A Leedham]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Kingston upon Thames]]> England--Surrey]]> 1942-06]]> 1942-09-12]]>
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Whitley aircraft, B-DY, C-DY and E-DY, flying in formation; bottom, crashed Whitley MH-H, annotated 'Usworth 17 11 40' and 'Sketch by Bob of the end of a bombing trip over Germany. It was an emergency landing at a fighter station and the Whitley overran the runway and broke its back on a bomb dump. Bob was 'Second Joe' (pilot)'.
Right page: top, targets in Mannheim.
Bottom, a group of 60 uniformed men standing in front of a Whitley aircraft annotated '51 Sqd 16.12.40. Bob is 6th from the left'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sunderland (Tyne and Wear)]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> 1940-11-17]]> 1940-12-16]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Snelland]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]>
Heather Hughes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943]]> Heather Hughes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> Zimbabwe]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Pam Locker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Burma]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> Burma--Akyab (District)]]> Burma--Meiktila]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1943]]> 1945]]> Anna Hoyles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cathie Hewitt]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Brazil]]> Chile]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Peru]]> Chile--Santiago]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Scotland--Fife]]> Scotland--Crail]]> Germany]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Emmerich]]> Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau]]> Poland]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Heather Hughes]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> John had his commissioning interview on the same day as his wedding and joined 170 Squadron at RAF Hemswell in December 1944 where he carried out eight operations. He describes one of the eight operations to Bottrop when they were hit by anti-aircraft fire but managed to return safely.
John volunteered for the Pathfinders and was posted to 582 Squadron at RAF Little Staughton, flying Lancasters. He explains how they initially acted in a supporter role before progressing to dropping flares and markers.
John took part in Operation Manna in Rotterdam and fetched some prisoners of war from Juvincourt in France. He then went to RAF Dunkeswell where he test flew some Lancasters before returning to RAF Little Staughton from where he was demobbed. He describes the Cook’s tours he did for groundcrew and WAAFs.]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Scarborough]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Canada]]> United States]]> New Brunswick]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]>
Sheila Bibb]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Second generation]]> Cyprus]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Singapore]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> South China Sea]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> Filippo Andi]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending OH transcription]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Italy]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Italy--Pavia]]> Denise Boneham]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Oman]]> Mediterranean Region]]> Egypt--Alexandria]]> Egypt--Suez]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Italy--Naples]]> Oman--Masirah Island]]> North Africa]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> Julian Maslin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tilly Foster]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Merseyside]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--London]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1941]]> 1945-05-08]]> 1946]]> He signed up for the Royal Air Force at the age of 18 in December 1941 and was called up in April 192 and posted to RAF Padgate to train as a Wireless Operator.
Stanley tells of his training at Padgate, including learning to use Morse Code, where he was unable to make 12 words a minute and was then posted to an RAF Radio Station in Elfin in Scotland.
He worked at offloading bombs and his job was to prepare them for distribution to units that they were to be used, however he then tells of his experiences there and what lead to his application to become the company typist.
Stanley tells of his interview to work for Bletchley Park, where he was based for six to seven weeks, and his posting to a radio station at Great Witcombe before being sent on embarkation leave. He tells of boarding a ship to Algiers and his experiences there and he also recalls his work in Algiers and Tunisia, passing messages along and learning of the Normandy invasion on D-Day.
He worked with British, French and American Army units as part of a signals unit. Once Bletchley Park closed, he returned to the RAF, using his later service life to study Economics, Mathematics and Physics.
After the war, Stanley returned to the mills where he worked in the office, studying textiles, taking his accountancy exams and working at various companies and after being made redundant at the age of 64, started his own driving school.]]>
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