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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]]> Australia]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> France--Cherbourg]]> New South Wales--Narrandera]]> Victoria--Point Cook]]> Victoria]]> New South Wales]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-09-03]]> 1945-09-05]]>
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]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany--Altenburg (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Norway--Trondheim]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-29]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-03]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-07]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-12-11]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-19]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]>
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Czech Republic]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> Scotland--Wigtownshire]]> South Australia--Mount Gambier]]> South Australia--Port Pirie]]> South Australia]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-04-16]]> 1945-04-17]]> 1945-09-07]]>

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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Australia]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> France--Argentan]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes)]]> Victoria--Ballarat]]> Victoria--Sale]]> Victoria]]> France--Saint-Martin-de-Varreville]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1944-01-26]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-05-29]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-08]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-10]]>
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Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Norway]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Norway--Tønsberg]]> 1945-04-25]]>
]]> Don Falgate]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Text. Diary]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Bremerhaven]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Heilbronn]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rheydt]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> David Meanwell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> 1940]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Posted to 463 Squadron at Waddington, still with the same crew, flying his first operation on the 30th October 1944.
Horace flew 29 missions, including targets such as Dusseldoft, Dortmund Emms, Hamburg, Harburg and Dresden.
He tells of his experiences over Bohlen and the damage that was inflicted on his Lancaster, and the casualities within his own crew.
Horace married in 1947 and had 2 children After coming out of the Royal Air Force at the age of 21, he then went to work in a car factory at Tunbridge Wells, and after several changes of jobs, finally left work after working with a Mobility Services company, working on overhead hosts and exteriors.]]>
David Meanwell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Dresden]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dawn Studd]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Australia]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944]]> Liz describes her work on the switchboard, the shifts and accommodation, as well as her social life. Her highlights were the Australians at RAF Waddington and the film unit operating from there.
After pressure from her father, Liz had to leave in May 1946, and went on to have a successful and varied career.
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Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dawn Studd]]> Cathie Hewitt]]> Sally Coulter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]>
Carolyn Pritchard]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France--Paris]]> Great Britain]]> England--Liverpool]]> Wales--Y Felinheli]]> France--Étampes (Essonne)]]> France]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1944-06-09]]> Audrey was 23 when the war started and was conscripted on 15 December 1942 electing to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. After her kitting out at RAF Innesworth she did some basic training at RAF Morecambe, then posted to RAF Lindholme and eventually to RAF Waddington where she worked as an administrator in the officer's mess. At that time there were four squadrons on the station: 9, 44, 463 and 467 Squadrons.
Audrey's duties in the officer's mess included checking the crews against the battle orders to ensure only crews flying that night got the special pre-flight meal and waiting on tables for VIP dinners, including Wing Commander Nettleton VC. She describes her friendships with the other staff and especially with bomber crews, mostly nice and respectful. Audrey and others would gather on the perimeter track to see them off. She and many others were billeted in a beautiful old building, known as "The Waafery”. Audrey describes her busy social life, dancing at many venues and winning jitterbug competitions. Remembers being called ‘belle gambe’ [beautiful legs] by Italian prisoners of war.
Audrey also describes the events of one night when an enemy fighter followed the aircraft home and strafed the airfield, hitting the incendiary dump, which exploded.
After the war, Audrey eventually worked for the local authority’s adoption service after the tragic death of her husband at a young age.]]>
Brian Wright]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Andy Fitter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1942-12-15]]> 1945-08]]>
At the age of 16, Eric had an apprenticeship as an indentured apprentice marine engineer at Liverpool docks, however wanted to serve, however he was classed as being in a reserved occupation, so therefore could only volunteer as aircrew.
Eric flew Avro Ansons, Vickers Wellingtons, before moving on to Short Stirlings with 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Wigsley where he trained as a rear gunner. He then flew Avro Lancasters with 463 RAAF Squadron at Waddington.
He flew missions to France, Nuremburg, Dortmund-Ems canal, Brunswick and targets in the Ruhr. Eric was shot down on 6 November 1944 and was taken prisoner of war, and he tells of his escape from the camp when it was liberated by the Russian forces.
After returning to the United Kingdom, Eric ran the Prisoner of War Camps, before leaving the Royal Air Force and joining the 40th Kings Royal Tank Regiment, and served 6 years as a Troop Commander.
Eric left the Army in 1956 and worked for his father as a salesman in the motor car industry. He started his own business and by the rime he retired, he had built up four businesses which he ran for approximately 30 years.]]>
Brian Wright]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Great Britain]]> England--Merseyside]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Northern Ireland--Down (County)]]> England--Liverpool]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]>
Bob Smith]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Australia]]> Queensland--Brisbane]]> Queensland--Ipswich]]> Queensland--Maryborough]]> New South Wales--Cootamundra]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> New South Wales--Wagga Wagga]]> Canada]]> New South Wales--Blue Mountains]]> American Samoa]]> American Samoa--Pago Pago]]> United States]]> Hawaii--Honolulu]]> California--San Francisco]]> Oregon]]> British Columbia--Vancouver]]> Alberta--Jasper]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> Germany]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> New York (State)--New York]]> Alberta--Fort Saskatchewan]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> North America--Niagara Falls]]> Quebec--Montreal]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Greenock]]> England--Brighton]]> Nova Scotia]]> Andrew Panton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Norway]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Norway--Tromsø]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Scotland--Lossiemouth]]> Norway--Narvik]]> 1944-11-12]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Ian Whapplington]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Australia]]> Victoria]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> New South Wales]]> New South Wales--Narrandera]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> Great Britain]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Sussex]]> Wales--Haverfordwest]]> Wales--Milford Haven]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> France]]> France--Cherbourg]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--Durban]]> Victoria--Point Cook]]> Victoria]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> New South Wales--Wagga Wagga]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Canada]]> Czech Republic]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> New South Wales]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> California--San Francisco]]> United States]]> California]]> Alberta]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Sussex]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> British Columbia--Vancouver Island]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> New South Wales]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> United States]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France--Juvincourt-et-Damary]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>