, Oxford, Wellington, Halifax, Albemarle, Anson, Beaufort, Proctor, Mosquito, Martinet, Master, Lancaster, Lincoln, Avenger, Dominie, Warwick and P-51 Mustang. With 466 Squadron he flew on 33 operations (including one recall); 17 daylight and 16 daylight. Targets were Hamburg, La Pourchinte, Soesterberg, Le Havre, Gelsenkirchen, Kiel, Neuss, Calais, Bottrop, Wilhemshaven, Hannover, Essen, Walcheren, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bochum, Julich, Munster, Sterkrade, Bingen, Mulheim, St Vith, Opladen, and Koblenz. His pilots on his first ‘second dickie’ operations were Flying Officer Herman and Flight Lieutenant Hutchison.<br /><br /><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135383485 BCX0">This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No </span><span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW135383485 BCX0">better quality</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW135383485 BCX0"> copies are available.</span>
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944-08-27
1944-09-01
1944-09-03
1944-09-09
1944-09-11
1944-09-12
1944-09-15
1944-09-16
1944-09-22
1944-09-23
1944-09-25
1944-09-27
1944-09-30
1944-10-15
1944-10-16
1944-10-22
1944-10-25
1944-10-29
1944-10-30
1944-10-31
1944-11-02
1944-11-03
1944-11-04
1944-11-05
1944-11-06
1944-11-16
1944-11-18
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-11-29
1944-11-30
1944-12-12
1944-12-13
1944-12-18
1944-12-19
1944-12-22
1944-12-23
1944-12-24
1944-12-26
1944-12-27
1944-12-28
1944-12-29
1945-01-05
1945-01-06
1945-01-07
1945-01-12
1945-01-13
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IBCC Digital Archive
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
1663 HCU
21 OTU
466 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Albemarle
Anson
Dominie
Flying Training School
Halifax
Halifax Mk 2
Halifax Mk 3
Halifax Mk 5
Harvard
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lincoln
Martinet
Mosquito
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
P-51
pilot
Proctor
RAF Clyffe Pypard
RAF Driffield
RAF Hawarden
RAF Moreton in the Marsh
RAF Rufforth
RAF Wymeswold
Tiger Moth
training
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/258/26884/LVaseyJ179596v1.2.pdf
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Ganney, Keith
Keith Ganney
K Ganney
Description
An account of the resource
23 items. An oral history interview with Flying Officer Keith Ganney (b. 1922, 1324929 Royal Air Force), his log books, documents and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 57 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Keith Ganney and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-03-01
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Ganney, K
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Title
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J Vasey’s pilot’s log book
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IBCC Digital Archive
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LVaseyJ179596v1
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Format
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Nine photocopied sheets
Description
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Pilot’s flying log book for J Vasey covering the period from 20 July 1942 to 28 April 1946. Detailing his flying training and operations flown as pilot. He was stationed at RAF Cambridge (22 EFTS) RCAF Neepawa (35 EFTS), RCAF Weyburn (41 SFTS), RAF Shellingford (3 EFTS), RAF Church Lawford (18 PAFU), RAF Fiskerton (1514 BAT Flight), RAF Silverstone (17 OTU), RAF Swinderby (1654 HCU), RAF East Kirkby (57 Squadron), RAF Syerston (5 LFS), RAF Finningley (BCIS), RAF Wigsley (1654 HCU), RAF Welford (1336 TSCU), RAF Palam (353 Squadron), RAF Meiktelia (10 Squadron). He had two Red Endorsements. Aircraft flown in were Tiger Moth, Anson, Oxford, Wellington, Halifax, Lancaster and Dakota.
He flew a total of 30 operations with 57 Squadron (24 by night and six by day), targets were Darmstadt, Koningsberg, Bergoneuse, Stuttgart, Bremerhaven, Rheydt, Munster, Karlsruhe, Kaiserlauten, Bremen, Brunswick, Nuremburg, Dusseldorf, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Hamburg, Gravenhorst, Trondheim, Munich, Heinbach dam, Oslo, Royan, Leuna, Siegen, Cologne, Wilhelmshaven, Veerk, Homburg, Duren and Ladbergen. His pilot for his first 'second dickie' operation was Squadron Leader Fairburn. After December 1944 he instructed and then flew transport operations in the Far East.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are available.
Temporal Coverage
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1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1944-08-25
1944-08-26
1944-08-27
1944-08-29
1944-08-30
1944-08-31
1944-09-12
1944-09-13
1944-09-17
1944-09-18
1944-09-19
1944-09-20
1944-09-23
1944-09-24
1944-09-26
1944-09-27
1944-09-28
1944-10-05
1944-10-06
1944-10-07
1944-10-11
1944-10-14
1944-10-15
1944-10-19
1944-10-20
1944-11-01
1944-11-02
1944-11-03
1944-11-06
1944-11-07
1944-11-11
1944-11-12
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-11-23
1944-11-26
1944-11-27
1944-12-08
1944-12-10
1944-12-29
1944-12-30
1945-01-01
1945-01-04
1945-01-05
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1945-02-01
1945-02-02
Spatial Coverage
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France
Germany
Great Britain
Norway
France--Royan
Germany--Karlsruhe
Germany--Homburg (Saarland)
Germany--Braunschweig
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Bremerhaven
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Darmstadt
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Düren (Cologne)
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Hörstel
Germany--Kaiserslautern
Germany--Ladbergen
Germany--Leuna
Germany--Munich
Germany--Münster in Westfalen
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Rheydt
Germany--Siegen
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Norway--Oslo
Norway--Trondheim
Contributor
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Terry Hancock
1654 HCU
17 OTU
57 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
bombing
C-47
Distinguished Flying Cross
Flying Training School
Halifax
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
pilot
RAF Church Lawford
RAF East Kirkby
RAF Finningley
RAF Fiskerton
RAF Silverstone
RAF Swinderby
RAF Syerston
RAF Wigsley
Tiger Moth
training
Wellington
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Davis, Ronald Charles
R C Davis
Description
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Two items. An oral history interview with Ronald Davis (b. 1922, 1603009 Royal Air Force) and a photograph of his crew. He was a flight engineer on Halifax with 78 Squadron.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Ronald Davis and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-06-10
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Davis, RC
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Jack Fraser and aircrew in front of Halifax MZ412 EY-Y
Description
An account of the resource
Seven aircrew wearing Mae Wests standing arm in arm in front of a Halifax. Annotated at bottom 'MU, WOp, Nav, Pilot, Eng, BA, RG'. Submitted with caption; '…my Father-in-law. Ronald Davis of Chichester. He was flight engineer on Halifax mk3 78 squadron. (3rd from right), The photo was taken prior to taking off for bombing operation on Sterkrade[sic] November 21st 1944. This was their 20th op, For your further information the crew in the photo are- FSgt Matt McCullen Mid Upper Gunner, Sgt Pat Raymond Wireless Operator, Fsgt J Reynolds Navigator, FO Jack Fraser Pilot, Fsgt Ron Davis Flight Engineer, FSgt M Brittain Bomb Aimer, FSgt Earl Manchester Rear Gunner'. Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
Format
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One b/w photograph
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PDavisRC1601
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
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1944-11-21
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Contributor
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Tony Hibberd
78 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
bomb aimer
flight engineer
Halifax
Halifax Mk 3
navigator
pilot
wireless operator
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/189/2493/LCaseyJ2219470v1.1.pdf
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Casey, John
J Casey
John Casey
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An account of the resource
14 items. Collection contains an oral history interview with Sergeant John Casey (- 2016, 2217470, Royal Air Force), an escape map, logbook, service documentation, a wallet and photographs. John Casey served as an air gunner on 61 Squadron in 1944-45.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John Casey and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-06-10
2015-11-19
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Casey, J
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John Casey's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Description
An account of the resource
Navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers flying log book for Sergeant John Casey from 26 February 1944 to 8 October 1945. Detailing training schedule and operations flown. Served at 7 Air Gunnery School followed by training at 29 Operational Training Unit on Wellington, 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit on Stirling and No 5 Lancaster Finishing School. Aircraft flown were Anson, Martinet, Wellington, Stirling and Lancaster. He carried out a total of 22 daylight and night-time operations with 61 Squadron at RAF Skellingthorpe as an air gunner on the following targets in Germany, Netherlands, and Norway: Bergen, Bohlen, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Dresden, Flushing, Giessen, Heilbronn, Leuna, Lutzkendorf, Mittelland Canal, Munich, Nordhausen, Nuremberg, Politz, Rositz, Tønsberg and Würzburg. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Bain. The log book records a Cook's tour and Operation Dodge flights. Also contained is a newspaper cutting on the history of 61 Squadron and two pages of calculations.
