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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-05-01]]> Lazenby, Harold Jack]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Warrington]]> England--Wolverhampton]]> England--Shifnal (Shropshire)]]> England--London]]> England--Bampton (Oxfordshire)]]> England--Witney]]> England--Oxford]]> England--Cambridge]]> France--Paris]]> England--Portsmouth]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Southrop (Oxfordshire)]]> England--Cirencester]]> England--Skegness]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Birmingham]]> England--Kidderminster]]> England--Gosport]]> England--Fareham]]> England--Southsea]]> Wales--Margam]]> Wales--Port Talbot]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Wales--Porthcawl]]> England--Urmston]]> England--Stockport]]> Wales--Cardiff]]> Wales--Barry]]> United States]]> New York (State)--Long Island]]> Illinois--Chicago]]> England--Gloucester]]> Scotland--Kilmarnock]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Lincoln]]> Denmark--Anholt]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Europe--Mont Blanc]]> Denmark]]> England--Hull]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Mablethorpe]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Italy--Turin]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> England--Land's End Peninsula]]> Italy--San Polo d'Enza]]> Italy--Genoa]]> Italy--Milan]]> Algeria]]> Algeria--Blida]]> Algeria--Atlas de Blida Mountains]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Ramsey (Cambridgeshire)]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Munich]]> France--Montluçon]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Scotland--Elgin]]> England--York]]> Scotland--Aberdeen]]> England--Grimsby]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Zeitz]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Heide (Schleswig-Holstein)]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Netherlands--Westerschelde]]> Germany--Rheine]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Belgium]]> England--Southend-on-Sea]]> England--Morecambe]]> England--Kineton]]> England--Worcester]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> England--London]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Poland]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Recklinghausen (Münster)]]> Netherlands]]> England--Sheringham]]> England--Redbridge]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea)]]> Germany]]> Right - letter to Robert Palmer stating that he had been awarded his Pathfinder badge.]]> A Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air]]> D C T Bennett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-04-22]]> ]]> Peter Lovatt]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Navy]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Norway--Trondheim]]> France--Brest]]> Russia (Federation)]]> England--Hartland]]> England--Beer Head]]> Europe--Elbe River]]> England--Dover]]> England--Folkestone]]> England--London]]> France--Bruneval]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> Germany--Rostock]]> England--Norwich]]> England--Cheadle (Staffordshire)]]> England--Salcombe]]> England--Sidmouth]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Dunkerque]]> France--Cassel]]> England--Salisbury]]> Russia (Federation)--Kola Peninsula]]> Russia (Federation)--Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> France--Desvres]]> France--Arcachon]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Chartres]]> France--Reims]]> England--Swanage]]> England--Malvern]]> England--Plymouth]]> France--Lorient]]> England--Lincoln]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> England--Hull]]> England--London]]> England--Bristol]]> France--Montdidier (Hauts-de-France)]]> England--Guildford]]> France--Poix-du-Nord]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Czech Republic--Pilsen Basin]]> England--Harpenden]]> France--Morlaix]]> Spain--Lugo]]> Spain--Seville]]> England--Radlett (Hertfordshire)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> France--Boulogne-Billancourt]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Schleswig-Holstein]]> Belgium--Liège]]> Germany--Bremen]]> England--High Wycombe]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> England--Sizewell]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> England--Crowborough]]> England--Huddersfield]]> Netherlands--Den Helder]]> England--Mundesley]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Europe--Baltic Sea Region]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Wolfenbüttel]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> France--Limoges]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> France--Yvelines]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Poland--Poznań]]> France--Dieppe]]> Turkey--Gallipoli]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Morocco]]> Algeria]]> Italy--Sicily]]> England--Ventnor]]> England--Beachy Head]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Somme]]> France--Seine River]]> England--Southampton]]> England--Portsmouth]]> Scotland--Firth of Forth]]> Iceland]]> England--Brighton]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Cherbourg]]> England--Littlehampton]]> England--Portland Harbour]]> France--Amiens]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> France--Normandy]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Arromanches-les-Bains]]> France--Bayeux]]> Belgium--Wenduine]]> France--Beauvais]]> England--Ditchling]]> England--Henfield (West Sussex)]]> England--Canterbury]]> England--Crowborough]]> England--Dover]]> England--Chiswick]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> Sweden]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Trier]]> Germany--Siegfried Line]]> Netherlands--New Maas River]]> Netherlands--Waal River]]> Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Europe--Ardennes]]> Belgium--Bastogne]]> Germany--Leuna]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Ulm]]> Rhine River Valley]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Grevenbroich]]> Germany--Dülmen]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kiel]]> England--Coventry]]> Italy]]> Poland]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Egypt]]> North Africa]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Czech Republic]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Russia (Federation)]]> Spain]]> Turkey]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> England--Milton Keynes]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Kent]]> England--Middlesex]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> Russia (Federation)--Poli︠a︡rnyĭ (Murmanskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)]]> Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck describes large composition and successes of RAF during 1943 whilst underlining the threat still posed by Germany.

Les machines
Maintains Anglo-American aircraft production is four times better than their opponents; combining skills and resources is highly beneficial.

Les hommes
Through the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, men from different countries trained in Canada, with the training spreading out to other countries.

Bomber Command
Main aim is to weaken the enemy’s war potential and open the way for the liberation armies.

Les barrages de la Ruhr
Describes the dawn operation by Lancasters on 17th May 1943, which destroyed the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr Valley, using mines.

