IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Top left/centre - man wearing civilian jacket and tie by the fuselage of a York. Captioned 'Postwar ? Cosford'.
Top right/centre - seven aircrew by the tail plane of a b-24. captioned 'Landed behind German lines to deliver food to troops, last op'.
Top right - man in sailing boat holding sheet. captioned 'Norman photo of JC on lake near Ishmila [sic] NR, Abu Suier King Farouk's old yacht'.
Bottom left - two airmen sitting on a rock with sphinx and pyramid in the background. Captioned 'Egypt 45'.
Bottom left/centre - man in civilian dress point up to the tail plane of a York. Captioned 'Postwar Cosford'.
Bottom right/centre - an airman with life preserver and holding a flying helmet, sitting on a chair in front of a tent. Captioned 'typical line shooting photo to send home - "me in flying gear on bomber sqdn", Norman first sqdn in Italy'.
Right middle - airborne view out of aircraft of two starboard engines. Captioned 'Flying exercise 4 Tiger Force JC photo box camera'.
Bottom right - close up view of remains of crashed and burned aircraft. Captioned '1st Lincoln bomber to replace libs fot Tiger Force Japan, crashed on Abu Suier runway 1945'. [nb. actually a Lancaster Mk 7 NX732 which crashed 11 April 1946]]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> Italy]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shropshire]]> 1945]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> A post-it states ' Grandad [underlined] 8th i from right. 3rd row down (seated on chairs)'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> #1 is a starboard view of a Battle in flight.
#2 is a port view of a York on the ground.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943-05]]> 1943-06]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-11]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-10]]> Top right - five RAF officers, all wearing tunics and four with peaked caps standing and one squatting with pyramid in the background. Captioned 'At Mena ("Taffy, self, "Tangy", Freddy, Norman)'.
Bottom left - Sphinx in the foreground and pyramid behind. Captioned 'great pyramid of Gizeh & sphinx'.
Bottom right - Sphinx in the foreground and two pyramids behind, left and right. Captioned 'great pyramid & sphinx'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Jīzah]]> North Africa]]>
Top right - an airman wearing shorts, shirt and peaked cap standing by the centre tail fin of a York. Captioned '"Taffy" feeling tired at Dum Dum'.
Bottom left - head and shoulder image of a pilot in left-hand seat in cockpit. Captioned 'Norman doing some work (in my seat flying down the Persian Gulf!)'.
Bottom left - view down the interior of a York. Captioned 'Interior of York 32 seat trooper'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> India]]> India--Kolkata]]> Persian Gulf Region]]>
Bottom right - view of Ibrahim Al Lakani, El-Montaza, Heliopolis. Multi-story building with minaret tower across square with palm trees. Captioned 'View from Heliopolis Palace Hotel, Cairo'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Stilgoe]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> North Africa]]> Top right - view down onto the entrance of a hotel with driveway surrounded by palm trees. Captioned 'Heliopolis Palace hotel, Cairo Feb 46'.
Centre - view of front fuselage of a York with starboard engines visible. Captioned 'Spot of prop trouble at Luqa, Malta, Mar 46'.
Bottom left - row of civilian single engine aircraft parked on a grass airfield with hut in background left. Captioned 'Lausanne air display July 46'.
Bottom right - view down onto city street with multi-story buildings with shops on far side. Captioned 'Paris street from hotel window, Nov 46'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Malta]]> Switzerland]]> Switzerland--Lausanne]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> 1946-02]]> 1946-03]]> 1946-07]]> 1946-11]]>
Top right - two airmen wearing khaki uniform with shorts standing in a coconut tree plantation. Captioned 'The camp at Negombo Ceylon, built in a coconut plantation'.
Centre - three Yorks line up on hardstanding on an airfield with town in the background. Captioned 'At Luqa aerodrome Malta'.
Bottom left - two men, one wearing swimming trunks, the other Khaki uniform and shorts standing either side of a local boy on a beach with trees in the background. Captioned 'Engineer, Steward and a Sinhalese boy on beach at Negombo'.
