IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> France]]> France--Aulnoye-Aymeries]]> France--Caen]]> France--Calais]]> France--Creil]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Pauillac (Gironde)]]> France--Poissy]]> France--Revigny-sur-Ornain]]> France--Versailles]]> Germany]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Emmerich]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hildesheim]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Osterfeld]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Zeitz]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10]]> 1943-11]]> 1943-12]]> 1944]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-04]]> Image #1: Front cover.
Image #2: Table of contents and foreword by Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff.
Image #3: Cartoon advocating the use of 'Pilots' All Notes' to reinforce flying instruction.

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Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Belgium]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> Belgium--Ghent]]> 1945-02]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Carlisle]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1945-02]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1945-02]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Broadstairs]]> 1945-02]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Ramsgate]]> England--Isle of Wight]]> England--Broadstairs]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1945-02]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Baldock]]> England--Newmarket (Suffolk)]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1945-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1945-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1944-08]]> 1945-02]]> Roy J de Niese]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sri Lanka--Ratmalana]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Surrey]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Saskatchewan--North Battleford]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Harrogate]]> Fiji]]> Fiji--Nadi]]> Australia]]> Saskatchewan]]> 1942-02]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-11-19]]> 1944-11]]> 1945-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shropshire]]> 1945-02]]> Lloyds bank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Bournemouth]]> 1945-02]]> Deployed to 61 Squadron, he flew as second pilot ("second dickey") on a number of daylight operations before undertaking night time operations. He feared the intense anti-aircraft fire but considers the German fighter with its upward firing cannon as the most dangerous.
Frank describes in detail the various exit ports used in an evacuation of the aircraft and the difficulties for some crew members.
He recalls that a tour was 34 operations, which was followed by six months as an instructor then required to carry out a second tour, except for the pathfinders who did 35 operations but were not required to carry out a second tour. Of his own tour, Frank carried out nine area bombings, twelve rail yard bombings, six primary target bombings and seven army support missions and dropped two hundred and ninety tons of bombs. One of the memorable missions was in February 1945, the bombing of Dresden which he bombed at 23.00 hours. On his return flight he could see the flames from 120 miles away. During the German offensive in the Ardennes, he flew missions in support of US troops.
After VE day he was trained for the Tiger Force and assigned to Okinawa but VJ day prevented his deployment. After his return to Australia he kept in touch with his former crew and his last reunion with them was in Lincoln.

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Holmes]]> Pending OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Dresden]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-05]]> 1948-08]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> 1945-02]]> W Sparkes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Lincoln]]> Norway]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> 1942]]> 1945-02]]> 1995-03-28]]> D Gill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> United States]]> Florida]]> France]]> France--Clermont-Ferrand]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Italy]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rheydt]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Norway]]> Norway--Tromsø]]> Germany--Euskirchen (Kreis)]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--IJmuiden]]> Poland]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden]]> Germany--Bielefeld]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Great Britain]]> New Brunswick]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1941-06-08]]> 1942-01-06]]> 1941-01-20]]> 1942-09-11]]> 1943-02-25]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-04-20]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-06-27]]> 1943-12-27]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-11-11]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-03-21]]>
This is the last letter he sent home. It arrived after the news of his death.

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JT Jones]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> EJonesJTJonesLM450217-0002,
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Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Greenhithe]]> England--Kent]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1945-02]]>
F Mannion]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Poland]]> Poland--Olsztyn (Voivodeship)]]> Germany]]> Germany--Luckenwalde]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> A J B Thompson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szubin]]> Germany]]> Germany--Bremen]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-04]]> 1942-11]]> 1943]]>
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J Layne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Diary]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Essen]]> France]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-11-09]]> 1943-11]]> 1943-12]]> 1944]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-05]]> 1945-05-09]]>
British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem]]> E M Thornton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1945-02]]>
Bottom - Letter which states that the personal effects of Flight Sergeant P R Jenkinson have been removed from the unit and are now at the central depository. Gives instructions for effects to be returned.]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Central Depository]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> 1945-02]]>
R Henderson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Poland]]> Poland--Łambinowice]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Görlitz (Görlitz)]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942-08-27]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-04]]> J Wareing]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Scunthorpe]]> England--Market Harborough]]> 1945-02]]>