Also included are a pass out and an invitation to a dance at RAF Stradishall.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> SHumphreyE2098310v10001-0001=2]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Wiltshire]]> 1944-03-13]]> 1946-04]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Geleen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> 1940-12-10]]> 1942-01]]> 1944-12-23]]> 1942-12-20]]> 1942-12-21]]> 1944-04-01]]> 1945-04-21]]> The second is a group of 20 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a wooden building. Captioned '28 day man management course 1945
Top- McGregor, Pricket, Reeves, Mayson, Tucker
Middle - Crawford, Self, Clarke, Lewis, Shea, Cunningham, Wheeler
Bottom - Hookem, Bartells, Horner, Smith,Healy, Bently, Thorn, Robins, Inst'.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> North Africa]]> Libya]]> 1947]]> Photo 2 is three white painted Lancasters in loose formation flying over clouds.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--East Anglia]]> 1947]]> Photo 2 is a group of eight air gunners arranged in front of a Lancaster.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1947]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1947]]> Peter V Clegg]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Belgium--Liège]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Albert]]> France--Angoulême]]> France--Bergerac]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Brest]]> France--Clermont-Ferrand]]> France--Creil]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Limoges]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Lyon]]> France--Mimoyecques]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer]]> France--Saint-Étienne (Loire)]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Siracourt]]> France--Watten]]> France--Woippy]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> France--Watten]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1944-04-05]]> 1944-04-06]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-08]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-19]]> 1944-06-20]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947-08-23]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]>

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Covers his operational tour and bombing operations.]]> Bob Smith]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at Andreas on the Isle of Man. After a short leave he was posted to an operational training unit at Chipping Warden followed by intensive training at Edge Hill. Finally he went to Feltwell for Escape and Evasion training before joining a Heavy Conversion Unit at Wratting Common then Waterbeach.

Chapter 2. Operations RAF Witchford. After seven days leave he commenced operational flying in a Lancaster. Their first target was Augsburg and he reports being waved off by WAAFs and airmen. On the next operation the navigator had a breakdown and refused to help. He continues with details of several operations.
Chapter 3. Return to Ops RAF Waterbeach. Initially this proved to be a very relaxing posting but after his recovery he was back on operations. After 30 operations he was posted to RAF Brackla, Nairn.

Chapter 4. Grounded. He was unhappy at Brackla which was remote and cold. Next was a transfer south to RAF Weeton where he learned about motor transport and learned to drive. He was then posted to RAF Halfpenny Green, followed by RAF Croughton and South Cerney. He then went to Hornchurch before being sent to Germany where he joined a micro film unit at Frankfurt. On completion of photographing relevant factory installations his unit headed south to Triberg in Bavaria.

Chapter 5. As Time Goes By. He reflects on his letter from the Secretary of State from Air, Bomber Command losses and life after the war. he discusses Labour minister John Strachey, a pre-war fascist then Communist Party , who belittled the work of Bomber Harris. and the refusal to allow a thanksgiving service to honour the ex-Prisoner of War Association at Coventry Cathedral.]]>
Geoff Payne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Training Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Birmingham]]> England--London]]> England--York]]> England--Halifax]]> England--Loughborough]]> England--Flamborough Head]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Fleetwood]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Douglas (Isle of Man)]]> England--Banbury (Oxfordshire)]]> England--London]]> England--Bognor Regis]]> France--Lille]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Coventry]]> England--Ely]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France--Rouen]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Creil]]> France--Nucourt]]> France--Caen]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Gironde Estuary]]> England--Falmouth]]> France--Somme]]> Germany--Rüsselsheim]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Sweden--Stockholm]]> Germany--Bremen]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Calais]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Germany--Emmerich]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Scotland--Nairn]]> England--Peterborough]]> England--Walsall]]> England--Hull]]> England--Wolverhampton]]> England--Dudley]]> England--Brackley]]> England--Cirencester]]> Germany--Cuxhaven]]> Germany--Bückeburg]]> Germany--Bremerhaven]]> Germany--Black Forest]]> Germany--Triberg]]> Germany--Rheinberg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> France--Châlons-en-Champagne]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> Poland]]> France]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Netherlands]]> Sweden]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Newmarket (Suffolk)]]>
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]]> 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]]> The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Foskett, William. Biography]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. 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Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Sidmouth]]> Scotland--Aberdeen]]> England--Salisbury]]> Scotland--Stranraer]]> Scotland--Ailsa Craig]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> Scotland--Paisley]]> Scotland--Glasgow]]> France]]> France--Beauvoir-sur-Mer]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> Queensland--Bundaberg]]> Queensland--Brisbane]]> New South Wales--Cootamundra]]> United States]]> California--San Francisco]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> Scotland--Gourock]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> Ontario--Trenton]]> Ontario--London]]> France--Châlons-sur-Marne (Arrondissement)]]> France--Caen]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kiel]]> France--Gironde Estuary]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Neuss]]> France--Calais]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea)]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Netherlands--Veere]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Fulda]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Heinsberg (Heinsberg)]]> Nova Scotia]]> Manitoba]]> Poland]]> Bob Smith]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Aberdeen]]> Scotland--Paisley]]> England--London]]> England--Thetford]]> Norway]]> Norway--Oslo]]> Germany]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Switzerland]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> England--Ely]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> England--Brighton]]> Netherlands]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Liverpool]]> Malta]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> Western Australia--Fremantle]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> Queensland--Ipswich Region]]> Queensland--Maryborough]]> New South Wales--Cootamundra]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> England--Sidmouth]]> Nova Scotia]]> A vertical aerial photograph of Bocholt. On the left side is the  distinctive diamond shape of Friedhof Bocholt cemetery and on the middle left edge is the artificial lake, the Bocholter Aasee. The upper left quarter of the image shows open countryside and fields with several roads radiating outwards from the town. The centre of Bochum is completely obscured by smoke from exploding bombs.

The photograph is captioned:
2248 SDL. 22/3/45 // 7" 18000. 110° 1406 BOCHOLT Q
1 HC 4000 IN: 16x4: 29. sec F/O HART C.186'.

On the reverse is written '650 yds 291°'.

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