Format
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One booklet
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LCaseyJ2219470v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Language
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eng
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944
1945
1944-10-19
1944-10-20
1944-10-23
1944-10-28
1944-10-29
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-11-26
1944-11-27
1944-12-04
1944-12-05
1944-12-06
1944-12-07
1945-01-07
1945-01-08
1945-01-13
1945-01-14
1945-01-16
1945-01-17
1945-02-08
1945-02-09
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-19
1945-02-20
1945-02-21
1945-02-22
1945-02-24
1945-03-14
1945-03-15
1945-03-16
1945-03-17
1945-04-04
1945-04-08
1945-04-09
1945-04-25
1945-04-26
1945-05-16
1945-09-13
1945-09-15
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
France
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Norway
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Giessen (Hesse)
Germany--Heilbronn
Germany--Leuna
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Würzburg
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Norway--Bergen
Norway--Tønsberg
England--Lincolnshire
1654 HCU
29 OTU
61 Squadron
83 Squadron
air gunner
Air Gunnery School
aircrew
Anson
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Cook’s tour
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Martinet
Operation Dodge (1945)
Operational Training Unit
RAF Coningsby
RAF North Luffenham
RAF Skellingthorpe
RAF Stormy Down
RAF Syerston
RAF Wigsley
Stirling
training
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/201/9631/LBaileyJD1583184v1.1.pdf
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Title
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Bailey, John Derek
John Derek Bailey
Bill Bailey
John D Bailey
John Bailey
J D Bailey
J Bailey
Description
An account of the resource
17 items. Two oral history interviews with John Derek "Bill" Bailey (b. 1924, 1583184 and 198592 Royal Air Force) service material, nine photographs, a memoir and his log book. He flew a tour of operations as a bomb aimer with 103 and 166 Squadrons from RAF Elsham Wolds and RAF Kirmington.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John Bailey and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-12-07
2017-01-13
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Bailey, JD
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John Derek Bailey’s Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Mike Connock
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Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LBaileyJD1583184v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Conforms To
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Pending review
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1943
1944
1945
1946
1944-05-24
1944-05-25
1944-08-29
1944-08-30
1944-08-31
1944-09-03
1944-09-05
1944-09-10
1944-09-12
1944-09-13
1944-09-17
1944-09-24
1944-09-26
1944-09-27
1944-10-19
1944-10-20
1944-10-23
1944-10-25
1944-10-28
1944-10-29
1944-10-30
1944-10-31
1944-11-02
1944-11-04
1944-11-11
1944-11-21
1944-11-27
1944-11-28
1944-11-29
1944-12-04
1944-12-06
1944-12-07
1944-12-12
1944-12-13
1944-12-21
1944-12-26
1945-01-05
1945-01-06
1945-01-07
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1945-01-16
1945-01-17
Description
An account of the resource
Flying log book for aircrew other than pilot for John Derek Bailey, bomb aimer, covering the period from 6 July 1943 to 5 September 1945, detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAF Regents Park, RAF Ludlow, RAF Paignton, RAF Brighton, RAF Heaton Park, RCAF Moncton, RCAF Carberry, RCAF Picton, RCAF Mount Hope, RAF Harrogate, RAF Kirkham, RAF Penrhos, RAF Llandwrog, RAF Peplow, RAF Lindholme, RAF Sandtoft, RAF Hemswell, RAF Elsham Wolds, RAF Kirmington, RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, RAF Worksop, RAF Wigsley, RAF Swinderby, RAF Acaster Malbis, RAF Blyton, RAF Catterick, RAF Wickenby, RAF Bicester and RAF Scampton. Aircraft flown in were, Anson, Bolingbroke, Wellington, Halifax and Lancaster. He completed a total of 31 operations, one night operation with 83 operational training unit, 2 night and 8 daylight operations with 103 Squadron and 16 night and 5 daylight with 166 Squadron. Targets in France, Germany and the Netherlands were Criel, Stettin, Agenville, Eindhoven, Le Havre, Frankfurt, The Hague, Calais, Cap Griz Nez, Stuttgart, Essen, Cologne, Walcheren, Dusseldorf, Bochum, Dortmund, Frieburg, Karlsruhe, Merseburg, Kattegat, St Vith, Hannover and Zeitz. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Knott.
