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309 Items and a sub-collection of 51 items. Concerns Royal Air Force career of Wing Commander David Donaldson DSO and bar, DFC. A pilot, he joined the Royal Air Force Reserve in 1934. Mobilized in 1939. he undertook tours on 149, 57 and 156 and 192 Squadrons. He was photographed by Cecil Beaton at RAF Mildenhall in 1941. Collection contains a large number of letters to and from family members, friends as well as Royal Air Force personnel. Also included are personal and service documents, and his logbooks. In addition, there are photographs of family, service personnel and aircraft. After the war he became a solicitor. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Frances Grundy, his daughter.
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Cutting from the Times that was attached to the page with the entry for October 23rd 1940
THE TIMES WEDENESDAY DECEMBER 30 1953
[Photograph of a stone archway] The gatehouse entrance to St. Osyth’s Priory.
SALE OF ST. OSYTH’S PRIORY ESTATE
NEW OWNER’S PLANS
St. Osyth’s Priory estate, on the Colne estuary, near Colchester, Essex, has been bought by Mr Somerset de Chair. He intends to preserve the priory, which is in excellent architectural condition and includes a flint and ashlar gatehouse erected in 1475.
This historic place was bought in 1949 by the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds Friendly Society from Brigadier-General K. J. Kincaid-Smith for £30,000. It was then planned to build a war memorial in the grounds and to restore the thirteenth-century chapel.
St. Osyth’s Priory derives its name from Osyth, granddaughter of Penda, King of Mercia. When the Danes sacked the property, they killed the nuns and beheaded the Prioress Osyth. The priory was founded by Richard de Balmeis, Bishop of London, in 1118, on the site of a nunnery, but the earliest surviving building is the small chapel, with its fine groined arches supported on slender pillars.
Mr. de Chair informed The Times yesterday that he hoped to work the priory farm, and might convert the gatehouse into a pied-à-terre.
Lofts and Warner. Of London, and Percival and Co., of Sudbury, have acted as agents for the vendors in the sale of the estate.
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Newspaper cutting that was attached to the summary page for April 1943
THE COURSE OF NATURE
THE “MIRACLE OF SPRING”
FROM A CORRESPONDENT
The fine weather since Easter has brought things on. There is again the miracle of Spring. It is perhaps a minor miracle compared with April 1943, when by St. George’s Day the trees were leafy as in June, and the hedges heavy with the scent of hawthorn, so that many, seeing and smelling the billowing masses of white blossom, were content that this was out, and, not waiting for the following month’s exit to give permission, too hurriedly cast their clouts.
If in the woods there is as yet no density of green above, nor bridal white of wild cherry blossom, there is no lack of green and white below, for the bluebells, soon to bloom, have raised a thousand gleaming dark green spears, in contrast to which there are the dainty pale green shamrock leaves of wood sorrel, graced by pendant silver bells, most delicately veined. Pendant, too, on a dull or cloudy day, but raise and opening wide to the sun, are the white wood anemones, which now make a starry heaven underneath the trees. There are other stars, the glossy bright gold stars of the celandines, and, in ever-widening constellations, the “milky way” of primroses. In woodland, too, as well as in meadows, one finds the “lady-smocks all silver white” (though more usually the palest shade of mauve) as well as “violets blue,” which may be pale wood violets if the spur is darker than the petals or dark wood violets if the spur is paler, and it is often a creamy white. Such is the absurdity of some English names. Add to these the quaintly attractive green flowers of the moschatel, the small white flowers of the barren strawberry, and, where the ground drops to the merest trickle of a woodland stream, the pale gold of the golden saxifrage, and one has, indeed, a few short weeks from ice and snow, “the miracle of Spring.”
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THE TIMES
THE REGISTER [Crest]
DEBATE: THE HUTTON REPORT page 80 ▪ COURT & SOCIAL: MANOR OF DULWICH page 82
OBITUARIES
WING COMMANDER DAVID DONALDSON
Pilot who bombed Hitler’s invasion barges in Calais harbour and flew with the Pathfinders
[Photograph of a pilot leaning against the wing of an aircraft] Donaldson with a Wellington of 149 Squadron: the type was the mainstay of Bomber Command earlier in the war
IN WHAT was, given the cruel statistics of wartime flying, a remarkably long career on bombing operations, David Donaldson flew his first raids during the Battle of Britain in September 1940, when Bomber Command’s techniques were in their infancy, and he was still there at the end. He participated in Pathfinder ops in 1941, by which time the whole strategic air offensive had taken on a much more scientific cast and was beginning to achieve results. And he was still airborne over enemy territory on electronic countermeasures missions in the last months of the war, by which time the RAF, and the US Army Air Forces were masters of the skies over Western Europe.
In four tours of operations, Donaldson flew 86 sorties, a figure which put him well above the average survival chances. During Bomber Command’s worst days in 1941 and 1942 (if one discounts the virtual suicide missions against heavily defended German naval bases in December 1939), the average life in the command was as low as eight sorties.
David William Donaldson was born in 1915 at Southampton, a son of the managing director of the Thorneycroft shipyard. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a keen rower. Taking a boat over to Germany with the First Trinity Boat Club in the mid-1930s, he enjoyed the hospitality of boat clubs in the Rhineland – and at the same time became sharply aware of the culture of aggression that was taking over the German psyche with the advent of Hitler.
In 1934 he joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve as a weekend pilot, and did much of his flying training at Hamble. After graduating at Cambridge he had joined a firm of solicitors in London. But his articles were interrupted in September 1939 when he was called up.
After basic training he did operational training on Wellington bombers and on September 20 was sent to 149 (Wellington) Squadron at Mildenhall, Suffolk. No 149 had already been involved in some desperate missions: the forlorn-hope attack on German shipping at Wilhelmshaven on December 18, 1939; the equally hopeless attempt to stem the German advance in the Low Countries in May 1940; and a brave but futile transalpine lunge at Genoa in June after Italy had opportunistically entered the war on the German side. Now it was ordered to attack invasion barges which had been collected in Channel ports, and Donaldson’s first sortie was a daytime raid on Calais harbours.
With the end of the Battle of Britain, No 149 was redirected to strategic bombing. This was soon to be revealed as far too dangerous against flak and fighter defences by day, and was therefore conducted by night, which (frequent) bad weather made locating targets extremely difficult in the state of development of navigational aids at the time.
During the winter of 1940-41 the main effort was against targets in the relatively close Ruhr, but there was a much longer sortie, to Berlin, in vile weather, in October. This ended with Donaldson’s Wellington becoming completely lost on the return trip. At length, with fuel running perilously low, he achieved a casualty free forced manding at St. Osyth, near Clacton.
There were further attacks on northern Italian industrial cities, one of which, an attack on the Fiat works at Turin, Donaldson was asked by the BBC to describe a radio broadcast in December 1940. Instead of dwelling on the difficulties of such a mission, he eloquently described the majesty of the snow covered Alps for his audience.
Donaldson won his DFC for a highly successful raid on Merignac aerodrome, near Bordeaux, which he bombed from a height of 1,500ft, destroying its large hangars. Further publicity for these early efforts by Bomber Command came from his featuring in a series of propaganda photographs taken by Cecil Beaton, entitled A Day in the Life of a Bomber Pilot. Once of these, which features the aircrew of a 149 Squadron Wellington at Mildenhall, adorns the cover of a recently published video of the 1941 propaganda film Target for Tonight.
Donaldson was “rested” after completion of his tour in March 1941. But there was still plenty of flying to be done. He was seconded to the Air Ministry to help buy aircraft in the US. This turned out to involve hazardous ferry flying across the Atlantic of American aircraft that had been purchased, notably the invaluable Hudson long-range patrol bomber for Coastal Command.
In September Donaldson returned to operations with 57 Squadron, another Wellington unit. Bomber Command was faring no better than it had been earlier in terms of results, and an improvement in German air defences was increasing the rate of losses among aircrew, with corresponding effects on RAF morale. No 57 was roughly handled. In a raid over Düsseldorf in October, Donaldson’s aircraft was badly shot up and limped home without hydraulics. The undercarriage could not be lowered and the sortie ended with a crash landing at Marham. After several more raids Donaldson succumbed to the strain and at the end of the year was admitted to hospital.
After a period of sick leave he was posted as group tactical officer to 3 Group, but in July 1942 the air beckoned again when he was posted to No 15 Operational Training Unit for six months as a flight commander. Though this was not supposed to be a frontline unit, he did get in one operational trip, to Düsseldorf, during this period.
Then, in January 1943, he was appointed a flight commander to 156 Squadron, one of the original units of the Pathfinder Force, which had been making strides in the improvement of bombing through its marking techniques since its formation under the Australian Don Bennett six months previously. The four-engined Lancaster was now the mainstay of Bomber Command and both the weight and accuracy of the air offensive began to assume a different dimension. With No 156 Donaldson carried out 23 raids, and was awarded the DSO and promoted to wing commander at the end of his tour. Bennett himself said of Donaldson, “He has provided an example of determination and devotion to duty which it would be difficult to equal.”
Rested again in June 1943, Donaldson commanded a conversion unit and then went as a staff officer to No 100 (Special Duties) Group. The air war had changed out of all recognition and the need to be able to jam and confuse the enemy’s radars and radio direction beacons was well recognised.
In June 1944, just after D-Day, Donaldson was back in the air again in command of 192 (SD) Squadron. Flying a mixture of Wellingtons, Halifaxes and Mosquitoes, over the remaining months of the war No 192 sought out and jammed the enemy’s radio and communication systems using methods ranging from the well-tried “window” – dropping steel foil strips – to more sophisticated electronic deception techniques.
Leading the Squadron in a Halifax III, Donaldson flew 25 more sorties, some of them in daytime. On one daylight operation he was attacked by two Bf109s. Rather than trying to shoot it out against the cannon armed fighters with the Halifax’s 303in machineguns, Donaldson chose to evade the foe by violent and skilful evasive action, and brought his aircraft and crew safely home. He was awarded his second DSO in July 1945.
Donaldson had no ambition to further a career in the RAF and on demobilisation he resumed his law articles and qualified as a solicitor. After four years in the City firm Parker Garrett he joined National Employers Mutual Insurance, where he was at first company secretary and later a director. He left NEM to become chairman of an industrial tribunal, which he greatly enjoyed, presiding over some notable cases. He finally retired in 1987.
His wife Joyce, whom he married when she was a WAAF officer during the war, died in 1996. He is survived by a daughter and two sons.
Wing Commander David Donaldson, DSO and Bar, DFC, wartime bomber pilot and solicitor, was born on January 31, 1915. He died on January 15, 2004, aged 88.
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DAVID AND THE RAF
My brother David’s very distinguished wartime career with the RAF – two DSOs and a DFC, and promotion to Wing Commander at 28 – warrants a separate appendix to these family notes. He has kindly helped me to compile it by giving me the run of his log books, and I have supplemented them from a number of other sources.
He became interested in flying in he early 1930s. I recall him taking his small brother of 9 or 10 to an air show at Eastleigh and abandoning him while he went up as a passenger in a Tiger Moth doing aerobatics. That may well have given him the incentive to join the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1934 as a weekend pilot. He did much of his training at Hamble on the Solent. When war broke out in September 1939 he was called up immediately and had to abandon his legal training. He spent the “phoney war” towing target drogues at a bombing and gunnery school at Evanton in Scotland. His log books show him rated as an “average” pilot.
