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Bowker, David
D G Bowker
D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[newspaper cuttings]
Title
Le Courrier de l'Air
Propaganda Leaflet F29
Description
Wartime news about the war in Australia, Japanese aggression at sea, the Axis in the Mediterranean, the New Disorder, the war in Russia and Lady MacRobert's Stirling in memory of her sons.
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Le Courrier de l'Air
Propaganda Leaflet F29
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Wartime news about the war in Australia, Japanese aggression at sea, the Axis in the Mediterranean, the New Disorder, the war in Russia and Lady MacRobert's Stirling in memory of her sons.
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1942
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Three printed sheets
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fra
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Text
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-070001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-070002,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-070003
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Australia
France
Japan
Mediterranean Sea
Russia (Federation)
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1942
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Great Britain. Propaganda Warfare Executive
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David Bloomfield
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Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English
propaganda
Stirling
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Bowker, David
D G Bowker
D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
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[newspaper cuttings]
Title
La Bataille de l'Attlantique
Propaganda Leaflet F13
Description
Propaganda leaflet in French about the Battle of the Atlantic.
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La Bataille de l'Atlantique
Propaganda Leaflet F13
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Key importance of Battle of the Atlantic outlined by Churchill, Rear Admiral Gadow and Lieutenant Commander Ambrosius in 1941.
Germany’s defence strategy and Britain’s counter-offensive delineated with plans, methods and progress. Despite Britain’s and Allies’ heavy losses up to June 1941, the counter-offensive is causing difficulties for the German submarines.
Photographs of German commanders captured or killed at sea (Prien, Kretschmer, Schepke) and prisoner of war crew. Signs of low morale in submarine crews. French asked to make sure any leave taken at French submarine bases is as difficult as possible.
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1941
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Three printed sheets
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fra
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-050001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-050002,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-050003
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Atlantic Ocean
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Great Britain. Propaganda Warfare Executive
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David Bloomfield
Sally Coulter
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Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
propaganda
submarine
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Bowker, David
D G Bowker
D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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An account of the resource
15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Aus der Letzten April - Woche 1942
23.-29. April
Die deutsche Luftwaffe warf auf England 228 000 Kilo Bomben
Die R.A.F. Warf auf Deutschland 1 320 800 Kilo Bomben
26. April
Hitler verspricht im Reichstag:
„In dem kommenden Winter wird das Heer in dem Osten besser ausgerüstet sein“
[short line]
(Am 3. Oktober 1941 hat Hitler erklärt: „Dieser Gegner, Russland, ist bereits gebrochen und wird sich nie mehr erheben!“)
27. April
[italics] Der amerikanische Arbeiterführer R.F.Watt am 27. April 1942 in London; [/italics]
„Noch in diesem Jahr werden weitere 10 Millionen Arbeiter in die Rüstungsindustrie übergeführt werden: In den Vereinigten Staaten sind mindestens 54 Millionen Arbeitskräfte verfügbar.“
28. April
[italics] Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz SAUCKEL am 28. April; [/italics]
„Im Ernteeinsatz werden HJ und BdM in bisher noch nicht dagewesenem Ausmass zur Verfügung stehen.
Eine grosse Reserve an Arbeitskräften verkörpern noch immer die deutschen Frauen.
Im Einsatz fremdländischer Arbeitskräfte stehen uns Kriegsgefangene, Zivilarbeiter und -arbeiterinnen aus den meisten europäischen Ländern zur Verfügung.“
[page break]
[following text (repeated) surrounds whole page]
HITLER KANN DEN KRIEG NICHT MEHR GEWINNEN, ER KANN IHN NUR VERLÄNGEN
[end of surrounding text]
„Die zahlenmässige Überlegenheit des des Feindes gewann durch die immer mehr entwickelte Kriegsindustrie der Ententestaaten weiter gefahrvoll am Stärke. Sie war ausschliesslich auf den Krieg eingestellt. Arbeitskräfte standen ausreichend zur Verführung. An Rohstoffen war kein Mangel, die Arbeitsleistung war nicht gesunken, das Leben ging in den Ententeländern seinen normal Weg. Das Weltmeer war ihnen offen. Die Vereinigten Staaten Nordamerikas halfen jetzt in dem grössten Umfang aus und schufen Neues. Die technische Ausstattung der Ententeheere erreichte immer grössere Vollkommenheit und Kraft, so wie sie bisher noch nie dagewesen war.“
„Sicher stand, dass unsere Rüstungswerke trotz ihrer gewaltigen Leistungen, auch wenn sie noch so viel Arbeiter erhielten, nie in der Lage waren, den feindlichen Vorsprung einzuholen, so lange die gewaltige feindliche Industrie ungestört unter friedensähnlichen Bedingungen weiterarbeitete. Ein Ausgleich der Kraft war demnach unter diesen Verhältnissen nicht zu erreichen … Bei einem Hinziehen des Krieges schien unsere Niederlage unausbleiblich.“
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Aus der letzten April - Woche 1942
Propaganda Leaflet G42
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In last week of April 1942, Luftwaffe and RAF bombing are compared as well as Hitler’s announcement now and from 1941. Contrasting statements from American (R F Watt) and German (Sauckel) on availability of workers.
Extract from Ludendorff’s ‘Kriegserinnerungen’ commenting on how Entente Powers were able to build their armaments and workforce. Protracting the war had meant defeat was inevitable for Germany.
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One printed leaflet
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deu
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Text
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-030001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-030002
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Royal Air Force
Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe
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1942-04
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Frances Grundy
Sally Coulter
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Great Britain. Propaganda Warfare Executive
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Germany
bombing
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
propaganda
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Bowker, David
D G Bowker
D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Frage: Wie viele sind hier aufmarschiert? [underlined] Antwort: [/underlined] 330 000 Mann
Seit dem 11. Dezember hat Hitler nichts mehr über die deutschen Verluste in Russland gesagt. An diesem Tag sprach er von den Verlusten in der Zeit vom 22. Juni bis zum 30. November. 162 000 deutsche Soldaten seien in diesen 162 Tagen gefallen, behauptete er. Diese Zahl war eine Lüge – genau wie die von Hitler nach dem Polenfeldzug genannte Verlustziffer. Damals gab er die deutschen Gesamtverluste bereits am, 6. Oktober 1939 bekannt, 18 Tage nach Abschluss des Feldzugs. Vier Monate später erschien in den nur für den Dienstgebrauch bestimmten „ Allgemeinen Heeresmitteilungen “ der nachstehend wiedergegebene Erlass des O K H:
[insert: newspaper cutting printed in German script and ringed in red pen]
161 Verlustmeldung
Es ist festgestellt worden, dass eine große Anzahl von Einheiten trotz des Befehls zu beschleunigter Meldung (siehe H. B. Bl. 1939 Teil Nr. 1091) ihre bis in die ersten Septembertage zurückreichenden Verluste erst Mitte Januar, also nach 4 Monaten, an die Wehrmachtaustsfunststelle für Kriegerverluste und Kriegsgefangene gemeldet haben.
Hierdurch ergeben sich schwerwiegende Nachteile für die Ungehörigen der Gefallen, weil
1. die Ausfunstserteilung (z. B. über Grablage usw.),
2. die Ausstellung von Sterbeurkunden,
3. die Nachlassregelung,
4. Testamentsaushändigung usw.
außerordentlich verzögert werden.