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Canada
France
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Atlantic Ocean--English Channel
Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea)
Belgium--Saint-Vith
England--Gloucestershire
England--Lancashire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Oxfordshire
England--Shropshire
England--Yorkshire
France--Calais
France--Criel-sur-Mer
France--Le Havre
France--Pas-de-Calais
France--Somme
Germany--Bochum
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Essen
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany--Hannover
Germany--Karlsruhe
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Zeitz
Manitoba--Carberry
Netherlands--Eindhoven
Netherlands--Hague
Netherlands--Walcheren
New Brunswick--Moncton
Ontario--Hamilton
Ontario--Picton
Scotland--Moray
Wales--Gwynedd
Poland--Szczecin
Poland
Ontario
New Brunswick
Belgium
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Manitoba
103 Squadron
1654 HCU
166 Squadron
1660 HCU
1667 HCU
20 OTU
83 OTU
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
Bolingbroke
bomb aimer
bombing
Bombing and Gunnery School
Halifax
Halifax Mk 2
Halifax Mk 5
Heavy Conversion Unit
Initial Training Wing
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Lancaster Mk 3
mine laying
Operational Training Unit
RAF Acaster Malbis
RAF Bicester
RAF Blyton
RAF Catterick
RAF Elsham Wolds
RAF Heaton Park
RAF Hemswell
RAF Kirkham
RAF Kirmington
RAF Lindholme
RAF Llandwrog
RAF Lossiemouth
RAF Moreton in the Marsh
RAF Paignton
RAF Penrhos
RAF Peplow
RAF Sandtoft
RAF Scampton
RAF Swinderby
RAF Wickenby
RAF Wigsley
RAF Worksop
training
Wellington
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/251/19145/LEppelJW433156v1.2.pdf
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Eppel, John
John Eppel
J Eppel
Description
An account of the resource
Six items. An oral history interview with John Eppel (b. 1923, 433156 Royal Australian Air Force), his log book, documents and photographs. He flew a tour of operations as a navigator with 550 Squadron.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by John Eppel and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-04-19
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Eppel, JW
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John Eppel's flying log book
Description
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Flying log book for John W Eppel, navigator, covering the period from 12 May 1944 to 12 June 1945, detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAF Worksop, RAF Blyton, RAF Hemswell, RAF North Killingholme, RAF Bitteswell and RAF Nuneaton. Aircraft flown in were, Anson, Battle, Werraway, Wellington, Halifax and Lancaster. He flew a total of 31 operations with 550 squadron, 12 daylight and 19 night operations. His pilot on operations was Pilot Officer Harris. Targets were Frankfurt, Steenwyjk, Escelle, Neuss, Coquelles, Cap Griz-Nez, Calais, Saarbrucken, Emmerich, Fort Frederik Henrik, Duisberg, Stuttgart, Essen, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bochum, Wanne Eickel, Duren, Aschaffenburg, Frieburg, Dortmund, Urft Dam, Merseburg, Buer, Hannover and Munich.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Mike Connnock
Cara Walmsley
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Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LEppelJW433156v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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France
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Atlantic Ocean--English Channel
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Warwickshire
France--Calais
France--Pas-de-Calais
Germany--Aschaffenburg
Germany--Bochum
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Düren (Cologne)
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Emmerich
Germany--Essen
Germany--Euskirchen Region
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany--Hannover
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Munich
Germany--Neuss
Germany--Saarbrücken
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Wanne-Eickel
Netherlands--Sluis (Zeeland)
Netherlands--Steenwijk
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Urft Dam
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944
1945
1944-09-12
1944-09-13
1944-09-16
1944-09-17
1944-09-20
1944-09-23
1944-09-25
1944-09-26
1944-09-27
1944-10-05
1944-10-06
1944-10-07
1944-10-11
1944-10-12
1944-10-14
1944-10-15
1944-10-19
1944-10-20
1944-10-23
1944-10-31
1944-11-02
1944-11-04
1944-11-09
1944-11-16
1944-11-18
1944-11-19
1944-11-21
1944-11-27
1944-11-29
1944-12-03
1944-12-06
1944-12-07
1944-12-24
1944-12-29
1945-01-05
1945-01-06
1945-01-07
1945-01-08
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1662 HCU
18 OTU
550 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
Battle
bombing
Bombing and Gunnery School
Halifax
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
navigator
Operational Training Unit
RAF Bitteswell
RAF Blyton
RAF Hemswell
RAF North Killingholme
RAF Worksop
training
Wellington
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/258/37122/LGanneyK1324929v2.2.2.pdf
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Ganney, Keith
Keith Ganney
K Ganney
Description
An account of the resource
23 items. An oral history interview with Flying Officer Keith Ganney (b. 1922, 1324929 Royal Air Force), his log books, documents and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 57 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Keith Ganney and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-03-01
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Ganney, K
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Title
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Keith Ganney's Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot. Two
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Format
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One booklet
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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LGanneyK1324929v2
Description
An account of the resource
Flying log book for aircrew other than pilot for K Ganney, Air Bomber, covering the period from 29 May 1943 to 24 August 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAF Brough, RCAF Paulson, RCAF Port Albert, RAF Penrhos, RAF Lllandwrog, RAF Silverstone, RAF Wigsley, RAF Syerston and RAF East Kirkby. Aircraft flown were Anson, Bolingbroke, Wellington, Stirling and Lancaster. He flew a total of 30 operations with 57 Squadron, 7 daylight and 23 night operations. Targets were Konigsberg, Stuttgart, Bremerhaven, Rheydt, Munster, Karlsruhe, Kaiserslauten, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Walcheren, Brunswick, Nuremburg, Homberg, Dusseldorf, Dortmund-Ems canal, Hamburg, Duren, Gravenhorst, Trondheim, Munich, Heimbach, Oslo Fiord, Ladbergen, Royan, Merseburg and Seigen. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Vasey.