At the end of April 1940, just before the Germans attacked in the West, he went to Brize Norton for immediate training (earning an “above-average” rating) and then to Harwell for operational training on Wellingtons, the main twin-engined heavy bomber of the early war years. On 20th September, just as the Battle of Britain was ending, he was posted to his first operational squadron, No 149, part of No 3 Group, at the big pre-war station at Mildenhall. His first operational sortie was over Calais towards the end of September, no doubt to attack the invasion barges.
Over the following five months he took part in some 31 night raids. The German defence at this time was relatively feeble by comparison with what was to follow, and so the tour was correspondingly tolerable; however bitter experience had shown that day bombing was much too costly, and the night bombing techniques were very inaccurate. His first raid on Berlin, at the end of October, was particularly eventful; they got hopelessly lost on their return, came in over Bristol, and ended up over Clacton as dawn was breaking with very little fuel left. There both the Army and the Navy opened up on them, and even the Home Guard succeeded in putting a bullet through the wing. They eventually made a forced crash landing at St. Osyth. The Home Guard commander, a retired general, entertained him generously and he finally got back to Mildenhall where his Group Captain forgave him for the damaged aircraft and advised him to go out and get drunk. He took the advice, and in the pub he met a WAAF whom he married eight months later (maybe that is why he remembers that particular day so well.)
The gauntlet of Friendly Fire seems to have been a not uncommon hazard to be faced. On another occasion, when he had to make three circuits returning to Mildenhall, the airfield machine gunners opened fire on him from ground level; he thought they were higher up and judged his height accordingly, and narrowly missed the radio masts which were not, as he thought, below him.
The longest raids on this tour were trips of over ten hours to Italy: to Venice, which they overflew at low level, and to the Fiat works at Turin. He described the latter raid, and the spectacular views of the Alps it afforded, in a BBC broadcast in December 1940. The commonest targets were the Ruhr and other German cities, and some raids were made at lower level on shipping in French ports. The raid which won him the DFC was on 22nd November, on Merignac aerodrome near Bordeaux, which “difficult target he attacked from a height of 1,500 feet and successfully bombed hangars, causing large fires and explosions. As a result of his efforts the task of following aircraft was made easier … He has at all times displayed conspicuous determination and devotion to duty.”
It was at Mildenhall that he featured in a series of propaganda photos by Cecil Beaton,
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“A Day in the Life of a Bomber Pilot”; they were given a good deal of publicity and in fact David appears in one of them on the cover of a recently published video of the 1941 propaganda film “Target for Tonight”, also made with the help of 149 Squadron – though he did not take part in the film. Beaton describes the occasion at some length in his published diaries, though he has thoroughly scrambled the names and personalities, and he “demoted David from captain to co-pilot in his scenario.
On completion of this tour, early in March 1941, David was detached on secondment to the Air Ministry to assist with buying aircraft in North America, and later to ferry aircraft within North America and across the Atlantic – he flew the Atlantic at least twice in Hudsons, taking 12 hours or more.
The “chop rate” 1 in Bomber Command increased substantially during the first half of 1941. This coupled with increasing doubts about the value of the results obtained led to a serious decline in aircrew morale. During the summer of 1941 the Germans had considerable success with intruders – fighter aircraft attacking the bombers as they took off or landed at their own bases. At the end of September David returned to No 3 Group and joined No 57 Squadron at Feltwell, still with Wellingtons. His third raid, over Dusseldorf on October 13th, was particularly difficult; they were badly shot up and with their hydraulics out of action they crash landed at Marham on their return. After two more raids the strain finally proved too much and he was admitted to hospital just before Christmas 1941; for the next two months he was there or on sick leave. From then until mid-July he was Group Tactical Officer at HQ No 3 Group, and not directly involved in operations. In July 1942 he was posted to No 15 Operational Training Unit, at Harwell and Hampstead Norris, where he spent six months as a flight commander flying Ansons and Wellingtons, though he did participate in one raid on Dusseldorf while he was there.
In spite of the appointment of Harris in early 1942 and the introduction of the Gee radio navigational aid, results were still considered disappointing, particularly over the Ruhr, and serious questions were raised about the future of Bomber Command. To improve matters, in August 1942 the elite Pathfinder Force was set up under Don Bennett, albeit in the face of considerable opposition from most of the group commanders who were reluctant to lose their best crews to it. At least initially, all the crews joining it had to be volunteers, and to be ready to undertake extended tours. Their task was to fly ahead of the Main Force in four waves; the Supporters, mainly less experienced crew carrying HE bombs, who were to saturate the defences and draw the flak; the Illuminators, who lit up the aiming point with flares; and the Primary Markers and Backer Up who marked the aiming point with indicators. Their methods became more and more refined as the war went on. The increased accuracy required of them, and their position at the head of the bomber stream, inevitably exposed them to greater danger and a higher casualty rate than those of the Main Force.
No 156 Squadron was one of the original units in the Force; it operated from the wartime airfield of Warboys with Wellingtons until the end of 1942 and thereafter with 4-engined Lancasters, the very successful heavy bomber which was the mainstay of Bomber Command in the later years. The squadron flew a total of 4,584 sorties with the loss of 143 aircraft – a ratio of 3.12%. David joined it in January 1943, again as a flight commander. In the following four months he carried out a further 23 raids (all but one as a pathfinder) in Lancasters. The log books note occasional problems – “coned 2”, “shot up on way
1 The average sortie life of aircrew in the Command was never higher than 9.2 and at one time was as low as eight, and during the dark days of 1941-1943 the average survival chances of anyone starting a 30-sortie tour was consistently under 40% and sometimes under 30%. In one disastrous raid, on Nuremburg in March 1944, 795 planes set out, 94 were shot down and another 12 crashed in Britain. During the war as a whole, out of some 125,000 aircrew who served with Bomber Command, 55,000 died.
2 “Coned” – caught in a cone of converging searchlights, as experience which says put him off hunting for life.
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in”, “slight flak damage”, and so on. Much of the period became known as the Battle of the Ruhr, though other targets were also being attacked. He told me once that the raid he was really proud to have been on was the one where instead of marking the targeted town (I think Dortmund) they marked in error a nearby wood, which the main force behind them duly obliterated; only after the war did the Germans express their admiration for the British Intelligence which had identified the highly secret installation hidden in the wood …
One of the pages in his log book has a cutting from the Times inserted, evidently dated some years later, recalling how in April 1943 the spring came very early and the hedges were billowing with white hawthorn blossom. This puzzled me until I read in a book on 156 Squadron how that blossom had come to have the same significance for them as the Flanders poppies of the 1914-1918 war.
David was promoted to Wing Commander half way through the tour (pathfinders rated one rank above the comparable level elsewhere), and awarded the DSO towards the end of it. The recommendation for this said that he had “at all times pressed home his attacks with the utmost determination and courage in the face of heavy ground defences and fighters. As a pilot he shows powers of leadership and airmanship which have set an outstanding example to the rest of the squadron” – and Bennett himself added, noting that David had just flown four operational sorties in the last five days, “he has provided an example of determination and devotions to duty which it would be difficult to equal.”
On the end of this tour in June 1943, he was sent to command No 1667 Conversion Unit at Lindholme and later Faldingworth. In December 1943 he transferred to a staff appointment at the headquarters of the newly formed 100 (SD) Group at West Raynham and later Bylaugh Hall. At this stage in the war the methods of attack and defence were growing increasingly complex, and this group was formed as a Bomber Support Group, including nightfighters, deceptive measures, and radio countermeasures (RCM). In June 1944, just after D-Day, he was given command of No 192 (SD) Squadron based at Foulsham, another wartime airfield. This squadron had been formed in January 1943 as a specialist RCM unit, and it pioneered this type of operation in Bomber Command; it flew more sorties and suffered more losses (19 aircraft) than any other RCM squadron. While RCM and electronic intelligence were its primary purpose, its aircraft often carried bombs and dropped them on the Main Force targets. RCM took a number of forms – swamping enemy radar and jamming it with “window” tinfoil, looking for new radar types and gaps in its coverage, deceptive R/T transmissions to nightfighters and so on – and one of the attractions of the work was the considerable measure of autonomy, and the freedom to plan their own operations. These extended to tasks such as searching for V2 launch sites (recorded as “whizzers” in David’s log book) and trying to identify the radio signals associated with them, and supporting the invasion of Walcheren in September. The squadron was equipped with Wellingtons (phased out at the end of 1944), Halifaxes and Mosquitoes, plus a detachment of USAAF Lightnings.
This role was the climax of his career, and lasted until the end of the war and after. It involved him in 25 operational sorties, all in Halifax IIIs, the much improved version of this initially disappointing 4-engined heavy bomber. They carried special electronic equipment and an extra crew member known as the Special Operator. The record of these sorties in the log books, for the most part so formal and statistical up to this point, becomes a little more anecdotal: “rubber-necking on beach “ (when he took two senior officers to see the breaching of the dykes at Walcheren), “Munster shambles”, “Lanc blew up and made small hole in aircraft [but only] 4 lost out of 1200!” The furthest east he went was to Gdynia in Poland; on returning from there he had the privilege of becoming the first heavy aircraft to land at Foulsham using the FIDO fog dispersal system. “Finger Finger Fido” was the cryptic comment in the log book.
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A number of these sorties were daytime; on one of them, on September 13th, he was chased home by two ME109s which made six attacks on him. One of them opened fire but thanks to violent evasive action his aircraft was undamaged: his own gunners never got a chance to fire. No doubt it was skill of this sort, as well as his survival record, which gave his crew great faith in David’s ability to get them home safely. An encounter on December 29th 1944, on a Window patrol over the Ruhr, was not quite so satisfying; they claimed to have damaged a Ju88 which subsequently proved to be an unhurt Mosquito X from Swannington – and the Mosquito had identified them as a Lancaster. The log book entry concludes “Oh dear. FIDO landing, flew into ground. What a day.”
He was awarded a bar to his DSO in July 1945. The recommendation, made in March, recorded that “since being posted to his present squadron he has carried out every one of his sorties in the same exemplary fashion and has set his crews an extremely high standard of devotion to duty and bravery. This standard has had a direct influence on the whole specialist work of the squadron.
“He has been personally responsible for the planning of all the sorties carried out by his special duty unit and by his brilliant understanding and quick appreciation of the everchanging nature of the investigational role of his squadron, much of the success of the investigations performed by his aircraft can be attributed to him. He has shown himself to be fearless and cool in the face of danger, and towards the end of his tour made a point of putting himself on the most arduous and difficult operations.
“Both on the ground and in the air he has been untiring and has not spared himself in his efforts to get his squadron up to the high standard which it has now reached.”
The squadron was disbanded in September, by which time David had completed 501 hours of operations against the enemy in 86 sorties, the great majority of them as captain of his aircraft, He had no ambition to make a permanent career in the RAF; he has commented to Richard that this fact gave him a degree of independence in his dealing with his superiors that he thinks they appreciated and valued. He was demobilised in November and returned to his interrupted law studies.
