Heather Hughes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943]]>
Ken describes his schoolboy life in Durham, including leaving the Anderson Shelter one evening and watching searchlights scanning the sky over Sunderland. One bombing on Durham was shortly after Coventry had been bombed: the mist rose from the river and shrouded the city, with local folklore being St Cuthbert protecting the Cathedral. During his father’s service at RAF Woodhall Spa, Ken recalled travelling there with his mother from Durham by train and seeing extensive bomb damage to York railway station. Ken served three years in the RAF, posted to RAF Insworth a non-flying RAF station where the RAF Records Section was based, transferring to the Coronation Unit for training ahead of the ceremony in 1953. He recalled route lining in the Haymarket, due to the narrowing of the road he was very close to the Queen’s coach and in the evening went to Buckingham Palace and assisted the police with crowd control. Ken recalls watching The Dambusters film with his father in 1955 and his father commenting on the accuracy of the film.]]>
Joyce Sharland]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jim Sheach]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Second generation]]> Great Britain]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Tyne and Wear]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Durham]]> England--London]]> England--Newcastle upon Tyne]]> England--Sunderland (Tyne and Wear)]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1943-05]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> 1955]]>
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]]> Nicky Barr]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Brian May]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> New Zealand]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--London]]> California--San Francisco]]> United States]]> California]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Nigel Moore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Great Britain]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Corby]]> England--Coventry]]> England--Warwickshire]]> 1940-11]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> Patch]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943-05-23]]> Susanne Pescott]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Bahamas]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> Sri Lanka]]> Singapore]]> United States]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Bahamas--Nassau]]> Bahamas]]> Italy]]> Italy--Mount Etna]]> India--Chennai]]> 1940]]> 1942-02-26]]> 1943-06-24]]> 1944-01-16]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> Cyril was chosen to move to 617 Squadron as an armourer when the squadron formed at RAF Scampton. He met Barnes Wallis and knew Guy Gibson, often taking his dog for a walk. Cyril flew in one of the Lancasters as they carried out a test run over the Derwent Water dam. Cyril's memory of the day of Eder, Möhne and Sorpe operation was marred by a tragic event at the base. His friend had a 'dear John' letter from his girlfriend and took his own life in front of Cyril. After the war Cyril moved to Canada and was involved with the destruction of war equipment not longer needed. He was saddened by the fact that along with armaments, they had to destroy clothing which would have been gratefully received by families in England. During his periods of leave he and fellow RAF colleagues went to New York. They were treated in his words like 'Royalty' and put up in hotels for free and were introduced to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Cyril also remembers going up the Empire State Building when later the same day a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into it in during thick fog. Cyril return by Ship to England in September 1946.
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Susanne Pescott]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> United States]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Illinois--Chicago]]> New York (State)--New York]]> Illinois]]> New York (State)]]>
Sassoon]]>
Theresa Sassoon was Siegfried Sassoon's mother. She mentions a photo she has received from her nephew Thornycroft – a b/w version of PGrundyAF1503. In EDonaldsonT-FIDonaldsonDW430515-0003 she is referred to as The Aunt.

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T Sassoon]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frances Grundy]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Kent]]> England--Tunbridge Wells]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-05-26]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Bawtry]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1942-11]]> 1943-06]]> 1943-06-09]]> 1943-06-16]]> 1943-06-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MWhybrowFHT170690-160926-180002,
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Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Eder Dam]]> Germany--Sorpe Dam]]> Germany--Möhne River Dam]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]> 1943-05-18]]> 1944-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> Cheshire, Leonard. Aircrew, people, decorations and bomb damage]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]> ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Möhne River Dam]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]> [caption - written vertically on LHS of page presumably for landscape orientation of photo] 'Elder [sic] Dam The south-east end of the storage lake with the dam breached between the two valve houses at a point about 400 ft from its western end. Water is still pouring through the gap flowing fast downstream towards Kassel'. On the reverse 'Eder Dam, CH.9750'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Waldeck (Hesse)]]> Germany--Kassel]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frank Batten]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Eder Dam]]> Germany--Möhne River Dam]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-05]]> A magazine cutting January 1957 reports the last operational Lancaster flight.
A cutting of a letter suggesting that the Lancaster should be preserved not scrapped.
A cutting records last operational flight.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Angela Gaffney]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> 1956-10-15]]>
Photo 1 is a postcard of the dam, captioned 'Mohnetalsphere'.
Photo 2 is the dam breached.
Photo 3 is the lake behind the dam, captioned 'Am Mohnsee' and 'RAF Leave Centre 1946']]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> Germany--Möhne River Dam]]> 1943]]> 1946]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Möhne River Dam]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> On the reverse 'Dick and self on way to Windemere'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Lake Windermere]]> England--Westmorland]]>