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After pre-aircrew flying, he was posted to 12 Squadron for operations in 1942. After completing his first tour of 30 operations posted to 1667 Conversion Unit, then No. 1 Lancaster Finishing School. In November 1944 posted to 153 Squadron for 2nd tour. Post war posting to 50 Squadron and attachment to 57 Squadron.

Served at RAF Penrhos, RAF Wickenby, RAF Faldingworth, RAF Hemswell, RAF Scampton, RAF Sturgate, Raf Waddington.

Aircraft flown were Avro Tutor, Fairey Battle, Whitley, Anson, Lancaster, Halifax.

He flew 33 night bombing and mining operations with 12 Squadron as Flight Engineer to targets including La Rochelle, North Frisian Islands, Essen, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Turin, Lorient, Milan, Bremen, Nuremberg, Saint-Nazaire, Duisburg, Frankfurt, Spezia, Stuttgart, Gulf of Danzig, Bay of Biscay, Mulheim, Wuppertal and Cologne. His pilots in 12 Squadron were Wing Commander Villiers and Squadron Leader Slade.

With 153 Squadron he flew 3 night and 1 day bombing operations to Wanne-Eickel, Bonn, Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen and Paderborn. Also 3 Operation Manna, 2 Operation Dodge and one Cook’s Tour. In 153 Squadron his pilots were Flying Officers White, Bolton, Searle, Freeborn, Squadron Leader Rippingale, Flight Lieutenant Ramsden and Wing Commanders Rodney and Villiers.

Also two Operation Dodge with 50 Squadron. Flight Lieutenant Lundy was his pilot in 50 Squadron.

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Great Britain. British Red Cross Society]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> 1943-12-21]]> 1945-04-19]]> The last pages of the logbook contain four b/w photographs of Walter Braithwaite, airmen standing in front of an aircraft and a man playing basketball. ]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Benjamin Turner]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Somme]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Caen]]> France--Palaiseau]]> France--Saint-Lô]]> France--Montreuil]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Lille]]> France--Laon]]> France--Nieppe Forest]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Belgium--Ottignies]]> Germany]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Schleswig-Holstein]]> Germany--Neuruppin]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Canada]]> 1942]]> 1943-09-17]]> 1943-09-18]]> 1943-09-21]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-10-18]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1944-02-08]]> 1944-02-11]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-22]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-28]]> 1944-03-01]]> 1944-03-02]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-08]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-03-29]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-03-31]]> 1944-04-09]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-13]]> 1944-05-24]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-11]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-18]]> 1944-06-19]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-11]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1944-07-17]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-09-09]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-21]]> 1945-02-27]]> 1945-02-28]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-15]]> 1945-04-19]]> 1945-04-20]]> 1945-04-23]]> 1945-04-24]]> 1945-05-16]]> Don lists his 31 operations and recounts how having arrived for the briefing for his first operation, he was grounded by the medical officer and sent to hospital. His crew did six operations without him and did not return from the last one. Having done some operations as a spare flight engineer he describes how he was recruited by a captain who wanted to replace his engineer. He was impressed by his new captain landing a Lancaster with a punctured tyre, ending up on the grass but the aircraft was intact.
He then goes on to describe a number of incidents during his operations. These include bombing the German battle cruiser Lutzow which turned out to be a decoy. Being diverted to Kinloss and the airfield was not open but they had to land as they were out of fuel, they also had a bomb loose in the bomb bay. Returning from an operation below cloud over the North Sea and one of their Lancasters bounced off the water. One of his last operations to Hamburg he did not think that they would survive, they were coned by searchlights, ended up in a power dive when corkscrewing and having recovered flying round to gain height to eventually bomb.]]>
Don Nicholson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1945-04-07]]>
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]]>

Served at RAF Halton, RAF Wittering, RAF Hornchurch, RAF Eastchurch, RAF Harrogate, RAF Little Rissington, RAF Market Harborough, RAF Scampton, RAF Wiglsey, RAF Syerston, RAF Skellingthorpe, RAF Wymeswold, RAF Castle Donington,

Aircraft flown were DH 82 Tiger Moth, Stearman, Valiant, Harvard, Commodore, Catalina, Anson, Oxford, Wellington X, Stirling III, Norseman (C64), Lancaster, Dakota, Sea Otter, Auster, York, Sunderland.

Carried out 5 day and 27 night operations with 50 Squadron to Darmstadt, Bremerhaven, Rheydt, Kaiserslautern, Munster, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Nuremberg, Flushing docks, Bergen, Dusseldorf, the Dortmund-Ems Canal, the Mitteland Canal, Harburg, Duren, Heilbronn, the Urft Dam, Heimbach, Munich, Politz, Houffalize, Leuna, Brux, Siegen, the Rositz Oil Refinery, the Bohlen Synthetic Oil Plant, Wurzburg. He also carried out two Operation Exodus flights.

Awarded the DFC after an operation during which his aircraft was hit by bombs from another aircraft above him. He successfully flew his aircraft back to England. Includes various newspaper clippings.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lynn Corrigan]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Most]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Ulm]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Osterfeld]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Paderborn]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Hannover]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-15]]> 1944-12-16]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-22]]> 1944-12-23]]> 1944-12-28]]> 1944-12-29]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-03]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-17]]> 1945-01-22]]> 1945-01-23]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-01-29]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-28]]> 1945-03-01]]> 1945-03-02]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-09]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-12]]> 1945-03-15]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-19]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-03-23]]> 1945-03-25]]> 1945-03-27]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-03-11]]> Served at RAF Swinderby, RAF Syerston, RAF Woodhall Spa, RAF Waddington. Aircraft flown were Stirling, Lancaster I, Lancaster III, Lancaster VII.
Flew 25 day and 2 night operations with 617 Squadron to Brest, Westkapelle, Tromso (Tirpitz), Urft Dam, Ijmuiden, Politz, Rotterdam, Oslo Fjord, Bergen, Pootershaven, Bielefeld Viaduct, Nienburg Viaduct, Arnsberg Viaduct, Bremen, Farge, Hamburg, Swinemünde, Berchtesgaden. He also flew two Cook’s Tours and six Operation Dodge flights. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Goodman.
Includes a hand written note Dam Buster mines dropped in North Sea 31 March 1945. ]]>
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Served at RAF Yatesbury, RAF Castle Kennedy, RAF Madley, RAF Westfreugh, RAF Oakley, RAF Westcott, RAF Chedburgh, RAF Feltwell, RAF Wratting Common, RAF Llandow, RAF Riccall, RAF Dishforth, RAF Holmsley South, RAF Lyneham.

Aircraft flown were Dominie, Proctor, Anson, Wellington, Stirling, Lancaster and York.

Carried out 28 operations with 195 Squadron to Homberg, Gelsenkirchen, Neuss, Oberhausen, Hamm, Merseburg Oil Plant, Cologne, Vohwinkle, Ludwigshafen, Krefeld, Wanne-Eickel, Munchengladbach, Dortmund, Kamen, Nordstern Oil Plant, Berlin-Potsdam, Heligoland, Bremen, Bad Oldesloe. Also flew 2 Operation Manna flights and 1 Cook's Tour.

His pilots on operations were Flying Officer Evans, Flight Lieutenant Moon, Flight Lieutenant Bird and Flight Lieutenant Easterman.
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