J Williamson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Manchester]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Southwold]]> England--Frome]]> England--Northampton]]> England--Goole]]> England--Newark (Nottinghamshire)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Remscheid]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> England--Bridlington]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Wales--Cardiff]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Southam (Warwickshire)]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Skegness]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany]]> Bottom left - photograph of five men wearing blazers, shirt and tie standing by a white memorial stone.
Bottom right - front cover of program for Royal Canadian Air Force reunion and unveiling of memorial.
Next page - inside program - menu and banquet and dance location and date.]]>
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Right - three short documents one partially obscured two relating to flying bomb sites, and one to Hamburg. Documents give account of operations against these targets including number and type of aircraft, targets, results, losses and civilian casualties. Hamburg document has comment that 431 Squadron flying from Croft lost 5 of its 17 aircraft on the raid.
Bottom - outline map from east England eats Germany showing route to Hamburg and return as well as combats.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> France]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Great Britain]]> England--Durham]]> England--Durham (County)]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-15]]> 1944-07-16]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-27]]> 1944-07-28]]>
Top left - extract from Ned Sparkes's logbook from 1 March 1944 to 29 March 1944 with operations to Trappes, Le Mans (twice), Brest, Amiens (twice), Contrai and Vaires (Paris).
Top right - short document entitled The Overlord debate about Harris being directed to carry out attacks on 6 marshalling yards in France instead of pointblank directive targets
Bottom - eight short documents giving details of eight operations including numbers and types of aircraft used, results, civilian casualties, other comments, bomber losses if any and minor operations.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Durham]]> France]]> France--Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Brest]]> France--Amiens]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Kortrijk]]> France--Paris]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> England--Durham (County)]]> 1944-03-01]]> 1944-03-04]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-09]]> 1944-03-11]]> 1944-03-13]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-03-29]]>
Below - two documents giving accounts of these two operations with types of aircraft used, losses, enemy fighter operations, weather, marking, equipment, casualties and results. Also mentions diversions and minor operations.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-18]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-02-05]]> 1944-02-07]]> 1944-02-08]]> 1944-02-16]]> Bottom left - document giving details and history of 431 (Iroquois) Squadron RCAF, included bases and aircraft flown.
Bottom right - document with brief history of 431 Squadron giving operational performance, sorties and losses and point of interest.]]>
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Transport Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Belgium--Kortrijk]]> Belgium--Saint-Ghislain]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Amiens Region]]> France--Arras]]> France--Brest]]> France--Calais]]> France--Condé-sur-Noireau]]> France--Creil]]> France--Dieppe (Arrondissement)]]> France--Donges]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Merville-Franceville-Plage]]> France--Nieppe Forest]]> France--Paris Region]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Somain]]> France--Saint-Valery-en-Caux]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Schleswig-Holstein]]> Scotland--Angus]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-04]]> 1943-12-03]]> 1943-12-04]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-21]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-08]]> 1944-03-11]]> 1944-03-12]]> 1944-03-13]]> 1944-03-14]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-17]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-03-29]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-02]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-02]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1944-07-14]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-29]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-04]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Ostend]]> France]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Bocholt]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Papenburg]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> England--Catterick]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> England--Kent]]> England--Ramsgate]]> England--London]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Poland]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Poland--Łambinowice]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--York]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942-04]]> 1942-05]]> 1942-06]]> 1942-07]]> 1942-08]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-10]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Top right - seven airmen pose in line under the nose of a Halifax, Captioned 'George ground crew'.
Top two titled 'Linton-on-Ouse'.
Bottom left - three airmen pose in front of a Whitley.
Bottom right - five airmen pose alongside a Whitley.
Both bottom captioned 'J for Jonnie, 40 trips Croft'.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1942]]> Wing Commander Davenport Officer Commanding 431 Squadron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1945-01-16]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> Saskatchewan]]> 1943-05-20]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> From information kindly supplied by the donor, 'Harrison in the cockpit of the Halifax. The cockpit is approx 26' off the ground. Picture taken some time in the summer of 1944 on 431 Squadron at Croft'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> From information kindly provided by the donor. 'Harrison standing outside the Flight Room of 431 Squadron. The bicycle was the usual mode of transportation on a squadron and saved many steps and time. Summer 1944'. ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> The Lancaster shown in the picture was brand new and I had to try landing it on one wheel. We were on the bombing run attacking Duisberg and we were fired on by a Halifax crew. There was considerable damage to the port side and our a/c lost it's hydraulic fluid. When the Halifax crew returned from their trip, they claimed they had shot down an unidentified 'German night fighter'. I think they sent the gunners on an aircraft recognition course!!']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]>