Samtlichte Einheiten sind nochmals ausdrücklich darauf hinzuweisen, dass eingetretene Verluste der Wehrmachtaustsfunststelle zu melden sind.
Sollten auch jetzt noch Einheiten mit Verlustmeldungen aus dem Polenfeldzug sein, so sind diese bis 1 März der Wehrmachtausfunststelle einzureichen.
(Ch H Rüst u. BdE), 1.2.40 Wehrmachtaustsfunststelle
- 1350/40 – AHA/Ag/H (V).
162. Abzeichen de Deutschen Lebensrettungsgesellschaft
[/end of insert]
Die Gesamtverluste des Polenfeldzugs waren also der deutschen Heeresleitung Mitte Januar 1940 noch nicht bekannt. Der Erlass erklärt, warum, anders als 1914-18, Einzelverlustlisten nicht veröf [indecipherable characters] licht werden dürfen: weil nämlich dann jeder Deutsche sich mit eigenen Augen überzeugen könnte, wie Hitler lügt.
So war es nach dem polnischen Feldzug, der mit 40 Divisionen gegen einen an Zahl und Ausrüstung weit schwächeren Feind geführt und in 18 Tagen siegreich beendet worden war. Schon damals, als alles über Erwarten gut ging, hat Hitler dem deutschen Volk gefälschte Zahlen vorgesetzt. Heute spricht er schon seit Monaten überhaupt nicht mehr von den eigenen Verlusten. Kein Wort von den in schweren Abwehrkämpfen Gefallenen, von den Verwundeten, die in der Kälte [indecipherable characters]gen blieben und erstarrten, von den Krüppeln, denen die erfrorenen Gliedmassen amputiert werden mussten. Lest doch die Schilderungen der P.K.-Berichte! Von allem wird darin gesprochen, von der Kälte, vom Hunger, von der Überlegenheit des Gegners, von seinen rücksichtslosen Angriffen, vom Heldentum der deutschen Soldaten, nur nicht von den Toten. Die dürfen nicht erwähnt werden, weder bei der Beschreibung der Abwehrschlachten noch bei der Vorschau auf Hitlers Frühjahrsoffensive.
Warum werden jetzt die Facharbeiter aus den Fabriken geholt und die älteren Jahrgänge und die Familienväter über 40? Nur um Hitlers 162 000 Gefallene zu ersetzen?
Und nun seht euch nochmals das Bild auf der Rückseite an! Ihr seht dort 330 000 Männer Aufmarschiert. Nach den vorsichtigsten Schätzungen ist die Zahl der deutschen Gefallenen allein mindestens viermal so gross.
Hitler sagt: Ganz Europa arbeitet, um Waffen für das deutsche Heer zu liefern, Geschütze, Panzer und Flugzeuge. Aber eines vermag auch Hitler nicht zu erzwingen: dass nämlich französische und belgische und andre fremde Mutter deutsche Soldaten liefern. Panzer kann man ersetzen, Menschen nicht. Hitler versprach dem deutschen Volk den Blitzsieg im Osten – und verdammte es zu langsamem Verbluten. Jede Meile in der russischen Steppe, ob im Vormarsch oder Rückzug, bringt dieses Ende naher.
[underlined] FRAGE: {/underlined]
Wie viele werden noch in den Tod marschieren?
Die [underlined] ANTWORT [/underlined] liegt bei Euch
[page break]
[Photo of Nazi Party rally with the title]
Standartenweihe im Luitpoldhain 1933
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Frage: wie viele sind hier aufmarschiert? Antwort: 330000 Mann
Propaganda Leaflet C17
Description
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Claims Hitler has not talked about losses in Russia since 11 December (162,000 German soldiers dying in 162 days). Compares this to the lack of information and incorrect numbers given after the Poland Campaign. Hitler now having to use other groups and nationalities to replace those killed. Not the promised speedy victory.
Death toll conservatively estimated to be at least four times the 330,000 men shown in the photograph.
Concludes by saying the answer to how many are still marching to their deaths lies with the German people.
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One double sided printed leaflet
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deu
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Text
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-150001-1,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-150001-2
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Wehrmacht
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Frances Grundy
Sally Coulter
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Great Britain. Propaganda Warfare Executive
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
propaganda
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Bowker, David
D G Bowker
D Bowker
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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De Wervelwind
Propaganda Leaflet H14
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Contains foreword by the Queen of the Netherlands as well as news about training of Dutch paratroopers, the Dutch merchant Navy, the queen and government of the Netherlands in London, an eyewitness account of the Battle of the Java Sea, an item on the situation in Europe, human rights, the influence of Hitler on the Lutheran songbook, a Russian civilian who claimed responsibility for a resistance action as to avoid a reprisal in his village, a comment on the war by Sir Trafford Cripps, an item on Chiang Kai-shek, the Labour Party congress, life in occupied Paris, London the capital of free Europe, modern English writers, the life of forced labourers in Germany, shareholders of Philips company and some short news from the Dutch government in London.
Date
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1942-06
Format
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One 16 page printed booklet
Language
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nld
Type
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Text
Identifier
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-140001
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Netherlands
Pacific Ocean--Java Sea
France--Paris
Germany
Great Britain
England--London
China
France
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Royal Air Force
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David Bloomfield
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Great Britain. Propaganda Warfare Executive
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Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English
propaganda
Resistance
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Bowker, David
D G Bowker
D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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An account of the resource
15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[box with tricoleur boundary]
LE DILEMME DE MARINS FRANÇAIS
posé par
UN MARIN FRANÇAIS
[/end of box]
[italics] L'allocution suivante fut récemment prononcée à la Radio de Londres par un officier de marine actuellement en service avec les Forces Navales Françaises et Libres. Elle fut adressée par lui et son frère, officier à bord du ''Strasbourg''. Elle résume de la façon la lus émouvante le conflit angoissant entre le simple devoir militaire et les doutes et appréhensions qui assaillent en ces heures tragiques tout bon Français.[/italics]
Neuf heures du soir – la rade de Toulon très calme sous le ciel étoilé – pas une lumière - pas un bruit le grand bâtiment qui est là amarré au milieu de la rade, c’est le ''Strasbourg'' le plus beau croiseur cuirassé, avec le ''Richelieu'', des forces navales françaises. Il bât pavillon du vice-amiral Jean de Laborde, commandant en chef la première escadre.
Je franchis la coupée. Je trouve mon chemin dans l’enchevêtrement des coursives, des échelles; je monte dans l'énorme tour d'acier du blockhaus central. Sans faute, je connais le ''Strasbourg'': je suis marin et c'est mon frère, un marin aussi, que je vais retrouver.
Sur la passerelle obscure, un lieutenant de vaisseau marche de long en large avec régularité. Je te reconnais, mon frère, lieutenant de vaisseau sur le ''Strasbourg.'' Je te prends le bras …. Veux-tu que nous la passions ensemble, cette soirée de quart sur rade?...
Car on fait le quart sur rade, comme autrefois, quand la France était en guerre … Car sur tous les bâtiments français, à cette heure-ci, il y a des officiers et des marins aux aguets …
Aux aguets contre qui? ...
