Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> Arthur Hope]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Hertfordshire]]> England--West Sussex]]> 1950]]> 1956]]> 1957]]> 1958]]> 1959]]> 1960]]> 1961]]> 1962]]> 1963]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Bahamas]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> Singapore]]> Sri Lanka]]> Bahamas--Nassau]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> Ontario--Prince Edward County]]> Prince Edward Island--Summerside]]> Sri Lanka--Văligama]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Sussex]]> Bahamas]]> Ontario]]> Prince Edward Island]]> Ontario--Belleville]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> Air Marshall Sir Ralph Sorley]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Navy]]> Great Britain]]> England--Felixstowe]]> England--Eastbourne (East Sussex)]]> England--Calshot]]> England--Bembridge]]> Atlantic Ocean--Spithead Channel]]> England--Cowes]]> England--Stroud]]> Scotland--Montrose]]> England--Sunbury]]> England--London]]> Monaco]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Iraq--Baghdad]]> England--Felixstowe]]> England--Aldeburgh]]> Iraq]]> Middle East--Kurdistan]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> Jordan]]> Iran]]> Middle East--Euphrates River]]> Syria]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> Singapore]]> Australia]]> Borneo]]> China--Hong Kong]]> England--Kent]]> United States]]> New York (State)--New York]]> France--Paris]]> Nigeria]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> Yugoslavia]]> Norway]]> Portugal]]> Spain]]> Denmark]]> Japan]]> Belgium]]> Argentina]]> Austria]]> Brazil]]> Canada]]> Chile]]> Greece]]> China]]> Lithuania]]> Estonia]]> England--Weybridge]]> Scotland--Island of Arran]]> England--Kingston upon Thames]]> France--Dunkerque]]> England--Hatfield (Hertfordshire)]]> Newfoundland and Labrador]]> New Brunswick]]> Maine]]> Maine--Presque Isle]]> Washington (D.C.)]]> Massachusetts--Boston]]> Pennsylvania--Philadelphia]]> Maryland--Baltimore]]> Washington (D.C.)--Anacostia]]> Tennessee--Nashville]]> Arkansas--Little Rock]]> Texas--Dallas]]> Texas--Fort Worth]]> Texas--Midland]]> Arizona--Tucson]]> California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)]]> California--Palm Springs]]> California--Los Angeles]]> California--Beverly Hills]]> California--San Diego]]> Arizona--Winslow]]> New Mexico--Albuquerque]]> Kansas--Wichita]]> Missouri--Saint Louis]]> Ohio--Dayton]]> New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Newfoundland and Labrador--Gander]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Germany--Rheine]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> India]]> Switzerland--Zurich]]> Lebanon--Beirut]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> India--Kolkata]]> Singapore]]> Indonesia--Jakarta]]> Australia]]> Northern Territory--Darwin]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> South Australia--Woomera]]> South Australia--Adelaide]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> Sri Lanka--Colombo]]> Spain--Madrid]]> South Africa--Johannesburg]]> Kenya--Nairobi]]> Sudan--Khartoum]]> Greece--Athens]]> Italy--Rome]]> Zambia--Lusaka]]> Zambia--Ndola]]> Zambia--Mbala]]> Heathrow Airport (London, England)]]> Turkey--Istanbul]]> France--Nice]]> Utah--Salt Lake City]]> Italy--Genoa]]> Atlantic Ocean--Firth of Clyde]]> Italy]]> France]]> Arizona]]> Arkansas]]> California]]> Kansas]]> Maryland]]> Massachusetts]]> Missouri]]> New Mexico]]> New York (State)]]> Ohio]]> Tennessee]]> Texas]]> Utah]]> New South Wales]]> South Australia]]> Victoria]]> Northern Territory]]> Egypt]]> Sudan]]> North Africa]]> Ontario]]> Québec]]> Germany]]> Indonesia]]> Iraq]]> Kenya]]> Lebanon]]> Netherlands]]> South Africa]]> Switzerland]]> Pakistan]]> Sri Lanka]]> Turkey]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Czech Republic]]> Slovakia]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> 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'.]]>
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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]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Photo 1 is five airmen in khaki and shorts, standing outside a large building.
Photo 2 is an airman standing outside a hut.
Photo 3 is a York on a desert relief landing ground.]]>
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Squadron Leader Payne. The book also records flights on Operation Exodus, Cook's Tours and one Operation Dodge flight.]]> 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]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Laon]]> France--Rouen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bocholt]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Salzgitter]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1950]]> 1955]]> 1956]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-11]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-28]]> 1943-08-30]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-09-03]]> 1943-09-04]]> 1943-09-06]]> 1943-09-07]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-06]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1943-12-16]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-23]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-01]]> 1944-01-02]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-03-29]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-30]]> 1945-05-04]]> 1945-05-23]]> 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).]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Canada]]> Egypt]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> Israel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> France--Domléger-Longvillers]]> France--Beauvoir-sur-Mer]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Calvados]]> France--Dreux]]> France--Gironde Estuary]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Lens]]> France--Montdidier (Hauts-de-France)]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Oise]]> France--Opale Coast]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Somme]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> France--Valenciennes]]> France--Watten]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Manitoba--Carberry]]> Manitoba--Neepawa]]> France--Coulonvillers]]> France--Cap Gris Nez]]> Egypt--Kibrit]]> North Africa]]> France--Ouistreham]]> Manitoba]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-02]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-19]]> 1944-05-20]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-06-02]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-11]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-18]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-07-02]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-07-07]]> 1944-07-08]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-08-01]]> 1944-08-04]]> 1944-08-05]]> 1944-08-08]]> 1944-08-09]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> 1955]]> 1956]]> 1957]]> 1958]]> 1959]]> 1960]]> 1961]]> 1962]]>
Aircraft flown in were Auster, Rapide, Proctor, Consul, Halifax 8 and York.
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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]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Iraq]]> 1945]]> 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]]>
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Pakistan]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PAllenJH16010002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Ontario]]> 1946]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> PAllenJH16010006]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Ontario]]> 1946]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are available.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]>