Ellis Edwards]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dianne Kinsella]]> Sally Des Forges]]> Emily Jennings]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1942-12]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Blaye]]> France--Caen]]> France--Creil]]> France--Dijon]]> France--Falaise]]> France--Flers-de-l'Orne]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Mimoyecques]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Netherlands--Middelburg]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Domléger-Longvillers]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-05-24]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-18]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-07-07]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-14]]> 1944-08-15]]> 1944-08-18]]> 1944-08-19]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1944-08-27]]> 1944-09-05]]> 1944-09-08]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-24]]> 1944-10-03]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-06-25]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Belgium--Kortrijk]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Mimoyecques]]> France--Grandcamp-Maisy]]> France--Creil]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Annecy]]> France--Beauvoir-sur-Mer]]> France--Caen]]> France--Chalindrey]]> France--Châtellerault]]> France--Donges]]> France--Étampes (Essonne)]]> France--Givors]]> France--Joigny]]> France--Nevers]]> France--Paris]]> France--Pommeréval]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Tours]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wesseling]]> Germany]]> France]]> Belgium]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-19]]> 1944-05-20]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-05-24]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1944-06-02]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-08]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1944-07-15]]> 1944-07-16]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-07-21]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-27]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-29]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-03]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-10]]> 1945-04-18]]> 1945-04-22]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1945-04-29]]> 1945-04-30]]> 1945-05-02]]> 1945-05-03]]> 1945-05-05]]> 1945-05-11]]> 1945-05-26]]> 1945-09-12]]> 1945-09-29]]> 1945-10-01]]> 1945-10-10]]> 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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Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cathie Hewitt]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> United States]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> South African Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Œuf-en-Ternois [sic], Renescure, Rennes, Schweinfurt, Skagerrak, St Martin d’Hortiers, Stettin, Stuttgart, Tergnier, Thiverny, Tours, Valenciennes, Venlo aerodrome and V-1 sites. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Phillips DFC, Wing Commander Lockhart and Wing Commander Cox. The log book is well annotated with comments about events during operations.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. 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Most of the operations were in daylight although he flew night-time operations to Kiel and Potsdam. He then took part in Operation Manna and flew troops to and from Italy. Maurice also participated in tours for ground crew to witness the damage in Germany.
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Gary Rushbrooke]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Sound]]> Great Britain]]> England--Barrow-in-Furness]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> Germany]]> Germany--Potsdam]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Italy]]> 1944-01]]> 1945]]>

Peter carried out a tour of 31 operations on Stirlings and Lancasters, followed by 17 operations on North American Mitchells.

Peter recounts a few incidents from his tours, describes the corkscrew evasion method and how he coped with the cold in the mid-upper turret. They held a positive view of Arthur Harris.

Although he left the RAF in 1946, Peter returned as a sergeant air gunner and gunnery instructor. He flew in Shackletons.]]>
Judy Hodgson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Sound]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1943]]>
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