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Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Norway--Stavanger]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Atlantic Ocean--Helgoland Bight]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Elgin]]> Norway--Hardanger]]> England--Runnymede]]> France]]> Sudan]]> North Africa]]> Germany]]> Norway]]> England--Surrey]]> Sudan--ʻAṭbarah]]> Bottom - front quarter view of parked Lancaster. Captioned 'waiting for the off at Waddington for RAF founders day fly-past Hendon 1968'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sparkes, Ned. Album]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--London]]> 1968]]> 1968-06]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. 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Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Craven Arms]]> England--London]]> England--London]]> England--Peterborough]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> England--Runnymede]]> England--Wetherby]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]> England--London]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Colditz]]> Germany--Torgau]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Sweden--Stockholm]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Denmark--Copenhagen]]> Poland]]> Germany]]> Denmark]]> Sweden]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Bishop's Stortford]]> At the end there is a biography of the officer in charge of Arnhem, Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Browning and his wife Daphne du Maurier.]]> Roger Millington]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. 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Luftwaffe]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Free French Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Letchworth]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Wales--Penrhos]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> Singapore]]> France--Cherbourg]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> France--Brest]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> France--Brest]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Quiberon]]> France--Boulogne-Billancourt]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Le Creusot]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> France--Caen]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Norway]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--Rochester (Kent)]]> Northern Ireland--Belfast]]> England--Longbridge]]> France--Arras]]> England--Darlington]]> Italy--Genoa]]> England--Longbridge]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy--Sicily]]> France--Normandy]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Wales--Pwllheli]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leicester]]> England--Sunderland (Tyne and Wear)]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> England--Rochford]]> England--London]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Scotland--Ayr]]> England--Friston (East Sussex)]]> England--Gravesend (Kent)]]> England--West Malling]]> England--Hailsham]]> England--Yelverton (Devon)]]> England--Bentwaters NATO Air Base]]> England--Great Dunmow]]> England--Heacham]]> England--Weybridge]]> Wales--Hawarden]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Old Sarum (Extinct city)]]> England--Kent]]> England--Folkestone]]> England--Hambleton (North Yorkshire)]]> England--York]]> Scotland--Scottish Borders]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Thurleigh]]> England--Darlington]]> England--Hitchin]]> England--Lancashire]]> Italy]]> France]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Netherlands]]> Great Britain]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Essex]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Swindon (Wiltshire)]]> He recalls his time in the RAF, including his recuperation from his extensive burns under the care of Sir Archibald MacIndoe with whom he became friends. He became one of the founder members of the Guinea Pig Club. He talks about life away from flight operations, of his exploits whilst on leave in London where daily life went on albeit under the threat of bombardment. It was where he met his future wife, an English woman who came to see him regularly at the hospital in East Grinstead, as he made his lengthy and painful recovery back to health. Jan later returned to duty as a gunnery instructor on Lysander aircraft before returning to his squadron and resuming flying operations.
Jan talks about daily life in between flight operations; how one lived day to day, because each day was precious, how crews had their own table in the dining room and wondering if the table next to them would be empty the next day.
He also shares anecdotes about, and pays tribute to, Guy Gibson and Leonard Cheshire who he knew and considered them friends. He recalls his fondness of, and conversations with, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and, at the time, President of the Guinea Pig Club.
Jan also reflects on Polish history and the aftermath of the war. After the war he settled in Britain, working all over the country, until he retired.


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The photograph is blurred, but shows a pair of wheeled airfield control caravans to the right of the Ju 88. Several parked aircraft, hangars and two chimneys can be seen in the background.