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1943
1944
1945
1944-08-26
1944-08-27
1944-08-29
1944-08-30
1944-08-31
1944-09-12
1944-09-13
1944-09-17
1944-09-18
1944-09-19
1944-09-20
1944-09-23
1944-09-24
1944-09-26
1944-09-27
1944-09-28
1944-10-05
1944-10-06
1944-10-07
1944-10-11
1944-10-14
1944-10-15
1944-10-19
1944-10-20
1944-11-01
1944-11-02
1944-11-03
1944-11-06
1944-11-07
1944-11-11
1944-11-12
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-11-23
1944-11-26
1944-11-27
1944-12-08
1944-12-10
1944-12-11
1944-12-29
1944-12-30
1945-01-01
1945-01-04
1945-01-05
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1945-02-01
1945-02-02
1945-07-24
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Canada
France
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Norway
Russia (Federation)
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
Canada--Saskatchewan, District of
England--Lincolnshire
England--Northamptonshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Yorkshire
France--Royan
Germany--Braunschweig
Germany--Bremerhaven
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Düren (Cologne)
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Homberg (Kassel)
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Siegen
Germany--Steinfurt (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Stuttgart
Manitoba
Netherlands--Walcheren
Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden
Norway--Trondheim
Ontario
Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
Wales--Gwynedd
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mike Connock
1654 HCU
17 OTU
57 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
Bolingbroke
bomb aimer
bombing
Bombing and Gunnery School
Cook’s tour
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
mine laying
Operational Training Unit
RAF Brough
RAF East Kirkby
RAF Llandwrog
RAF Penrhos
RAF Silverstone
RAF Syerston
RAF Wigsley
Stirling
training
Wellington
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/959/9608/PPopeKMJ18010002.1.pdf
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Pope, Kenneth. Album
Description
An account of the resource
79 items. The album concerns Sergeant Kenneth Malcom John Pope, (b. 1924, 1876733 Royal Air Force). He completed 32 operations as a flight engineer with 467 Squadron from RAF Waddington. The album contains his log book, photographs, letters, and newspaper cuttings about the operations he took part in.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Susan Elizabeth Kelly and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Identifier
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K M J Pope
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2018-02-15
Rights
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Kenneth Pope's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Format
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One booklet
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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PPopeKMJ18010002
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Conforms To
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Pending review
Description
An account of the resource
Royal Air Force flying log book for Sergeant Kenneth Pope, flight engineer, covering the period 25 September 1944 to 17 May 1945, detailing training, and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Winthorpe, RAF Syerston, RAF Waddington. Aircraft flown were the Stirling and Lancaster. He flew 32 operations with 467 Squadron, five night time and 27 daylight. Targets in Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Poland were Bremen, Knolle Dyke, Brunswick, Nuremberg, Flushing, Bergen, Duren, Dortmund Ems Canal, Trondheim, Munich, Heilbronn, Giessen, Erft Dam, Gdynia, Politz, Rheydt, Merseburg Leuna, Most, Siegen, Dresden, Rositz, Ems Weser Canal, Sassnitz, Harburg, Dortmund, Lutzendorf, Wurzburg, Wesel and Farge. <span>His pilots on operations were </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":200,"335559740":276}">Squadron Leader Deignan, Flight Lieutenant Cross and Flight Lieutenant Colley. </span>The log book is well annotated with information about diversions, feathered engines, anti-aircraft fire and fighters.
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
Germany--Braunschweig
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Düren (Cologne)
Germany--Giessen (Hesse)
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Heilbronn
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Rheydt
Germany--Sassnitz
Germany--Schleiden (Kreis)
Germany--Siegen
Germany--Würzburg
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Norway--Bergen
Norway--Trondheim
Poland--Gdynia
Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944
1945
1944-10-06
1944-10-07
1944-10-14
1944-10-15
1944-10-19
1944-10-20
1944-10-23
1944-10-28
1944-10-29
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-11-23
1944-11-26
1944-11-27
1944-12-04
1944-12-06
1944-12-07
1944-12-10
1944-12-11
1944-12-17
1944-12-18
1944-12-19
1944-12-21
1944-12-22
1944-12-27
1945-01-13
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1945-01-16
1945-01-17
1945-02-01
1945-02-08
1945-02-09
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-15
1945-02-20
1945-02-21
1945-03-06
1945-03-07
1945-03-08
1945-03-12
1945-03-14
1945-03-15
1945-03-16
1945-03-17
1945-03-23
1945-03-24
1945-03-27
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IBCC Digital Archive
1661 HCU
467 Squadron
aircrew
anti-aircraft fire
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
flight engineer
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Lancaster Mk 1
Lancaster Mk 3
RAF Syerston
RAF Waddington
RAF Winthorpe
Stirling
training
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/2086/34534/SWeirG19660703v070001.2.pdf
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Weir, Greg. Britt, Leo
Description
An account of the resource
Two items. Collection concerns Flt Lt Leo Britt (Royal Australian Air Force). A Halifax pilot, he flew operations on 462 Squadron between November 1944 and April 1945. Collection contains his log book and a list of aircraft lost on 192 and 462 Squadrons.
The collection was catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Date
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2017-04-26
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Weir, G
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Title
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L Britt’s flying log book for pilots
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Text. Log book and record book
Format
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One booklet
Identifier
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SWeirG19660703v070001
Rights
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Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Description
An account of the resource
Flying log book for L Britt covering the period from 27 May 1943 to 11 February 1953. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAAF Benalla (11 EFTS), RAAF Deniliquin (7 SFTS), RAF Babdown Farm (15 P AFU), RAF Moreton in Marsh (21 OTU), RAF Marston Moor (1652 HCU), RAF Driffield and RAF Foulsham (462 Squadron). Aircraft flown in were DH 82, Wirraway, Anson, Oxford, Wellington, Halifax, Mustang, Dakota, Vampire, Lincoln. He flew 21 night-time operations with 462 Squadron. Targets were Sterkrade, Soest, Essen, Duisberg, Kiel, Mannheim, Weisbaden, Ruhr area, Bonn, Kaiserlauten, Munich, Frankfurt, Munster, Kassel, Stade, Bremerhaven, Boizenberg, Neuruffin, Augsberg, Flensberg. He also flew on seven Cook's Tours. His pilot for his first 'second dickie' operation was Flying Officer Rate. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1943
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-12-05
1944-12-06
1944-12-12
1944-12-13
1944-12-17
1944-12-18
1945-01-16
1945-01-17
1945-02-01
1945-02-02
1945-02-03
1945-02-04
1945-02-05
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-28
1945-03-01
1945-03-13
1945-03-14
1945-03-15
1945-03-16
1945-03-19
1945-03-20
1945-03-27
1945-03-28
1945-03-29
1945-03-30
1945-04-13
1945-04-14
1945-04-15
1945-04-16
1945-04-18
1945-04-19
1945-05-02
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Australia
Great Britain
Germany
England--Gloucestershire
England--Norfolk
England--Yorkshire
Germany--Augsburg
Germany--Bonn
Germany--Bremerhaven
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Essen
Germany--Flensburg
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Kaiserslautern
Germany--Kassel
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Munich
Germany--Neuruppin
Germany--Soest
Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony)
Germany--Wiesbaden
Germany--Münster in Westfalen
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)
Germany--Boizenburg
Contributor
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Mike French
1652 HCU
21 OTU
462 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
bombing
C-47
Cook’s tour
Flying Training School
Halifax
Halifax Mk 2
Halifax Mk 3
Halifax Mk 5
Harvard
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lincoln
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
P-51
pilot
RAF Acaster Malbis
RAF Driffield
RAF Foulsham
RAF Marston Moor
RAF Moreton in the Marsh
RAF Watchfield
RAF Worksop
Tiger Moth
training
Wellington
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Title
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Mottershead, Frank
F Mottershead
Description
An account of the resource
Eleven items. An oral history interview with Frank Mottershead (422232 Royal Australian Air Force), photographs and his log book. He flew operations as a wireless operator with 463 Squadron.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Frank Mottershead and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016-04-30
Rights
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Mottershead, F
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Title
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Ladbergen
Description
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A vertical aerial photograph of Ladbergen taken during an operation. The ground is obscured by cloud but an explosion is visible through the clouds.
