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Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Poland]]> United States]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Calais]]> France--Falaise]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Euskirchen Region]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Hannover Region]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mücheln (Wettin)]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Osterfeld]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Germany--Rüsselsheim]]> Germany--Schwandorf (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Soest]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Northern Ireland--Down (County)]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Rheine]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Wangerooge Island]]> Germany--Urft Dam]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> When Donald was sixteen, he joined the local Air Training Corps and later went to St. John’s Wood, where he was entered as a wireless operator / air gunner. He did his basic training at RAF Bridlington and was then posted to a wireless school in Hereford. While there he was taken ill and sent to hospital. On his recovery he asked to be re-mustered as an air gunner and was sent to the Isle of Sheppey to be trained on a Napier. He was then posted to RAF Bridgnorth gunnery school. After finishing the course, he was sent home until he was summoned to form a crew. The crew was posted to RAF Halton where they flew on Wellingtons. Their next posting was to RAF Wittering where they transferred to Lancasters. Donald was then posted to 625 Squadron at RAF Scampton. The squadron flew to Belgium and later to Italy to bring prisoners of war home. They also took part in Operation Manna over Holland. On returning to England the crew were split and Donald was posted to RAF Uxbridge and then demobbed. He went back to work at O. C. Summers until his retirement. At the age of 38 Donald married a typist who also worked for O. C. Summers.


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Senior Admin Officer, RAF Bridgnorth]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shropshire]]> #2 Designated pilots-navigators or bomb aimers at Heaton Park then sent to Bridgnorth to await a ship to South Africa. Ted went to Port Elizabeth at 42 Air School to train, then Cairo.
#3 A letter referring to Ted's service history and his deafness. Over the years he attempted to get a disability pension but only received small lump sums. He details fellow aircrew who have been treated differently to him. Then he discusses a Canadian pilot, Kurt Lavack, who had survived a landing accident which Ted witnessed at close hand, when an unreleased bomb exploded. The pilot, Kurt, was later given a substantial pension by his own (Canadian)government and the British government. The letter concludes that at the age of 80 he deserves to be treated better.]]>
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