The second colour photograph is of Samuel Guyan standing underneath a Ju-88 in a hangar. 'Samuel Guyan and Ju-88 at RAF Museum Hendon, Jock re-united with the Ju-88 that they flew tests against in 1943.' The Ju-88 R1 nightfighter is w/n 360043.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Stuart Cummins]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--London]]> 1943-09]]>
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He flew 3 night operations with 38 Squadron, 42 with 40 Squadron, 8 with 627 Squadron, 45 with 692 squadron and 9 with 128 Squadron, a total of 107. His pilots on operations were Warrant Officer Brodie, Sergeant Le Brog, Squadron Leader Booth, Wing Commander Lockhart, Flight Lieutenant Grainger, Squadron Leader Saunderson, Wing Commander Birkin, Wing Commander Watts, Flying Officer Page, Pilot Officer Burnett, Flying Officer Richardson, Flying Officer Goodwin, Wing Commander Burrough, Flying Officer Boyer and Flight Lieutenant Gallanders.
Targets included Benghazi, mining, Tobruk, El Daba, Alamein, Ras el Manatis, Fuka, Cagliari, Tunis, Bizerte, Duisburg, Cologne, Hamburg, Magdeburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Schweinfurt, Augsburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Koln, Osnabruk, Stuttgart, Friedrichshaven, Leverkusen, Cologne, Gelsenkirchen, Bremen, Homberg, Weisbaden, Saarbruchen, Wanne-Eichel, Castrop, Kiel, Kassel, Brunswick and Cochem.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Libya]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Suez]]> Egypt--Tall al-Ḍabʻah]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--London]]> England--Norfolk]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Cochem]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Italy--Cagliari]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> Tunisia--Bizerte]]> Tunisia--Tunis]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Tunisia]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Egypt--Fukah]]> Manitoba]]> Manitoba--Rivers]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1942-05-24]]> 1942-05-25]]> 1942-05-26]]> 1942-05-27]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-06-05]]> 1942-06-06]]> 1942-06-08]]> 1942-07-11]]> 1942-07-12]]> 1942-07-15]]> 1942-07-16]]> 1942-07-18]]> 1942-07-19]]> 1942-07-20]]> 1942-07-21]]> 1942-07-23]]> 1942-07-24]]> 1942-07-25]]> 1942-07-26]]> 1942-07-27]]> 1942-07-29]]> 1942-07-30]]> 1942-08-01]]> 1942-08-02]]> 1942-08-04]]> 1942-08-05]]> 1942-08-18]]> 1942-08-19]]> 1942-08-22]]> 1942-08-23]]> 1942-08-26]]> 1942-08-27]]> 1942-08-28]]> 1942-08-29]]> 1942-08-31]]> 1942-09-01]]> 1942-09-06]]> 1942-09-07]]> 1942-09-13]]> 1942-09-14]]> 1942-09-18]]> 1942-09-19]]> 1942-09-20]]> 1942-09-21]]> 1942-09-24]]> 1942-09-25]]> 1942-10-09]]> 1942-10-10]]> 1942-10-12]]> 1942-10-13]]> 1942-10-18]]> 1942-10-19]]> 1942-10-20]]> 1942-10-21]]> 1942-10-23]]> 1942-10-24]]> 1942-10-25]]> 1942-10-26]]> 1942-10-27]]> 1942-10-29]]> 1942-10-30]]> 1942-11-02]]> 1942-11-03]]> 1942-11-04]]> 1942-11-05]]> 1942-11-06]]> 1942-11-07]]> 1942-11-08]]> 1942-11-09]]> 1942-11-10]]> 1942-11-11]]> 1942-11-14]]> 1942-11-15]]> 1942-11-18]]> 1942-11-19]]> 1942-11-20]]> 1942-11-21]]> 1942-11-24]]> 1942-11-25]]> 1942-11-27]]> 1942-11-28]]> 1943-12-28]]> 1944-01-02]]> 1944-01-06]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-22]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-02-01]]> 1944-02-07]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-02-26]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-11]]> 1944-03-13]]> 1944-03-14]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-04-04]]> 1944-04-12]]> 1944-04-13]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-28]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-26]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-26]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-08]]> 1944-07-10]]> 1944-07-11]]> 1944-07-14]]> 1944-07-15]]> 1944-07-16]]> 1944-07-17]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-14]]> 1944-08-15]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1944-08-27]]> 1944-08-30]]> 1944-08-31]]> 1944-09-01]]> 1944-09-02]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-14]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-10-01]]> 1944-10-02]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-11]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-18]]>
There is a photograph of the squadron arranged in front of two Mosquitoes.]]> Penny Thickett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Bremen]]> France--Metz]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Great Britain]]> England--Colchester]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Essex]]> 1944-01]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04]]> Photos 1, 2 and 3 are scenes from Cairo.