Contre l'Allemagne? … Contre l'Italie? … Contre L'Angleterre? …
Mon frère … nous sommes seuls, tous les deux, sur la passerelle obscure.... Le timonier de service est trop loin pour nous entendre …. Les matelots de quart aux tourelles, aux mitrailleuses, à la D.C.A., poursuivant leur rêve indistinct, à la lueur des étoiles …. Dis-moi ... contre qui fais-tu le quart?
Comme tu es embarrassé pour me répondre....
Tu me dis … ''J’obéis aux ordres.''
Aux ordres de qui? Oui, je sais, il y
[page break]
[heading] DISTRIBUÉ PAR LA R.A.F. [/heading]
a la hiérarchie, la pyramide des commandants, des amiraux ….
Tu fais le quart, toute la bordée des canonniers fait le quart, ce soir, comme tous les soirs, en vertu des ordres de Darlan.
Contre qui? …
Tu ne réponds pas?
Tu vois sur la rade ces autres bateaux? Les croiseurs, les contre-torpilleurs, les sous-marins? On les devine tous, à la lueur des étoiles. Sur toutes ces mécaniques splendides la perfection a été poussée à un point absolu. Les machines graissées sont luisantes. Les tourelles fonctionnent sans heurts, sans accrocs, les canons prennent dès qu'on le veut, l'angle de visée exact, les téléphones, les postes émetteurs et récepteurs sont impeccables .... les hommes mêmes ont acquis la régularité, la sûreté des machines...
Et cela depuis bien avant la guerre.... Mon frère,... toi et moi, et des milliers d'autres, nous avons travaillé pour que tout cet acier, toutes ces machines, arrivent à faire de splendides mécaniques de combat.... Ces bâtiments, tu les vois là, devant nous? Ils sont là, devant nous? Ils sont là, pourquoi? Ils serviront à quoi? Tu ne réponds pas? Tu as froid peut-être? Rentrons. Nous voici à nouveau dans l'abri de navigation; obscur? Pas tout-à-fait. Dans son habitacle, la boussole s’éclaire d'une faible lueur?.... Tu la regardes, d’instinct.... Tu ne sais pas ce qu'elle m’évoque cette lueur?
Sur d'autres bâtiments, sur d'autres passerelles obscures il y a aussi des officiers de quart qui fixent la boussole faiblement éclairée. Alentour, dehors, c'est l’obscurité totale, aussi. Ces bâtiments-là sont à la mer, ils sont en patrouille, ils sont en convoi.... Oh! Ce n'est pas le ''Strasbourg,'' ni le ''Richelieu''; ils sont plus modestes …. Ce sont le bâtiments de Forces Françaises Libres.
Et là aussi, il y a la bordée de quart que veille … et là aussi, il y a des mécaniques parfaites, et des armements de mitrailleuses, et des armements de D.C.A. Seulement ces marins qui sont de quart, ils [italics] savent [/italics] pourquoi ils sont là, [italics] savent [/italics] ce qu'ils font … A bord de ces bâtiments, il n'y a pas que des mécaniques parfaites , il y a des hommes. Et dans leur cœur, comme le lueur discrète de la boussole, il y a la certitude de leur devoir … et l'espérance, la lueur qui ne s’éteindra pas. Ils n'ont pas, eux, l’écœurante sensation qui t’obsède, mon frère, de fourbir leurs machines de exercer leur appareils uniquement pour permettre à leur chef ignoble jeu d'amiral-politicien.
Mon frère … je te connais … je sais bien que tu n'attends pas de l'amiral Darlan une place sous-préfet ou de commissaire de police. Dans la famille nous avons un peu trop de fierté pour cela … Alors … pourquoi fais-tu le quart, ce soir? … Je te le demande … et n'oses pas en convenir … mais au fonds tu le sais bien … Si tu fais le quart ce soir, sur la rade endormie, si tu continues tes exercices demain et tes réglages d'appareils, est-ce pour reprendre un jour comme nous et avec nous la lutte pour la France contre l'envahisseur, aux côtés de nos alliés de toujours? C'est cela qu'elle te rappelle, cette douce lueur de la boussole. C'est elle que nous évoquerons, à la table de famille, après la victoire, quand tu me diras de cette soirée de quart … en empruntant, tout naturellement, le langage des combattants: ''Ah, oui, c'était avant que nous reprenions l'offensive quant tu étais déjà en ligne et que nos étions encore au repos.''
[photograph labelled] LE STRASBOURG
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Le Dilemme des Marins Francais
Propaganda Leaflet F17
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The following talk was recently addressed on London Radio by an officer now serving in the Free French Naval Forces to his brother, an officer on board the “Strasbourg”. It sums up in a moving manner the distressing conflict between military duty and the doubts and misgivings with which in these tragic hours every true Frenchman is assailed.
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-130001,
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France
France--Toulon
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Frances Grundy
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Great Britain. Propaganda Warfare Executive
propaganda
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Bowker, David
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
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Gegen den inneren Feind!
Am 26. April 1942 ernannte sich Hitler “zum Obersten Gerichtsherrn des Deutschen Volkes” ohne an das bestehende Recht gebunden zu sein.
WER IST DER “INNERE FEIND”?
DER RICHTER, der sich weigert das Recht so zu beugen wie es Bormann befiehlt.
DER LEHRER, DIE LEHRERIN, die, Axmann zum Trotz, die ihnen anvertrauten Kinder vor schonungsloser Ausdutzung im Landeinsatz schützen woollen.
DER GEISTLICHE, der trotz Rosenberg in seiner Kirche die Lehre Christi verkündet.
DER BEAMTE, der sich Himmler zum Feind macht wenn er sich gegen die Einmischung und Korruption seiner neuen Herren, der Gauleiter und der Gestapo wehrt.
DER ARTZ, der nicht sofort auf Speer’s Befehl jeden erschöpften Arbeiter gesund schreibt.
DER BETRIEBSFÜHRER der sich weigert, aus seinen Arbeitern die unmöglichen Leitungen herauszupressen die Saukel verlangt.
JEDER DEUTSCHE ARBEITER, JEDE DEUTSCHE ARBEITERIN, DIE SICH AUFLEHNEN GEGEN –
Hitler und seine [symbol]
G22
[page break]
ERLÄUTERUNGEN ZUR HITLER-REDE
1942
16. Januar Bormann erhält namens der Partei ausserordentliche Vollmachten.
17. Januar Generalfeldmarschall v. Reichenau tot.
28. Januar Mansfeld erhält uneingeschränkte Vollmachten für den Arbeitseinsatz.
8. Februar Dr. Todt umgekommen.
16. März Die Waffen-SS tritt am Heldengedenktag als selbständiger Wehrmachtteil auf.
26. Marz Sämtliche Behörden den örtlichen Gauleitern unterstellt.
28. März Sauckel zum Arbeitseinsatz-Diktator ernannt. Mansfeld entlassen.
6. April Kürzung der Lebensmittelrationen tritt in Kraft.
8. April Peuckert als Arbeitseinsatz-Diktator für die Landwirtschaft eingesetzt.
15. April Kinder unter 15 Jahren zum Kriegsnotdienst (Luftschutz) aufgerufen.
18. April Generalfeldmarschall v. Leeb seines Kommandos enthoben.
23. April Aufruf von Schulkindern zur Zwangsarbeit in der Landwirtschaft.
26. April Hitler ernennt sich zum obersten Gerichtsherren.
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Propaganda Leaflet G22
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Elucidation to the Hitler Speech 1942
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1942
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deu
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-120002
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Wehrmacht
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Germany
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1942-04-26
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Steve Baldwin
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Great Britain. Political Warfare Executive
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
propaganda
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Bowker, David
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
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Propaganda Leaflet G48
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Photographs of dead German soldiers and on the reverse 'Hitler Mathematik' with figures set out on a blackboard.