It is captioned '7101 WAD. 21/22.11.44//NT. 7" 4000 o45 2105 D.E. Ladbergen 13x 1000 ANM 65 DT. 22 secs F/O Huxtable. B.463'.
On the reverse is stamped 'AM Crown Copyright Reserved' and annotated 'Mott'.
Date
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1944-11-21
Format
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One b/w photograph
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PMottersheadF16010009, PMottersheadF16010010
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Germany--Ladbergen
Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
463 Squadron
aerial photograph
bombing
RAF Waddington
target photograph
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1505/28863/BDaviesMJDaviesLAv1.1.pdf
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Title
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Davies, Leslie and Jack
Leslie Alfred Davies
L A Davies
John Richard Davies
J R Davies
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-04-28
Rights
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Identifier
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Davies, LA-JR
Description
An account of the resource
49 items. Collection concerns Leslie Alfred Davies (1922-1996, 1581024 Royal Air Force) and his brother John Richard Davies ( - 1944, 1580941). Leslie served as a Lancaster navigator on of 50 Squadron completing his tour of 30 operations in March 1945. John served a Lancaster bomb aimer on 166 Squadron He was killed in action 3 August 1944. Collection consists of Leslie's crew's individual logbooks and biographies, operational histories, photographs of people, aircraft and a grave, documents and correspondence. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Murray Davies and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on John Richard Davies is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/105795/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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Title
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Leslie Alfred Davies and crew
Description
An account of the resource
Biographies of navigator Leslie Davies and all his crew. Includes photographs of Lancaster, 50 Squadron, his crew, Leslie Davies himself, training course photographs. Covers his tour from 7 October 1944 to 22 March 1945. List his crew and aircraft used on operations. Followed by biography of Leslie Alfred Davies early life, training and post tour marriage. Continues with biography of pilot Frederick David Jones including early life, training in Canada, operations and later life. Followed by biographies of Norman Parrinder, tail gunner; George Jarmy, bomb aimer; Gilbert John Mellefont, mid-upper gunner; Ernest Marrs, wireless operator and Robert M Smith, flight engineer. Continues with description of the tour including map with targets and descriptions of many of their 30 operations before concluding comments on groundcrew and bomber command in general. Contains many photographs including targets, aircraft, one of battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein, several of remains of Lancaster bombers, groundcrew at work, bombs, anti-aircraft guns and the bomber command memorial in Green Park London.
Creator
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M J Davies
Format
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Eighty-two page document
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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BDaviesMJDaviesLAv1
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944-10-07
1945-03-22
1943-08-02
1945-02-16
1945-01-14
1944-11-21
1944-09-27
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1944-10-07
1944-10-11
1944-10-19
1944-11-02
1944-11-06
1944-11-11
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-26
1944-12-04
1944-12-17
1944-12-18
1944-12-21
1945-01-01
1945-01-04
1945-01-05
1945-01-07
1945-01-13
1945-01-14
1945-02-02
1945-02-08
1945-02-13
1945-02-19
1945-02-21
1945-02-24
1945-03-05
1945-03-20
1945-03-22
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
South Africa
South Africa--Port Alfred
Wales--Gwynedd
England--Leicestershire
Canada
New Brunswick--Moncton
United States
Oklahoma
Oklahoma--Ponca City
Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man
France
Ontario--St. Thomas
England--Lancashire
England--Barrow-in-Furness
England--Herefordshire
Wales--Vale of Glamorgan
Netherlands
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Germany
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Düren (Cologne)
Germany--Munich
Germany--Heilbronn
Poland
Poland--Gdynia
Scotland--Aberdeenshire
Belgium
Belgium--Houffalize
France--Royan
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Karlsruhe
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Leipzig
Germany--Bremen
Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)
Ontario
New Brunswick
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
10 Squadron
14 OTU
1654 HCU
50 Squadron
6 BFTS
Advanced Flying Unit
aerial photograph
air gunner
Air Gunnery School
aircrew
Anson
anti-aircraft fire
Bolingbroke
bomb aimer
bomb trolley
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944)
British Flying Training School Program
C-47
crash
Distinguished Flying Cross
FIDO
flight engineer
Flying Training School
George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952)
ground crew
Halifax
Heavy Conversion Unit
incendiary device
Ju 88
killed in action
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Lancaster Mk 1
Me 262
memorial
military service conditions
missing in action
Mosquito
navigator
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Operational Training Unit
petrol bowser
pilot
RAF Banff
RAF Barrow in Furness
RAF Husbands Bosworth
RAF Llandwrog
RAF Madley
RAF Skellingthorpe
RAF St Athan
RAF Syerston
RAF Wigsley
reconnaissance photograph
service vehicle
Stirling
target indicator
training
V-1
V-weapon
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1505/28878/LDaviesLA1581024v1.1.pdf
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Title
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Davies, Leslie and Jack
Leslie Alfred Davies
L A Davies
John Richard Davies
J R Davies
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2016-04-28
Rights
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Identifier
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Davies, LA-JR
Description
An account of the resource
49 items. Collection concerns Leslie Alfred Davies (1922-1996, 1581024 Royal Air Force) and his brother John Richard Davies ( - 1944, 1580941). Leslie served as a Lancaster navigator on of 50 Squadron completing his tour of 30 operations in March 1945. John served a Lancaster bomb aimer on 166 Squadron He was killed in action 3 August 1944. Collection consists of Leslie's crew's individual logbooks and biographies, operational histories, photographs of people, aircraft and a grave, documents and correspondence. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Murray Davies and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on John Richard Davies is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/105795/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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Title
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Leslie Davies observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
One booklet
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LDaviesLA1581024v1
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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Description
An account of the resource
Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for L A Davies, navigator, covering the period from 4 August 1943 to 16 April 1945 and from 26 September 1948 to 13 June 1953 with no. 5 reserve flying school. He was stationed at RAF Port Alfred, RAF Llandwrog, RAF Husbands Bosworth, RAF Market Harborough, RAF Wigsley, RAF Syerston, RAF Skellingthorpe and RAF Castle Bromwich. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Wellington, Stirling, and Lancaster. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Jones. He flew a total of 30 operations with 50 Squadron, 5 daylight and 25 night. Targets were Flushing, Nuremburg, Dusseldorf, Gravenhorst, Harburg, Duren, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Munich, Heilbronn, Gdynia, Politz, Houffalize, Mittelland Canal, Royan, Merseburg, Karlsruhe, Dresden, Bohlen, Ladbergen and Bremen.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Contributor