Photo 4 is a side head and shoulders profile of Sam.
Photo 5 is a Battle aircraft in flight.]]>
Penny Thicket]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Christian]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Algeria]]> Algeria--Algiers]]> Algeria--Blida]]> Congo (Democratic Republic)]]> Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kisangani]]> Congo (Democratic Republic)--Mbandaka]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Suez]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Poole (Dorset)]]> Gabon]]> Gabon--Libreville]]> Gambia]]> Gibraltar]]> Ireland]]> Ireland--Limerick (County)]]> Libya]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> Malta]]> Morocco]]> Morocco--Casablanca]]> Morocco--Oujda]]> Nigeria]]> Nigeria--Lagos]]> Portugal]]> Portugal--Lisbon]]> Congo (Democratic Republic)]]> Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa]]> Sudan]]> Sudan--Khartoum]]> South Sudan]]> South Sudan--Malakal]]> Tunisia]]> Uganda]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> Gambia--Banjul]]> Sudan--Ḥalfāʼ al-Jadīdah]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Congo (Democratic Republic)]]> England--Dorset]]> 1942-10]]> 1942-11]]> 1942-12]]> 1943-01]]>
Photo 1 is of EJ Saunders.
Photo 2 is EJ Saunders cycling on an egg and spoon race.
Photo 3 is his Mother, Francis and Father.
Photo 4 is a cycling race.
Photo 5 is his sister, Marjorie.
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Penny Thickett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Croydon]]> England--London]]> England--Southampton]]> England--Hampshire]]> 1940]]>
Photo 2 is a view of the starboard nose of a Wellington. The hangar roof is also geodetic construction.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> The RAF ex-POW Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Plymouth]]> France--Dieppe]]> Canada]]> British Columbia--Vancouver]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Luckenwalde]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> Belgium]]> France--Fresnes (Val-de-Marne)]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Alberta--Hinton]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Oxford]]> England--Southampton]]> Germany--Cologne]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> Manitoba--Brandon]]> Switzerland--Geneva]]> United States--Mason-Dixon Line]]> England--Skipton]]> France--Falaise]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Virginia--Norfolk]]> Italy--Sicily]]> Italy--Calabria]]> Italy--Naples]]> Italy--Florence]]> Austria--Spittal an der Drau]]> Poland--Toruń]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Europe--Elbe River]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]> Italy]]> Poland]]> France]]> Virginia]]> Ontario]]> Alberta]]> Germany]]> Austria]]> Switzerland]]> United States]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Manitoba]]> The RAF ex-POW Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> Alberta--Banff]]> Alberta--Lake Louise]]> England--London]]> Australia]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> Queensland]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> England--Taunton]]> Ontario--Cornwall]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Pulborough]]> England--Kingston upon Thames]]> Scotland--Aberdeen]]> England--Fordingbridge]]> England--Bristol]]> England--Nottingham]]> England--Princes Risborough]]> England--Olney]]> England--Southampton]]> England--Cheshire]]> United States]]> Texas]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> Victoria]]> England--Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead)]]> Poland]]> Great Britain]]> Ontario]]> Alberta]]> Germany]]> Lithuania]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> The RAF ex-POW Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Royal Navy]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Plymouth]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Spremberg]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> Poland]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Devon]]>