Michael Jeffries]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Christina Brown]]> Heather Hughes]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England]]> France]]> Wales]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Devon]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Normandy]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Scotland--Moray]]> 1944]]> Pete Jones]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> France]]> Germany]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Christmas Island]]> United States]]> 1939]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1957-06-19]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Kenya]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Scotland]]> Sweden]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> France--Brest]]> France--Creil]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Norway--Halse]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Scotland--Wigtownshire]]> Sweden--Helsingborg]]> Netherlands]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Atlantic Ocean--Kiel Bay]]> 1941-09-02]]> 1941-09-03]]> 1941-09-06]]> 1941-09-07]]> 1941-09-08]]> 1941-09-09]]> 1941-09-12]]> 1941-09-13]]> 1941-09-16]]> 1941-09-17]]> 1941-09-28]]> 1941-09-29]]> 1941-09-30]]> 1941-10-01]]> 1941-01-13]]> 1941-01-14]]> 1941-11-07]]> 1941-11-08]]> 1941-11-09]]> 1941-11-10]]> 1941-11-23]]> 1941-11-23]]> 1941-11-26]]> 1941-11-27]]> 1941-11-30]]> 1941-12-01]]> 1941-12-07]]> 1941-12-08]]> 1941-12-16]]> 1941-12-17]]> 1942-01-14]]> 1942-01-15]]> 1942-01-17]]> 1942-01-18]]> 1942-01-25]]> 1942-01-26]]> 1942-02-07]]> 1942-02-10]]> 1942-02-11]]> 1942-02-12]]> 1942-02-14]]> 1942-02-15]]> 1942-03-10]]> 1942-03-11]]> 1944-06-30]]> 1942-03-31]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1942-03-05]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-20]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-15]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-19]]> 1944-10-03]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-12-12]]> 1944-12-13]]> 1944-12-15]]> 1944-12-16]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-19]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-17]]> 1945-01-22]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-01-29]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-03-30]]> 1945-03-31]]> 1945-05-02]]> 1945-05-03]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> United States]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Katie Gilbert]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Algeria]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Tunisia]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Algeria--Blida]]> Algeria--Râs el Ma]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Erfurt]]> Germany--Würzburg]]> Tunisia--Qayrawān]]> North Africa]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> 1945]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Australia]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> Christmas Island]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1938]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Africa]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Kent]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1948]]>
Top left - pilot in cockpit wearing sunglasses. Headphones on hook. Captioned 'at work over the Gulf, Jan 48'. On the reverse 'Steve hard at work'.

Top right - view of the cockpit of an Avro York with Stephen Dawson wearing peaked cap looking out of open cockpit window. There is a flag on mast above the cockpit and the name 'Marston' below the cockpit window. Captioned 'Destination Basrah'. On the reverse 'Steve Basrah Jan 1948'.

Middle - Stephen Dawson in pilot's uniform tunic and peaked cap standing in a garden with wooden fence behind. Captioned 'Working clothes'.

Bottom - Lockheed Constellation parked on the ground with gantries by starboard wing. Captioned 'New aircraft - Shannon 1948'.

Right page.

Top left - Stephen Dawson, wearing suit and tie, and Joy Dawson wearing checked skirt and blouse standing in front of a wooden single story building. Captioned 'Serenade - wife'.

Top right - Stephen Dawson and Betty Saunders standing in front of a wooden single story building. Captioned 'True love - mistress'.

Centre - Stephen Dawson and Chas Saunders wearing suit and tie standing either side of their respective wives. Captioned ' _,_, Betty and Chas Saunders'.

Bottom left - group of two men wearing suits and two women wearing dresses and coats in front of a Lockheed Constellation. Captioned 'Connie'.

