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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> Civilian]]> Middle - b/w photograph of four aircrew, two in front two behind. Bottom left man has pilot's brevet and the others half brevet. Captioned 'Pat Hogan (44 version) with three members of the crew. He was the only survivor'.
Bottom - copy of Pat Hogan's caterpillar club card captioned 'here we show the Caterpillar Club Certificate issued to Pat Hogan'.]]>
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The Caterpillar Club]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Fred Weston]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> 1942-07-28]]> Caterpillar Club]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Physical object]]> Royal Air Force]]> Irving Air Chute Company]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text]]> 1944-05-03]]> 1944-05-04]]> This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]> Leslie Irvin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Physical object]]> Physical object. Decoration]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1943-07-27]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1945-04-09]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> C R Godfrey]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk ]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> France--Criel-sur-Mer]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> France--Creil]]> 1944-05-06]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-08-04]]>
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Czech Republic]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> Scotland--Wigtownshire]]> South Australia--Mount Gambier]]> South Australia--Port Pirie]]> South Australia]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-04-16]]> 1945-04-17]]> 1945-09-07]]>
Caterpillar Club]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Physical object]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Singapore]]> England--London]]> 1962-12-06]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Angus Bustin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1945-01]]> 1944-11-02]]> 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]]> Czech Republic]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Czech Republic--Chomutov]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--London]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Harburg (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Kaiserslautern]]> Germany--Sassnitz]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Norway--Tønsberg]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-04]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-04-18]]> 1945-04-19]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1945-04-26]]> The second part describes an operation when a great number of aircraft were lost but his aircraft experienced little enemy activity.
After a spell of leave which he thoroughly enjoyed, his next operation was to Cologne. This was followed by a night of free beer in the Sergeant's Mess.
The next operation was to Dusseldorf and there were large numbers of searchlights but they suffered no damage.
The next operation was to Karlsruhe in terrible weather. Ice caused three engines to stop and they could only hold 7000 in the clouds. The warmer air allowed the engines to restart and they managed to bomb successfully and return home.]]>
Donald Cochrane]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Andy Hamilton]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-03-22]]>
The second part describes the 'Skilling Follies', an aircrew who completed 25 operations from RAF Skellingthorpe.
The third part describes an operation from RAF Market Harborough. On their return from Germany they were shot down by 'friendly' fire over Belgium and crash landed at Juvincourt. He then describes a crash landing in a Wellington at Juvincourt. They were offered turkey for dinner and insisted on no vegetables.
The next day he describes looking at crashed aircraft before they were flown back to Great Bitain in a Lancaster.]]>
Paul Martin]]> Allan McDonald]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France--Juvincourt-et-Damary]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-02-01]]>
He describes the food in his hotel and his visit to Odense. He found a resident who had kept parts of his Wellington, then he was taken to the field where his aircraft had crashed.]]> Eric Foinette]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Denmark]]> Sweden]]> Denmark--Odense]]> Denmark--Copenhagen]]> Denmark--Esbjerg]]> Australia]]> New Zealand]]> Great Britain]]> England--Harwich]]> Germany]]> 1942-02-26]]> E Hookings]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Poland]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Germany--Halle an der Saale]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--Shropshire]]> Great Britain]]> 1944]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1945]]> 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]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> France--Brest]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1940-09-20]]> 1940-09-21]]> 1941-03-20]]> 1941-03-21]]> 1941-03-23]]> 1941-03-24]]> 1941-03-27]]> 1941-03-28]]> 1941-04-03]]> 1941-04-04]]> 1941-04-07]]> 1941-04-08]]> 1941-04-09]]> 1941-04-17]]> 1941-04-18]]> 1941-04-19]]> 1941-04-20]]> 1941-04-23]]> 1941-04-24]]> 1941-04-25]]> 1941-04-26]]> 1941-05-03]]> 1941-05-04]]> 1941-05-05]]> 1941-05-06]]> 1941-05-08]]> 1941-05-09]]> 1941-06-23]]> 1941-06-24]]> 1941-06-26]]> 1941-06-27]]> 1941-06-28]]> 1941-06-29]]> 1941-07-07]]> 1941-07-08]]> 1941-07-09]]> 1941-07-10]]> 1941-07-12]]> 1941-07-13]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-05-31]]>