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I showed these notes to David, who thought them well written but suggested that they gave a twisted view of the reality – a reaction that I can understand. Since then, however, I have managed to contact one man who flew with David: HB (Hank) Cooper DSO DFC, who first met David in 149 Squadron which he joined in January 1941 as a wireless operator / air gunner for his first tour, and later did two tours as a Special Operator in 192 Squadron, the second of them under David’s command. On two occasions he flew as a member of David’s crew.
He has written of David that “he was always completely fearless and outstandingly brave and pressed home his attacks to the uttermost. As the Squadron’s CO he generated loyalty and warmth, he was an outstanding model to follow. He spent much trouble and time encouraging his junior air crews as well as helping and seeing to the needs of the ground technicians who serviced the aircraft, generally in cold and difficult conditions. He was completely non-boastful, in fact he belittled his own actions (which were always of the highest order) when discussing air operations. (That rings very true!) He was an outstanding squadron commander in all respects, much liked and completely respected by all his air crews and ground crews.”
GND
March 2002
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Temple Bar 1217
TEL. Extn. 2631
Correspondence on the subject of this letter should be addressed to:-
PS. THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,
AIR MINISTRY S. 7. E.
and should quote the reference:-
S.7.e/79693.
[Crest] AIR MINISTRY,
LONDON, W.C.2.
26 March, 1949.
Sir,
I am directed to refer to your letter dated 21st March, 1949, regarding those awards due to you in respect of your service in the 1939/45 World War, and to inform you that your entitlement to the 1939/45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star with the France and Germany Clasp, and the War Medal has been established. These awards will be despatched to you shortly.
2. It is regretted that as you did not complete three years wartime non-operational service in the United Kingdom, the Defence Medal cannot be authorised. The Air Efficiency Award will not be ready for issue for some time. Application will not be necessary, but I am to request that you will notify this Department of any change in your permanent address, so that the award may be sent to you as soon as it becomes available.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
[Signature]
Wing Commander D.W. Donaldson, D.S.O., D.F.C.,
1a, Crescent Place,
London, S.W.3.
[Crest] Rep’d 29/3/49 & pointed out total of No of service in UK was 3 yrs 4 mth 120 day
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Pilots flying log book for David W Donaldson. This is a newly bound compilation of 3 log books covering the period from 12 March 1938 to 19 September 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, Instructor duties and special duties flying. He was stationed at RAF Hamble, RAF Hanworth, RAF Evanton, RAF Brize Norton, RAF Harwell, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Feltwell, RAF Wyton, RAF Exning, RAF Hampstead Norris, RAF Warboys, RAF Lindholme, RAF West Raynham, RAF Bylaugh Hall and RAF Foulsham. Aircraft flown were, Cadet, B2, Hart, Hind, Magister, Henley, Oxford, Wellington, Hudson, Mentor, Anson, Lancaster, Tiger Moth, Halifax, Proctor and Moth Minor. He flew a total of 86 Night operations, 31 with 149 squadron, 5 with 57 squadron, 1 with 15 OTU, 23 With 156 squadron and 26 with 192 squadron. Targets were, Calais, Le Havre, Flushing, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Duisburg, Merignac, Mannheim, Turin, Bordeaux, Lorient, Bremen, Venice, Wilhelmshaven, Hannover, Brest, Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Dusseldorf, Emden, Milan, Nurnberg, Stuttgart, St Nazaire, Kiel, Frankfurt, Spezia, Dortmund, Pilsen, Munster, North Sea, Walcheren, Bochum, Hagen, Merseburg, Gdynia, Wiesbaden, Politz, Chemnitz, Ladbergen, Dessau, Stade, Moblis and Berchtesgarten. His first or second pilots on operations were Pilot Officer Woollatt, Pilot Officer Morrison, Flying Officer Henderson, Sergeant Horn, Pilot Officer Garton, Pilot Officer Pelletier, Sergeant Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Meir, Major Leboutte, Flying Officer Parr, Wing Commander Chisholm and Wing Commander Willis. The log book contains newspaper clippings and a summary of his exploits written by his brother.
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eng
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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.
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1940-09-25
1940-10-01
1940-10-02
1940-10-09
1940-10-10
1940-10-13
1940-10-14
1940-10-15
1940-10-16
1940-10-21
1940-10-22
1940-10-23
1940-10-24
1940-11-06
1940-11-07
1940-11-08
1940-11-09
1940-11-13
1940-11-14
1940-11-15
1940-11-16
1940-11-17
1940-11-18
1940-11-19
1940-11-20
1940-11-22
1940-11-23
1940-11-28
1940-11-29
1940-12-04
1940-12-05
1940-12-08
1940-12-09
1940-12-20
1940-12-21
1940-12-23
1940-12-24
1940-12-28
1940-12-29
1941-01-02
1941-01-03
1941-01-09
1941-01-10
1941-01-12
1941-01-13
1941-01-29
1941-01-30
1941-02-10
1941-02-11
1941-02-12
1941-02-14
1941-02-15
1941-02-21
1941-02-22
1941-02-24
1941-02-25
1941-02-26
1941-02-27
1941-03-01
1941-03-02
1941-09-30
1941-10-01
1941-10-03
1941-10-13
1941-10-14
1941-10-22
1941-10-23
1941-11-26
1941-11-27
1942-09-10
1942-09-11
1943-02-13
1943-02-14
1943-02-15
1943-02-19
1943-02-20
1943-02-24
1943-02-25
1943-02-26
1943-03-08
1943-03-09
1943-03-10
1943-03-11
1943-03-12
1943-03-13
1943-03-22
1943-03-23
1943-03-27
1943-03-28
1943-03-29
1943-03-30
1943-04-04
1943-04-05
1943-04-10
1943-04-11
1943-04-13
1943-04-14
1943-04-26
1943-04-27
1943-05-04
1943-05-05
1943-05-12
1943-05-13
1943-05-14
1943-05-23
1943-05-24
1943-05-25
1943-05-26
1943-06-12
1943-06-13
1943-12-21
1943-12-22
1944-09-03
1944-09-13
1944-10-03
1944-10-25
1944-11-04
1944-11-05
1944-11-18
1944-12-04
1944-12-05
1944-12-06
1944-12-07
1944-12-18
1944-12-19
1944-12-29
1944-12-30
1945-01-05
1945-01-06
1945-01-28
1945-01-29
1945-02-02
1945-02-03
1945-02-08
1945-02-09
1945-02-14
1945-02-15
1945-03-03
1945-03-04
1945-03-07
1945-03-08
1945-04-02
1945-04-03
1945-04-07
1945-04-08
1945-04-25
1945-04-26
1945-05-12
1945-06-23
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mike Connock
Anne-Marie Watson
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
Atlantic Ocean--English Channel
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
Czech Republic--Plzeň
England--Berkshire
England--Cambridgeshire
England--London
England--Hampshire
England--Norfolk
England--Oxfordshire
England--Suffolk
England--Yorkshire
France--Brest
France--Calais
France--Cherbourg
France--Dunkerque
France--Le Havre
France--Lorient
France--Saint-Nazaire
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Berchtesgaden
Germany--Bochum
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Chemnitz
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dessau (Dessau)
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)
Germany--Essen
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Hannover
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Leipzig Region
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony)
Germany--Steinfurt Region (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Wiesbaden
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Italy--Milan
Italy--La Spezia
Italy--Turin
Italy--Venice
Netherlands--Vlissingen
Netherlands--Walcheren
Poland--Gdynia
Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)
Scotland--Ross and Cromarty
Germany--Münster in Westfalen
France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
France--Mérignac (Gironde)
100 Group
149 Squadron
15 OTU
156 Squadron
1667 HCU
192 Squadron
57 Squadron
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
bombing
Bombing and Gunnery School
Cook’s tour
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Service Order
Flying Training School
Gee
Halifax
Heavy Conversion Unit
Hudson
Lancaster
Magister
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
Pathfinders
pilot
Proctor
RAF Brize Norton
RAF Evanton
RAF Feltwell
RAF Foulsham
RAF Hampstead Norris
RAF Harwell
RAF Lindholme
RAF Mildenhall
RAF Warboys
RAF West Raynham
RAF Wyton
Tiger Moth
training
Wellington
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/934/22537/LLovattP1821369v1.1.pdf
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Title
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Lovatt, Peter
Dr Peter Lovatt
P Lovatt
Description
An account of the resource
117 items. An oral history interview with Peter Lovatt (b.1924, 1821369 Royal Air Force), his log book, documents, and photographs. The collection also contains two photograph albums. He flew 42 operations as an air gunner on 223 Squadron flying B-24s. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1338">Album One</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2135">Album Two</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Nina and Peter Lovatt and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-09-27
2019-09-03
Rights
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Lovatt, P
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Peter Lovatt's navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Description
An account of the resource
Flying log book for Peter Lovatt covering the period from 12 April 1944 to 20 June 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Burnaston (16 EFTS), RAF Barrow/Walney Island (10 AGS), RAF Oulton (223 Squadron). Aircraft flown in were Tiger Moth, Anson, Liberator, Fortress. He flew a total of 38 night-time bomber support operations with 223 Squadron, many providing Window cover for the main force. Main force targets were Duisburg, Denmark, Bochum, Hanover, western Ruhr, Neuss, Essen, Gladbach, Merseburg, Karlsruhe, Ludwigshaven, Mannheim, Nurnburg, Magdeburg, Stuttgart, Siegen, Dresden, Wiesbaden, Wotton, Dortmund-Ems canal, Freiburg, Kamen, Munster, Frankfurt, Ulm, Hamburg, Kiel, Augsburg and Wesel. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Hastie and Flying Officer Spicer.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Terry Hancock
Format
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One booklet
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Identifier
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LLovattP1821369v1
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
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Rights
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Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Text. Log book and record book
Conforms To
An established standard to which the described resource conforms.
