The RAF ex-POW Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Germany--Barth]]> Greece--Eleusis]]> Greece--Crete]]> Greece--Maleme]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bristol]]> France--Normandy]]> England--Plymouth]]> England--Stafford]]> England--London]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Newquay]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> Italy--Parma]]> Italy--Piacenza]]> Italy--Brindisi]]> Albania]]> Greece--Thessalonikē]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Scotland--St. Andrews]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> Germany--Bremen]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> France--Lorient]]> Croatia--Rijeka]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> Italy]]> France]]> Alberta]]> Germany]]> Croatia]]> Greece]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Sussex]]> The RAF ex-POW Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Reading]]> Wales]]> England--Leeds]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Photograph 2 is a view of the party captioned 'The Officers Club Drinks all round'.
Photograph 3 is of a parade of USAAF airmen watched by civilians and other airmen and is captioned ' USAAF welcoming' and '[undecipherable] of the BBC.'
Photograph 4 is of a seated audience with an officer at a microphone. Behind is a line of airmen in front of Lancasters and is captioned 'RAF welcomed'.
Photograph 5 is of six airmen and two women leaning at a bar and being served by a barman. It is captioned 'Thorns between two roses L to R Dicky [undecipherable] You Lucky People!'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Civilian]]> United States]]> New York (State)]]> 1946-07]]>
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting with the same photograph.
Item 3 is a newspaper cutting with a photograph of five airmen posed in a window at Mission Concepcion.
Item 4 is a newspaper cutting captioned 'RAF leaves Kelly after sampling life in Texas'. The article details their time in Texas.
Item 5 is a handwritten list of San Antonio addresses.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Angela Gaffney]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> United States]]> Texas]]> Texas--San Antonio]]> 1946-08]]>
Item 2 is a photograph of three men and two women, captioned 'Some of the stars about town'.
Item 3, 4, 5 and 6 are photographs of several airmen standing with actresses at the studios.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> United States]]> California]]> California--Los Angeles]]> 1946]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> France--Paris]]> 1944-07-04]]>
Bottom right - Arthur Pearce leaning out of the rear door of a Lancaster rear turret which is rotated fully to port.

