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]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> France--Brest]]> France--Calais]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Italy--Turin]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Netherlands--Terschelling]]> Norway--Haugesund]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Wales--Flintshire]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Poland]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1937]]> 1938]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1941-05-09]]> 1941-05-10]]> 1941-05-11]]> 1941-05-12]]> 1941-05-15]]> 1941-05-16]]> 1941-05-27]]> 1941-06-02]]> 1941-06-03]]> 1941-06-11]]> 1941-06-12]]> 1941-06-23]]> 1941-06-24]]> 1941-06-26]]> 1941-06-27]]> 1941-07-02]]> 1941-07-03]]> 1941-07-04]]> 1941-07-05]]> 1941-07-06]]> 1941-07-07]]> 1941-07-09]]> 1941-07-10]]> 1941-07-22]]> 1941-07-23]]> 1941-07-24]]> 1941-07-30]]> 1941-07-31]]> 1941-08-12]]> 1941-08-13]]> 1941-08-16]]> 1941-08-17]]> 1941-08-18]]> 1941-08-19]]> 1941-08-25]]> 1941-08-28]]> 1941-08-29]]> 1941-08-31]]> 1941-09-01]]> 1941-09-02]]> 1941-09-03]]> 1941-09-07]]> 1941-09-08]]> 1941-09-10]]> 1941-09-11]]> 1941-09-12]]> 1941-09-13]]> 1941-09-15]]> 1941-09-16]]> 1941-09-29]]> 1941-09-30]]> 1941-10-03]]> 1941-10-04]]> 1941-10-11]]> 1941-10-12]]> 1941-10-14]]> 1941-10-15]]> 1941-10-16]]> 1941-10-17]]> 1942-06-01]]> 1942-06-02]]> 1942-11-03]]> 1942-11-04]]> 1942-11-07]]> 1942-11-08]]> 1942-11-09]]> 1942-11-10]]> 1943-01-04]]> 1943-01-05]]> 1943-01-08]]> 1943-01-09]]> 1943-01-23]]> 1943-01-24]]> 1943-01-30]]> 1943-01-31]]> 1943-02-02]]> 1943-02-03]]> 1943-02-07]]> 1943-02-08]]> 1943-02-11]]> 1943-02-12]]> 1943-02-13]]> 1943-02-14]]> 1943-02-15]]> 1943-02-16]]> 1943-02-17]]> 1943-02-18]]> 1943-02-19]]> 1943-02-21]]> 1943-02-22]]> 1943-03-03]]> 1943-03-04]]> 1943-03-05]]> 1943-03-06]]> 1943-03-08]]> 1943-03-09]]> 1943-03-10]]> 1943-03-12]]> 1943-03-13]]> 1943-03-22]]> 1943-03-23]]> 1943-03-27]]> 1943-03-28]]> 1943-04-03]]> 1943-04-04]]> 1943-04-05]]> 1943-04-18]]> 1943-04-19]]> Aircraft flown in were Anson, Battle, Wellington, Hudson, Tiger Moth, Dakota, Sparrow, Oxford, Proctor and Mosquito.
He flew 3 night operations with 38 Squadron, 42 with 40 Squadron, 8 with 627 Squadron, 45 with 692 squadron and 9 with 128 Squadron, a total of 107. His pilots on operations were Warrant Officer Brodie, Sergeant Le Brog, Squadron Leader Booth, Wing Commander Lockhart, Flight Lieutenant Grainger, Squadron Leader Saunderson, Wing Commander Birkin, Wing Commander Watts, Flying Officer Page, Pilot Officer Burnett, Flying Officer Richardson, Flying Officer Goodwin, Wing Commander Burrough, Flying Officer Boyer and Flight Lieutenant Gallanders.
