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North Africa]]>
1946-04]]>
1946-12]]>
1946-01]]>
1946-02]]>
Top left/centre - man wearing civilian jacket and tie by the fuselage of a York. Captioned 'Postwar ? Cosford'.
Top right/centre - seven aircrew by the tail plane of a b-24. captioned 'Landed behind German lines to deliver food to troops, last op'.
Top right - man in sailing boat holding sheet. captioned 'Norman photo of JC on lake near Ishmila [sic] NR, Abu Suier King Farouk's old yacht'.
Bottom left - two airmen sitting on a rock with sphinx and pyramid in the background. Captioned 'Egypt 45'.
Bottom left/centre - man in civilian dress point up to the tail plane of a York. Captioned 'Postwar Cosford'.
Bottom right/centre - an airman with life preserver and holding a flying helmet, sitting on a chair in front of a tent. Captioned 'typical line shooting photo to send home - "me in flying gear on bomber sqdn", Norman first sqdn in Italy'.
Right middle - airborne view out of aircraft of two starboard engines. Captioned 'Flying exercise 4 Tiger Force JC photo box camera'.
Bottom right - close up view of remains of crashed and burned aircraft. Captioned '1st Lincoln bomber to replace libs fot Tiger Force Japan, crashed on Abu Suier runway 1945'. [nb. actually a Lancaster Mk 7 NX732 which crashed 11 April 1946]]]>
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Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]>
Italy]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Shropshire]]>
1945]]>
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eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Service material]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]>
North Africa]]>
1945]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]>
North Africa]]>
1946-04-30]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Paul Ross]]>
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Artwork]]>
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Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]>
North Africa]]>
1945-12]]>
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Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
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Photograph]]>
Civilian]]>
Egypt]]>
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Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
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Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
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Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
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Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
1944]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
David Bloomfield]]>
Anne-Marie Watson]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
1944-12]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Claire Monk]]>
Jane Lloyd]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Training material]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Mike Connock]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Log book and record book]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
Great Britain]]>
Libya]]>
Sudan]]>
Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]>
Egypt--Natrun Valley]]>
England--Cambridgeshire]]>
England--Gloucestershire]]>
England--Kent]]>
England--Northumberland]]>
England--Warwickshire]]>
Libya--Cyrenaica]]>
Libya--Tobruk]]>
Scotland--Orkney]]>
Scotland--Ross and Cromarty]]>
Sudan--Port Sudan]]>
North Africa]]>
1939]]>
1940-12-04]]>
1941-02-04]]>
1941-02-12]]>
1941-02-18]]>
1941-02-22]]>
1941-02-27]]>
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1941-04-13]]>
1941-05-03]]>
1941-05-08]]>
1941-05-12]]>
1941-05-13]]>
1941-05-16]]>
1942]]>
1943]]>
1944]]>
1945]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Terry Hancock]]>
Pending review]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Log book and record book]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Austria]]>
Great Britain]]>
Italy]]>
Egypt]]>
Austria--Innsbruck]]>
Austria--Villach]]>
Italy--Brescia]]>
Italy--Padua]]>
Italy--Trento]]>
Italy--Verona]]>
Italy--Vicenza]]>
Wales--Glamorgan]]>
North Africa]]>
Slovenia]]>
Slovenia--Črnomelj]]>
1945-03-11]]>
1945-03-12]]>
1945-03-15]]>
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1945-03-19]]>
1945-03-22]]>
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1945-04-02]]>
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1945-04-12]]>
1945-04-25]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Mike Connock]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Log book and record book]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Egypt]]>
Germany]]>
Great Britain]]>
Israel]]>
Italy]]>
Egypt--Cairo]]>
England--Wiltshire]]>
Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]>
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Italy--Foggia (Province)]]>
Italy--Verona]]>
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Egypt--Suez Canal]]>
1943]]>
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1946]]>
1947]]>
1945-04-23]]>
1945-04-24]]>
1945-04-25]]>
1945-04-26]]>
1945-06-03]]>
F W J Perkins]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
David Bloomfield]]>
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Text]]>
Text. Memoir]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Worcestershire]]>
England--Pershore]]>
England--Dorset]]>
England--Bournemouth]]>
Egypt]]>
Middle East--Palestine]]>
Israel]]>
Israel--Tel Aviv]]>
England--Hampshire]]>
England--Lancashire]]>
1941-05-23]]>
1943-08-13]]>
1946-05-26]]>
In February 1946 three of the crews took Lancasters to RAF Abu Sueir in Egypt. After a few weeks they moved to RAF Shallufa, in the Canal Zone, when 104 Squadron was formed. Jack finished up on Ansons doing VIP and mail runs. He flew back in a Lancaster to RAF Kirkham via RAF Silloth, where he was demobbed. Jack flown in Domine, Proctor, Anson, Wellington and a Lancaster.
Jack married in 1951 and had two children, went back to the footplate until 1961. After that he worked as a manager of a fancy goods shop and eventually moved to Bridlington.]]>
David Kavanagh]]>
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Sue Smith]]>
Pending revision of OH transcription]]>
eng]]>
Sound]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
England--Lancashire]]>
England--Cumbria]]>
Egypt]]>
Egypt--Suez Canal]]>
North Africa]]>
1945-04]]>
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