West Bromwich Education Committee]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--West Bromwich]]> 1939-09-04]]> Florence R Field]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Tamworth]]> 1939-09-06]]> The Grammar School. West Bromwich]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--West Bromwich]]> 1939-09-01]]> George Shephard Johns]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Tamworth]]> England--West Bromwich]]> 1939-09-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> William Cragg]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Liverpool]]> 1939]]> 1939-09-03]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Benjamin Turner ]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Navy]]> Malta]]> 1939]]> 1939-09]]> 1945-05-08]]> 1945-06-21]]> 1945-08-30]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Navy]]> Malta]]> 1939]]> 1939-09]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-05]]> E.W. Colvill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Benjamin Turner]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Navy]]> Malta]]> Malta--Isla]]> Malta--Cospicua]]> 1939]]> 1939-09]]> 1940]]> 1940-05]]> 1940-06-11]]> 1941]]> 1941-06]]> 1942]]> 1942-02-23]]> 1942-04]]> 1942-07]]> 1942-08-01]]> 1942-12]]> 1943]]> 1943-01-18]]> 1943-02]]> 1943-04]]> 1943-10]]> 1943-11-01]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Belgium--Ostend]]> England--Kent]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Auberive]]> France--Brest]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Rouen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Regensburg]]> Germany--Rheinfelden]]> Italy--Milan]]> 1939-09-29]]> 1940]]> 1940-01-12]]> 1940-08-11]]> 1940-08-12]]> 1940-08-18]]> 1940-08-19]]> 1940-08-25]]> 1940-08-26]]> 1940-08-27]]> 1940-08-28]]> 1940-08-30]]> 1940-08-31]]> 1940-09-02]]> 1940-09-03]]> 1940-09-05]]> 1940-09-06]]> 1940-09-08]]> 1940-09-09]]> 1940-09-15]]> 1940-09-16]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Egypt]]> Australia]]> Northern Territory--Darwin]]> Germany]]> Iraq]]> Japan]]> Germany]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> Africa--Rhodesia and Nyasaland]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> 1938]]> 1939-09-04]]> 1939-12-18]]> 1942]]> David Donaldson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frances Grundy]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> 1939-09-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> 1939-09-09]]> MOD RAF PMC]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--East Sussex]]> England--Hastings]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Gloucester]]> England--Sussex]]> 1984-01-19]]> 1939-08-22]]> 1939-08-23]]> 1940-09-07]]> 1941-06-01]]> 1942-01-28]]> 1942-01-29]]> 1942-10-01]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-12-10]]> 1944-12-23]]> 1939-09-01]]> 1939-09-29]]> 1940-04-11]]> 1940-06-08]]> 1940-09-07]]> 1940-11-16]]> 1940-11-26]]> 1941-02-13]]> 1942-01-29]]> 1942-10-12]]> 1942-10-18]]> 1942-12-28]]> 1943-11-09]]> 1944-01-16]]> 1944-12-23]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-06-30]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1945-03-23]]> J V Hay]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Technical aid]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1939-09-25]]>
Photograph of dead or badly injured child, for which the reader is challenged to make amends. It notes the many children struck by aerial bombs (in Warsaw, Rotterdam, Belgrade). Destruction all over Europe caused by the man who started the war on 1st September 1939, all under the German Reich, its flag and people.

Dropped on Germany by the RAF. Additional information was kindly provided by the donor.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> France]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Poland--Warsaw]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Serbia--Belgrade]]> 1939-09-01]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Newcastle upon Tyne]]> England--London]]> England--Grantham]]> England--Birkenhead]]> England--Oxford]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Norway--Stavanger]]> Sudan]]> France]]> North Africa]]> Norway]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1939-09]]> 1939-10]]> 1940]]> 1941-05-08]]>
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Geoff Burton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> Poland]]> Russia (Federation)]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Liverpool]]> Russia (Federation)--Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ]]> Russia (Federation)--Katynʹ]]> 1939-09-17]]> 1940-02-10]]> 1942-04-01]]> 1943]]> 1945]]>
P Bishop - book author]]> J Doxsey handwritten note]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Germany]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1939-09]]> 1940-09]]> 1939-12-03]]> 1939-12-18]]> 1940-01-01]]> 1940-01-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1939-09]]> 1943-02]]> 1943-05]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-10]]> 1946-02]]> Flashback 1. Mentions first operation on 300 Squadron at RAF Faldingworth. Continues with account of training in England at Hucknall, Montrose and Western Zoyland. He then trained as an instructor and was posted as a flying instructor. He volunteered for operational duties and eventually was allocated to a bomber squadron at RAF Finningley training on Wellington where he crewed up before posting to RAF Faldingworth, Continues with description of first operation to Wiesbaden and mistakenly landing at RAF Fiskerton on return. Concludes with a 10 year old schoolboy's wish to be a pilot.