Targets included Benghazi, mining, Tobruk, El Daba, Alamein, Ras el Manatis, Fuka, Cagliari, Tunis, Bizerte, Duisburg, Cologne, Hamburg, Magdeburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Schweinfurt, Augsburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Koln, Osnabruk, Stuttgart, Friedrichshaven, Leverkusen, Cologne, Gelsenkirchen, Bremen, Homberg, Weisbaden, Saarbruchen, Wanne-Eichel, Castrop, Kiel, Kassel, Brunswick and Cochem.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Libya]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Suez]]> Egypt--Tall al-Ḍabʻah]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--London]]> England--Norfolk]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Cochem]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Italy--Cagliari]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> Tunisia--Bizerte]]> Tunisia--Tunis]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Tunisia]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Egypt--Fukah]]> Manitoba]]> Manitoba--Rivers]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1942-05-24]]> 1942-05-25]]> 1942-05-26]]> 1942-05-27]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-06-05]]> 1942-06-06]]> 1942-06-08]]> 1942-07-11]]> 1942-07-12]]> 1942-07-15]]> 1942-07-16]]> 1942-07-18]]> 1942-07-19]]> 1942-07-20]]> 1942-07-21]]> 1942-07-23]]> 1942-07-24]]> 1942-07-25]]> 1942-07-26]]> 1942-07-27]]> 1942-07-29]]> 1942-07-30]]> 1942-08-01]]> 1942-08-02]]> 1942-08-04]]> 1942-08-05]]> 1942-08-18]]> 1942-08-19]]> 1942-08-22]]> 1942-08-23]]> 1942-08-26]]> 1942-08-27]]> 1942-08-28]]> 1942-08-29]]> 1942-08-31]]> 1942-09-01]]> 1942-09-06]]> 1942-09-07]]> 1942-09-13]]> 1942-09-14]]> 1942-09-18]]> 1942-09-19]]> 1942-09-20]]> 1942-09-21]]> 1942-09-24]]> 1942-09-25]]> 1942-10-09]]> 1942-10-10]]> 1942-10-12]]> 1942-10-13]]> 1942-10-18]]> 1942-10-19]]> 1942-10-20]]> 1942-10-21]]> 1942-10-23]]> 1942-10-24]]> 1942-10-25]]> 1942-10-26]]> 1942-10-27]]> 1942-10-29]]> 1942-10-30]]> 1942-11-02]]> 1942-11-03]]> 1942-11-04]]> 1942-11-05]]> 1942-11-06]]> 1942-11-07]]> 1942-11-08]]> 1942-11-09]]> 1942-11-10]]> 1942-11-11]]> 1942-11-14]]> 1942-11-15]]> 1942-11-18]]> 1942-11-19]]> 1942-11-20]]> 1942-11-21]]> 1942-11-24]]> 1942-11-25]]> 1942-11-27]]> 1942-11-28]]> 1943-12-28]]> 1944-01-02]]> 1944-01-06]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-22]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-02-01]]> 1944-02-07]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-02-26]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-11]]> 1944-03-13]]> 1944-03-14]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-04-04]]> 1944-04-12]]> 1944-04-13]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-28]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-26]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-26]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-08]]> 1944-07-10]]> 1944-07-11]]> 1944-07-14]]> 1944-07-15]]> 1944-07-16]]> 1944-07-17]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-14]]> 1944-08-15]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1944-08-27]]> 1944-08-30]]> 1944-08-31]]> 1944-09-01]]> 1944-09-02]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-14]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-10-01]]> 1944-10-02]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-11]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-18]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Headquarters]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1940-06]]> 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)]]> Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Gemma Clapton]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Greece]]> Italy]]> Italy]]> Danube River]]> South Africa]]> Greece--Zakynthos]]> Italy--Foggia]]> Greece--Corinth Canal]]> Danube River]]> 1944-10]]> Mike Connock]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1940]]> 1943-04]]> 1944-12]]> 1945]]> Photo 1 is a vertical aerial photograph partly obscured by tracer fire.
Photo 2 is the 40 squadron crest.
Photo 3 is Sam in shorts and tee shirt in front of a tent.
Photo 4 is an airman beside a tent.
Photo 5 is a view across tents.
Photo 6 is an airman standing at the front of his tent.]]>
Penny Thickett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Suez]]> Libya]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-07]]> 1942-08]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-10]]>
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Photo 2 is a 40 squadron crest.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-10-24]]> 1942-10-25]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-11-01]]> 1942-11-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-11-01]]> 1942-11-02]]> A vertical aerial photograph of a burning aircraft at LG 18, Western Desert. It is captioned 'BJ 40.NT 9/10 /10/42 8" --> 7500' LG18'.
Photo 2 is an airman standing outside a tent.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> 1942-10-09]]> 1942-10-10]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-11-03]]> 1942-11-04]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-10-29]]> 1942-10-30]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Fukah]]> 1942-11-03]]> 1942-11-04]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> 1942-10-24]]> 1942-10-25]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-11-01]]> 1942-11-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Libya]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> 1942-10-20]]> 1942-10-21]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-11-03]]> 1942-11-04]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1942-10-29]]> 1942-10-30]]> Photo 1 is a half-length portrait of Sam Saunders.
Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photograph of the battle at El Alamein. The view is mostly featureless with two explosions. It is captioned 'L.B.40.NT.24/25/10/42.8--> 6500 W of Alamein' and annotated 'More enemy transport'.]]>
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