10,000 tonnes Hambourg
11 days of raids put Hamburg and its naval port out of action with 70% of the town destroyed or damaged.

Berlin 30,000 tonnes
As the main industrial hub and centre of Nazism, Berlin was one of the RAF’s main targets with many factories destroyed or damaged.

Les éclaireurs
Pathfinder Force, commanded by Air Vice-Marshal Bennett, was created in August 1942. They marked targets with flares to improve bombing accuracy.

Coastal Command
Important role played by aircraft in the Battle of the Atlantic, finding and attacking German submarines, and protecting allied ships.

Fighter Command
After four years, Fighter Command disbanded and split into defence and tactical aviation.

Transport Command
Created in 1943 to transport equipment from American and British production centres to operational bases and bases on the front.

D’El-Alamein en Italie
Campaigns from Africa to Italy have seen the air force and army leaders thinking and acting as one to maximum effect. Grip tightening on German industry.

Les ailes franco-brittaniques
Air Brigade General Martial Valin, commanding the Free French Air Force in Britain, outlines the positive Franco-British relationships and training provided. The Air Force’s different groups are described and how structures were effectively reformed, including in North Africa.

Normandie en Russie
Runs through the activities of the Normandy group on the Russian front during 1943, from training to successful operations. The Russians have shown friendship and esteem.



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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> France]]> France--Le Creusot]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Aachen]]> France]]> France--Montbéliard]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Solingen]]> Germany--Remscheid]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Hannover]]> France--Montluçon]]> France--Modane]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> France--Cannes]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> France--Laon]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--La Louvière]]> France--Lens]]> Belgium--Louvain]]> Belgium--Hasselt]]> France--Angers]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> DC Bennett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-06-21]]> D C Bennett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> ita]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1943-10-11]]> Rod Pickles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Bad Nenndorf]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> 1942]]> 1944]]> Adjutant 35 Squadron]]> D C T Bennet]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Alan Pinchbeck]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Ipswich]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-08-30]]> #1 to 6 are of the RAF Memorial at Plymouth Hoe, also the final resting place for the ashes of Donald Bennett, Commander of the Pathfinders.
#7 is a memorial at RAF Silverstone.
#8 is a memorial at RAF Moreton-in-Marsh
#9 and 10 are the memorial at RAF Metheringham. #11 and 12 are of a Lightning tail fin at RAF Binbrook.
#13 and 14 are a memorial at RAF Fiskerton.
#15 is of a pub sign 'Black Swan' at RAF Skellingthorpe.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Plymouth]]> England--Devon]]>
P J Hogan]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Lichfield]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> England--Selby]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-11]]> 1980-10-12]]> 1980-11-02]]> 1944-07]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-04]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> PV Clegg]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Italy]]> Italy--Genoa]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> France]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-09-01]]> 1942-09-02]]> 1942-09-13]]> 1942-09-14]]> 1942-09-16]]> 1942-09-17]]> 1942-09-19]]> 1942-09-20]]> 1942-09-18]]> 1942-09-19]]> 1942-08-18]]> 1942-08-19]]> 1942-08-28]]> 1942-08-29]]> 1942-10-15]]> 1942-11-07]]> 1942-11-08]]> 1942-11-20]]> 1942-11-22]]> 1942-11-23]]> 1942-12-09]]> 1942-12-11]]> 1942-12-20]]> 1943]]> 1943-01-30]]> 1943-02-02]]> 1943-02-03]]> 1943-02-04]]> 1943-02-07]]> 1943-02-13]]> 1943-02-16]]> 1943-02-19]]> 1943-02-24]]> 1943-02-25]]> 1943-02-28]]> 1943-03-01]]> 1943-03-03]]> 1943-03-04]]> 1943-03-08]]> 1943-03-27]]> 1943-03-19]]> 1943-03-21]]> 1943-03-28]]> 1943-03-29]]> 1943-03-30]]> 1943-04-04]]> 1943-04-05]]> 1943-04-12]]> 1943-05-04]]> 1943-05-12]]> Bottom - mentions that Lang was reported missing on 4 May 1943 was permanently awarded the path finder badge.]]> Station Commander RAF Wyton]]> D Bennett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> 1943-07-16]]> 1943-05-07]]> Middle - letter congratulates him on award of Distinguished Flying Cross.
Bottom - newspaper cutting announcing award of DFC to Flight Lieutenant Alastair Grant Lang.]]>
D Bennett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> 1943-03-14]]>
D Bennett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-06-19]]> D Bennett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-08-10]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Grimsby]]> England--Chester]]> Scotland--Perth]]> 1941-02-23]]> 1941-09]]> 1941-09-16]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1944-04-01]]> 1941-08-08]]> H G Adams]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Ashfield]]> New South Wales--Liverpool]]> New South Wales--Lindfield]]> New South Wales--Evans Head]]> New South Wales--Parkes]]> United States]]> California--San Francisco]]> Illinois--Chicago]]> New York (State)--New York]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Greenock]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Eton]]> England--Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead)]]> California]]> Illinois]]> New York (State)]]> New South Wales]]> 1942-07-03]]> 1942-08-20]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-12-22]]> 1944-01-01]]> 1943-10-26]]> 1944-06-21]]> John Horsburgh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tilly Foster]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Birmingham]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--London]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Australia]]> New South Wales]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Warwickshire]]> 1940]]> 1945]]> Stan Shaw]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1943-10-20]]> G Dunmore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Christian]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942-09-06]]>