Denise Boneham]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Poland]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--London]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Diepholz]]> 1941-12-07]]> 1942-12-18]]> 1944-03-30]]> He flew with Flight Sergeant Dalish to Stuttgart, and then Frankfurt and Berlin. He describes how he had to call evasive action several times during his tours. He flew on D-Day to bomb just inside the French coast.
On a flight all four engines stopped and although they did manage to land the skipper refused to fly as a skipper again saying he would not take on the responsibility of the lives of a crew and would only fly solo. Gerard says they did not often make friends outside of their crew because too often they did not come home.
After finishing his tour with 460 Squadron he was posted into Blackpool to a driving school, passing his test and then being posted to Scotland and then to RAF Biggin Hill. Gerard later got married and moved to Kent and went to work with his father-in-law at an engineering factory
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Nigel Moore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> William Evans]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Berlin]]> France]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-15]]>