Pending review
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Denmark
Germany
Great Britain
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
England--Cumbria
England--Derbyshire
England--Norfolk
Germany--Augsburg
Germany--Bochum
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Essen
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Mönchengladbach
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Kamen
Germany--Karlsruhe
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Germany--Magdeburg
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Münster in Westfalen
Germany--Neuss
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Siegen
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Ulm
Germany--Wiesbaden
Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Hannover
Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944-10-07
1944-10-09
1944-10-11
1944-10-19
1944-10-25
1944-10-26
1944-11-01
1944-11-04
1944-11-18
1944-11-21
1944-11-28
1944-11-30
1944-12-02
1944-12-04
1944-12-12
1944-12-15
1944-12-17
1944-12-21
1944-12-24
1945-01-05
1945-01-07
1945-01-08
1945-01-14
1945-01-16
1945-01-22
1945-01-28
1945-01-29
1945-02-01
1945-02-02
1945-02-03
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-15
1945-02-20
1945-02-21
1945-02-23
1945-02-24
1945-02-28
1945-02-29
1945-03-03
1945-03-07
1945-03-13
1945-03-23
1945-03-24
1945-04-02
1945-04-03
1945-04-08
1945-04-09
1945-04-13
1945-04-14
1945-04-15
1945-04-16
1945-05-17
1699 HCU
223 Squadron
air gunner
Air Gunnery School
aircrew
Anson
B-17
B-24
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Cook’s tour
Flying Training School
Heavy Conversion Unit
Ju 88
RAF Barrow in Furness
RAF Oulton
Tiger Moth
training
Window
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/809/22583/LEdmundsAE430709v1.2.pdf
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Title
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Edmunds, Eddie
Albert Ernest Edmunds
A E Edmunds
Description
An account of the resource
Three items. An oral history with Eddie Edmunds DFC (b. 1917, 430709 Royal Air Force), his log book and one photograph. He flew operations with 106 and 608 Squadrons. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Albert Edward Edmunds and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-09-13
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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
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Edmunds, AE
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Title
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Albert Edward Edmunds’ pilots flying log book
Description
An account of the resource
Pilots flying log book for A E Edmunds, covering the period from 18 August 1941 to 4 October 1945. Detailing his flying training, Operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAF Penhold, RAF Hatfield, RAF Prestwick, RAF Dishforth, RAF Kirmington, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Wigsley, RAF Syerston, RAF Peplow (also known as RAF Childs Ercall), RAF Church Broughton, RAF Hixon, RAF Barford St John, RAF Downham Market, RAF Warboys and RAF Gransden Lodge. Aircraft flown were, Tiger Moth, Oxford, Hudson, Ventura, Wellington, Manchester, Lancaster, Martinet, Mosquito and Mitchell. He flew a total of 44 night operations, 30 with 106 squadron and 14 with 608 sqaudron. Targets were, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne, Lorient, Milan, Bremen, Nuremburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Essen, St Nazaire, Kiel, Spezia, Dortmund, Pilsen, Bochum, Oberhausen, Krefeld, Berlin and Schleissheim. His pilot for his first 'second dickie' operation was Pilot Officer Lace. The log book also list his post war civilian flying.
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
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.
Format
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One booklet
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
LEdmundsAE430709v1
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.
Canada
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
Alberta--Red Deer Region
Czech Republic--Plzeň
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Derbyshire
England--Hertfordshire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Norfolk
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Oxfordshire
England--Shropshire
England--Staffordshire
England--Yorkshire
France--Lorient
France--Saint-Nazaire
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Bochum
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Essen
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Krefeld
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)
Germany--Oberschleissheim
Germany--Stuttgart
Italy--La Spezia
Italy--Milan
Scotland--South Ayrshire
Alberta
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1942-12-20
1942-12-21
1943-01-27
1943-01-28
1943-01-30
1943-01-31
1943-02-02
1943-02-03
1943-02-04
1943-02-07
1943-02-08
1943-02-13
1943-02-14
1943-02-15
1943-02-16
1943-02-17
1943-02-21
1943-02-22
1943-03-08
1943-03-09
1943-03-10
1943-03-11
1943-03-12
1943-03-13
1943-03-22
1943-03-23
1943-04-04
1943-04-05
1943-04-08
1943-04-09
1943-04-10
1943-04-13
1943-04-14
1943-04-26
1943-04-27
1943-04-30
1943-05-01
1943-05-04
1943-05-05
1943-05-12
1943-05-13
1943-05-14
1943-05-23
1943-05-24
1943-05-25
1943-05-26
1943-06-11
1943-06-12
1943-06-13
1943-06-14
1943-06-15
1943-06-21
1943-06-22
1945-03-13
1945-03-14
1945-03-15
1945-03-16
1945-03-17
1945-03-18
1945-03-21
1945-03-22
1945-03-23
1945-03-26
1945-03-27
1945-03-28
1945-04-02
1945-04-03
1945-04-11
1945-04-12
1945-04-13
1945-04-14
1945-04-16
1945-04-17
1945-04-19
1945-04-20
1945-04-21
1945-04-22
1945-04-24
1945-04-25
1945-06-02
1945-06-07
1945-06-12
1945-06-19
1945-06-27
1945-07-09
1945-07-23
1945-08-03
106 Squadron
16 OTU
1654 HCU
27 OTU
30 OTU
608 Squadron
83 OTU
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
B-25
bombing
Cook’s tour
Flying Training School
Heavy Conversion Unit
Hudson
Initial Training Wing
Lancaster
Manchester
Martinet
Mosquito
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
pilot
RAF Barford St John
RAF Church Broughton
RAF Dishforth
RAF Downham Market
RAF Gransden Lodge
RAF Hatfield
RAF Hixon
RAF Kirmington
RAF Peplow
RAF Prestwick
RAF Syerston
RAF Upper Heyford
RAF Warboys
RAF Wigsley
Tiger Moth
training
Ventura
Wellington
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1355/28011/LJacksonL1897934v1.1.pdf
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Title
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Jackson, L
Jackson, Les
Description
An account of the resource
Two items. The collection concerns Les Jackson (b.1925, 1897934 Royal Air force). He flew operations as an air gunner with 103 Squadron. It contains his log book and an audio memoir.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by C Thompson and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-05-28
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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
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Jackson, L
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Title
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Les Jackson’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Description
An account of the resource
Flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers for L Jackson, air gunner, covering the period from 28 May 1944 to 16 June 1947. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAF Bishops Court, RAF Peplow, RAF Lichfield, RAF Blyton, RAF Elsham Wolds, RAF Scampton and RAF Lindholme. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Wellington and Lancaster. He flew a total of 11 operations with 103 squadron, 7 daylight and 4 night. Targets were Misberg, Nuremberg, Hanau, Bremen, Hildseheim, Paderborn, Nordenhausen, Lutzkendorf, Heligoland and Berchtesgarden. He also flew 3 Manna to Rotterdam, 1 Exodus and 1 Dodge to Pomigliano, with 103 squadron. He flew post war duties with 57 squadron. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Wilson.
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
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.
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
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
LJacksonL1897934v1
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.
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Netherlands
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
England--Lincolnshire
England--Shropshire
England--Staffordshire
England--Yorkshire
Germany--Berchtesgaden
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Hamburg Region
Germany--Hanau
Germany--Helgoland
Germany--Hildesheim
Germany--Merseburg Region
Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Paderborn
Italy--Pomigliano d'Arco
Netherlands--Rotterdam
Northern Ireland--Down (County)
Great Britain
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944
1945
1946
1947
1945-03-15
1945-03-16
1945-03-17
1945-03-18
1945-03-19
1945-03-21
1945-03-22
1945-03-28
1945-04-02
1945-04-04
1945-04-05
1945-04-17
1945-04-22
1945-04-25
1945-04-29
1945-05-01
1945-05-03
1945-05-07
1945-05-10
1945-10-01
103 Squadron
1653 HCU
1662 HCU
27 OTU
57 Squadron
83 OTU
air gunner
Air Gunnery School
aircrew
Anson
bombing
bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945)
Heavy Conversion Unit
Ju 88
Lancaster
Operation Dodge (1945)
Operation Exodus (1945)
Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945)
Operational Training Unit
RAF Bishops Court
RAF Blyton
RAF Elsham Wolds
RAF Lichfield
RAF Lindholme
RAF Peplow
RAF Scampton
training
Wellington
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/2081/34442/SWeirG19660703v020001.2.pdf
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Title
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Weir, Greg. Lodder, Allan
Description
An account of the resource
Three items. Collection concerns Flying Officer Alan Lodder (b 1923, Royal Australian Air Force) a Halifax pilot, he flew operation with 462 Squadron from November 1944 until February 1945 when he was shot down and taken prisoner. Collection contains his flying log book, newspaper cutting and German currency.
The collection was catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2017-04-26
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Weir, G
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Allan Lodder's pilots flying log book
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
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
Identifier
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SWeirG19660703v020001
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IBCC Digital Archive
Description
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Pilots flying log book for A M Lodder, covering the period from 15 February 1943 to 16 April 1945, when his aircraft failed to return from operations, he subsequently returned. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAAF Narrandera, RAAF Bundaberg, RAF Fairoaks, RAF Babdown Farm, RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, RAF Enstone, RAF Dishforth, RAF Driffield and RAF Foulsham. Aircraft flown in were Tiger Moth, Anson, Oxford, Wellington, and Halifax. He flew a total of 19 operations with 462 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force. Targets were Hagen, Duisburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dortmund, Mannheim, Mainz, Ruhr Region, Stade, Lechfeld and Augsburg. 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
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1943
1944-12-02
1944-12-03
1944-12-18
1944-12-19
1944-12-21
1944-12-22
1945-01-02
1945-01-03
1945-01-06
1945-01-07
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1945-01-28
1945-01-29
1945-02-01
1945-02-02
1945-02-03
1945-02-08
1945-02-09
1945-02-10
1945-02-11
1945-03-30
1945-03-31
1945-04-02
1945-04-03
1945-04-15
1945-04-16
1945-04-17
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Australia
Germany
Great Britain
England--Gloucestershire
England--Norfolk
England--Surrey
England--Yorkshire
Germany--Augsburg
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Graben (Bavaria)
Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)
Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony)
New South Wales--Narrandera
Queensland--Bundaberg
New South Wales
Queensland
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Contributor
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Mike Connock
100 Group
1664 HCU
21 OTU
462 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
Flying Training School
Halifax
Halifax Mk 3
Halifax Mk 5
Heavy Conversion Unit
Initial Training Wing
missing in action
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
pilot
RAF Dishforth
RAF Driffield
RAF Fairoaks
RAF Foulsham
RAF Moreton in the Marsh
Tiger Moth
training
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/2087/34541/SWeirG19660703v080004.1.pdf
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Title
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Weir, Greg. Langworthy, Max
Langworthy, GM
Description
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Ten items and fifty-two items in two sub-collections. Collection concerns Flt Lt Geoffrey Maxwell Michell (Max) Langworthy (428848, Royal Australian Air Force). A Halifax pilot, he flew operations on 462 Squadron from November 1944 to April 1945. Collection contains photographs (including two albums in sub-collections), documents and his log book.