Bottom right - aircraft on ramp of airport with buildings background right. Captioned 'At Almaza aerodrome Cairo'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sri Lanka--Colombo]]> Malta]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> 1946-03]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> India]]> India--Kānpur]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sri Lanka--Colombo]]> France]]> France--Marseille]]> United Arab Emirates]]> Asia--Ganges River]]> India--Allahabad]]> United Arab Emirates--Shāriqah (Emirate) (Emirate)]]> United Arab Emirates--Shāriqah (Emirate)]]> 1946-03]]> 1946-10]]> 1946-01]]> Top right - snake charmer with snake in basket. Captioned 'Snake charmer with cobra in front of bungalow at Dum-Dum, March 1946'.
Centre - two airmen, both wearing shorts and one shirtless standing on hardstanding under the wing of a York. Captioned 'Second pilot and self by tail of York at Negombo, Feb 1946'.
Bottom left - Yorke parked on hardstanding with front of engine of another aircraft on left. Captioned 'BOAC York parked next to ours at Mauripur aerodrome, Karachi, Dec 1945'.
Bottom right - view from the air of the Taj Mahal. Captioned 'Taj Mahal, Agra India'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> India]]> India--Kolkata]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sri Lanka--Colombo]]> Pakistan]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> India--Agra]]> 1946-03]]> 1946-02]]> 1945-12]]>
Top right - view from air of coastline. Captioned 'Coast near Casablanca, Morocco, July 1945'.
Centre - Three airmen in front of a York. Captioned 'Navigator, self and the engineer in front of York at Negombo'.
Bottom left - view from air of distant snow covered mountains. Captioned 'Over France on the way home from India trip Feb 1946'.
Bottom right - view from the air of vey distant snow topped mountains. Captioned 'Over France on the way back from India, Mont Blanc 50 miles away in distance'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sri Lanka--Colombo]]> Morocco]]> Morocco--Casablanca]]> France]]> India]]> France--Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Region]]> 1946-02]]> 1945-10]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Wales--Flintshire]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> 1955]]> 1956]]> 1957]]> 1958]]> His crew dropped food for the starving Dutch as part of Operation Manna. After the war he served with Transport Command on Yorks. He continued moving around and spent time on B-29s then Canberras at Marham. Later he and his family were sent to Kuala Lumpur then Penang on Dakotas.
On his return he was posted to Abingdon on Beverleys. This included trips to Nairobi.
He transferred to Haydock as a radio controller, after which he left the RAF and became a teacher.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Knowsley (District)]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Aintree]]> England--Paignton]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> Saskatchewan--Moose Jaw]]> Manitoba--Brandon]]> Ontario]]> England--Harrogate]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dresden]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Bournemouth]]> India]]> Egypt]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> Iraq]]> India--New Delhi]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> Singapore]]> India--Kolkata]]> Sri Lanka--Negombo]]> England--King's Lynn]]> England--Downham Market]]> Iceland]]> United States]]> Delaware--Dover]]> New York (State)--New York]]> Arizona--Davis-Monthan Air Force Base]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> Malaysia--Kuala Lumpur]]> South Africa--Durban]]> Kenya--Nairobi]]> Cameroon]]> Sahara Desert]]> Nigeria--Kano]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> England--Formby]]> England--Haydock]]> England--Ormskirk]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Québec]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Arizona]]> Delaware]]> New York (State)]]> Libya]]> Saskatchewan]]> Germany]]> Nova Scotia]]> Kenya]]> Malaysia]]> South Africa]]> Pakistan]]> Sri Lanka]]> Nigeria]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Malaysia--George Town (Pulau Pinang)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Manitoba]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Iraq]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Iraq]]> 1945]]> Top right - side view of a parked four engine bomber. Both top images captioned 'KM-J, 44 (Rhodesia) Sq, RAF Mildenhall'.
Bottom left 'front quarter view of a parked B-17. Captioned 'B-17 Fortress, RAF Mildenhall'.
Bottom right - side view of a parked B-29. Captioned 'B-29 Super Fortress, RAF Mildenhall, bombing trials'. Right page - top left - on the floor centre an inflated dinghy, behind on a stand a sail boat. Both inside a hangar with door in the background. Captioned 'Airborne lifeboat'.
Bottom left - side view of a parked York. Captioned 'Avro York, (based on Lancaster used common parts)'. Top right - front quarter view of a Meteor jet parked on grass. Captioned 'Gloster Meteor'.
Bottom right - rear quarter view of a Vampire jet parked on grass with hangar behind and another propeller aircraft on left. Captioned 'De Haviland Vampire'. Both right photographs captioned 'First two operational in RAF'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]>