IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> 1939]]> At the top is handwritten '[indecipherable] Squadron (B Flight)'
And at the bottom 'Why the scrowl? 6th from the right - top row.']]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> #1, 2 and 3 Richard is seated behind his desk. It is annotated 'Mildenhall CO 149 Sqdn Wellington 1939/40'.
#4 is Richard beside a chart with an airman.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1940]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Egypt]]> Australia]]> Northern Territory--Darwin]]> Germany]]> Iraq]]> Japan]]> Germany]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> Africa--Rhodesia and Nyasaland]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> 1938]]> 1939-09-04]]> 1939-12-18]]> 1942]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1943-12-25]]> ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Text]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> Scotland--Moray]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Greece]]> Greece--Athens]]> 1944]]> The reverse has small ads.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> France--Marseille]]> France--Lyon]]> France]]> France--Valence (Drôme)]]> 1944]]> Sgt Bird, Sgt Boulton, Sgt Bentley, Sgt Dean, Sgt Beckett.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1944-08]]> #1 Five airmen forming JH Bird's crew.
#2 is the five airmen standing in front of a Wellington.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Below the photograph is a caption in Urdu.
On the reverse of the photograph is typewritten:
'Heavy long-distance "Wellington" bombers.'
A second caption, 'Engine room aboard a British submarine.' is crossed out.
Below these captions is more Urdu text.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Fitter]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>
1. A Flight Sergeant airman wearing uniform and a Mae West life jacket. He is standing beside the rear turret of a Wellington aircraft. The photograph is captioned: 'JOE REAR GUNNER'
2. JH Bird sitting in the pilot's seat of a Wellington aircraft, looking out of the open window, over his shoulder towards the camera. Next to him is another airman with the upper part of his body out of the cockpit escape hatch. The photograph appears to have been taken from the port wing of the aircraft. It is captioned:
'MYSELF & DIXIE BOMB AIMER'.
3. Two airmen standing in front of the artwork of a pin-up woman on the port side of a Wellington aircraft. The photograph is captioned: 'BERNARD NAVIGATOR & JACK WIRELESS OPERATOR'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Fitter]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Fitter]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Verona]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1946-05]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1944-07]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Romania]]> Romania--Ploiești]]> 1944-06]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Brighton]]> Europe--Baltic Sea Region]]> Malta]]> England--Denham (Buckinghamshire)]]> England--Bognor Regis]]> England--Chichester]]> England--Cambridge]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Page one begins with the reformation of the squadron in 1936 and gives details of the aircraft operated, the stations flown from and the roles the squadron played in training and operations.
Page two describes three miscellaneous incidents that occurred on the squadron, including one where the mid-upper gunner accidentally shot and killed the rear gunner.
Page three contains details about three notable Lancasters.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> France--Lorient]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Netherlands]]> 1936-11]]> 1938-06]]> 1939-05]]> 1940-04]]> 1943-01-27]]> 1943-01-28]]> 1943-01-29]]> 1943-01-30]]> 1943-05]]> 1943-09-20]]> 1943-10-18]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-06-26]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-11-10]]> 1945-04-24]]> 1945-05-07]]> 1945-08-20]]> 1945-09-28]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1947-01-08]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MAnkersonR[Ser#-DoB]-180129-110002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Sweden]]> Germany--Kiel]]> 1942-02-25]]> 1942-02-25]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Regia Aeronautica]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Manchester]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Alberta--Lethbridge]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> United States]]> New York (State)--New York]]> England--Filey]]> England--Harrogate]]> Northern Ireland]]> England--Claygate]]> Germany--Rhineland]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Trier]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Homburg (Saarland)]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Recklinghausen (Münster)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> France--Aube]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> Netherlands]]> Germany]]> New Brunswick]]>