Collection was catalogued by Nigel Huckins
Date
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201-04-26
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Weir, G
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Title
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G M (Max) Langworthy - Royal Australian Air Force Flying Log Book
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
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
Conforms To
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Pending review
Identifier
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SWeirG19660703v080004
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IBCC Digital Archive
Description
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Royal Australian Air Force Log Book for Max Langworthy, pilot. Covers period 8 January 1943 to 15 February 1958. Includes his training, operations and post-war flying. He was based at RAF Babdown Farm, RAF Bibury, RAF Morton in Marsh, RAF Rufforth, RAF Driffield and RAF Foulsham. Aircraft flown were Tiger Moth, Anson, Oxford, Halifax and Auster. Serving with 462 Squadron he flew 27 operations of which 3 were daylight and 24 night. Operations 12 and onwards were providing radio counter measures. Targets were Walcheren, Dusseldorf, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, Sterkrade, Essen, Duisburg, Hagen, Soest, Osnabruck, Hamburg, Mannheim, Cochem, Mainz, Heilbronn, Krefeld, Neuss, Kaiserlautern, Dortmund-Ems canal, Frankfurt, Stade, Lubeck and Wangerooge. He also flew 6 Cook's Tours flights. His pilot for his first 'second dickie' operation was Flight Lieutenant Cuttriss.<br /><br /><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226334026 BCX0">This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No </span><span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW226334026 BCX0">better quality</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW226334026 BCX0"> copies are available.</span>
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944-10-29
1944-11-02
1944-11-04
1944-11-06
1944-11-21
1944-11-28
1944-11-30
1944-12-02
1944-12-05
1944-12-06
1944-12-12
1945-01-01
1945-01-14
1945-01-17
1945-01-22
1945-01-28
1945-02-02
1945-02-20
1945-02-22
1945-02-24
1945-03-01
1945-03-03
1945-03-05
1945-03-13
1945-04-02
1945-04-23
1945-04-25
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
1663 HCU
21 OTU
462 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
Cook’s tour
crash
Flying Training School
Halifax
Halifax Mk 2
Halifax Mk 3
Halifax Mk 5
Heavy Conversion Unit
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
pilot
RAF Driffield
RAF Foulsham
RAF Moreton in the Marsh
RAF Rufforth
Tiger Moth
training
Wellington
Window
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1420/36158/LHiltonVT430281v1.2.pdf
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Title
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Hilton, Vaughn Thomas
V T Hilton
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-06-09
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Hilton, VT
Description
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Three items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Vaughn Thomas Hilton (430281 Royal Australian Air Force) and contains his log book, his biography and his identity card.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by John Lawrence
Hilton and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
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V T Hilton’s observer’s air gunner’s and w/t operators flying log book
Description
An account of the resource
Observer’s air gunner’s and w/t operators flying log book for V T Hilton, wireless operator, covering the period from 19 July 1943 to 16 April 1945. He was stationed at RAAF Parkes, RAAF Port Pririe, RAF Dumfries, RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Rufforth and RAF Foulsham. Aircraft flown in were Battle, Anson, Wellington, Halifax and Oxford. He flew a total of 32 operations with 192 Squadron, 2 daylight and 30 night. Targets were Leverkusen, Dusseldorf, Bochum, Merseburg, Bonn, Cologne, Nuremberg, Magdeburg, Gelsenkirchen, Dortmund, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Stettin, Bohlen, Chemnitz, Ladbergen, Dessau, Stade, Weissenberg, Plauen, Kiel, Including special duty operations and bomber support Window operations. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Morley.
Temporal Coverage
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1943
1944
1945
1944-10-07
1944-10-08
1944-10-09
1944-10-26
1944-11-02
1944-11-04
1944-11-10
1944-11-21
1944-11-26
1944-11-27
1944-12-01
1944-12-02
1944-12-04
1944-12-05
1944-12-06
1944-12-07
1944-12-17
1944-12-18
1944-12-19
1944-12-28
1944-12-30
1945-01-02
1945-01-14
1945-01-15
1945-01-16
1945-01-17
1945-01-22
1945-01-23
1945-02-03
1945-02-05
1945-02-07
1945-02-08
1945-02-09
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-15
1945-02-20
1945-02-21
1945-03-03
1945-03-04
1945-03-07
1945-03-08
1945-03-20
1945-03-21
1945-04-02
1945-04-03
1945-04-04
1945-04-05
1945-04-08
1945-04-09
1945-04-10
1945-04-11
1945-04-13
1945-04-14
Spatial Coverage
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Australia
Germany
Great Britain
Poland
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
England--Norfolk
England--Yorkshire
Germany--Bochum
Germany--Bonn
Germany--Chemnitz
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dessau (Dessau)
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Leipzig Region
Germany--Leverkusen
Germany--Magdeburg
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Plauen
Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony)
Germany--Steinfurt (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Weissenburg in Bayern
New South Wales--Parkes
Poland--Szczecin
Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway
Scotland--Moray
South Australia--Port Pirie
New South Wales
South Australia
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
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
Conforms To
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Pending temporal coverage. Allocated
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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LHiltonVT430281v1
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
1663 HCU
192 Squadron
20 OTU
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
Battle
bombing
Bombing and Gunnery School
Halifax
Heavy Conversion Unit
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
RAF Dumfries
RAF Foulsham
RAF Lossiemouth
RAF Rufforth
training
Wellington
Window
wireless operator
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/934/36496/LHastieR1821369v1.2.pdf
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Title
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Lovatt, Peter
Dr Peter Lovatt
P Lovatt
Description
An account of the resource
117 items. An oral history interview with Peter Lovatt (b.1924, 1821369 Royal Air Force), his log book, documents, and photographs. The collection also contains two photograph albums. He flew 42 operations as an air gunner on 223 Squadron flying B-24s. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1338">Album One</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2135">Album Two</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Nina and Peter Lovatt and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-09-27
2019-09-03
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Lovatt, P
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Title
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Roy Hastie's pilot's flying log book
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IBCC Digital Archive
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LHastieR1821369v1
Description
An account of the resource
Pilot's flying log book for Roy Hastie. It covers his RAF service from 9 December 1940 to 31 March 1946 and then his RAF Auxilliary Service flying to 23 May 1952. Detailing his flying training and operations flown firstly with Coastal Command and then with Bomber Command. He was stationed at RAF Perth, RAF Thornaby, RAF Squires Gate, RAF Eastleigh, East Coast USA, Trinidad, RAF Catfoss, Nassau, Bahamas, RAF Oulton, RAF Feltwell, RAF Riccall, RAF Lulsgate Bottom and RAF Dishforth. Aircraft flown in were Tiger Moth, Oxford, Tutor, Hudson, Blenheim, Botha, Beaufighter, B-25, B-24, Proctor, Hurricane, Spitfire, Chipmunk and Anson. With Coastal Command he flew anti-shipping operations with 53 Squadron, including a ditching. He transferred to 223 Squadrton in Bomber Command and flew 39 operations, mostly using Window in a counter-measures and spoof attacks role but including some bombing attacks. Targets include Hamburg, Bochum, Hanover, Ruhr region, Neuss, Duisburg, Essen, Karlsruhe, Ludwigshaven, Ulm, Cologne, Munich, Magdeberg, Stuttgart, Siegen, Dresden, Chemnitz, Dortmund Ems, Wesel, Kiel, and Augsberg.
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1944-10-07
1944-10-09
1944-10-11
1944-10-19
1944-10-26
1944-11-01
1944-11-04
1944-11-18
1944-11-21
1944-11-28
1944-11-30
1944-12-02
1944-12-04
1944-12-12
1944-12-15
1944-12-17
1944-12-21
1944-12-24
1945-01-05
1945-01-07
1945-01-14
1945-01-16
1945-01-28
1945-02-01
1945-02-02
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-20
1945-02-21
1945-02-23
1945-02-28
1945-03-03
1945-03-07
1945-03-13
1945-03-23
1945-04-02
1945-04-08
1945-04-13
1945-04-18
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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 Air Force. Coastal 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 b/w photocopy
223 Squadron
aircrew
Anson
B-24
B-25
Beaufighter
Blenheim
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Botha
ditching
Flying Training School
Heavy Conversion Unit
Hudson
Hurricane
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
pilot
Proctor
RAF Catfoss
RAF Dishforth
RAF Eastleigh
RAF Feltwell
RAF Oulton
RAF Riccall
RAF Thornaby
Spitfire
Tiger Moth
training
Window
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1697/39553/LPowellNI1896918v1.1.pdf
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Powell, Norman Ivor
Powell, N I
Description
An account of the resource
262 items. The collection concerns Powell, Norman Ivor (b. 1925, 1896919 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, diary, target photographs, maps, photographs, correspondence, and two photograph albums. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 614 and 104 squadrons in North Africa and Italy. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2207">Powell, N I. Photograph album one</a><br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2209">Powell, N I. Photograph album two</a><br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Brian Powell and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Date
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2019-10-29
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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Powell, NI
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N Powell's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
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
Conforms To
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Pending review
Identifier
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LPowellNI1896918v1
Description
An account of the resource
N I Powell’s Flight Engineer’s Flying Log Book covering the period from 9 August 1944 to 25 April 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown as flight engineer. He was stationed at RAF St Athan (4 School of Technical Training, RAF Amendola (614 Squadron) and RAF Abu Sueir (104 Squadron). Aircraft flown in was Liberator. He flew on 12 night operations and one day operation with 614 Squadron and thereafter with many peacetime flights with 104 Squadron. Targets were Verona, Padua, Crnomelj, Vicenza, Bruck, Villach, Trento, Brescia, Innsbruck, Argenta and Freilassing. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Ward.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1945-03-11
1945-03-12
1945-03-15
1945-03-18
1945-03-19
1945-03-22
1945-03-25
1945-04-02
1945-04-04
1945-04-08
1945-04-10
1945-04-12
1945-04-25
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Austria
Great Britain
Italy
Egypt
Austria--Innsbruck
Austria--Villach
Italy--Brescia
Italy--Padua
Italy--Trento
Italy--Verona
Italy--Vicenza
Wales--Glamorgan
North Africa
Slovenia
Slovenia--Črnomelj
Contributor
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Terry Hancock
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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
104 Squadron
614 Squadron
aircrew
B-24
bombing
flight engineer
RAF Abu Sueir
RAF St Athan
training
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/999/11876/isrlaspezia_AMb4f1_299.1.jpg
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Title
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
Description
An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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Issues delaying the delivery schedule of the Casoni improvised landing strip
Reports on delays to the construction of the Casoni improvised landing strip: the specialist showed up only on the first day, never to be seen again and work is hampered by mud. Asks permission to suspend the works next Sunday and Monday, being festival days.
This report is in the Italian language.
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Italy
Italy--Zeri
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Text
Text. Correspondence
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ita
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British Army
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Issues delaying the delivery schedule of the Casoni improvised landing strip
Description
An account of the resource
Reports on delays to the construction of the Casoni improvised landing strip: the specialist showed up only on the first day, never to be seen again and work is hampered by mud. Asks permission to suspend the works next Sunday and Monday, being festival days.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. Colonna ‘Giustizia e Libertà’
Scaramuccia
Date
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1945-03-28
Temporal Coverage
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1945-03-28
1945-04-01
1945-04-02
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One-page typewritten note
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘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.
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isrlaspezia AMb4f1 299
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David Bloomfield
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Resistance
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Lett, Gordon
Gordon Lett
Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett
E G A Lett
Description
An account of the resource
56 items. The collection concerns Major Ernest Gordon Appleford Lett, DSO (1910-1989, 50112), a British Army officer and partisan leader in Italy. He was taken prisoner after the fall of Tobruk and detained in different camps in Italy. After the September 1943 armistice, rather than re-joining Allied forces, he took to the mountains and established contacts with Resistance forces active in the Apennines between Liguria and Toscana. Lett founded and led the Battaglione Internazionale, a multinational unit that successfully engaged Black Brigades and German units. Later, when reliable lines of communication were secured, supplies were dropped by air and the Battaglione was supplemented by Special Operations Executive personnel. Gordon Lett was relieved by Major John Henderson in March 1945. After the war, Lett was awarded the DSO and received the Medaglia Argento al valor militare.