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deu
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-110001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-110002
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Wehrmacht
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1942
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Germany
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1942
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Great Britain. Political Warfare Executive
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David Bloomfield
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Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
propaganda
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Bowker, David
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D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Le Courrier de l'Air #17
Propaganda Leaflet F46
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RAF superiority over the Luftwaffe in the air with successful day and night operations. Photograph of bombing damage to a factory producing He 111 aircraft. Luftwaffe ‘Baedeker’ retaliatory operations on British historic towns. Three pilots from French Forces attacked 15 Fw 190 aircraft. Announcement that Diego Suarez occupied but still some pockets of resistance.
Allies inflicting losses and slowing down Japan’s progress in Burma Campaign. Four new American destroyers launched early in 50 minutes. Admiral Stark, Commander in Chief of American Navy, confident of victory, with the United States’ accelerating shipbuilding programme. False news about French bombing of several British cities in south. Laval and Darlan receive visits from Japanese admirals, Nomura and Abe. For their safety, French will be alerted when time is right to join in any operations.
Laval’s apparent solicitude for the workers is masking a significant shortage of workers; Gauleiter Sauckel urgently requires foreign workers in Germany. Churchill announces surrender of Diego Suarez by French. United States declaration to Vichy ambassador on why Great Britain has occupied Madagascar; United States support with its return promised after victory.
Gauleiter Sauckel’s severe workforce problems, the reasons and solutions, including need for Laval to find French workers for him.
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1942
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fra
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Text
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-090001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-090002,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-090003
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany
France
United States
Burma
Madagascar
Germany--Rostock
Madagascar--Antsiran̈ana
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1942
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Great Britain. Political Warfare Executive
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David Bloomfield
Sally Coulter
bombing
Fw 190
He 111
propaganda
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Bowker, David
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D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Le Courrier de l'Air #15
Propaganda Leaflet F38
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Icreased RAF operations, including 400 Spitfires in one day. Despite losses, new Lancaster bombers inflict damage in broad daylight on Augsburg factories, producing submarine diesel engines and other war equipment. Message of thanks to the aircrews from Churchill to Air Marshal A T Harris, Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command. Successful American operation against Japan in Andaman Islands and on Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya.
United States General Marshall’s visit to see Churchill, members of the war cabinet and joint chiefs of staff. American bomber units to be based in Britain. German network of mines along Belgian coast. RAF successfully putting mines in areas which German ships cannot avoid. Several thousand troops extricated from Yenangyaung oil fields in Burma by British and Chinese forces.
Pierre Laval, Head of French Government, purported to be using Abetz’s words in keynote speech. Arbetaren in Stockholm details German losses. Colonel Louis Johnson, President Roosevelt’s personal representative, tells journalists in Delhi about America’s current plans and aims for after the war. Combined Operations reports on successful reconnaissance operation on 22 April near Boulogne, penetrating German defences and damaging trawlers.
Increased RAF bombing capability aimed at range of German cities, fulfilling Churchill’s undertaking on 14 July 1941. Heavy bombing of Lübeck in April 1942 compared and contrasted to Luftwaffe’s bombing of Coventry in November 1940.
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1942
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fra
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-080001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-080002,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-080003
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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France
France--Boulogne-sur-Mer
Germany
Germany--Augsburg
Germany--Lübeck
Great Britain
Japan
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1940-11
1941-07-14
1942-04
1942-04-22
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Great Britain. Political Warfare Executive
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David Bloomfield
Sally Coulter
bombing
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984)
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Bowker, David
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D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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LE VOICI!
[picture]
Tel que vous le subissez,
Tel que nous le connaissons,
Tel qu’il se révèle maintenant au monde entire.
[underlined] ENSEMBLE, NOUS EN DEBARRASSERONS LA FRANCE ET L’EUROPE [/underlined]
129
[page break]
[underlined] PERSONNALITE DE L’ORDRE NOUVEAU [/underlined]
[picture]
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Propaganda Leaflet J29
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A German soldier in full uniform and seated. On the reverse text in French with a smaller image of the Nazi officer.
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fra
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-060001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-060002
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Bowker, David
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D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Propaganda Leaflet G18
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Two photographs, the first soldiers marching in the snow and the second soldiers lying dead in the snow. The translation reads his first campaign and his last. On the reverse is a list of obituary notices from the 'Die Woche' newspaper.
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deu
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-040001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-040002,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-100001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-100002
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Wehrmacht
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Great Britain. Political Warfare Executive
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David Bloomfield
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Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English
killed in action
propaganda
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Bowker, David
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D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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An account of the resource
15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[border] HITLER KANN DEN KRIEG NICHT MEHR GEWINNEN, ER KANN IHN NUR VERLÄNGERN. [border]
AMERIKA:
54Millionnen Arbeitskräfte einsatzbereit
Der amerikanische Arbeiterführer R.F. WATT am 27. April 1942 in London:
“Noch im Laufe dieses Jahres warden weitere 10 Millionen amerikanische Arbeiter in die Rüstungsindustrie übergeführt werden. Die Gesamtzahl der für den Arbeitseinsatz in U.S.A. verfügbaren Personen beträgt mindestens 54 Millionen.”
DEUTSCHLAND:
Kinder, Frauen, Kriegsgefangene and Zwangsarbeiter
Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz SAUCKEL am 28. April:
“Im Ernteeinsatz der Landwirtschaft warden HJ und BdM in einem bisher noch nicht dagewesenen Ausmass zur Verfügung stehen.
Eine grosse Reserve an Arbeitskräften verkörpern heute noch immer die deutschen Frauen.
Im Einsatz fremdländischer Arbeitskräfte stehen uns Kriegsgefangene und daneben Zivilarbeiter und –arbeiterinnen aus den moisten europäischen Ländern zur Verfügung.”
[page break]
“Dieser Gegner, Russland, ist bereits gebrochen und wird sich nie mehr erheben!”
Hitler, 3. Oktober 1941
“In dem kommenden Winter wird das Heer im Osten besser ausgerüstet sein”
Hitler, 26. April 1942
Die zahlenmässige Überlegenheit des Feindes gewann durch die immer mehr entwickelte Kriegsindustrie der Ententestaaten weiter gefahrvoll an Stärke. Sie war ausschliesslich auf den Krieg eingestellt. Arbeitskräfte standen ausreichend zur Verfügung. An Rohstoffen war kein Mangel, die Arbeitsleistung war nicht gesunken, das Leben ging in den Ententeländern seinen normalen Weg. Das Weltmeer war ihnen offen. Die Vereinigten Staaten Nordamerikas halfen jetzt in dem grössten Umfang aus und schufen Neues. Die technische Ausstattung der Ententeheere erreichte immer grössere Vollkommenheit und Kraft, so wie sie bisher noch nie dagewesen war.”
