L E Patison]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Wollongong]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Overloon]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> New South Wales]]> 1945-01-01]]>

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Photo 1 and 5 are views under the aircraft. Photo 1 is captioned 'Bomb bay view 4000' .
Photo 2 is K Watson in flying helmet and oxygen mask, captioned 'Self portrait ?!!'.
Photo 3 is a vertical photo captioned 'Newark Road, Lincoln'.
Photo 4 is a view of houses and a tall chimney taken on the ground.
A further photo is missing. The caption reads 'Witham & Cooling Towers'.
Also included are post office franking stamps of Lindholme and Wyton.
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Watson, K]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Lincoln]]>
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. Coastal Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> British Army]]> Wehrmacht. 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)]]> Great Britain. Air Ministry]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-24]]> Slide 1 - captioned 'Heavy transport drivers on right George and Hardy GD 1945'. Four men standing in front of four lorries (at least one of which is a petrol bowser) with nose of a Stirling behind on the left.
Slide 2 - captioned 'Few gliders on this DZ we were up front in line Rhine crossing from GD'. Oblique aerial photograph of open countryside with fields and a few woods.
Slide 3 - captioned 'Flying in formation Arnhem and lift from GD taken from "Y"'. Air-to-air view of a four engine bomber with D-Day stripes on rear fuselage. In the foreground part of engine.
Slide 4 - captioned 'Halifax flying right on top of us'. Air-to-air view showing the underneath of a Halifax flying above. Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.]]>
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#2 is a tangled mess with houses behind, captioned 'After the fire in a crashed Stirling'.
#3 is Robert leaning on a fence, captioned 'RLE 1944'.
#4 is a similar montage to #1, captioned '10,000lb of bombs made this hole 170 ft deep 1/4 mile wide'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> 1943]]> 1944]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> 1943-12-01]]> Stan Shaw]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Thurleigh]]> England--Ely]]> England--Felixstowe]]> England--Desborough]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Slide 1 - captioned 'Re-visit Easton Lodge N Chaffey, Ben Crocker,Frank Pearman, Before Brian - '. Three men in civilian clothes in garden of a large house. Man on left wears blazer and is sitting on a stone table, the others are standing. There is no enlargement of this slide.
Slide 2 - captioned 'GR photo of rear gunners 620 Squadron, Ginger Weston in charge'. Twenty-four aircrew wearing battledress and side caps (apart form one man centre front row - peaked cap) sitting and standing in three rows in front of a four engine bomber.
Slide 3 - captioned 'GR photo taken Fairford of "A" and "B" Flights of 620 Squadron on wireless operator,. S/LDR Jones in charge'. Twenty-nine aircrew wearing battledress and side caps apart from one centre of middle row. Sitting and standing in three rows in front of a Stirling.
Slide 4 - captioned 'GR photo taken Fairford of "A" and "B" flight (pilots) c.o. (Nav) Bertie Wallace in charge'. Seventeen aircrew all earing battledress and side caps sitting and standing in two rows in front of a Stirling.

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gloucestershire]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Black and white landscape photograph of 620 squadron at Fairford taken in front of a Short Stirling Mk4, K Watson is in the front row 8th from the left.