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Mike Connock
Cara Walmsley
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Belgium
France
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Poland
South Africa
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
Belgium--Houffalize
England--Leicestershire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--West Midlands
France--Royan
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Düren (Cologne)
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Harburg (Landkreis)
Germany--Heilbronn
Germany--Karlsruhe
Germany--Leipzig Region
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nuremberg
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Poland--Gdynia
Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)
South Africa--Port Alfred
Wales--Gwynedd
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1944-10-07
1944-10-11
1944-10-19
1944-10-20
1944-11-02
1944-11-03
1944-11-06
1944-11-07
1944-11-11
1944-11-12
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-11-26
1944-11-27
1944-12-04
1944-12-05
1944-12-17
1944-12-18
1944-12-19
1944-12-21
1944-12-22
1944-12-30
1944-12-31
1945-01-01
1945-01-02
1945-01-04
1945-01-05
1945-01-07
1945-01-08
1945-01-13
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1945-02-02
1945-02-03
1945-02-08
1945-02-09
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-19
1945-02-20
1945-02-21
1945-02-22
1945-02-24
1945-03-05
1945-03-06
1945-03-07
1945-03-08
1945-03-20
1945-03-21
1945-03-22
14 OTU
1654 HCU
50 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
Lancaster Mk 1
Lancaster Mk 3
navigator
Operational Training Unit
RAF Castle Bromwich
RAF Husbands Bosworth
RAF Llandwrog
RAF Market Harborough
RAF Skellingthorpe
RAF Syerston
RAF Wigsley
Stirling
training
Wellington
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Valentine, Leslie
Leslie Dudley Valentine
L D Valentine
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Six items. An oral history interview with Leslie Dudley Valentine about his father Flying Officer Leslie Valentine (458646, 185002 Royal Air Force) and his service in the RAF. Collection also contains Leslie Valentine's pilots flying log books and photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Leslie Valentine and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-03-09
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Valentine, LD
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Leslie Valentines pilots flying log book. Two
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Pilots flying log book two for Leslie Valentine, covering the period from October 1943 to 27 November 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and duties with 2nd Tactical Air Force communications flight. He was stationed at RAF Finmere, RAF Bicester, RAF Hartford Bridge and RAF Brussels. Aircraft flown were, Boston, Blenheim, Oxford, Anson, Proctor, Auster, Dominie and Me 108. He flew a total of 60 operations with 88 squadron, 53 daylight and 7 night operations. Targets were, Mantes Gassicourt, Hirson, Cambrai, Douai, Lille, Dinard, Evreux, Boulogne, Le Havre, St Seuvaur, Foret de Grimbosq, Le Bas de Breville, Mezidon, Hamburges, Caen, Laval, Le Mans, St Malo, Glos, Liverot, Angers, Beny Bocage, Conde, La Fleche, Orbec, Rouen, La Feuille, Falaise, River Orne, Cap Gris Nez, Escalles, Breskens, Arnhem, Nijmegen, AmersFoort, Roermond, Oldenzaal, Viersen, Randerath, Geldern, Dunkirk, Grevenbroich, Emmerich, Rheinberg, Xanten, Udem and Holdorf.
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One booklet
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eng
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Text. Log book and record book
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LValentineLD185002v2
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Pending review
Spatial Coverage
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Belgium
France
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Atlantic Ocean--English Channel
Belgium--Brussels
England--Hampshire
England--Oxfordshire
England--Buckinghamshire
France--Angers
France--Bény-Bocage (Canton)
France--Boulogne-sur-Mer
France--Caen
France--Cambrai
France--Dinard
France--Douai
France--Dunkerque
France--Evreux
France--Falaise
France--Hirson
France--Issoudun
France--Laval (Mayenne)
France--La Flèche
France--Le Havre
France--Le Mans
France--Lille
France--Lisieux
France--Mantes-la-Jolie
France--Mézidon-Canon
France--Normandy
France--Orbec
France--Orne River (Orne and Calvados)
France--Pas-de-Calais
France--Rouen
France--Saint-Malo
France--Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
Germany--Emmerich
Germany--Geldern
Germany--Grevenbroich
Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Rheinberg
Germany--Vechta Region
Germany--Viersen
Germany--Xanten
Netherlands--Amersfoort
Netherlands--Arnhem
Netherlands--Breskens
Netherlands--Nijmegen
Netherlands--Oldenzaal
Netherlands--Roermond
France--Mantes-la-Jolie
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
France--Cap Gris Nez
Germany--Heinsberg (Heinsberg)
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1943
1944
1945
1944-04-28
1944-04-29
1944-05-01
1944-05-22
1944-05-23
1944-05-24
1944-05-27
1944-05-28
1944-06-06
1944-06-10
1944-06-11
1944-06-12
1944-06-13
1944-06-15
1944-06-17
1944-06-20
1944-06-22
1944-07-07
1944-07-08
1944-07-09
1944-07-10
1944-07-17
1944-07-20
1944-07-29
1944-07-30
1944-08-01
1944-08-02
1944-08-03
1944-08-04
1944-08-05
1944-08-06
1944-08-07
1944-08-08
1944-08-09
1944-08-11
1944-08-12
1944-08-13
1944-08-14
1944-09-21
1944-09-23
1944-09-26
1944-10-02
1944-10-03
1944-10-06
1944-10-28
1944-11-06
1944-11-11
1944-11-19
1944-11-21
1944-12-03
1944-12-11
1945-01-27
1945-01-29
1945-02-02
1945-02-04
1945-02-09
1945-02-10
1945-02-14
1945-02-16
1945-02-22
1945-02-24
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
13 OTU
88 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
anti-aircraft fire
Blenheim
bombing
Boston
Dominie
Flying Training School
Initial Training Wing
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
pilot
Proctor
RAF Bicester
RAF Hartford Bridge
Second Tactical Air Force
strafing
training
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Hogan, P J
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2017-12-05
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Hogan, PJ
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Ninety-six items and a sub-collection with twenty two items..
The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Pat Hogan (436464 Royal Australian Air Force) and contains letters home to his family, his flying log book, accounts of his aircraft being shot down and him baling out, official documents, certificates and photographs.
He flew operations as a navigator with 466 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Elizabeth Anne Lusby and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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F/SGT HOGAN P.J.
RAAF AUSPO
LONDON.
21/11/44
Dear Marie,
When writing to Dad last night I promised I'd also write you before this service gives the game away for Christmas. Tonight 2 cakes arrived, one from Doreen Phelan & one from yourself & both are in excellent condition. You've no idea how welcome they are just at the moment here for tucker has been extremely light on lately & there is nothing like a bit of supper these long cold nights.
Mary Ryan's flash in the pan was a bit of a surprise, wasn't it? I'd better write to congratulate her I suppose one of these days.
I'll be interested to know where Dan's future destination will be. I hope the debating & the concert are not too much strain. I suppose both must be over 'ere this.