“Sicher stand, dass unsere Rüstungswerke trotz ihrer gewaltigen Leistungen, auch wenn sie noch so viel Arbeiter erhielten, nie in der Lage waren, den feindlichen Vorsprung einzuholen, so lange die gewaltige feindliche Industrie ungestört unter friedensähnlichen Bedingungen weiterarbeitete. Ein Ausgleich der Kraft war demnach unter diesen Verhältnissen nicht zu erreichen . . . Bei einem Hinziehen des Krieges schien unsere Niederlage unausbleiblich.”
Ludendorff, “Kriegserinnerungen”
G23
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Propaganda Leaflet G23
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The leaflet describes the huge number of American workers being transferred to the arms industry.
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1942
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-020001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-020002
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Civilian
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Germany
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1942-04-27
1942-04-28
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Steve Baldwin
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Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
propaganda
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Bowker, David
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D Bowker
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[photograph]
WARSCHAU
[photograph]
ROTTERDAM
[photograph]
BELGRAD
[photograph]
LÜBECK
[photograph]
ROSTOCK
[photograph]
KÖLN
[page break]
Wie viele sind in Russland gefallen?
Warum hat die Luftwaffe nicht genug Flugzeuge?
Warum ist England noch nicht verhungert?
Wann werden die deutschen Rationen weiter gekürzt?
Warum lässt sich der Führer nie in gebombten Städten sehen?
Wie viele Menschen werden jeden Tag in Deutschland hingerichtet?
Warum unterdruckt die Hitlerregierung alle Erklärungen der Verbündeten über ihre Politik gegenüber Deutschland nach Hitlers Sturz?
Wer hat gesagt: “Wir werden das Ruhrgebiet auch nicht einer einzigen Bombe feindlicher Flieger ausliefern”?
G.37
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Propaganda Leaflet G37
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A leaflet, in German dropped by the RAF. It has photographs on the front of Goering. On the reverse are comments and questions.
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One colour leaflet
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deu
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MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-010001,
MBowkerDG[Ser#-DoB]-151216-010002
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Wehrmacht
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Goering, Hermann (1893-1946)
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Bowker, David
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Bowker, DG
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15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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DB: I’m David Bowker giving this interview and, and these are my, my thoughts. When I was, when I was eighteen in 1940. I went to the recruiting office in Southsea and volunteered for air sea rescue in the RAF because we lived at Alverstoke and we watched the practice, the air force practice dropping torpedoes and they were launching, rescuing the torpedoes. Air sea rescue. But anyway the recruiting office wrote to me and said that it was all full but presumably with elder yachtsmen but I could join, I could still join the navy or the air force or the army just as I wished but I had no, I had no thought, no thought of flying at the time and so I was offered, in the RAF, general duties. Well, of course I had no idea what general duties meant but in actual fact it turned out that if you were fit you were going to fly and the disaster was I was sent to, sent to Cardington and then I had an interview at Cardington and I think he was a sergeant and he said, ‘How do you know you’re eighteen?’ And I said, ‘Well I’m eighteen.’ And he said, ‘Well you don’t look it to me.’ But anyway, I had to, I had to produce my birth certificate to prove that I was eighteen. Anyway, I ended up in the RAF general duties and was sent to, was sent to Blackpool and I found that I was streamed into wireless operator/air gunner. Well, that was the very last thing I wanted to do and so myself and another and a friend at the time we went and saw the officer in charge to ask whether we could re-muster to pilot instead of air gunner and of course we had to, we had to be tested with Morse, Morse code, eighteen words a minute, which was quite fast actually. And anyway, fortunately I passed it and we, and then we started all over again and we were sent to, sent to Stratford on Avon on a pilot’s course and from the receiving wing at Stratford on Avon it was, we were billeted in a disused old hotel which, which was completely derelict and we had to even tear up newspapers to, to use in the lavatory. I can’t, I can’t imagine how primitive it was at the time. But anyway we went from there and we had our meals in the Shakespeare Hotel. Airforce food of course. And from there we had lectures in the Shakespeare Theatre given by, given by a corporal on gas and all sorts of things and from there we, I was posted to Scarborough at the Cambridge Hotel and there again it was, it was very primitive. Still with straw palliases for our, on our beds and we kitted out with flying gear in the Grand Hotel, Scarborough and then, what happened then? I remember we went to a, to a, ah yes we went from Scarborough to Burnaston near, near in Derbyshire which, which was a small, a small aerodrome flying, flying Miles Magisters and we were billeted in, in an old house at Repton School in Repton village and again, again our beds consisted of straw palliases which was very uncomfortable. I was wondering when I was going to get a decent bed. Anyway, we learnt to fly in Miles Magisters and from there, from there we, I was posted to Shawbury flying Airspeed Oxfords and there was an entire, day flying and when we were posted to, for night flying we were, we were posted to Cranwell and in the college complete with batman and then feeding in the college and some night flying and that was very satisfactory. But I remember my first solo night flying. I remember it very well because it was pitch dark and then when I took my eyes off the, off the flying panel I felt the plane immediately started tilting to the left and when I corrected myself with the flying in looking at the instruments although I was straight and level it appeared to be flying to the right. But anyway I soon learned, soon learned to look at the flying panel but I must say I do, I do remember having quite a scary, scary time but we returned to, to, and after having the chief flying instructor’s test I remember we were given some sergeant’s stripes to sew on together with the pilot’s wings which we had to sew on ourselves of course. From there I was posted to an Operational Training Unit flying Wellingtons at Pershore and that took us to -
JB: [whisper] Stop it.
[machine pause]
DB: Ok.
JB: It’s interesting to me David that you’d just qualified as a pilot and was there not some hesitation that you, at your young age, was taking charge of a big aeroplane and a crew who might have been older than you?
DB: Yes. Well, basically they were a year or two older than me.
JB: Yes. Presumably they had to be. So how did you feel about that?
DB: Well, I didn’t have any feelings at the time because it was just how things were.
JB: Well now you’re qualified -
DB: In fact some of the older people, when it came to the exams, the meteorology etcetera, one or two of the older people, because I was younger and only recently left school they asked me as if I, as if I knew better than them.
JB: So, now you had got a crew together who were mixed nationalities?
DB: Well yes. Basically all English. The rear gunner was a New Zealander.
JB: What was your navigator then?
DB: He was an Englishman.
JB: Because on him you rely a lot presumably.
DB: Hmmn?
JB: You rely a lot on a navigator presumably.
DB: Yes one does.
JB: Just turn it off.
[pause]
MJ: Alright.
DB: In, in retrospect, thinking about it, when I was on the squadron we, we, the pilots we never had any discussion about tactics or anything. We would, before an operation we were briefed about, about where they had anti-aircraft guns and that sort of thing but as, as a pilot we never had any meetings of pilots to discuss, to personally discuss any tactics that we might have. It struck me as being very extraordinary.
MJ: What about crew decisions? Did you, was it, was there decisions between the crew, between yourself and your crew more than the hierarchy?
DB: Well I don’t, it’s extraordinary ‘cause I don’t think we did. Never had any discussion about it.