The collection consists of a selection of Gordon Lett's papers and official correspondence with key figures of the local Resistance movement. They include Colonnello Mario Fontana (‘Cossu’, or ‘Turchi’), Comandante Luciano Scotti (‘Vittorio’ or ‘Gonzaga’), Commissario Politico Anselmo Corsini ('Ambrosio', or ‘Max’) and Mario Fortelli, a lawyer acting as liaison officer with the local Allied Military Mission.
Documents consist of military assessments, notes on air drops, a ciphers book, a draft of a radio message sent via clandestine radio operators, and a request for tactical bombing. The collection contains notes on an aircraft crash, the military funeral and the subsequent burial of the aircrew. A specific subset includes correspondence, plans and reports about the construction of an improvised landing strip for Allied aircraft operating behind enemy lines.
All documents were deposited at the La Spezia City Council and then re-housed in 1972 at the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, where they have been preserved ever since. The selection published here has been curated by Tiziano Vernazza.
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Construction of the Casoni improvised landing strip to be suspended over Easter
Major John Henderson has authorised the construction works to be suspended over Easter. On the following day only volunteers will be at work.
This report is in the Italian language.
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Italy
Italy--Zeri
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Text
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ita
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British Army
Civilian
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IBCC Digital Archive
Title
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Construction of the Casoni improvised landing strip to be suspended over Easter
Description
An account of the resource
Major John Henderson has authorised the construction works to be suspended over Easter. On the following day only volunteers will be at work.
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Italy. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale. Colonna ‘Giustizia e Libertà’
Date
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1945-04-01
Format
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One-page typewritten note
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1945-04-01
1945-04-02
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This content is property of the Istituto spezzino per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. It has been published here ‘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.
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isrlaspezia AMb4f1 304
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David Bloomfield
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Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English
Resistance
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1420/36156/BHiltonVTHiltonVTv1.2.pdf
055085e3ea7ec031474816930fe89f6d
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Hilton, Vaughn Thomas
V T Hilton
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-06-09
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Hilton, VT
Description
An account of the resource
Three items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Vaughn Thomas Hilton (430281 Royal Australian Air Force) and contains his log book, his biography and his identity card.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by John Lawrence
Hilton and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
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Dare to Discover: World War II experiences of V T Hilton
Memoir of Vaughn Thomas Hilton
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BHiltonVTHiltonVTv1
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describes V T Hilton's life in Australia, his training and service with 192 Squadron
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Mark Hilton
Vaugh Thomas Hilton
Date
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2009
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1942
1943
1944-10-07
1944-10-09
1944-10-26
1944-11-02
1944-11-04
1944-11-10
1944-11-21
1944-11-26
1944-12-01
1944-12-02
1944-12-05
1944-12-17
1944-12-06
1944-12-18
1944-12-28
1944-12-30
1945-01-02
1945-01-14
1945-01-16
1945-01-22
1945-02-03
1945-02-05
1945-02-07
1945-02-08
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1942-02-20
1945-03-03
1945-03-07
1945-03-20
1945-04-02
1945-04-04
1945-04-08
1945-04-10
1945-04-13
1946
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Australia
Belgium
Germany
Poland
Great Britain
England--Norfolk
England--Yorkshire
Germany--Bochum
Germany--Bonn
Germany--Chemnitz
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dessau (Dessau)
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Ladbergen
Germany--Leipzig
Germany--Leverkusen
Germany--Magdeburg
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Plauen
Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony)
Germany--Ulm
Poland--Szczecin
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Memoir
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56 printed pages
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Pending text-based transcription. Allocated
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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192 Squadron
aircrew
arts and crafts
bomb trolley
bombing up
crewing up
FIDO
fuelling
H2S
Halifax
Heavy Conversion Unit
military service conditions
Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy
Operational Training Unit
petrol bowser
RAF Foulsham
RAF Rufforth
service vehicle
training
Wellington
Window
wireless operator
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Powell, Norman Ivor
Powell, N I
Description
An account of the resource
262 items. The collection concerns Powell, Norman Ivor (b. 1925, 1896919 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, diary, target photographs, maps, photographs, correspondence, and two photograph albums. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 614 and 104 squadrons in North Africa and Italy. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2207">Powell, N I. Photograph album one</a><br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2209">Powell, N I. Photograph album two</a><br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Brian Powell and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2019-10-29
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Powell, NI
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[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
Date:- 2nd. April, 1945. 104 Squadron. S
F/O. Ward.
Sgt. Powell.
McGowan.
Piper.
F/O. Scott.
Sgt. Scott.
F/S. Cole.
Off 18.30
Landed 23.50
Total 05.20 Foggia Main
Weather: 8 - 10/10 stra cu.
Target: Trento Marshalling Yards.
A. Route markers seen. Flares 21.24. TOT 21.32. Reds seen but not located.
B.
21.32 9500 042 2 x 1000 GPTD .025, 10 x 500 MCTD .025. Aimed for markers bursts not seen owing to cloud. MB not heard. Fires seen amongst incendiaries at 21.34.
C. SIH, 1 light at target, 5 s/L’s S of target area near heavy battery. Scattered heavy on track out fron [sic] target to Ferara.
D. 22.08, 7 - 8000’, 3 fighter flares on coast on track out, yellow colour burning for 4 - 5 mins.
U/I A/C seen heading N from Ancona with nav lights on, firing tracer from rear turret.
G. Photo with bombing, flash O.K.
Signed W. R. Pountney, F/O.
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
Date:- 18th. March, 1945. 104 Squadron. P
F/O. Ward.
Sgt. Powell.
McGowan.
Piper.
F/O. Scott.
Sgt. Scott.
F/S. Cole.
Off 17.20
Landed [deleted] 2 [/deleted] 21.45
Total 04.25 Foggia Main.
Weather: 2/10 stra. cu at 3 - 4000’, slight haze.
Target: Vicenza Marshalling Yards.
A. Route marker at Pt. B seen. Flares 19.41 on target. TOT 19.47 - 48 Target identified visually. TMB/R 19 42 target area.
B.
19.47 9300 250 4 x 1000 GPTI, 8 x 500 MCNI. Aimed for markers, bursts seen on mean position of reds. Other bombing seen 19.45 - 50 in target area. 2 small fires in target area after leaving.
C. 3 heavy and 2 light inaccurate.
D. 20.08, on coast 8000’ flares.
G. Photo with bombing.
Signed T.W. Gauld, F/O.
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Sortie reports Trento and Vicenza marshalling yards
Description
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Details of two operations to Trento and Vicenza. List crews and gives some details of sortie. Reports on bombing and combats seen. Two versions of the same document.
Creator
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W R Pountney
T W Gauld
Date
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1945-04-02
1945-03-18
Temporal Coverage
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1945-04-02
1945-03-18
Spatial Coverage
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Italy
Italy--Trento
Italy--Vicenza
Italy--Foggia
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Format
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Two single side typewritten documents copied on same page
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SPowellNI1896919v10007, SPowellNI1896919v10013
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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
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Jayne Bailey
Sue Smith
104 Squadron
bombing
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Wareing, Robert
R Wareing
Description
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
Date
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2016-10-05
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Wareing, R
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[front cover of note book]
[underlined] OFFICIAL RECORDS
from the
AIR MINISTRY [/underlined]
[page break]
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
TELEGRAM 8.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
8.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
BOB REPORTED MISSING
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
582
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
8.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
9.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
BOB REPORTED MISSING
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
582
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
9.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
10.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
BOB REPORTED MISSING
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
G.C. CRIBB
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
14.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
15.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
BOB REPORTED MISSING
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
F/L WOODS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
14.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
16.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
EFFECTS
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
S/L STEADMAN PADRE
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
16.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
17.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
MISSING
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
RED CROSS M. AMPTHILL
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
16.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
17.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
MISSING
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
G.C. GARDNER
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
17.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
18.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CONFIRMATION
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
22.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
23.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
HELP AND FINANCE
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
RAF BENEVOLENT FUND
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
23.8.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
24.8.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
ALLOWANCES
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
RAF ACCOUNTS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
5.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
11.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
LETTER FROM FRENCH WOMAN
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
CPT. YEOMAN
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
11.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
12.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS OF BOB’S INJURIES
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
F/O WALKDEN
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
13.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
15.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS OF BOB’S INJURIES
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
R.C. HAYMAN
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
14.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
15.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS OF BOB’S INJURIES
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
RED CROSS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
15.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
16.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS OF BOB’S INJURIES
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
G.C. CRIBB
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
16.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
17.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
EFFECTS
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
F/O MULLEN
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
18.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
20.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
EFFECTS
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
G.C. GARDNER
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
20.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
21.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
EFFECTS
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
MRS. BANTING
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
22.9.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
23.9.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
EFFECTS
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
G.C. CRIBB
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
SEPTEMBER
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
-
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
DETAILS OF RAID
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
ALAN HILL
[page break]
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
4.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
5.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
GOODS RETURNING FROM FRANCE
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
13.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
14.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
ALAN HILL
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
17.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
18.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
EFFECTS
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
TELEGRAM 25.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
25.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
BROADCAST
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
26.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
27.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CAR
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
G.C CRIBB
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
27.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
27.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS FROM FRANCE
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
J. PILLOT
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
27.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
28.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CONFIRMATION OF BROADCAST
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
RED CROSS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
27.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
28.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CONFIRMATION OF BROADCAST
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
G.C. GARDNER
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
28.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
29.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CONFIRMATION OF BROADCAST
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
F/L WOODS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
30.10.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
31.10.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CONFIRMATION OF BROADCAST
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
3.11.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
5.11.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CONFIRMATION OF BROADCAST
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
F/O WALKDEN
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
3.11.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
7.11.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
ENQUIRY
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR-CREW MRS. CAMPBELL
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
21.11.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
23.11.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
STEVENS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
25.11.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
26.11.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
RED CROSS?
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
M. AMPTHILL
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
29.11.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
30.11.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
EFFECTS?
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
SLOUGH
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
25.11.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
29.11.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
AIR CREW
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR CREW MRS CAMPBELL
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
6.12.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
8.12.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CONFIRMATION P.O.W.
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
7.12.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
9.12.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CONFIRMATION P.O.W.
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
RED CROSS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
1.12.44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
3.12.44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CAR
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
19. DEC 44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
21. DEC 44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
HEALTH?
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
RED CROSS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
19. DEC 44
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
21. DEC 44
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
ALLOWANCES
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
2. JAN 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
3. JAN 44/4. JAN 44 [45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
P.O.W.R.A. / CAR REPAIRS
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
REGENT’S AUTO CAR
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
3. JAN 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
4. JAN 44[45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
AIR MINISTRY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
5. JAN 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
6. JAN 44[45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
RED CROSS
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
1. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
2. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
CAR
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
G.C. CRIBB
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
5. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
8. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
LICENCE
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
L.C.C.
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
7. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
9. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
PETROL
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
NOTTINGHAM PETROLEUM
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
7. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
9. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS (FRANCE)
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
JAQUELINE PILLOT
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
14. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
15. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
PETROL
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
NOTT.