I seem to have covered everything last night for I seem to be racking my brain for something to write about. I mentioned considering trying to get to Ireland sometime. Probably a long way off
[page break]
for the next one, I've promised to go down to Dorset with the engineer. Christmas leave is cancelled again this year – not that we'd get it anyway for we could hardly claim it was due to us.
Tonight being Tuesday we'll be listening in once to Anne Shelton's programme which is followed by the Australian news. Thanks for the statement re the Bank Balance. It will be handy when I get home I've no doubt but, by the time I buy clothes etc, I'll have to try to settle down & save for many a long day before I could even settle down in the other sense. Don't get the wrong idea though it is just a thought, there is nothing concrete in it.
It is a long while since I've written to Jim & Eileen too, for that matter & will have to try to get round the lot one of these fine days. I also owe Doreen a letter. I've got a pretty decent book I'm half finished at the moment “The Ballad & the Source” by Rosamond Lehman.
I’m terribly tired tonight for we had a long trip today, our first for a long time. I did the best trip I've ever done & it is very reassuring at this stage of the game for it is only a matter of a little more decent weather & we will soon be getting a taste of the real McCoy.
[page break]
These Halifaxes are wizard & I'll go so far as to say its almost a pleasure to fly in them. As I told Dad we had a decent week-end in a city which is reasonably handy.
By the way, I'll be sending home a few photos & what not home one of these days. But I guess it will be sometime before they reach you.
How is Uncle Jim faring lately? Has he lobbed the [indecipherable word] yet? And what of Mary Knight? Is young Phillips still around or has his father improved?
Well Marie, I seem to be beating around the bush in an endeavour to fill this up without repeating what I said last night. By the way, how did Doreen's exams go. Kev will soon be relieved of his too, no doubt.
Love to you all,
Pat.
[page break]
AIR LETTER
Miss Marie Hogan
67 Chapel St.,
Bendigo Vic
Australia.
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Letter from Pat Hogan to Miss Marie Hogan
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Reports arrival of very welcome cakes. Asks after friends and family and writes of future plans to visit Dorset with engineer. Mentions listening to radio for home news and and other domestic financial matters. says he owes other friends/family letters which he should get on with. Writes of just completing a long flight which went well and that with some decent weather they should soon be getting a taste of the real McCoy. States that Halifax is a pleasure to fly in. Mentions he will be sending home photographs but they will take some time to arrive. Asks after friends and family members.
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P J Hogan
Date
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1944-11-21
Format
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Four sided handwritten airmail letter
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eng
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EHoganPJHoganM441121
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Civilian
Royal Australian Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
Australia
Victoria--Bendigo
England--Dorset
Victoria
Temporal Coverage
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1944-11-21
Contributor
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Jan Waller
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Halifax
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Wareing, Robert
R Wareing
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An account of the resource
258 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Robert Wareing DFC* (86325 Royal Air Force) and contains his flying logbooks, prisoner of war log book, memoirs, photographs, extensive personal and official correspondence, official documents, pilots/handling notes, decorations, mementos, uniform badges and buttons. He flew operations as a pilot with 106 Squadron. After a period of instructing he returned to operations on 582 Squadron but was shot down and became a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Andrew Wareing and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-10-05
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Wareing, R
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TRADING WITH THE ENEMY [deleted] BRANCH [/deleted] [inserted] DEPARTMENT [/inserted]
(Treasury and Board of Trade).
24, KINGSWAY,
LONDON, W.C.2.
Telephone No. :
HOLBORN 4300.
Telegraphic Address:
“TRADENEMY, LONDON.”
Any reply should be addressed to “THE CONTROLLER.”
[crest]
Our Ref.: T/E. 58877.
21st November, 1944.
Madam,
In reply to your letter of 12th November regarding your desire to write to a woman living near Le Havre, I have to inform you that you will be quite in order in doing so. Letters of a personal or family nature or letters exchanging business information may now be sent to persons in liberated France without submission to this Department.
I understand that the postal service is now available to the Le Havre region.
I am, Madam,
Your obedient Servant,
[signature]
Mrs. J. Wareing,
56, West Common Gardens,
Old Brumley,
Scunthorpe,
Lincs.
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Letter to Mrs Wareing from the Department of Trading with the Enemy
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In reply to her letter they advise that she is in order to write to a woman residing near Le Havre and that letters of a personal or family nature or exchanging business are now permitted to liberated France without submission to them, and also that the postal service is now available in that region.
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R A Stevens
Date
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1944-11-21
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Tricia Marshall
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One page typewritten letter
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eng
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EStevensRAWareingJ441121
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
England--Lincolnshire
England--Scunthorpe
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1944-11-21
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Adams, Herbert
Herbert Adams
H Adams
Herbert G Adams
Description
An account of the resource
88 items. Collection concerns Herbert George Adams DFC, Legion d'Honour (b. 1924, 424509 Royal Australian Air Force). He flew operations as a navigator with 467 Squadron. Collection contains an oral history interview, photographs of people and places, several memoirs about his training and bombing operations, letters to his family, his flying logbook and notes on navigation.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Herbert Adams and catalogued by Nigel Huckins and Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-02-15
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Adams, HG
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BERT ADAMS
Rank Sergeant ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
467 LANCASTER SQUADRON NAVIGATOR
OPERATIONS
Le Havre – 10/9/44.
Stuttgart – 12/9/44.
Boulogne – 17/9/44.
Bremerhaven – 17/9/44.
Munchen-Gladbach – 19/9/44.
Dortmund-Ems – 23/9/44.
Karlsuhe – 26/9/44.
Kaiserslautern – 27/9/44.
Wilhelmshaven – 5/10/44.
Bremen – 6/10/44.
Knolle Dyke – 7/10/44.
Nuremnurg [sic] – 19/10/44.
Walcheren Is. – 23/10/44.
Bergen – 28/10/44.
Flushing – 30/10/44.
Dusseldorf – 2/1144.
Ems-Weser Canal – 6/11/44.
Harbourg – 11/11/44.
Duren – 16/11/44.
Dortmund-Ems Canel [sic] – 21/11/44.
Trondheim – 22/11/44.
Urft Dam – 11/12/44.
Munich – 17/12/44.
Gdynia – 18/12/44.
Rheydt – 27/12/44.
Dortmund-Ems – 1/1/45.
Royan – 4/1/45.
Munich – 7/1/45.
Brux – 16/1/45.