Submitted with caption; “620 Sqdn Fairford June 1944. KW front, 8 from left”]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> 1944-06]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lynn Corrigan]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Calais]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Dülmen]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Worms]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Netherlands--Venlo]]> 1944-09-03]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-15]]> 1944-09-16]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-30]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-16]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-24]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-09]]> 1944-11-10]]> 1944-11-11]]> 1944-11-12]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-19]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-12]]> 1944-12-13]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-24]]> 1944-12-28]]> 1944-12-29]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-01-03]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-08]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-04-15]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-02-22]]> 1945-02-27]]> 1945-02-28]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-09]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-31]]> 1945-04-04]]> 1945-04-05]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-22]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> Canada]]> Czech Republic]]> Denmark]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Great Belt (Baltic Sea)]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> Ontario]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Belgium--Ostend]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> France--Brest]]> France--Lyon]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1941-12-16]]> 1941-12-28]]> 1942-01-07]]> 1942-01-09]]> 1942-01-11]]> 1942-01-20]]> 1942-02-12]]> 1942-04-10]]> 1942-04-11]]> 1942-04-12]]> 1942-04-13]]> 1942-04-14]]> 1942-04-15]]> 1942-04-17]]> 1942-04-25]]> 1942-04-26]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1942-05-03]]> 1942-05-04]]> 1942-05-05]]> 1942-05-17]]> 1942-05-19]]> 1942-05-20]]> 1942-05-29]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-05-31]]> 1942-06-01]]> 1942-06-03]]> 1942-06-04]]> 1942-06-06]]> 1942-06-07]]> #1 is of six airmen under the starboard wing of a Stirling, captioned 'Photograph of the crew of LM595'. #2 is a slightly enlarged version of #1 , captioned 'It is difficult to identify the crew exactly but L to R Flying Officer Alec Pyle..Sgt Spaven..Sgt Hall..Flt Sgt Crowther..Pilot Officer Pool..Flt Sgt Tomlinson'.
#3 Four crew members, captioned 'L to R Flying Officer Alec Pyle.....Pilot Officer Pool....Flight Sgt Crowther....Flight Sgt Tomlinson'.
#4 622 Squadron Group photograph under a Lancaster captioned 'The whole of 622 Squadron taken in front of Lancaster LM595, on the day prior to the fatal crash. Somewhere in there is Alec and his crew'.
#5 is five airmen, captioned 'This photograph was taken during training. Left to right:- Flt,Sgt P.AMacGovern, Sgt A. Hall. Flt Sgt. L.Tomlinson. Pilot Officer J.E.A. (Alec) Pyle. Flt Sgt E. Crowther'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike French]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> England--Leicester]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Germany--Bocholt]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Netherlands--Valkenburg (South Holland)]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1945-03-21]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-18]]> 1945-04-22]]> 1945-04-30]]> 1945-05-02]]> 1945-05-07]]> 1945-05-24]]> 1945-05-29]]> 1945-06-04]]> He was stationed at RAF Stoke Orchard (No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School), RCAF Station Neepawa (No. 35 Elementary Flying Training School), RCAF Station Carberry (No. 33 Service Flying Training School), RAF Carlisle (No. 15 Elementary Flying Training School), RAF Church Lawford (No. 18 (P) Advanced Flying Unit), RAF Desborough (No. 84 Operational Training Unit), RAF Wratting Common (No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit), RAF Feltwell (No. 3 Lancaster Finishing School), RAF Witchford (115 Squadron), RAF Langar (1669 HCU), RAF North Luffenham (1653 HCU), RAF Waterbeach (514 Squadron), RAF Syerston (1333 Transport Support Conversion Unit), RAF Almaza, RAF Aqir, RAF Kabrit (78 Squadron), RAF Palam (AHQ(I) Communications Squadron), RAF Fassburg, RAF Lubeck, RAF Bassingbourn and RAF Waterbeach (24(C) Squadron), RAF Marham (115 Squadron and Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight), Bassingbourn (No. 231 OCU), RAF Boscombe Down (Handling Squadron), RAF Lyneham (216 Squadron) and RAF Watton (51 Squadron).
Aircraft in which flown: DH82C, Anson, DH82A, Oxford, Wellington X, Stirling I, Stirling III, Lancaster I, Lancaster II, Lancaster III, Dakota III, Horsa, Dakota IV, Halifax VII, York, Harvard, Lancastrian, Valetta, Washington, Meteor, Canberra, Varsity, Firefly, Pembroke, Valiant, Sea Venom, Vampire, Jet Provost, Sea Devon, Hunter, Pioneer, Whirlwind, Chipmunk, Comet, Beverley, Seamew, Venom, Javelin, Gannet, Swift, Vulcan, Hastings, Victor, Skeeter, Prentice, Auster, Devon, Heron, Bristol Freighter, Dragonfly, Shackleton, Viscount, Sea Prince, Sycamore, Sea Balliol, Lincoln, Sea Hawk.
Records 30 completed operations (22 night, 8 day) on the following targets in France and Germany: Amaye-Sur-Seulles, Beauvoir, Bec D’Ambes, Biennais, Bordeaux Bassens, Brunswick, Cap Gris Nez, Chambly, Cologne, Coulonvillers, Domleger, Dortmund, Dreux, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Foret de Lucheux, L’Hey, Le Havre, Le Mans, Lens, Lisieux, Montdidier, Nantes, Ouistreham, Vaires (Paris), Valenciennes, Watten and Wissant.
Also includes photographs of various aircraft, various documents, technical notes, medal awards paperwork and VIP passenger lists (including Pandit Neru, Sir Claude Auchinleck).]]>
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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.]]>
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