Alastair Montgomery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Canada]]> Prince Edward Island]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland]]> England--Harrogate]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Italy]]> Italy--Naples]]> Italy--Brindisi]]> 1944]]> Alastair Montgomery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Shaw]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> United States]]> Florida]]> Florida--Pensacola]]> England--Devon]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Harrogate]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Italy]]> Italy--Brindisi]]> Ireland]]> Florida]]> Great Britain]]> Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Katie Gilbert]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1942-10-24]]> 1942-10-17]]> Ted carried out 15 operations. The first two were daylight ones to Mainz and Cologne. The third was a night operation to Kamen on the Ruhr and they encountered an intruder JU188 aircraft when landing, as part of the German Operation Gisela. Other operations included Helmstedt with anti-aircraft fire; Dortmund; Wuppertal; Witten where they were hit on the starboard engine; Recklinghausen where bombs dropped on a munitions train instead of their target; in Osnabrück they were hit in the bomb bay by shrapnel; Heligoland and Wangerooge saw two Halifaxes collide mid-air. Ted describes the spectacle of lines of fuel on fire in an oil plant.
Ted discusses in detail his role as a flight engineer.
Ted stopped flying in September 1945. He dropped old ammunition and bombs in the North Sea and did a safety course at RAF St Athan. He was sent to a maintenance unit in Faßberg, near Belsen, and was demobilised. He became a government Senior Scientific Officer.]]>
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His first operational posting was 51 Squadron at Snaith. He covers each operation in detail. Interspersed with the details are explanations of electronic systems and tactics used.
During one operation he was shot down and parachuted behind the German lines. Eventually he was taken prisoner, interrogated then transferred to Stalag Luft 7. As the Russians got nearer they were forced to walk west. Later they were transferred by train to Stalag IIIA.
The account then jumps to reunions in the 1980s, then returns to the last few days at the camp as the war ends.
He reached home on 15th May.

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