Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Iraq]]> Stationed at RAF Hinaidi, RAF Driffield, RAF Manston, RAF Honington, RAF Bramcote, RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Feltwell, RAF Shallufa. Returned to England post-war staying in the RAF. Aircraft flown were Valentia, Harrow, Wellington, Magister, Lysander, Maryland, Fiat CR42, B26, Harvard, Auster, Proctor, Anson, and Prentice.
He flew 1 propaganda leaflet drop with 11 OTU, 1 day and 21 night operations with 37 Squadron in Europe. Targets were St Omer, Eindhoven, Soest, Osnabruck, Frankfurt, Stockum, Bottrop, Hannover, the Black Forest, Gelsenkirchen, Hamm, Flushing, Bitterfeld, Rotterdam, Mannheim, Leipzig, Kiel, Hamburg, Berlin.
12 day and 18 night operations with 37 Squadron and 257 Wing in the Middle East. Targets were Benina, El Adem, Derna, Berca, Bardia, Tobruk, Benghazi, Rhodes, Brindisi, Halfaya, Marble Arch landing ground, Heraklion, Misurata, Homs, Palermo, Gabes, the Mareth Line, El Hamma, Kourba, Pantelleria, Villa San Giovanni, Vibo Valentia, Adrano, Cape Peloro. Posted to HQ RAF Middle East where carried out 28 day supply dropping operations.
Post war career included postings to Air Division Control Commission Germany, Flying Training Command, 41 Group, 22 Maintenance Unit and RAF Negombo, Sri Lanka.
Log book also contains Form 3921 – Aircrew Qualification Record, a 1949 calendar and Form 2745 Record of Service, Educational and Professional Qualifications.]]>
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Record Office]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1942-12-20]]> Officer Commanding 9 Squadron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> 1942-12-20]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Text]]> Physical object]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> 1939-09-04]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1938-02-25]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> David Bloomfield]]> Claire Monk]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Lincoln]]> Australia]]> South Australia--Clare]]> South Australia]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1945-01-09]]> L E Patison]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Wollongong]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Overloon]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> New South Wales]]> 1945-01-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Gosport]]> Sudan]]> Sudan--Khartoum]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> North Africa]]> 1927-08-30]]> 1939-09-04]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Northern Ireland--Crumlin]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Great Britain]]> 1935]]> 1936]]> 1937]]> 1938]]> 1939]]> B Harries]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> 1939-09-04]]> Records a total of 45 operations (42 night, 3 day) with 9 and 97 Squadron. Targets in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands are: Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Stettin, Brunswick, Magdeburg, Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, Augsburg, Marignane, Munich, Clermont Ferrand, Toulouse, Louailles, Annecy, Amiens, Maisy, St. Pierre du Mont, Argentan, Rennes, Poitiers, Greil (Saint-Leu-d'Esserent), Culmont Chalindrey, Nevers, Courtrai, Donges, Givors, Brest, Deelen Airfield, Bordeaux, Darmstadt and Konigsberg.
His pilot on all operations was F/O Lasham.

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This is captioned 'Dear Sir, is this of any interest to anyone Crew of W4182 which crashed Waddington 20/12/42.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> William Cragg]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> United States]]> Georgia--Moody Air Force Base]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> France]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Wesseling]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Lanvéoc]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Caen]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> France--Givors]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Kaiserslautern]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> Belgium]]> Poland]]> 1943-07-21]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-09-05]]> 1943-09-06]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-11-02]]> 1943-11-10]]> 1943-12-23]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-02-03]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-28]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-19]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1946-04-01]]> There is also a copy of the Operational Order for Operation Chastise by 617 Squadron. There are also crew lists, and a copy of the squadron 540 for the operation.
It also has the pages from Flight Sergeant Stalley's Log book for the period July to October 1944. He was the rear gunner on Flight Lieutenant Melrose's crew on No 9 Squadron at Bardney. During this period the squadron attacked the Tirpitz twice, once from Archangel.
There is also the Memories and Reflections of the German civil engineer that was in charge of the rebuilding of the dams damaged in the Dams Operation.
There are two newspaper cuttings from 2005 regarding the military burial of a 640 Squadron crew that had been shot down on the 24 March 1944. One was from The Daily Telegraph from 2 September 2005. There is also a letter George wrote to the Times giving some background to the story.]]>
George Keeling]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944-01-07]]> 1945-04-07]]> 1944-03-24]]> 2005-09-02]]>

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