Flashback 2. Account of Tadeusz joining the Polish Air Force including the reasons for his ambition, early experience of gliding, labour camp and military training. Continues with account of flying training with various incidents. Describes events during German invasion and escape to Romania.
Flashback 3. Continues with events after arriving in Romania and then travelling onwards by boat to Beirut then onwards to Marseille, Lyon. Gives account of German invasion of France in May 1940 and his escape via Toulouse, Bayonne and St Jean de Luz and then by British ship to Liverpool.
Flashback 4. Writes of changing his name and of his career in the RAF after the war including continuing flying with 300 Squadron and his final operation to Berchtesgaden as well as prisoner of war repatriation flights and food drops in Holland. Continues with account of flying troops back from Italy and a visit to Berlin. He was posted to ferry aircraft of many different types.]]>
T Wier]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Poland]]> Poland--Zgierz]]> Poland--Dęblin (Warsaw)]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Hucknall]]> Scotland--Angus]]> Scotland--Montrose]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Rugby]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Romania]]> Lebanon]]> Lebanon--Beirut]]> France]]> France--Marseille]]> France--Lyon]]> France--Toulouse]]> France--Bayonne]]> France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Liverpool]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Belgium]]> Italy]]> Italy--Genoa]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Bridgwater]]> Romania]]> Romania--Tulcea]]> 1941]]> 1944-12]]> 1941-05]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-10]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1939]]> 1939-09-17]]> 1940-05-10]]>
Alan Mann]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Croydon]]> 1926-11-04]]> 1938]]> 1939]]> 1938-05-20]]> 1938-09-30]]> 1945]]> 1939-09-03]]> T J Page]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Kent]]> England--Ramsgate]]> England--Middlesex]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Slough]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--Greater Manchester]]> England--Oldham]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Italy]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Friesland]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> Italy--Turin]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> Egypt]]> Zimbabwe]]> Pakistan]]> England--Morecambe]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Middle East--Euphrates River]]> Middle East--Tigris River]]> Germany--Juist Island]]> 1939-09]]> 1940-01]]> 1940-07-19]]> 1940-12]]> 1941-07]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1942-10]]> 1943-02-20]]> 1943-02-26]]> 1943-03-06]]> 1943-03-26]]> 1943-03-31]]> 1943-04-12]]> 1943-04-13]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-04-26]]> 1943-04-28]]> 1943-05-13]]> 1943-07-12]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-20]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1947-02-16]]> 1948-06-03]]> 1940-01]]> 1954-04-09]]> 1956]]> 1958-04-01]]> 1968-05-06]]> T J Page]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Kent]]> England--Canterbury]]> England--Ramsgate]]> England--Middlesex]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Slough]]> England--Shropshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Derby]]> England--Greater Manchester]]> England--Oldham]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Friesland]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Lancashire]]> Germany--Juist Island]]> 1939-09-03]]> 1940-01]]> 1940-07-19]]> 1941-07]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1943-02-26]]> 1943-03-06]]> 1943-03-26]]> 1943-04-26]]> 1943-05-13]]> 1943-07-12]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-20]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1947-02-16]]> J F Nolan]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1945-10-04]]> 1942-03-09]]> 1939-09-03]]>
She experienced the Blitz shortly after it started as one Saturday she was in Romford market when the air raid sirens sounded. She recalls how frightening it was, and how she cycled home as fast as possible, as the aircraft batteries began firing. Her friend Joyce was bombed out of her house three times. Her family did not qualify for an Andersen shelter, but the neighbours invited them to sleep in theirs. Later, her father built a brick shelter in their own garden. She travelled by train to visit family in Warwick during the Blitz. That night Coventry was heavily bombed, and Margaret witnessed the damage the next day, including walking through the ruins of Coventry cathedral. Margaret recalls landmines, a V-2 rocket in the neighbour’s garden and unexploded bombs, as well as details such as a bomb crater outside the Parkside Hotel which a bus fell into. Just before she was seventeen, travelled to London every day on the train and could see the bomb damage. Margaret worked as a secretary in the cargo industry and due to the nature of the work had to sign the Official Secrets Act.

Her father had served in the Army at Ypres during the first World War. He became an Air Raid Warden during the Second World War. Her future husband Jim served on a balloon battery at Primrose Hill, and survived been impaled on iron railings by the blast of a bomb.Margaret’s brother Ken was in the Royal Navy and his ship HMS Lawford was sunk in the English Channel, by a new aerial weapon. After helping other crew members, he was rescued and spent the next six months recovering at Milford Haven. ]]>
Denise Boneham]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Shaw]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Balloon Command]]> British Army]]> Royal Navy]]> Great Britain]]> England--Warwickshire]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> England--Essex]]> England--Warwick]]> England--Coventry]]> England--London]]> Wales--Milford Haven]]> 1939-09-03]]> 1940-11-14]]> 1940-11-15]]> 1945]]>