Bottom right - three men wearing suit and tie standing in front of a Lockheed Constellation. Captioned 'Sandy, Self and Chas Barnett'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Ireland]]> Ireland--Shannon]]> Iraq]]> Iraq--Baṣrah]]> 1948]]>
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. Transport Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea)]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Skagerrak]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Cabourg]]> France--Chambley Air Base]]> France--Falaise]]> France--La Pallice]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Lille]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Lumbres]]> France--Mantes-la-Jolie]]> France--Montrichard]]> France--Nord (Department)]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Nieppe Forest]]> France--Oise]]> France--Oisemont (Canton)]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Somme]]> France--Tergnier (Canton)]]> France--Tours]]> France--Valenciennes]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--Venlo]]> Northern Ireland--Antrim (County)]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray]]> France--Châlons-en-Champagne]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Œuf-en-Ternois]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1943-09-21]]> 1943-09-22]]> 1943-09-27]]> 1943-09-28]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-01-31]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-03-01]]> 1944-03-02]]> 1944-04-09]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-12]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-02]]> 1944-05-06]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-05-24]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-05-31]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-08]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-11]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-07-08]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-15]]> 1944-07-16]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-07-21]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-29]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-08-01]]> 1944-08-04]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-07]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-10]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-28]]> 1944-08-29]]> 1944-08-30]]> 1944-09-01]]> 1944-09-03]]> 1944-09-05]]> 1944-09-06]]> 1944-09-09]]> 1944-09-10]]> 1944-06-05]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Pending review]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> South African Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> He tells of his training at Halton, and describes the different trades and his exams to become an Leading Aircraftsman 1st Class, where he was then transferred to a Repair and Inspection Unit (R&I) working on Spitfire engines.
Charles then went to India via the Suez Canal and then on to Ceylon to 121 Repair and Salvage Unit, looking after 2 squadrons of Beaufighters and 1 squadron of Spitfires, but he says that because he was an apprentice, he could turn his hand to anything.
He was posted to instruct at a Motor Transport Unit, and spent time learning about the maintenance of other equipment including diesel engines.
Charles was posted to 109 Maintenance Unit, repairing Merlin engines, however at this time the V Bombers were coming into service. He trained as a Crew Chief and after passing these exams he was assigned to the Avro Vulcan XA908, at RAF Waddington.
Charles related the stories of the work he did when the Vulcan had hydraulic failure at Goose Green, the bombing competition in Florida where the aircraft suffered broken bomb bay doors and a cracked bomb aimers window, and the trip home from Bermuda with no fuel in one tank and a broken bogie beam.
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Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]>
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]]> Italy]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Wiltshire]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Borkum]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Wismar]]> Italy--Genoa]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1942-06-01]]> 1942-06-02]]> 1942-06-25]]> 1942-06-26]]> 1942-06-27]]> 1942-07-02]]> 1942-07-03]]> 1942-07-07]]> 1942-07-08]]> 1942-07-09]]> 1942-07-11]]> 1942-07-12]]> 1942-07-13]]> 1942-07-14]]> 1942-07-21]]> 1942-07-22]]> 1942-07-24]]> 1942-07-26]]> 1942-07-28]]> 1942-07-29]]> 1942-09-10]]> 1942-09-11]]> 1942-09-13]]> 1942-09-14]]> 1942-09-16]]> 1942-09-17]]> 1942-09-19]]> 1942-09-20]]> 1942-09-23]]> 1942-09-24]]> 1942-09-29]]> 1942-09-30]]> 1942-10-01]]> 1942-10-02]]> 1942-10-05]]> 1942-10-06]]> 1942-10-13]]> 1942-10-22]]> 1942-10-23]]> 1942-10-24]]> Gary Rushbrooke]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Korea]]> 1947]]> 1956]]> Gemma Clapton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> Norway]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--London]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> 1945]]> 1947]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Singapore]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> Nigel Moore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> 1942]]> Alun talks of flying on the Anson and Whitley, and of being assigned to a Halifax crew. He describes a training flight accident at Garrowby Hill, Yorkshire in which his crewmates were killed. Alun, who was hospitalised at the time, was not on board the aircraft. He recalls his loneliness at being without a crew, and the unexplained animosity towards him from a senior officer. He talks of joining another aircrew and of adaptability being a part of the role of the bomb aimer, before reflecting on his feelings about the unjust dismissal of the crew’s pilot for lack of moral fibre.
Alun recalls his transfer to RAF Transport Command in 1945 and talks of organising the erection of a memorial to his crew at Garrowby Hill. He mentions his pride at the memorial, and his attendance at annual commemorations there for many years. He goes on to reflect on his preference for the Halifax over other aircraft, his enjoyment of flying, and on the great friendship and comradeship among aircrews, describing a closeness which continued after the war. He also mentions his affection for the animals that he kept in his billet during the war.
Alun relates that he first returned to his pre-war job after the war, but later joined the Welsh Council on Alcoholism to help others and in support of his sister, whom he describes affectionately.
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Anne Roberts]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Leah Warriner-Wood]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Wales]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Wales--Porthcawl]]> Wales--Newport]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--East London]]> Germany]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Japan]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales--Penarth]]> 1944]]> 1955]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Wales--Anglesey]]> Zimbabwe]]> Zimbabwe--Gweru]]> Zimbabwe--Bulawayo]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Essex]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> South Africa--Mahikeng]]> South Africa]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Bishop's Stortford]]> 1945]]> Jennifer Barraclough]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> New Zealand]]> Germany--Berlin]]> India--New Delhi]]> India--Kolkata]]> New Zealand--Auckland]]> New Zealand--New Plymouth]]> 1940]]> 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]]> Canada]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> Alberta--De Winton]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Calais]]> France--le Havre]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Celle]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Leuna]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Osterfeld]]> Germany--Rheine]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Ulm]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Zeitz]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Saskatchewan--Estevan]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> New Brunswick]]> Saskatchewan]]> Alberta]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1944-09-05]]> 1944-09-06]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-25]]> 1944-09-26]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-10-27]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-03]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-19]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-12]]> 1944-12-15]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-08]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States]]> New York (State)]]> 1946-07]]>