[Machine pause]
And it was just left, left to ourselves to do what we, we were very rarely told when to bomb or what height to bomb or anything. It was entirely left to us. In 1942 anyway. Maybe, it was a bit different later but it struck me that we, that the flight commander, you know, never had any, any guidance on, on what to do or anything. It really does, it does amaze me. We were just told where the target was and where the, where the flak was on the way out and that sort of thing. We could go our own direction. We hadn’t, we’d know. We weren’t told any fixed thing. We were entirely left to ourselves to get to the target. I mean, in retrospect to me it’s amazing that we had no, no guidance about this but, but on the, when I was on the squadron at 103 we converted to the original Halifaxes and we were sent to Rufforth near York where, where Leonard Cheshire was the squadron leader at the time and the original Halifaxes were absolutely death traps because if the, if the two engines failed on one side and you had to correct it with the rudder normally with an aeroplane you could correct it if the engines failed but with the original Halifaxes the rudder could lock over and there was nothing you could do about it if the thing went into a spin and, and so they were absolutely death traps and the funny thing was although I completed the course and Squadron Leader Cheshire, he demonstrated to me how the rudders locked over by instantly correcting, you know. You expected it. And when I was flying with him he demonstrated how the rudder locked over but I mean, if, if you didn’t know about it and you didn’t correct it instantly I mean, it got fixed. But very soon afterwards the original Halifaxes had an enlarged rudder, a large rudder and I think it was quite, they were quite satisfactory after that but in actual fact, funnily enough, there was myself and another youngster and when we finished the course the Squadron Leader Cheshire suggested that we would be happier if we went back on to Wellingtons and the fact, of course one was disappointed at the time and I was posted to 150 squadron but I think the whole, the whole of 103 with the Halifaxes because one time after one, after one raid I was diverted back to Elsham and when I was in the, we, I was diverted back to Elsham because Snaith where 150 squadron was was fogbound and so we and, and when I went into the mess I didn’t recognise anybody on 103 and they’d practically all, had so many fatal crashes with the, with the original Halifaxes that the squadrons were converted to, in late ‘42 the squadron converted to Lancasters instead of the Halifaxes.
JB: Coffee?
[machine pause]
MJ: It’s all yours.
JB: I was thirteen when the war began and came from a very privileged background and I do remember that my own experience of world affairs was nil. It was Children’s, Children’s radio. Uncle Mac, or some very silly, childish things and The Children’s Newspaper which now doesn’t exist and that was all I knew about what went on in the world apart from my cosy life and I remember standing in the room with my parents, listening to the radio and Chamberlain giving this dreadful speech, ‘We are now at war.’ And I do remember clearly and now, in retrospect, you actually wonder about it, saying to my parents, ‘Will it be fun? War.’ Now, I do you know it was not fun. And I went straight from there to school where we were bombed heavily because it was right beside Handley Page but nobody in the school told us that what we were hearing was mostly anti-aircraft fire. It was not bombing and we lived a life in air raid shelters frightened to bits simply because of the lack of communication of what was going on. We were not allowed to have radios or anything, in case, this was a very strict Methodist school, in case somebody found out a brother or somebody had been on a boat that had been, you know, sunk or whatever. So we had no contact with the outside world whatsoever. However, it was such that by sixteen I went up to university. London University but transferred to Leicester to study economics. Now, wartime study was different because they altered up the curriculum and I was only allowed to do two years. Well, it’s three years for a degree and I did two years and went in to some ridiculous war work in London and I can remember, we discussed the other day, David and I, what we both did on D-Day and I walked from Hammersmith to where I was living in Marble Arch through crowds of people, all jubilation, and then I could not go back to university and the reason I could not go back was because the men had all come back from the war and, quite rightly, after their war service they took all the places and women lost out because of the generation we happened to be. The luck was that we did this two years, finish. No degree. Frankly, it doesn’t actually matter in the world because people, not many people ask you whether you’ve got a degree or not so that’s really what my war was like.
[Machine pause]
MJ: Thank you David for your wife’s int, before she had to go in a hurry so we’ll carry on with what we were saying.
DB: Right. Yes, I always, in retrospect, was very thankful for, very thankful for being sent to another squadron on Wellingtons because a Wellington could take an awful lot of damage and still fly which, which, of course, happened to me on a, on a raid on Frankfurt. We were very badly damaged and after gaining control at about, at about a thousand feet we managed to, to stay, to stay airborne, to fly home and crossing the French coast at about five hundred feet I remember very well a lot of tracer bullets flying over, following me overhead. We weren’t hit because obviously it appeared that they couldn’t elevate their guns low enough to, because we were so low all the, all the bullets were going overhead but anyway, I mean, because we were halfway across the channel the um -
[Machine pause?]
MJ: It’s on.
DB: Yes. Halfway across the channel the petrol gauge read nothing and my wireless operator told base that we were going to ditch in the channel but we were persuaded to carry on to, and follow the searchlights, to follow the searchlights on to Manston aerodrome. And whether, and I was following the searchlights towards Manston when of course we ran out of petrol and crashed near Lympne and, but of course it’s, I mean it’s a long, it’s a long story but we –
[Machine pause]
MJ: [?] it’s on.
DB: The, when we, when we crashed just north of Folkestone, the second pilot, I don’t believe was strapped in ‘cause I’m not sure that the second pilot’s position had straps but anyway he was killed together with the bomb aimer who was aft who was aft by the main, main boom because the plane caught fire and the, although the second pilot got out he more or less died after getting out the, and the bomb aimer was stuck in and I believe got burnt to death. But anyway after, after this episode we were, the survivors were flown back to, to Snaith and after, after flying on one training trip I was posted to a target towing unit flying, flying Lysanders towing a target for, for, for other squadrons along the coast from Grimsby down to Skegness.
[machine pause]
MJ: It’s on.
DB: But maybe after, after being a survivor, I don’t know why, I don’t know. I can’t think of any particular reason but except that maybe when someone has had a shaky do like that perhaps, perhaps it was normal to be posted to a non-operational -
MJ: Role.
DB: Type of thing.
MJ: Mind you, I don’t think being shot at by [laughs] by trainees is a safer occupation is it?
DB: No. But er I was on the target towing unit for about six months and then was posted as an instructor to an OTU. I mean, I mean at the time one just went along with what happened. I mean, one didn’t, one, I personally didn’t have any say myself on what, on what happened. And if one got posted I didn’t argue with it. No.
MJ: Did you prefer the coastal work or the training?
DB: Hmmn?
MJ: Did you prefer the coastal work or the training work?
DB: Did I?
MJ: You did the drone bit. Did you prefer training the troops or did you prefer being the target if you see what I, ‘cause when you flew -
DB: Well one, one towed the target, it’s a sleeve. You had the operator, you know. I was the pilot but the person at the back there trailed, trailed the, the drogue on long wire. I mean, he had control over how long a wire he put it because we, I don’t know whether you know Spurn Head off the Humber but we towed the target on a very long, a very long wire for the army ‘cause we didn’t really trust the army [laughs] but anyway for the, for the anti-aircraft practice. But there, it was all, it was all quite a, quite a job because we did two or three trips a day. You know, we did work quite hard but after that I was posted to an Operational Training Unit as an instructor.
[Machine pause]
MJ: [pause] It’s on now.
JB: David, in which stage in this saga did you take on the job of testing aircraft that had been in the repair shop to see if they were good enough to fly again?
DB: That was, that was some time after I was -
JB: Shot down?