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
20. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
21. FEB 44[45]
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
TRAVEL WARRANT
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
582 SQ.
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
2.3.45
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
3.3.45
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEXT-OF-KIN
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
MRS DAY
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
2.3.45
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
3.3.45
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEXT-OF-KIN
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
MR BLAYDON
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
8.3.45
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
9.3.45
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEXT-OF-KIN
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
ALAN HILL
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
12.3.45
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
13.3.45
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS OF BOB
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
P.R. SAURLOCK
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
19.3.45
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
20.3.45
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS OF BOB
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
MR BLAYDON
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
6.3.45
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
20.3.45
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS OF BOB
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
FRANCE
[underlined] DATE SENT [/underlined]
16.3.45
[underlined] DATE RECEIVED [/underlined]
2.4.45
[underlined] CONTEXT [/underlined]
NEWS OF BOB
[underlined] SIGNATURE [/underlined]
JACQUELINE PILLOT
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Title
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Official records from the Air Ministry
Description
An account of the resource
List of correspondence about Robert Wareing with dates starting 8 August 1944 until 16 March 1945 includes date sent, received, content and signatures,
Format
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Three page handwritten notebook
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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MWareingR86325-161005-02
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
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1944-08-08
1945-04-02
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
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Oates, James
J Oates
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-12-07
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Oates, J
Description
An account of the resource
91 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer James Oates (1489926 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents and photographs. He flew paratrooper drops and glider towing operations as a navigator with 196 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Gina E Welsh and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Transcribed document
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Transcription
Text transcribed from audio recording or document
[a] Date [b] Sqn [c] Aircraft type [d] Target [e] Crash location [f] Crew Details [g] Fate
[a] 5/6 June 1944 [b] 299 [c] Stirling LJ819 [d] Paratroop Operation "Tenga" airborne invasion force over Caen [e] Not known [f] F/Sgt L J Gilbert, F/O A G Franklin, Sgt L G Knight, F/Sgt B A Croft, Sgt R H Fizer, Sgt F L McMahon [g] All killed and they have no known grave. Therefore they are commemerated [sic] on the RAF Memorial to the Missing at Runnymede
[a] 31 March 1945 [b] 196 [c] Stirling LX197 [d] Supply dropping in Norway [e] Not known [f] P/O C Campbell, F/Sgt K W Linney, F/Sgt F W Matthews, W/O G G Allman, F/Sgt F C Brenner, F/Sgt E S Lloyd [g] All killed, they have no known grave and therefore P/O Campbell and his comrades are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
[a] 2 April 1945 [b] 196 [c] Stirling LX193 [d] Container dropping over Denmark [e] In the North Sea, off Cromer, Norfolk [f] F/O M Carroll, W/O G Hughes, W/O S J V Philco, W/O J Grain, F/Sgt A O Bennett, F/Sgt R E Marshall [g] All killed. The bodies were recovered from the sea and buried in Cambridge Borough Cemetery on 13 April 1945, except F/Sgt Bennett who is buried in Barwell Cemetery. Our records show that F/Sgt Cayley was not a member of this crew.
[a] 31 March 1945 [b] 196 [c] Stirling LJ888 [d] Dropping supplies to Norwegian Forces (30 miles North of Kravera) [e] Braasted Wood near the Ostre-Moland border, approximately 2 miles north west of Arendal [f] F/Sgt D V Catterall, F/Sgt G S Reed, F/Sgt R S Harding-Klemanek, F/Sgt T L Brunton, Sgt P M Myers, F/Sgt J R Cross [g] All the crew are buried in Collective Grave No 9, Row 5 in Arendal Civil Cemetery
[a] 31 March 1945 [b] 299 [c] Stirling LX332 [d] Supply dropping in Southern Norway [e] Crashed at Vierli on Vegars Moor [f] F/Lt R Trevor-Roper, DFC, AFC, F/O H W Ricketts, F/O D Peat, Sgt K C Hayward, Sgt J A Elliott, W/O P S Brinkworth [g] All of the crew were killed in the crash and they are buried in Indre Sondeled Cemetery, 50 miles north east of Khristiansand, Norway
[a] 31 March 1945 [b] 161 [c] Stirling LX119 [d] Supply dropping over Southern Norway [e] Shot down over the headland at Holt near Arendal [f] F/Lt E P C Kidd, DFC, F/Sgt G A Heath, DFM, F/O T S Macaulay, W/O A M Taylor, Sgt R A Burgess, F/Sgt A D Shopland, F/Sgt H Minshull [g] All the crew are buried in Arendal Civil Cemetery, Norway
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List of Crashed Stirlings
Description
An account of the resource
Six crashed Stirlings listed with the date, squadron, operation, location (where known), crew and fate.
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Runnymede
England--Cromer
England--Cambridge
Norway--Arendal
France--Caen
Denmark
England--Norfolk
England--Surrey
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Format
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One printed sheet
Identifier
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MOates1489926-171207-15
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-06-05
1944-06-06
1945-03-31
1945-04-02
Contributor
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Sue Smith
161 Squadron
196 Squadron
299 Squadron
aircrew
crash
final resting place
killed in action
memorial
missing in action
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Stirling
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Powell, Norman Ivor
Powell, N I
Description
An account of the resource
262 items. The collection concerns Powell, Norman Ivor (b. 1925, 1896919 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, diary, target photographs, maps, photographs, correspondence, and two photograph albums. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 614 and 104 squadrons in North Africa and Italy. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2207">Powell, N I. Photograph album one</a><br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2209">Powell, N I. Photograph album two</a><br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Brian Powell and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Date
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2019-10-29
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Powell, NI
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Trento
Description
An account of the resource
Vertical aerial target photograph of Trento. The image shows open countryside but most ground details are obscurred by cloud or smoke. Some roads and buildings are visible.
The photograph is captioned:
2789 104/86 2/3 APR 45. F8 N.T.//9.500' →[redacted] TRENTO.
E. 2x1000. 10x500 MkIII 23. F/O WARD. (F/O SCOTT B/A) S.
Date
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1945-04-02
1945-04-03
Temporal Coverage
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1945-04-02
1945-04-03
Spatial Coverage
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Italy
Italy--Trento
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Type
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Photograph
Format
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One b/w photograph
Identifier
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PPowellNI19030016
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Geolocation impractical
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104 Squadron
aerial photograph
bombing
target photograph
-
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Whittaker, Harry
H Whittaker
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-09-24
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Whittacker, H
Description
An account of the resource
26 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Harry Whittaker (Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 158 and 635 Squadrons.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Simon Whittaker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Berlin
Description
An account of the resource
A target photograph of Berlin orientated with south-east to the top. In the upper right corner the Spree river winds it way through the city. In the middle of the photograph is a significant area of glare and just below this are the docks of Westhafen. Immediately to the left of the docks is the campus of the Robert Koch Institute. Street layout is defined. The photograph is captioned:
'C.194. UPW 2/3-4-45//NT. 8" 23000: 057.001Y. BERLIN. M.
/PFO/ YSF. 1G/YL IMC 500DT. 860A. S/L ROBINS. M 139.'
Date
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1945-04-02
1945-04-03
Temporal Coverage
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1945-04-02
1945-04-03
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Germany--Berlin
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Format
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One b/w photograph
Identifier
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PWhittakerH1717
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Geolocated
Rights
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Stuart Cummins
Andy Fitter
139 Squadron
aerial photograph
bombing
RAF Upwood
target photograph
-
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Powell, Norman Ivor
Powell, N I
Description
An account of the resource
262 items. The collection concerns Powell, Norman Ivor (b. 1925, 1896919 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, diary, target photographs, maps, photographs, correspondence, and two photograph albums. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 614 and 104 squadrons in North Africa and Italy. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2207">Powell, N I. Photograph album one</a><br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2209">Powell, N I. Photograph album two</a><br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Brian Powell and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Date
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2019-10-29
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Identifier
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Powell, NI
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Trento and Verona
Description
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Two poor quality copies of target photographs. The left image has no discernible detail and is captioned:
2789 104/86 2/3 APR 45. F8 N.T.//9.500' →[redacted] TRENTO.
E. 2x1000. 10x500 MkIII 23. F/O WARD. (F/O SCOTT B/A) S.
The right image shows cloud or smoke and some vague ground detail. It is captioned:
2698 IC4'11. 11/12-MAR-45. F8.NT.//8000'.→.240° 19.30. VERONA.
D. 4x1000. 8x500. MK III 22 F/O WARD (F/O SCOTT. B/A) P.
Separate and better quality copies of both photographs exist elsewhere in the archive.
Date
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1945-03-11
1945-03-12
1945-04-02
1945-04-03
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1945-03-11
1945-03-12
1945-04-02
1945-04-03
Spatial Coverage
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Italy
Italy--Verona
Italy--Trento
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Royal Air Force
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Photograph
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One b/w photocopy
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SPowellNI1896919v10002-0007
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Andy Fitter
104 Squadron
aerial photograph
bombing
target photograph
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Powell, Norman Ivor
Powell, N I
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262 items. The collection concerns Powell, Norman Ivor (b. 1925, 1896919 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, diary, target photographs, maps, photographs, correspondence, and two photograph albums. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 614 and 104 squadrons in North Africa and Italy. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2207">Powell, N I. Photograph album one</a><br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2209">Powell, N I. Photograph album two</a><br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Brian Powell and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2019-10-29
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Powell, NI
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Date:- 12th. April, 1945. 104 Squadron. C
Off 19.10
Landed 23.05
F/O. Ward.
Sgt. Powell.
Sgt. McGowan.
F/S. Piper.
F/O. Scott.
F/S. Scott.
F/S. Cole.
[photograph]A6
2890 104/94 12/13 APR 45 F8//N.T. 6800’ [symbol][censored] ARGENTA.
E. 2x1000 10x500. MKIII 18 F/O WARD (F/O SCOTT 12/13) C.
[page break]
[photograph]
2098 104/71. 11/12-MAR-45. F8. NT.// 8000’ : [symbol]. 240°. 19.30. VERONA.
D. 4x1000. 8x500. MKIII 22 F/C WARD (F/O SCOTT. 8/9). P.
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT [/underlined].
Date .... 10th April 1945. "D". 104 Squadron.
F/O Ward.
Sgt Powell.
Sgt McGowan.
F/S Piper.
F/O Scott.
F/S Scott.
F/S Cole.
Off .... 1850.
Landed .... 0030.
Hours .... 5 hrs 40 mins.
Target .... INNSBRUCK. Marshalling Yards.
A. Route markers seen. Illumination 2140.
TMB/Green. 2143. 1 lot in town, 1 North end of target.
B. 2146 1/2 15,900 Heading 329, aimed visually, and E markers. Bursts not seen.
2 heavy at target.
D. Flare on way in only.
J. 12 S/L's in line South of Brenner Pass.
4 S/L's in line North of Brenner Pass.
K. "FD" Flashing beacon 40 miles NE of target. White in colour.
[underlined] Signed R. Pountney. [/underlined] F/O.
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
Date:- 2nd. April, 1945. 104 Squadron. S
F/O. Ward.
Sgt. Powell.
Sgt. McGowan.
Sgt. Piper.
F/O. Scott.
Sgt. Scott.
F/S. Cole.
Off 18.30
Landed 23.50
Total 05.20 Foggia Main.
Weather: 8 – 10/10 stra cu.
Target: Trento Marshalling Yards.
