Andrew Sadler]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jackie Simpson]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Luckenwalde]]> Germany--Oberursel]]> Wales--Cardiff]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1944]]> 1945-01-19]]> Pam Locker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Cézembre Island]]> 1940-05-10]]> Dick Curnock]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Austria]]> Austria--Villach]]> Canada]]> British Columbia--Abbotsford]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> Gibraltar]]> Germany]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bridlington]]> England--Horsham]]> England--Leicester]]> England--London]]> England--Melksham]]> Italy]]> Italy--Bari]]> Italy--Cortina d'Ampezzo]]> Italy--Naples]]> Italy--Padua]]> Italy--Ravenna]]> Italy--Rimini]]> Italy--Rome]]> Italy--Udine]]> Italy--Venice]]> Malta]]> North Africa]]> Poland--Toruń]]> Germany--Lüneburg]]> Poland]]> Lithuania]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> England--Christchurch (Dorset)]]> Québec]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> The RAF ex-POW Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Plymouth]]> France--Dieppe]]> Canada]]> British Columbia--Vancouver]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Luckenwalde]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> Belgium]]> France--Fresnes (Val-de-Marne)]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Alberta--Hinton]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Oxford]]> England--Southampton]]> Germany--Cologne]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> Manitoba--Brandon]]> Switzerland--Geneva]]> United States--Mason-Dixon Line]]> England--Skipton]]> France--Falaise]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Virginia--Norfolk]]> Italy--Sicily]]> Italy--Calabria]]> Italy--Naples]]> Italy--Florence]]> Austria--Spittal an der Drau]]> Poland--Toruń]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Europe--Elbe River]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]> Italy]]> Poland]]> France]]> Virginia]]> Ontario]]> Alberta]]> Germany]]> Austria]]> Switzerland]]> United States]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Manitoba]]> The RAF ex-POW Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> Ontario--Hamilton]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Ontario--Aylmer]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Ontario]]> Alberta]]> Germany]]> Netherlands]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]>
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available. ]]>
431 Squadron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> France]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Belgium--Louvain]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Laon]]> France--Le Bourget]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Lens]]> France--Les Mureaux]]> France--Louvaines]]> France--Nord-Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Saint-Valery-en-Caux]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Calvados]]> France--Nieppe Forest]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-10-23]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-04]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-20]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1943-12-03]]> 1943-12-04]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-28]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-03-02]]> 1944-03-03]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-08]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-13]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-05]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> MPhilbinGBJ13999-151020-010002,
MPhilbinGBJ13999-151020-010003]]>
Royal Canadian Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Québec--Salaberry-de-Valleyfield]]> Germany--Berlin]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Paris]]> France--Brest]]> England--Exeter]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Ontario]]> Québec]]> Germany]]> England--Devon]]> 1943]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1945]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> PCothliffKB15010005]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> A second image shows the same group with the two women waving.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> PCothliffKB15010007]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> PCothliffKB15060010]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> PCothliffKB15060006]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PCothliffKB15060011,
PCothliffKB15060012]]>
Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1944-01-28]]> 1944-01-29]]>
One is annotated 'S3.R 19900192-051#3'.
A fourth image is taken a few seconds later with the same people in the foreground.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> PCothliffKB15060008,
PCothliffKB15060009]]>
Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
Information supplied with the collection states 'Croft 10 December 1943. WAAFs wave farewell to the Philbin crew in LK991 SE-U as they leave Tholthorpe for their new base at RAF Croft'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-12-10]]> Information supplied with the collection states 'Halifax Mk. V LK640 SE-Q "Queenie" of 431 "Iroquois" Squadron at dispersal at Tholthorpe. This aircraft was lost on the 18/19 November raid to Mannheim, in which the Philbin crew took part'.
It is annotated 'PL26140'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]>
On the reverse 'Halifax Mk V Poss SE-W LL258'
and
'Left to right as viewed
"Jock" Heron M/O
"Ned" Sparkes F/Eng
"Badge"Badgery (RAAF) Pilot
"Archie" Pitt Nav
"Jack" Page B/A
"Mac" Macintyre (RCAF) R/G
"Dennis" Meddings W/Op
431 Sqdn
Croft 1944'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PCothliffKB17030048]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]>
When he had leave, Reg would often go and visit his family who lived near Hull. He completed nineteen operations before he was screened, as his Wing Commander felt that he had been lucky too many times and might not be so lucky the next time. Reg has always been mindful of the loss rate in Bomber Command. He has a photograph taken a day after he got his wings. Of the four airmen in the picture he was the only one who returned home. ]]> Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Steph Jackson]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Hull]]> Manitoba--Virden]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Saskatchewan--Regina]]> Saskatchewan--Yorkton]]> Ontario]]> Saskatchewan]]> Manitoba]]> 1941]]> 1942-11-11]]> 1943-04]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> The Lancaster shown in the picture was brand new and I had to try landing it on one wheel. We were on the bombing run attacking Duisberg and we were fired on by a Halifax crew. There was considerable damage to the port side and our a/c lost it's hydraulic fluid. When the Halifax crew returned from their trip, they claimed they had shot down an unidentified 'German night fighter'. I think they sent the gunners on an aircraft recognition course!!']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> From information kindly provided by the donor. 'Harrison standing outside the Flight Room of 431 Squadron. The bicycle was the usual mode of transportation on a squadron and saved many steps and time. Summer 1944'. ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> From information kindly supplied by the donor, 'Harrison in the cockpit of the Halifax. The cockpit is approx 26' off the ground. Picture taken some time in the summer of 1944 on 431 Squadron at Croft'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]>