Label reads “121”; signed by the author; caption reads “13 LUGLIO 1944. Cacciabombardiere Loke P 38 [Lockheed P-38]precipitato presso il mulino di Pocenia UD, l’equipaggio è deceduto”. Caption translates as “13 July 1944. Lockheed P-38 fighter aircraft crashed near the Pocenia watermill (Udine province), crew died.”]]>
Angiolino Filiputti]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Francesca Campani]]> Alessandro Pesaro]]> Helen Durham]]> Giulia Banti]]> Maureen Clarke]]> ita]]> Artwork]]> Italy--Udine]]> Italy]]> 1944-07-13]]>

Label reads “120”; signed by the author; caption reads “13 Luglio 1944. Improvviso attacco di “Lokeed P38” alle piste aerre di Lavariano-Risano-Sammardenchia UD, un cacciabombardiere colpito dalla reazione anti-aerea si incendiava.”

Caption translates as: “13 July 1944. The unexpected attack of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning on Lavariano, Sammardenchia, and Risano airstrips (Udine province). A fighter was hit by anti-aircraft reaction and caught fire.”]]>
Angiolino Filiputti]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Francesca Campani]]> Alessandro Pesaro]]> Helen Durham]]> Giulia Banti]]> Maureen Clarke]]> ita]]> Artwork]]> Italy]]> Italy--Lavariano]]> 1944-07-13]]>

Label reads “279”; signed by the author; caption reads “26 APRILE 1945. Locheed [Lockheed] P.38 attaccano con le bombe “HC” erano chiamate “block-busters (spiana isolati) per il loro immenso potere distruttivo, simili a grandi caldaie cilindriche, privi di pinne direzionali; il ponte della ferrovia sul fiume Corno, a S. Giorgio di NOGARO UD.”

Caption translates as: “26 April 1045. Lockheed P-38 fighter aircraft attack using high-capacity bombs, known as Blockbusters. These bombs were used because of their great destructive force. They looked like big, cylindrical boilers, lacking directional fins. Portrayed here is the railway bridge on the Corno river in San Giorgio di Nogaro (Udine province).”]]>
Angiolino Filiputti]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Francesca Campani]]> Alessandro Pesaro]]> Helen Durham]]> Giulia Banti]]> Maureen Clarke]]> ita]]> Artwork]]> Italy--San Giorgio di Nogaro]]> Italy]]> 1945-04-26]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Carron Moss]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary. Allocated S Coulter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hannover]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jon-Paul Jones]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Tilburg]]> 1944-08-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946-01]]> Germany. Wehrmacht Luftwaffe]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> deu]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> 1942]]> At the outbreak of war, he left the Post Office and was employed building naval vessels at a boat yard on the Thames in Chertsey. It was here that he first heard about RAF Air Sea Rescue, which he successfully enrolled into. Following training at various establishments he was posted to Newhaven on High Speed Launch 190 as a gunner.
Lawrence describes rescue operations: a Spitfire leading them to an airman in a dinghy; a Wellington aircrew rescued close to Le Havre on 17 July 1943; a German wireless operator who baled out from a downed Ju 88 and his parachute being divided amongst the crew, and finally rescuing the United States serviceman T G Giles who baled out of a P-38.
Occasionally they would come across mines that had broken free. These would be guarded until the Navy arrived and detonated them. This would result in the surface being covered in stunned fish which the crew would be able to scoop up.]]>
David Meanwell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Ian Whapplington]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> British Army]]> Royal Navy]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Chertsey]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> England--Newhaven]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France]]> France--Le Havre]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Surrey]]> 1943-07-17]]> 1944-03-16]]>
G N Donaldson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frances Grundy]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Hamble-le-Rice]]> England--Eastleigh]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> Scotland--Ross and Cromarty]]> Scotland--Evanton]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Bristol]]> England--Essex]]> England--Clacton-on-Sea]]> Italy]]> Italy--Venice]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> England--Berkshire]]> France]]> France--Bordeaux Region (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> 1934]]> 1939]]> 1940-04]]> 1940-09-20]]> 1940-10]]> 1940-12]]> 1941-10-22]]> 1941]]> 1941-04]]> 1942]]> 1942-07]]> 1942-08]]> 1943]]> 1943-01]]> 1943-04]]> 1943-06]]> 1944]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-12-29]]> 1945]]> 1945-07]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frances Grundy]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> John Rees]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1945-03-03]]>
There are shadows of a 12-aircraft formation of Lancasters flying towards top of image projected onto the ground over the pan.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Sykes]]> Geolocation impractical]]> Pending review]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> United States]]> California]]> California--Long Beach]]> 1946-08-01]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> Photograph]]> United States Army Air Force]]> United States]]> Maryland]]> Maryland--Hagerstown]]> The Times]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Angela Gaffney]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> British Army]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Tunisia]]> Tunisia--Tunis]]> Russia (Federation)]]> Russia (Federation)--Volgograd]]> North Africa]]> 1942-11]]> The Aeroplane Spotter]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Training material]]> PCurnockRM17020002,
PCurnockRM17020003,
PCurnockRM17020004]]>
Royal Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> United States Army Air Force]]>
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]]> Edward King]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Map]]> Map. Navigation chart and navigation log]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Villers-Bocage (Calvados)]]> 1944-06-30]]> Right - document titled "The Reckoning". Giving details of bomber commands sorties, aircraft and aircrew losses, and asking whether sacrifice was worth results.
Bottom left - three short documents giving some account of operations on flying bomb site (2) and Brest. Gives number and type of aircraft used, target, results and losses.
Bottom left - photograph of a crashed Wellington wheels up in a field. Captioned 'A Wimpey completes the course at 85 OTU Bruntingthorpe 1944'.
Bottom right - document entitles "Aircrew casualties" listing bomber command casualties during the war up to 31 May 1947.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> France]]> France--Morbecque]]> France--Creil]]> France--Brest]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-25]]>
J. Salmon Ltd]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Darby. Charles Arthur Hill. Postcards]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Regia Aeronautica]]> JH Bird]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Training material]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> #2, 7 and 8 are a Stirling model
#5 is a Wellington and Spitfire model.
#9 are a model Stirling and Lightning.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> United States Army Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Holten]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincoln]]> France]]> Netherlands--Tilburg Metropolitan Area]]> Norway]]> Russia (Federation)]]> Russia (Federation)--Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Scotland--Glasgow]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-24]]>