Bottom left - newspaper cutting title 'Southwark "Pathfinder" on goodwill mission'. States that Warrant Officer A.J. Pearce of Southwark will be a rear gunner of a Lancaster of 35 Squadron when it flies to the United States on a goodwill mission. 16 Lancasters and two Yorks will visit America to take part in Air Forces day on 1 August. They will visit New York, St Louis, Los Angeles, Denver, Long Beach, San Antonio and West Palm Beach. It adds that during the war W/O Pearce completed 44 operations including some with pathfinder force. He was awarded the DFM in December 1945.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> United States]]> New York (State)--New York]]> Missouri--Saint Louis]]> California--Los Angeles]]> Colorado--Denver]]> California--Long Beach]]> Florida--West Palm Beach]]> Texas--San Antonio]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> Florida]]> California]]> Colorado]]> Missouri]]> New York (State)]]> Texas]]> 1946-08-01]]> 1945-12]]>
Photograph 2 is a wooden building, captioned 'Typical Barracks at the Sixth Ferrying Group. Men assigned to the field are quartered in theses two-story structures.'
Photograph 3 is of three civilians and two officers, captioned 'Colonel K.C.McGregor with on the right, Nigel Bruce, Sir Norman and Sir Aubrey. The other gentleman is I believe the British Consul.'
Photograph 4 is of a civilian and several airmen, captioned 'Nigel Bruce cracks a joke with the boys.'
Photograph 5 is of a group of airmen and ground crew standing in front of the rear of a Lancaster 'TL-B', SW313. It is captioned ' Beauty and the Beasts? Film actress Merle Oberon with a circle of admirers which includes:- Shorty Harris, Tim Lamb, Mike Beetham, Pincher Martin and Wing Cdr 'Don' Lee.'
Photograph 6 is of airmen and airwomen seated round a table full of beer bottles. It is captioned ' The enlisted men's club showing some of their reasons for enlisting'.]]>
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Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Poland]]> United States]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea)]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Abbeville Region]]> France--Calais]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Emmerich]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Osterfeld]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Solingen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Ontario--Malton]]> Ontario--Toronto Region]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> Ontario]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944-08-31]]> 1944-09-03]]> 1944-09-05]]> 1944-09-06]]> 1944-09-08]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-25]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-09-29]]> 1944-09-30]]> 1944-10-03]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-10-21]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-24]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-07]]> 1944-11-14]]> 1944-11-20]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-15-05]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> He was stationed at RCAF Station Sea Island (No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School), RCAF Station Dauphin (No. 10 Service Flying Training School), RAF Abingdon (No. 10 OTU), RAF Linton on Ouse (35 Squadron), RAF Driffield (1502 Beam Approach Training Flight), RAF Gransden Lodge (Path Finder Force Navigation Training Unit, 405 Squadron), RCAF Station Rockliffe (Air Force HQ) and RCAF Station Edmonton.
Aircraft in which flown: Tiger Moth, Harvard, Whitley III, Whitley IV, Halifax I, Halifax II, Oxford, Lancaster I, Lancaster III, Lancaster VI, Mosquito IV, Liberator I. Expeditor, Beechcraft, B-29, Goose, North Star, Dakota III, Dakota IV and Mitchell.
Records a total of 64 operations (63 night, one day). Targets in Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and Norway were: Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Brest, Caen, Cologne, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Emden, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kiel, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Milan, Munich, Nuremberg, Nurnberg, Osnabruck, Paris, Pilsen, Saarbruck, Schweinfurt, Stuttgart, Trondheim, Turin, Vegesack and Warnemunde. His first or second pilots on operations were Sergeant Williams, Sergeant Hammond, Pilot Officer Field, Pilot Officer Dobson, Sergeant Murray and Sergeant John. Records four flights with Flight Lieutenant G. L. Cheshire in October 1941. Post war flights include “FIRST RCAF ROUND - THE - WORLD FLIGHT” January and February 1950.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-05-20]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Ipswich]]> England--London]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-05-15]]> 1944-06-31]]> 1945-12-04]]> Item 2 is a newspaper cutting titled 'Goodwill' showing 11 Lancasters over St Paul's Cathedral.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Angela Gaffney]]> eng]]> Text]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--London]]> 1946-08-29]]> John Player & Sons]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> Great Britain]]> England--Birmingham]]> Pakistan--Risālpur (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> England--Gosport]]> Egypt--Alexandria]]> Jordan--Amman]]> England--Martlesham Heath]]> Pakistan--Peshawar]]> Pakistan--Kohat District]]> Pakistan--Miānwāli District]]> India--Ambāla (District)]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> Belgium--Zeebrugge]]> Belgium--Ostend]]> France--Somme]]> Egypt--Ḥulwān]]> Iraq--Baghdad]]> England--Copmanthorpe]]> Iraq--Baṣrah]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> Singapore]]> England--Andover]]> England--Old Sarum (Extinct city)]]> England--Folkestone]]> Scotland--Dalgety Bay]]> Scotland--Montrose]]> England--Thetford]]> England--Winchester]]> England--Hucknall]]> Scotland--Abbotsinch (Air base)]]> France]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> India]]> Iraq]]> Pakistan]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Kent]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> Scotland--Stirling (Stirling)]]>
Middle left - Air-to-air view of formation of four Lancasters in light paint scheme over open countryside. The tail plane of aircraft from which photo taken from rear turret is visible on right.

Middle right - oblique aerial photograph of Praia da Vitoria on the Azores with sea beyond.

Below middle - photograph of a US Navy Airship.

Bottom left - air-to air view of two following Lancasters in light paint scheme taken from rear turret.

Bottom right - side view of Lancaster parked facing left in light paint scheme.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Stilgoe]]> Pending geolocation]]> Pending identification. Places]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Azores]]> Azores--Praia da Vitória]]> 1946]]>