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The first flight is recorded at No 7 EFTS , Desford flying in the Tiger Moth, he remained there until 28 September when he moved to No 12 SFTS flying in the Anson. In January 1941 Harold moved to No 10 OTU Abingdon, flying the Whitley. On 15th April Harold was posted to 51 Squadron, Dishforth initially flying the Whitley but almost immediately converting to the Wellington. His first operation was to Kiel on the 18 May 1941 in a Whitley, his remaining operations were in the Wellington. Harold and his crew were posted to 405 Squadron, Driffield on 27 May 1941 and moved to Pocklington on the 26 June 1941 and then undertook operations to Swartze, Cologne, Brest, Dunkirk, Le Havre, Berlin and Dortmund. Harold attended a BAT course at 1502 BAT Flight Abingdon, in February 1942 flying Whitley's. They carried out operations to Heligoland, Essen, and Lubeck. Harold converted to the Halifax April/May 1942. He carried out 19 operations, was injured after a crash on 12 October 1942 and was posted to No 10 OTU on 17 November 1942. Harold acquired a Red endorsement to his Log Book, 'Whitley V BD 377 23 October 1942, Gross carelessness (Non flying) letter ref 916/1405/1595/P1 14 Nov 1942.
He was posted to No 12 OTU on 20 November. The aircraft he flew there on the Gunnery flight included the Whitley, Defiant, Lysander, Wellington and Martinet, he remained there until 10 March 1944 when his Log Book records that he was posted to No 100 Group for Special duties. The second pilot on operations were Pilot Officer Mattey, Sergeant Craig, and Sergeant Farnborough. ]]>
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David Meanwell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Navy]]> Great Britain]]> Malaysia]]> Malta]]> Singapore]]> North Africa]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Sussex]]> Singapore]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954-04-08]]> 1955]]> He describes training in London, Bridlington, Morpeth and Wymeswold. Later training as a crew was at Castle Donington, Lindholme and Hemswell. He describes in detail his crew, aircraft and operations. After the war he returned to his job in Cornwall and made contact with some of his old crew. His wife concludes his story, writing in 2005.]]> Herbert Davy]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Alnwick]]> England--Sheffield]]> England--Mablethorpe]]> England--Liskeard]]> England--The Lizard]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Sweden--Malmö]]> England--Wragby (Lincolnshire)]]> England--Saltash]]> France--Caen]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Newhaven]]> England--Leigh-on-Sea]]> England--Bristol]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Poland]]> Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad]]> France]]> Germany]]> Netherlands]]> Sweden]]> Trinidad and Tobago]]> England--Essex]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Pauillac (Gironde)]]> England--Preston (Lancashire)]]> England--Bristol]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Wales--Flintshire]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> 1955]]> 1956]]> 1957]]> 1958]]>
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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]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Paderborn]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Netherlands--Gouda]]> Wales--Flintshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-23]]> 1945-02-24]]> 1945-03-13]]> 1945-03-14]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-17]]> 1945-03-19]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-03-23]]> 1945-03-25]]> 1945-03-27]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1945-05-02]]> 1945-05-07]]> 1945-05-25]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> 1955]]>

Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at Andreas on the Isle of Man. After a short leave he was posted to an operational training unit at Chipping Warden followed by intensive training at Edge Hill. Finally he went to Feltwell for Escape and Evasion training before joining a Heavy Conversion Unit at Wratting Common then Waterbeach.

Chapter 2. Operations RAF Witchford. After seven days leave he commenced operational flying in a Lancaster. Their first target was Augsburg and he reports being waved off by WAAFs and airmen. On the next operation the navigator had a breakdown and refused to help. He continues with details of several operations.
Chapter 3. Return to Ops RAF Waterbeach. Initially this proved to be a very relaxing posting but after his recovery he was back on operations. After 30 operations he was posted to RAF Brackla, Nairn.

Chapter 4. Grounded. He was unhappy at Brackla which was remote and cold. Next was a transfer south to RAF Weeton where he learned about motor transport and learned to drive. He was then posted to RAF Halfpenny Green, followed by RAF Croughton and South Cerney. He then went to Hornchurch before being sent to Germany where he joined a micro film unit at Frankfurt. On completion of photographing relevant factory installations his unit headed south to Triberg in Bavaria.

Chapter 5. As Time Goes By. He reflects on his letter from the Secretary of State from Air, Bomber Command losses and life after the war. he discusses Labour minister John Strachey, a pre-war fascist then Communist Party , who belittled the work of Bomber Harris. and the refusal to allow a thanksgiving service to honour the ex-Prisoner of War Association at Coventry Cathedral.]]>
Geoff Payne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Training Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Birmingham]]> England--London]]> England--York]]> England--Halifax]]> England--Loughborough]]> England--Flamborough Head]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Fleetwood]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Douglas (Isle of Man)]]> England--Banbury (Oxfordshire)]]> England--London]]> England--Bognor Regis]]> France--Lille]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Coventry]]> England--Ely]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France--Rouen]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Creil]]> France--Nucourt]]> France--Caen]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Gironde Estuary]]> England--Falmouth]]> France--Somme]]> Germany--Rüsselsheim]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Sweden--Stockholm]]> Germany--Bremen]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Calais]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Germany--Emmerich]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Scotland--Nairn]]> England--Peterborough]]> England--Walsall]]> England--Hull]]> England--Wolverhampton]]> England--Dudley]]> England--Brackley]]> England--Cirencester]]> Germany--Cuxhaven]]> Germany--Bückeburg]]> Germany--Bremerhaven]]> Germany--Black Forest]]> Germany--Triberg]]> Germany--Rheinberg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> France--Châlons-en-Champagne]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> Poland]]> France]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Netherlands]]> Sweden]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Newmarket (Suffolk)]]>
A E Edwards]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> France]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France--Lille]]> France--Laon]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> France--Nantes]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Louvain]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Aachen]]> France--Dunkerque]]> France--Calais]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Tours]]> France--Lens]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> France--Nucourt]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray]]> France--Creil]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Brest]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-03-01]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-19]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-05-31]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-11]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-07-02]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-09]]> 1944-07-10]]> 1944-07-11]]> 1944-07-15]]> 1944-07-16]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-27]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-04]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1944-08-29]]> 1944-09-09]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-19]]> 1945-01-31]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-08-08]]> Bottom - oblique aerial photograph of an airfield in top right surrounded by open countryside. Captioned 'Milfield airfield as it was on 2 August 1945. Photographed by H Marshall with box camera'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Wooler]]> 1945-08-02]]> Bottom - Seven airmen, six wearing battledress the other in shirtsleeves, two squatting in front the others standing. In the background part of a Martinet. Titled 'Tow target operations 1 August 1945'. Captioned 'W F Lindsley, Vic Warne, Ron Ford, Allan Edwards, Ginger Heffernan, Harry Marshall, K Mc Donnell (Mac)'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Wooler]]> 1945-07-17]]> 1945-08-01]]>