Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Staffordshire]]> France--Flers-de-l'Orne]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Maintenon]]> France--Manche]]> France--Nord (Department)]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Oise]]> France--Oisemont (Canton)]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Saintes]]> France--Versailles]]> France--Wimereux]]> France--Yvelines]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Bermesnil]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-07-30]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Christian]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Emmerich]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-09]]> 1944-10-15]]> Underneath 166 Squadron order of battle number 9531 August 1944 (St Roiquier) lists 8 crews and a reserve.]]> D A Garner]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> 1944-08]]> Upper photograph shows a starboard view of the Admiral Scheer. It is captioned: 'The German Battleship "Admiral Sheer" in 1937.'
Lower photograph shows a bomb-damaged quayside and a large, up-turned ship with the rudder an one propeller clear of the water. It is captioned: 'At Kiel after the raid by 166 Squadron on 9th April 1945.']]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kiel]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]>
Second page lists a further 22 Lancasters by registration number only.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Top: Eight aircrew in battledress, seven standing in a line by the open rear door of a Lancaster and one seated on the tailplane. It is captioned: 'Crew of PA 320 AY-S'.
Bottom left: Vertical aerial photograph showing roads and gutted buildings in a town or city.
Bottom right: Oblique aerial photograph showing roads and bomb damaged and gutted buildings in a town or city.
Both are captioned: 'Bomb damage at Dusseldorf [sic]'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending geolocation]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]>
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A second document contains the text only of the biography.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Epe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944-06-13]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Remscheid]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1943-03-04]]> 1943-03-05]]> 1943-05-12]]> 1943-05-13]]> 1943-05-14]]> 1943-05-23]]> 1943-05-24]]> 1943-06-11]]> 1943-06-12]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-06-21]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-06-23]]> 1943-06-24]]> 1943-06-25]]> 1943-06-26]]> 1943-07-08]]> 1943-07-09]]> 1943-07-10]]> 1943-07-12]]> 1943-07-13]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-25]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1943-07-31]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-03]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-18]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-24]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-28]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-09-01]]> 1943-09-03]]> 1943-09-04]]> 1943-09-06]]> 1943-09-07]]> 1943-09-22]]> 1943-09-23]]> 1943-09-24]]> 1943-09-27]]>
Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photograph of Cologne. The river is visible but about a third of the image is obscured by bomb explosions. The clear sections have great detail of industrial area, street patterns and railways. F/O Bonsall is captioned as pilot in both images. Caption '3315KRN. 2-3-45//8" 17000' 090° 1000 COLOGNE K I HC 4000 IN 12ANM64 4GP250 DTC 34 SECS F/O BONSALL K166']]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated (cumulative polygon)]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-02]]>

His pilot on his first operation was Flight Sergeant Burnett. Pilot Officer Allen also flew on one operation with him. ]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Laura Morgan]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1945-07]]>