A. Route markers seen. Flares 21.24. TOT 21.32. Reds seen but not located.
B
21.32 9500 042 2 x 1000 GPTD .025, 10 x 500 MCTD .025. Aimed for markers bursts not seen owing to cloud. MB not heard. Fires seen amongst incendiaries at 21.34.
C. SIH, 1 light at target, 3 s/L's S of target area near heavy battery.
Scattered heavy on track out fron [sic] target to Ferara.
D. 22.08, 7 – 8000', 3 fighter flares on coast on track out, yellow colour burning for 4 – 5 mins.
U/I A/C seen heading N from Ancona with nav lights on, firing tracer from rear turret.
G. Photo with bombing, flash O.K.
Signed W.R. Pountney, F/O.
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
Date:- 22nd. March, 1945. 104 Squadron. R
F/O. Ward.
Sgt. Powell.
Sgt. McGowan.
Sgt. Piper.
F/O. Scott.
Sgt. Scott.
F/S. Cole.
Off 17.28
Landed 22.28
Total 05.00 Foggia Main.
Weather: Clear, hazy.
Target: Villach North Marshalling Yards.
A. Route markers seen. Flares 20.08. Target identified visually.
Greens 20.12, to west of reds. Reds 20.11 on target.
B.
20.17 10800 282 2 x 1000 GPTI, 10 x 500 MCNI. Aimed for reds, bursts seen across reds. PFF wind good. MB heard, faint. Good concentration on target. 20.17 large explosion target. Petrol or oil smoke up 1000' and fire.
C. SIH, SIL at target. 1 s/1 E of Fiume tracking aircraft.
G. Photo with bombing.
K. "V" shaped fire and many bush fires seen.
Signed W.R. Pountney, F/O.
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
Date:- 18th. March, 1945. 104 Squadron. P
F/O. Ward.
Sgt. Powell,
Sgt. McGowan.
Sgt. Piper.
F/O. Scott.
Sgt. Scott.
F/S. Cole.
Off 17.20
Landed 221.45 [sic]
Total 04.25 Foggia Main.
Weather: 2/10 stra. cu at 3 – 4000', slight haze.
Target: Vicenza Marshalling Yards.
A. Route marker at Pt. B seen. Flares 19.41 on target. TOT 19.47 – 48.
Target identified visually. TMB/R 19 42 target area.
B.
19.47 9300 250 4 x 1000 GPTI, 8 x 500 MCNI. Aimed for markers, bursts seen on mean position of reds. Other bombing seen 19.45 – 50 in target area. 2 small fires in target area after leaving.
C. 3 heavy and 2 light inaccurate.
D. 20.08, on coast 8000' flares.
G. Photo with bombing.
Signed T.W. Gauld, F/O.
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
Date:- 15th. March, 1945. 104 Squadron. P
F/O. Ward.
Sgt. Powell.
Sgt. McGowan.
Sgt. Piper.
F/O. Scott.
Sgt. Scott.
F/S. Williams.
Off 12.17
Landed x16.12
Total 03.55 Foggia Main.
Weather: 10/10 small cu from coast to target base 7000'. Hazy.
Target: Supply dropping Flotsam.
A. Target identified visually, X seen white chutes.
B.
14.34 2000 035 145 12 containers, aimed for markers, all chutes opened. 3 chutes failed. Good concentration.
D. 4 Spits seen.
G. Photo with dropping.
Signed W.R. Pountey, F/O.
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
Date. . . . 25/26th April 1945. "R". 104 Squadron.
F/O Ward.
Sgt Powell.
Sgt McGowen.
F/S Piper.
F/O Scott.
F/S Scott.
F/S Cole.
Off. . . . 1935.
Landed. . . . 0110.
Hours. . . . 5 hrs 35 mins.
Target. . . . Freilssling M/Yds.
A. Route markers seen. Illumination 2238.
TMB/Reds. 2243 at target
B. 2247. 9200 Heading 255 Bursts not seen at time all on T.I's and around them.
Few heavy South of target.
K. Large Fire 15 miles North of target.
Signed R. Pountney. F/O.
[page break]
[photograph]A6
2970 104/101. 25/26-APR-45. F8”.//NT. 9200’. [symbol] . 255°. 22.47. FREILASSING.
G. 2x1000. 10x500. MKIII.21. F/O WARD. (F/O. SCOTT. B/A.). R.
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
11th March 1945. "P". 104 Squadron.
F/O Ward.
F/LT Honeybourne.
Sgt Powell.
Sgt McGowen.
Sgt Piper.
F/O Scott.
Sgt Scott.
F/S Cole.
Sgt Young
Off. . . . 1635.
Landed. . . . 2205.
Hours. . . . 5 Hrs 30 mins Verona East M/Yds.
A. Route markers seen. Illumination at 1927.
Target markers. TMB/Green 1927 centre of target.
B. 1930. 8000. Heading 240. 4 x 1000 MCTI. 8 x 500 MCTI. aimed visually
Bursts seen across markers. Good concentration and fire started at 1931 1/2
Slight Heavy, and Light, 2 S/Ls. at target.
K. 2044. Double Reds. 4309N 1405E. Blinding flashes on coast at 5000 many Red lights seen.
[underlined] Signed R. Pountney. F/O. [underlined]
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
[underlined] 4th April 1945. [/underlined] "S". 104 Squadron.
F/O Ward.
[deleted] Sgt Powell. [/deleted]
Sgt Powell
Sgt McGowan.
F/S Piper.
F/O Scott
F/S Scott.
F/S Cole.
Off. . . . 1835.
Landed. . . . 2350.
Hours. . . . 5 hrs 15 mins.
Target. . . . BRESCIA Marshalling Yards.
A. Route markers seen. Illumination at 2124.
TMB/Red. 2126 North end of target.
B. 2132. 10,600 Heading 308. aimed at T.I's. Other aircraft's bombing seen on T.I's.
Large explosion seen near Breda. Incend on town M/Yds and across town.
Slight inaccurate heavy, slight inaccurate lightm [deleted] 2 S/Ls at target.
2 S/Ls 10 miles South of target.
At target. 8000' U/I SE aircraft seen silhoutted[sic] some distance away.
6 fighter flares on coast on return.
K. Short burst of air to air firing in target area, no result.
Flare dropped on coast South of Ancona. 4380N 1345E.
On track but South of Gargansm two aircraft collided and crashed.
[underlined] Signed R. Pountney. F/O. [/underlined]
[page break]
A.P.F.U.
SORTIE REPORT
(Part A)
Sheet No. Oprep. Ref. No. Date 16-2-45 Squadron
Type of Aircraft
Aircraft No.
Aircraft Letter A
Captain
Crew
[deleted] F/S. Saville.
Sgt. Rennix.
Sgt. Stokes.
Sgt. Annison.
Sgt. Ough. [/deleted]
Time Up 12.31
Time Down 16.19
Total Time 03.48
Aerodrome or L.G. Foggia Ma[missing letters]
Type of Cloud
Amount of Cloud Clear
Base of Cloud
Visibility
General Weather
Map or Chart
Reference
[missing word] duty Shipping Fiume.
[a] Time [b] Height [c] Place [d] Narrative
[a] A [d] TOT 14.32 – 14.33. Target identified visu[missing letters] TMB/R not seen.
[a] B 14.32 [b] 12400 [c] 291 [d] 150 IAS. 9 x 500 GPTD .025, 3 x 250 GPNI [missing word] visually, bursts not seen. Godd [sic] concentra[missing letters] target area. Thick smoke over target.
[a] C [d] 20 light below aircraft at target.
[a] G [d] Photo with bombing.
Signed W.R. Pountney, F/O.
[page break]
[underlined] SORTIE REPORT. [/underlined]
Date:- 12th. March, 1945. 104 Squadron. P
F/O. Ward.
Sgt. Powell.
Sgt. McGowan.
Sgt. Piper.
F/O. Scott.
Sgt. Scott.
F/S. Coles.
Off 17.07
Landed 22.10
Total 05.08 Foggia Main.
Weather: Hazy.
Target: Padua Marshalling Yards.
A. Route markers not seen. Flares 19.45 over target. Target identifie[missing letter] visually. TOT 19.49 – 19.51. TMB/R 19.46.(?).
B.
19.50 8200 285 175 IAS. 4 x 1000 GPTI, 8 x 500 MCNI, aimed at markers and incends. Bursts seen beyond TI's. PFF wind good, MB heard. Bombing on target seen at 19.49. 2 small fires in target area 19.52.
C. 4 accurate heavy from fork in rlwy line at target.
F. Gee u/s.
G. Photo with bombing.
K. 19.54, incends, seen jettisoned on 2nd leg after target, 1 lot to port and 1 to starboard, on route out.
Signed W.R. Pountney, F/O.
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Title
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Norman Powell's Operations
Description
An account of the resource
A thirteen page collection of target photographs and sortie reports.
Page 1: Vertical aerial target photograph of Argenta. Some roads, houses and open fields are visible in the upper half of the image. There are also canals, rail tracks or roads slanting across the upper right corner. The lower half of the image is obscured by tracer trails and glare. The photograph is captioned:
2890 104/94 12/13 APL 45 F8//N.T.6800'→ARGENTA
E 2X1000 10X500. MkIII 18 F/O WARD (F/O SCOTT B/A) C.
Behind the photograph is a sortie report giving details of the flight, crew and attack, though an area of typing is covered by the photo.
Page 2: A vertical aerial target photograph of Verona. The upper half contains tracer trails and smoke but some ground details can be seen near the left edge. In the lower left quarter there is more ground detail showing a pattern of roads, while the ground in the lower right quarter is hidden by smoke. The photograph is captioned:
2698 104/71 11/12-MAR-45. F8". NT.//8000'. →.240°.19.30. VERONA
D. 4x1000. 8x500. MkIII 22 F/O WARD (F/O SCOTT B/A). P.
Pages 3 to 8: Sortie reports for operations to Innsbruck, Flotsam, Trento, Villach, Vicenza, Freilassing.
Page 9: Vertical aerial target photograph of Freilassling. There is no ground detail visible in the image. The upper left quarter contains glare and the rest is dark with traces of smoke or cloud. It is captioned:
2970 104/101. 25/26-APR-45. F8"//NT. 9200'. →225°.2247. FREILASSLING.
G. 2x1000. 10x500. MkIII 21. F/O WARD (F/O SCOTT B/A). R.
Pages 10 to 13: Sortie reports for operations to Verona, Brescia, Fiume and Padua.
Temporal Coverage
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1945-02-16
1945-03-11
1945-03-12
1945-03-15
1945-03-18
1945-03-22
1945-04-02
1945-04-04
1945-04-10
1945-04-11
1945-04-12
1945-04-13
1945-04-25
1945-04-26
Spatial Coverage
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Italy
Italy--Argenta
Italy--Verona
Austria
Austria--Innsbruck
Italy--Trento
Austria--Villach
Italy--Vicenza
Germany
Germany--Freilassing
Italy--Brescia
Croatia
Croatia--Rijeka
Italy--Padua
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Photograph
Format
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Thirteen page document with copies of typewritten reports and b/w photographs
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MPowellNI1896919-191029-03
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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
Contributor
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Andy Fitter
Sue Smith
104 Squadron
aerial photograph
bombing
target photograph