[page break]
BERT ADAMS
R.A.A.F. 424504
467 LANCASTER SQUADRON WADDINGTON
NAVIGATOR
10.9.44 Le Havre (France) 3.55 hrs 11 x 1000, 4 x 500 [inserted] lb bombs [/inserted] Had a good trip, except [deleted] part [/deleted] [inserted] PORT OUTER MOTOR [/inserted] packed up over target
12.9.44 Stuttgart 6.50 hrs night 1 x 4000 + 13 “J” clusters Bombed 3 mins late, saw 4 fighters Junkers 88, and unident, lots of coksrews. [sic]
14.9.44 Wainfleet 1.10 hrs night abandoned – poor vis, had to get down to 500 ft to get home
17.9.44 Boulogne 3.25 hrs day. 11 x 1000, 4 x 500
18.9.44 Bremerhaven 4.45 hrs night 18 cans incends no fighters after us, not much flak
19.9.44 Munchen-Gladbach 5.05 hrs night 1 x 2000 + 12 “J” clusters good trip to target, had to orbit 3 times for [deleted]sn[/deleted] [inserted]m[/inserted]arking, [inserted] delay [/inserted], very nearly collided, cloud very low on return T on edge of Ruhr.
23.9.44 Dortmund-Ems Canal 5.25 night 14 x 1000 crook trip for Nav – no aids & winds wrong had to orbit T, get down 6300’ to bomb, come home off track over Rotterdam, lots of flak
26.9.44 Karlsruhe 6.50 hrs night 18 cans incends saw no fighters, not much A/A, had to bomb on glare of fires
[page break]
467 Lancaster Squadron ….. Operations
27.9.44 Kaiserlautern 6.20 hrs night 18 cans incends hit target very well, saw no fighters plenty of small flak, but no hits
5.10.44 Wilhelmshaven 5.05 hrs day 18 cans incends
10/10 cloud over T, bombed on inst, got left behind formation on on [sic] the way home.
6.10.44 Bremen 4.55 hrs night 18 cans incends fairly well defended target, attack very effective
7.10.44 Knolle Dyke 3.10 hrs day 14 x 1000, 2 sticks of 7 out in formation, two bombing runs. no flak hit us, but there was a fair bit
19.10.44 Nuremberg 8.10 hrs night 1 x 2000 + 12 “J” clusters extremely quiet trip, no shearch [sic] lights or fighters.
23.10.44 Flushing 3.20 hrs day 14 x 1000 weather frightfully bad, bombed from min ht. 4000’ just under cloud, flak pretty accurate, most kites holed, 3 lost. come home at zero feet.
28.10.44 Bergen (Norway) 7.30 hrs night 12 x 1000 hard nav trip, flak very severe, monotonous sea trip, diverted to Marston Moor
30.10.44 Walcheren Is (Holland) 3.20 hrs day 14 x 1000 good trip except around Target, cloud crook, had to do 8 cicuits [sic] negligible flak, good nav trip
[page break]
467 LANCASTER SQUADRON …… OPERATIONS
2.11.44 Dusseldorf 5.20 hrs night 11 x 1000 + 4 x 500 got off late, but made up, flak inaccurate, but fighters very active, full moon no cloud. saw 13 kites go down, but din’t [sic] see any fighters ourselves.
6.11.44 Ems-Weser Canal 5.25 hrs night 14 x 1000 set course 10 mins late, marker got [inserted] no [/inserted] joy, had to bring bombs home. fighters active, few went down, weather extremly [sic] rough on way home
11.11.44 Harburg 5.35 hrs night 1 x 4000, 6 x 1000, 6 x 500 tactics changed twice, mess up all together. Got off o.k. & had fair trip – Nearly collided on way out – nearest escape yet! Frank Eyres crew missing (same billet as us) Bods came in two hours late, kept us awake!!!
16.11.44 Duren 5.25 hrs day 12 x 1000 Very nice nav trip. Ran into predicted flak 3 or 4 miles part of the track on way out, very close collected a few holes, none serious to kite or crew. vis very crook on return
21.11.44 Dortmund-Ems Canal 6.10 hrs night 13 x 1000 Fair trip had to come down to 3800’ to bomb because of cloud + nice bombing
[page break]
467 LANCASTER SQUADRON …. OPERATIONS
22.11.44 Trondheim (Norway) 10.55 hrs night 9 x 1000 Bombs brought home – target obscured by smoke screen. Off track on way home, loked [sic] as not enough juice, but wind changed and we just made it.
11.12.44 Urft Dam 6.05 hrs day 14 x 1000 Sorry we had to fly strange kite (F), very poor climber, got to target late. Did two runs but couldn’t bomb – clouds. Feathered engine on way home. Could only do 140 jettsoned [sic] 2 to land, back over an hour late.
17.12.44 Munich 9.45 hrs night 1 x 4000, 9 cans, 1 munroe
18.12.44 Gdynia (Special target – pocket battleship (“LUTZOW”) 10 x 1000 S.A.P. 9.40 hrs night
27.12.44 Rheydt 5.00 hrs day 14 x 1000
1.1.45 Dortmund-Ems Canal 6.40 hrs day 11 x 1000, 4 x 500 diverted to Strubby
4.1.45 Royan (France) 6.30 hrs night 1 x 4000, 16 x 500
7.1.44 [sic] Munich 8.45 hrs night 1 x 4000, 6 clusters
16.1.44 [sic] Brux 10.00 hrs night 1 x 4000 12 x 5
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Title
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List of Bert Adams operations
Description
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List of 29 operations as navigator on Lancaster of 467 Squadron between 10 September 1044 and 16 January 1945. Includes comments on each sortie with bomb load, flight times, fighters seen, weather, anti-aircraft fire, aircraft shot down.
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Five page typewritten document
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Personal research
Text. Memoir
Identifier
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MAdamsHG424504-170215-12, MAdamsHG424504-170215-13
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Atlantic Ocean--English Channel
Norway
Netherlands
France
Poland
Czech Republic
Germany
France--Le Havre
France--Boulogne-sur-Mer
Germany--Bremerhaven
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Mönchengladbach
Germany--Karlsruhe
Germany--Kaiserslautern
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Germany--Bremen
Netherlands--Walcheren
Norway--Bergen
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Hamburg Region
Germany--Düren (Cologne)
Norway--Trondheim
Germany--Euskirchen Region
Germany--Munich
Poland--Gdynia
Germany--Rheydt
France--Royan
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Czech Republic--Most
Temporal Coverage
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1944-09-10
1944-09-12
1944-09-17
1944-09-19
1944-09-23
1944-09-26
1944-09-27
1944-10-05
1944-10-06
1944-10-07
1944-10-19
1944-10-23
1944-10-28
1944-10-30
1944-11-02
1944-11-06
1944-11-11
1944-11-16
1944-11-21
1944-11-22
1944-12-11
1944-12-17
1944-12-18
1944-12-27
1945-01-01
1945-01-04
1945-01-07
1945-01-16
Creator
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H G Adams
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
467 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
incendiary device
Ju 88
navigator