DB: It er, no, it was after and I was, I was seconded to a maintenance unit.
JB: Yes, but does that come between the target towing, the shooting down and the target towing or does it come after the target towing?
DB: After the target towing. Yes.
JB: After the target towing.
DB: Yes.
JB: So you were just handed this book of instructions for an aeroplane and said -
DB: Well it was –
JB: Take it up and see if it will go. Well obviously it did otherwise you wouldn’t still be here, would you?
DB: No. Well I was very, very, yes, with the Hurricane for instance one had to be ‘cause you couldn’t have any two -
JB: No. There was -
DB: Two.
JB: Nobody else in it.
DB: No.
JB: You couldn’t, it was a one seater.
DB: There was –
JB: But then do you, do you enter in to a thing like this with an excitement of something, that this is something new or with great fear that have they done a good enough job that this is my last moment?
DB: Oh you mean on the maintenance unit?
JB: Yes. I mean did you actually think every time you got in to a different aeroplane they wanted you to test that this is an excitement or did you think oh my God I may be dead by tomorrow?
DB: No. No [laughs] I never thought. I just thought –
JB: Eternal optimist are you?
DB: Well yes.
JB: I see. Your glass is always half full obviously. Yes I see.
DB: Well, until, until the time came when the life raft flew out.
JB: Oh yes. Yes. And this is when you were testing what? A Halifax?
DB: No. A Wellington.
JB: A Wellington. And tell me what happened.
DB: Well the, when I -
JB: The life raft inflated did you tell me?
DB: Well it feathered, you know, when I had to take, I went, took these aeroplanes on test so when I took off I had to feather the propellers and check everything worked and I remember feathering the starboard propeller. There was a tremendous bang and I didn’t know what it was.
JB: Quite unnerving.
DB: There was this huge bang and the inflatable dinghy, the rubber inflatable dinghy had flown out of its case behind the engine and wrapped itself around the tail plane and then as soon as this huge bang and I thought, ‘Christ what’s that?’
JB: Well you would.
DB: Because I lost control. The elevators were locked because this thing was, if you can imagine, the thing had collapsed and prevented the elevators from working.
JB: So how did you get the aeroplane down then?
DB: By the televator well of course it’s a long story.
JB: Well just tell me quickly ‘cause I haven’t got all night. Yes.
DB: Well the controls were rigid rods.
JB: Yes.
DB: And so of course the whole of the tail plane was skewed. The rigid rods didn’t -
JB: Yeah.
DB: Work because -
JB: So how do you correct that to get it down?
DB: Well the fin tabs.
JB: Yes.
DB: Were on a separate thing. That’s the elevator and the fin tabs is another -
JB: David this is -
DB: Another little tab.
JB: This is not visual darling.
DB: Yes.
JB: There’s no good telling me like that.
DB: No. Quite.
JB: No. Just tell me. So you’ve got the plane down by being rather clever.
DB: By using, use of the twin tabs.
JB: Is that when you got your green endorsement in the -
DB: Yes.
JB: For being clever.
DB: Yeah.
JB: And am I correct in thinking that that is when they found out what happened with a lot of the Halifaxes? Is that anything to do -
DB: No. Nothing to do with the Halifaxes. No.
JB: The Halifaxes just had a fault on them to start with.
DB: No. The Halifaxes, the original, the original -
JB: The original Halifaxes, yes, had a fault in them.
DB: The later ones had a bigger
JB: Yes.
DB: Tailfin.
JB: Yes. So it was the tailfin on the early ones that -
DB: Yes.
JB: Caused all the problems.
DB: Or lack of it.
JB: Lack of it. That everybody was killed.
DB: Yes.
JB: Now, I want to go back to when you were shot down.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you managed to get over the channel.
DB: Yes.
JB: Have we all done all this?
MJ: Yeah. We -
JB: But have you also pointed out that the young man who was killed whose name I remember because I write a cross for him every year.
DB: Yes.
JB: Have you, have you remembered to say that he had gone to the CO the day before?
DB: No. That was the bomb aimer. Young Lapping.
JB: Well, it was the bomb aimer.
DB: Yes.
JB: Young Lapping. Yes. His name was Lapping.
DB: No. I didn’t mention it.
JB: Well he’d gone to the CO the day before. This is what you told me.
DB: Yeah. This was the bomb aimer.
MJ: Yeah.
DB: Who was killed? He’d actually, the day before he’d actually been to the CO which I think he was quite a, quite a -
JB: Quite brave.
DB: Brave thing to do.
JB: A brave thing to do. Yes.
DB: To, to tell the CO that he’d had enough. He couldn’t -
JB: He’d lost his nerve. Couldn’t go any more.
DB: And the CO called me in.
JB: As the pilot.
DB: As the pilot. To tell young [Lapping] to pull himself together and then he was killed that night. So -
MJ: Yeah.
DB: But I mean he had, he had -
JB: And as a consequence you see -
DB: A brave thing to do to go to your CO -
JB: Yes. Because -
DB: To say you’d had enough.
JB: There were people weren’t there who were labelled LMF.
DB: Yes.
JB: That’s lack of moral fibre.
DB: LMF.
JB: Who just disappeared off the screen, off the section.
DB: Yes. I had a rear gunner who just didn’t -
JB: Yes. Just didn’t appear -
DB: Who didn’t, who didn’t turn up one evening.
JB: But they weren’t staying on the station.
DB: And the next, the next, by the next morning he’d gone.
JB: LMF. That was the label.
DB: Lack of moral fibre.
JB: Moral fibre.
MJ: What made them give you the job of testing the planes because I don’t know how they decided?
JB: Because, because he was a good pilot. [can’t be plainer than that can we?]
DB: Well I was -
JB: Steady. Steady chap.
DB: Seconded. Well someone, someone had to do it.
MJ: Yeah it’s just -
DB: Well, it’s after an engine change or after a crash. If any plane had been repaired.
JB: Well after this crash -
DB: Or major service.
JB: After you had got the plane back and was told to ditch in the channel. Yes? And you got it back into this wood in Kent and ended up in a tree.
DB: Yes.
JB: And they were killed. The two of them.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you were injured. What, you went off to hospital, all of you, presumably, that were still alive but now we know where the plane is, don’t we?
DB: Yes.
JB: ‘Cause we found it.
DB: Yes.
JB: We know it’s in the wood just –
DB: Yes.
JB: North of Folkestone. We know exactly where it is if we look at a map.
DB: Exactly.
JB: We went to look for it. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get into the wood ‘cause it’s wired off but we could actually, we could point out where it is but -
DB: Yes.
JB: He has actually got the engine number plate. I suppose it’s a number plate.
DB: Yes.
JB: I don’t know. From, from the plane. But we know -
DB: Yes.
JB: It’s still there, what’s left of it, but of course as a Wellington is wooden it’s probably only bits of an engine there now. So when you’d done all this testing and being shot at by the army eventually they let you not fly anymore did they? Or you trained people. You were training pilots. I know that on D-Day you were doing familiarisations. That’s a difficult word.
DB: Yes.
JB: On, for pilots, training pilots and you took four flights ‘cause we looked into the question of D-Day when the celebrations came up for D-Day and you made four flights that day with different people to familiarise them with -
DB: Yes I’d forgotten. Funny you should remember.
JB: Well -
DB: I’d forgotten.
