Prince of the Netherlands]]>
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Tricia Marshall]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
United States Army Air Force]]>
Netherlands]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Steve Baldwin]]>
eng]]>
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Photograph]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
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Netherlands]]>
Netherlands--Rotterdam]]>
Elisabeth van Maasdjik]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Tricia Marshall]]>
Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]>
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Text]]>
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Photograph]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Netherlands]]>
Netherlands--Hague]]>
1945-04-29]]>
David Fellowes]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Steve Baldwin]]>
eng]]>
nld]]>
Text]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
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United States Army Air Force]]>
France]]>
Netherlands]]>
France--Reims]]>
1945]]>
The Manna Association]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Steve Baldwin]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Memoir]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Royal Australian Air Force]]>
Royal New Zealand Air Force]]>
Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
United States Army Air Force]]>
Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]>
Netherlands]]>
Netherlands--Barendrecht]]>
1945]]>
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Geoff Burton]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Anne-Marie Watson]]>
Pending review]]>
Pending revision of OH transcription]]>
eng]]>
Sound]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
1942]]>
1943]]>
1944-12]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Terry Hancock]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Germany]]>
Great Britain]]>
Netherlands]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
England--Nottinghamshire]]>
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1945-04-10]]>
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1945-04-22]]>
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1945-04-11]]>
1945-04-15]]>
JK Forrest]]>
JW Musselman]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Steve Baldwin]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
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1944-12-29]]>
1945-03-11]]>
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Sue Smith]]>
eng]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
1945-03-11]]>
C van Riel]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending review]]>
eng]]>
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Photograph]]>
Civilian]]>
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1940-05-10]]>
1942]]>
1944]]>
1945]]>
J F Roberts]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Sue Smith]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
Great Britain]]>
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Azores]]>
Azores--Terceira Island]]>
1945-06-19]]>
M Usherwood]]>
The Daily Telegraph]]>
Sue Smith]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
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Germany--Kiel]]>
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Flying log book for navigator’s, air bomber, air gunner’s, flight engineers for W. Daymont, flight engineer, covering the period from 11 August 1944 to 24 August 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF St Athan, RAF Hemswell, RAF Grimsby, RAF Elsham Wolds and RAF Driffield. Aircraft flown in were Halifax and Lancaster. He flew a total of 28 operations with 100 Squadron, 8 daylight and 20 night. Targets were Dusseldorf, Bochum, Dortmund, Wanne-Eickel, Aschaffenburg, Duren, Essen, Hamburg, Heligoland, Bremen, Berchtesgaden, Frieburg, Cologne, Leuna, Zeitz, Kleve, Dresden, Chemnitz, Duisberg, Pforzheim, Dessau, Kassel, Misburg, Plauen and Berlin. He also flew one Operation Exodus and two Operation Manna flights. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Butler.
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Royal Air Force]]>
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Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
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Great Britain]]>
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1945-04-26]]>
1945-04-27]]>
1945-05-01]]>
1945-05-02]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Mike Connock]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
France]]>
Germany]]>
Great Britain]]>
Netherlands]]>
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]>
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]>
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England--Cambridgeshire]]>
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Germany--Dresden]]>
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Flashback 1. Mentions first operation on 300 Squadron at RAF Faldingworth. Continues with account of training in England at Hucknall, Montrose and Western Zoyland. He then trained as an instructor and was posted as a flying instructor. He volunteered for operational duties and eventually was allocated to a bomber squadron at RAF Finningley training on Wellington where he crewed up before posting to RAF Faldingworth, Continues with description of first operation to Wiesbaden and mistakenly landing at RAF Fiskerton on return. Concludes with a 10 year old schoolboy's wish to be a pilot.
Flashback 2. Account of Tadeusz joining the Polish Air Force including the reasons for his ambition, early experience of gliding, labour camp and military training. Continues with account of flying training with various incidents. Describes events during German invasion and escape to Romania.
Flashback 3. Continues with events after arriving in Romania and then travelling onwards by boat to Beirut then onwards to Marseille, Lyon. Gives account of German invasion of France in May 1940 and his escape via Toulouse, Bayonne and St Jean de Luz and then by British ship to Liverpool.
Flashback 4. Writes of changing his name and of his career in the RAF after the war including continuing flying with 300 Squadron and his final operation to Berchtesgaden as well as prisoner of war repatriation flights and food drops in Holland. Continues with account of flying troops back from Italy and a visit to Berlin. He was posted to ferry aircraft of many different types.]]>
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Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
England--Nottinghamshire]]>
England--Hucknall]]>
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Romania]]>
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1944-06]]>
1944-10]]>
1945-02-02]]>
1939]]>
1939-09-17]]>
1940-05-10]]>
B A Gilbert]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
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Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
Netherlands]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
Netherlands--Rotterdam]]>
1945-04-30]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Tricia Marshall]]>
eng]]>
nld]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Civilian]]>
Great Britain]]>
Netherlands]]>
Air Commodore Henry Probert]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
David Bloomfield]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
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Netherlands]]>
1995]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
David Bloomfield]]>
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His crew dropped food for the starving Dutch as part of Operation Manna. After the war he served with Transport Command on Yorks. He continued moving around and spent time on B-29s then Canberras at Marham. Later he and his family were sent to Kuala Lumpur then Penang on Dakotas.
On his return he was posted to Abingdon on Beverleys. This included trips to Nairobi.
He transferred to Haydock as a radio controller, after which he left the RAF and became a teacher.]]>
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David Bloomfield]]>
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United States Army Air Force]]>
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1945]]>
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Medallion showing Lancasters dropping packages over a stylised Dutch landscape with 1945 and Operation Manna around the border.
Medallion which has a central head of an aircrew man, surrounded by three other heads of then contemporary leaders, with 1985 and an inscription in Dutch around the border.
Medal, the ribbon uses the colours of the Dutch flag. One side of medal says 'Thank you for coming'. On the reverse a B17 dropping packages over a Dutch city and 'Operation Manna 55 years freedom 29.04.2000 Vlaardingen Holland'.
Medal with yellow and green ribbon inscribed ' The Hague, thank you Liberators 1985. On the reverse a heraldic badge.
Medal, the ribbon uses the colours of the Dutch flag, has B-17 dropping packages over a Dutch city with the inscription 1945 Operation Manna 50 years Freedom 1995. On the reverse a Dutch inscription.
Medallion from Rotterdam celebrating the 1945-1995 anniversary. It has a ribbon using the Dutch colours.
Lapel pin reflecting Rotterdam 1945-1995 anniversary.
Medallion recording Erasmus and Rotterdam, reverse and the medallion in its presentation box.
Coin with images of Lancaster and B-17 dropping packages, with the inscription 'Utrecht thanks the food dropping air crews, April-May 1945'. Reverse and its presentation box.
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