Andrew Sadler]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sam Harper-Coulson]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Netherlands]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Bethany Ellin]]> Heather Hughes]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Atlantic Ocean--Irish Sea]]> England--Orford Ness]]>
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Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Denmark]]> Great Britain]]> Sweden]]> Denmark--Copenhagen]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Sweden--Stockholm]]> 1945-02]]> 1945-03-21]]>
When he had leave, Reg would often go and visit his family who lived near Hull. He completed nineteen operations before he was screened, as his Wing Commander felt that he had been lucky too many times and might not be so lucky the next time. Reg has always been mindful of the loss rate in Bomber Command. He has a photograph taken a day after he got his wings. Of the four airmen in the picture he was the only one who returned home. ]]> Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Steph Jackson]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Hull]]> Manitoba--Virden]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Saskatchewan--Regina]]> Saskatchewan--Yorkton]]> Ontario]]> Saskatchewan]]> Manitoba]]> 1941]]> 1942-11-11]]> 1943-04]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Dresden]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Denmark]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Sweden]]> England--Essex]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Bingen (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Saxony]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-24]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-11-29]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-03]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-22]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-12]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike French]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Germany--Potsdam]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Ulm]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> Netherlands]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Manitoba]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Manitoba--Rivers]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-12]]> 1944-12-15]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-24]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-01-29]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-23]]> 1945-02-24]]> 1945-03-01]]> 1945-03-02]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-15]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-25]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-15]]> 1945-04-18]]> 1945-04-22]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1945-04-30]]> 1945-05-01]]> He flew a total of 32 operations (6 day, 26 night). Targets in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Poland were: Bohlen, Bremen, Brunswick, Dortmund, Dresden, Duren, Dusseldorf, Flushing, Gdynia, Gravenhorst, Houffalize, Ladbergen, Lutzkendorf, Merseburg, Molbis, Munich, Nordhausen, Nurnberg, Politz, Rheydt, Rositz, Siegen, Trondheim and Wurzburg. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Burns, Flying Officer MacFarlane and Flying Officer Lambert. Includes numerous comments on operations, including “COULDN’T CLIMB OVER ALPS OPENED BOMB DOORS & TOBBOGANED (sic) OVER” and “ATTACKED BY 5 JU88’S 2 SHOT DOWN”.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Germany--Altenburg (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rheydt]]> Germany--Saxony]]> Germany--Saxony-Anhalt]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Steinfurt (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Würzburg]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Northern Ireland--Down (County)]]> Norway--Trondheim]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Scotland--Ross and Cromarty]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-03]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-07]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-11-24]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-19]]> 1944-12-27]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-08]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-02-19]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-02-22]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-12]]> 1945-03-14]]> 1945-03-15]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-17]]> 1945-04-04]]> 1945-04-07]]> 1945-04-08]]>
Sometimes Dennis was on special night duty alone in a hut a mile away from the control tower. His job was to operate the lighting system on receiving an order from the control tower. He referred to a memorable incident when a Lancaster landed safely and some of the crew kissed the ground.
When the invasion of Normandy began Dennis was transferred to a C-47 squadron. At the end of the war he went up in a Halifax to retrace some of the routes the bombers had taken and to witness the devastation. He left the RAF in 1947. In 1981 Dennis was seconded to the City University of New York.
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Nigel Moore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> Reg Miles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Navy]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Free French Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Margate]]> England--Wendover]]> England--Aylesbury]]> England--High Wycombe]]> England--Dover]]> England--Shrewsbury]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Penzance]]> England--Devon]]> South Africa--Bloemfontein]]> England--Taunton]]> England--Blackpool]]> Sierra Leone--Freetown]]> South Africa--Durban]]> South Africa--Muizenberg]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> South Africa--Krugersdorp]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Belgium--Ghent]]> England--Folkestone]]> France--Paris]]> France--Lens]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Essen]]> Belgium--Liège]]> France--Somain]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> France--Creil Region]]> France--Saint-Vaast-La Hougue]]> France--Montrichard]]> France--Mimoyecques]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Kiel]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Calais]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Norway--Bergen]]> England--Harrogate]]> Malta]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Australia]]> Queensland--Mackay]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> Israel--Tel Aviv]]> Middle East--Jerusalem]]> West Bank--Bethlehem]]> Iraq--Baṣrah]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> India--Kolkata]]> Sri Lanka--Ratmalana]]> Sri Lanka--Negombo]]> Israel--Lod]]> India--New Delhi]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> France]]> Queensland]]> Libya]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> India]]> Iraq]]> Israel]]> Norway]]> South Africa]]> Pakistan]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sierra Leone]]> West Bank]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Kent]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Lancashire]]> Egypt--Jīzah]]> France--Chantilly Forest]]> William Homewood]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> South Africa]]> Germany]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Oppau]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Worms]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Heide (Schleswig-Holstein)]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Dülmen]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Dülmen]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Worms]]> Germany--Mainz]]> Germany--Heide (Schleswig-Holstein)]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>