JB: I only remember because on the celebration of D-Day.
DB: Yes.
JB: I was able to tell you where I was.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you, so, I said to you, ‘Well, where were you?’ and you couldn’t remember so we looked in your logbooks which are still here.
DB: Yes.
JB: As is your, as is your uniform, your Irvin jacket.
DB: Yeah.
JB: Your goggles. Everything. Still here. Got it all.
MJ: [? to take one]
JB: It’s all stashed away in the cupboard here. I don’t think you’d be able to get in to it now though. I think the ravages of time made us all rather fatter.
MJ: Fine.
JB: You should turn it off.
MJ: Off.
[Machine pause]
JB: Now, David. My theory about the logbooks. You’ve still got three logbooks. Yes.
DB: I think it must be right. Yes.
JB: And I think my theory because I have a very nasty mind I think is that the first one is thick.
DB: Yes.
JB: And as -
DB: Yes.
JB: You get further on the logbooks get thinner. Now do you think, my theory is because they don’t expect you to last very long?
DB: No. I would say, I would think so.
JB: You think that’s the answer.
DB: Yes.
JB: So the longer you are active in the RAF during the war
DB: You got -
JB: You got a thinner logbook because there would be no point giving you a thick one if they didn’t expect you to last more than five goes would there?
DB: No.
JB: Do you think that’s true?
DB: The original one is thick.
JB: And the next two get thinner and thinner. Has anyone any theory as to why that is apart from my theory?
DB: Could be economy.
MJ: No. You’re right.
JB: I’m right. Aren’t I right about it? Yes. David, you know young Lapping, who we put a memorial cross for -
DB: Yes
JB: Every year. Am I right in thinking that after he was killed, and he must have been a very young man.
DB: Right.
JB: His father joined up in the RAF.
DB: Yes.
JB: In memory of his son and was also killed.
DB: Yes.
JB: He was killed at a later stage wasn’t he?
DB: Well -
JB: The father.
DB: What? The father was?
JB: Yes. Yes, and I know they come from Yorkshire and I keep meaning to try and get hold of some archivist in Yorkshire and look up that name and see if we can’t sort it. [whisper] Turn it off.
[Machine pause]
JB: Family, we know that
DB: Yes.
JB: And the other chap is dead as well. We know that. David, after you came out of the RAF and every time we drive past Stoney Cross you tell me that was where your last posting was.
DB: Yes.
JB: And it was handing out money to returning crews.
DB: Yes.
JB: You bought a Tiger Moth did you not?
DB: Yes.
JB: And how much did that cost?
DB: The Tiger Moth cost two hundred pounds
JB: And you kept it at Portsmouth Airport as it -
DB: Yes.
JB: Then was. And why did you want it?
DB: Why did I want it?
JB: Yes.
DB: Well, I may have just -
JB: What use did you make of it? You flew to Cowes to go sailing, yes?
DB: Yes.
JB: Because you’d always been a keen sailor.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you flew to Cowes.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you sailed against the Duke of Edinburgh.
DB: Yes.
JB: In [f for fox?].
DB: Yes.
JB: In a dragon boat that you had -
DB: Yes.
JB: Built yourself when you bought a boatyard in Bosworth building wooden boats.
DB: Yes.
JB: And eventually built a boat that went to the Olympics in 1956 where got your silver medal for sailing.
DB: Yes.
JB: Enough.
MJ: [is it?]
JB: Enough said. When you left the RAF -
DB: Yes.
JB: Was it 1946?
DB: Yes.
JB: What did they give you by way of remuneration for all your efforts for six years or whatever?
DB: A hundred and twenty pounds.
JB: A hundred and twenty pounds.
DB: Yes.
JB: Well, that was your total pay off was it?
DB: Yes.
JB: But no pension of course.
DB: No.
JB: But did you get, you got a clothing did you not?
DB: A coupon, I believe we did. I can’t honestly remember.
JB: Well you can remember because we still have the trilby hat and the raincoat here.
DB: Yes. I can’t remember about the coup -
JB: We don’t have the sports jacket anymore and I think that was all.
DB: I can’t -
JB: Did they give you any trousers? They must have given you some trousers.
DB: Yes.
JB: A pair of flannels I suppose.
DB: I expect so.
JB: Yes. But the trilby hat -
DB: Well they didn’t give you -
JB: They gave you coupons.
DB: It was in Ruislip.
JB: Yes.
DB: And we just wandered around on this, you know, and picked the clothes ourselves.
JB: Oh I see. And that was your choice?
DB: You were allowed to -
JB: You didn’t, you didn’t -
DB: To take a jacket and trousers.
JB: You didn’t think of getting a city suit then? You preferred to have a sports jacket.
DB: Yes.
JB: And a pair of flannels.
DB: Yes. Yes.
JB: And a raincoat and a trilby hat.
DB: Yes.
JB: We still have the trilby hat and the raincoat somewhere.
DB: Yes I think we -
JB: They were frequently used by some amateur dramatics who wish to -
DB: I think the raincoats gone hasn’t it?
JB: Yes.
DB: Yeah.
JB: But the trilby hat and the raincoat, I think they’re still in the workshop.
DB: Yeah.
JB: And I think you still, we still give them out for amateur dramatics. Dressing up a tramp. Since they were given to you in 1946 they’re pretty -
DB: Yeah.
JB: Pretty, only fit for that now.
DB: Yes.
JB: So a hundred and twenty pounds was the maximum. Was the total -
DB: Yes.
JB: And that was for being a flight lieutenant.
DB: But I think we got some clothing coupons.
JB: Yes, well that’s what you bought with the clothing coupons but then if you got a hundred and twenty pounds and you were by then a flight lieutenant which means -
DB: Yes.
JB: You’ve gone through five ranks.
DB: Well, where, where have my logbooks gone?
JB: It seems pretty poor pay to me but that’s all you got and no pension of course.
DB: Yes.
MJ: Right, well -
JB: Off.
MJ: Yeah. On behalf of the International Bomber Command I’d like to thank David and Jackie Bowker at their home in Southampton for their -
DB: No, it’s Emsworth. We’re in Emsworth now darling.
MJ: Yeah. On the 17th of -
DB: November.
MJ: November 2015.
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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David Bowker joined the Air Force and was originally training to be a wireless operator / air gunner but remustered as a pilot. He discusses rudder lock on early versions of Halifax. Jacqueline Bowker his wife, discusses her life during the war and being bombed. Returning from an operation to Frankfurt his aircraft crashed and some of his crew were killed. After this he was posted to a target towing flight and later became an instructor at an Operational Training Unit and a test pilot at at Maintenance Unit. He also discusses a time when an aircraft's dingy deployed in flight jamming his controls.
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Germany
Great Britain
England--Bedfordshire
England--Derbyshire
England--Kent
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Shropshire
England--Yorkshire
England--Folkestone
England--Spurn Head
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
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1942
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00:48:45 audio recording
103 Squadron
150 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
briefing
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)
crash
demobilisation
Halifax
Halifax Mk 1
Hurricane
lack of moral fibre
Lysander
Magister
military living conditions
military service conditions
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
pilot
RAF Cardington
RAF Elsham Wolds
RAF Pershore
RAF Rufforth
RAF Shawbury
RAF Snaith
Tiger Moth
training
Wellington