Stanley Archer]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Chadderton]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1942]]>
ED806 was on the strength of 9 Squadron and was marked WS-L when it crashed on 9 April 1943 . ED606 was a 463 Squadron aircraft marked JO-E and crashed after a collision with another aircraft 15 March 1944. ]]>
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'RAF
Waddington
May 1945
At time of RAAF 463
RAAF & 467
Sqdns
Signals section, back row L TO R
LACW Nancy Harries telest [sic]
Cpl Florence Clark "
LACW Freda Mealor W/OP
Front LACW Betty Eady telest [sic]
LACW Joyce Swift (with dog)
Radar'.]]>
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Service material]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Des Hawkins]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Karl Williams]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Italy]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1945]]> His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Leavitt and Flight Lieutenant Price. Annotations include bombing the Tirpitz and an attack by an enemy jet aircraft. Operation Exodus and Cook’s tour flights are included, as is a tour of India in 1946.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Pakistan]]> Norway]]> Pakistan]]> Poland]]> Wales]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Wales--Anglesey]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden]]> Germany--Bielefeld]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Schleiden (Kreis)]]> Pakistan--Digri]]> Netherlands--Ijmuiden]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Norway--Oslo]]> Norway--Tromsø]]> Pakistan--Digri]]> Poland--Świnoujście]]> Germany--Urft Dam]]> Netherlands]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1944-11-12]]> 1944-11-13]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-12-11]]> 1944-12-29]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-12]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-22]]> 1945-02-24]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-05-08]]> 1945-05-10]]> 1945-05-15]]> 1945-09-27]]> 1945-09-29]]> LINCOLN BOMBER - LINCOLN CATHEDRAL[/underlined]
50.SQ. WADDINGTON 1948 F/E W/O H.w. PARKINS'.

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Bomber Command]]> Czech Republic]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Czech Republic--Chomutov]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--London]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Harburg (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Kaiserslautern]]> Germany--Sassnitz]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Norway--Tønsberg]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-04]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-04-18]]> 1945-04-19]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1945-04-26]]> Liz describes her work on the switchboard, the shifts and accommodation, as well as her social life. Her highlights were the Australians at RAF Waddington and the film unit operating from there.
After pressure from her father, Liz had to leave in May 1946, and went on to have a successful and varied career.
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Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dawn Studd]]> Cathie Hewitt]]> Sally Coulter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]>
Anecdotes include a low flying incident near Skegness for which they were in trouble with the group captain, and the issue of guns and ammunition when some German prisoners escaped. They lost their possessions to the Committee of Adjustment when they were diverted to another airfield.
Harry received army-type training at RAF Bridlington and continued his flight engineering training on Stirlings at RAF St Athan. He was sent to RAF East Kirkby on Lancasters.
Harry collected prisoners of war from Italy and Brussels. He describes people’s recollections of Guy Gibson.
He stayed for seven or so years in the RAF, flying Lancasters and Lincolns at RAF Waddington. Harry relates the delayed publication of a photograph, with a Lincoln and Lincoln cathedral.
Harry outlines his encounter with a group captain who helped him to change his wheel, subsequently inviting him to dinners at the Petwood Hotel and Bomber Command headquarters. Harry received a two minute standing ovation for one of the longest bombing trips of the war. ]]>
Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Emma Bonson ]]> Sally Coulter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wesseling]]> England--Woodhall Spa]]> England--Lincoln]]> 1944-06]]>
Article 2 titled Scramble by Paul Croft has photographs of Lancaster 'Santa Azucar' with stick woman and halo. Six aircrew are posed under the port engine. There is a photograph of four ground crew on a fighter's tale , identity BE483 and two airmen running towards an aircraft 'AE-X' captioned at Digby.
Article 3 is a photograph of the memorial garden for RAF Elsham Wolds and is captioned 'Ex-airmen and their families and friends congregate for the service to dedicate the memorial garden'. It was published in the Evening Telegraph Wednesday, September 2, 1981.]]>
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