D Cameron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--High Wycombe]]> United States]]> Florida--Lakeland]]> Georgia--Macon]]> Alabama--Dothan]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> England--Norfolk]]> France--Le Havre]]> Florida]]> Alabama]]> Georgia]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942-03-23]]> 1942-05-10]]> 1942-08-11]]> 1943-05-21]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-04-14]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]>
Served at RAF Halton, RAF Wittering, RAF Hornchurch, RAF Eastchurch, RAF Harrogate, RAF Little Rissington, RAF Market Harborough, RAF Scampton, RAF Wiglsey, RAF Syerston, RAF Skellingthorpe, RAF Wymeswold, RAF Castle Donington,

Aircraft flown were DH 82 Tiger Moth, Stearman, Valiant, Harvard, Commodore, Catalina, Anson, Oxford, Wellington X, Stirling III, Norseman (C64), Lancaster, Dakota, Sea Otter, Auster, York, Sunderland.

Carried out 5 day and 27 night operations with 50 Squadron to Darmstadt, Bremerhaven, Rheydt, Kaiserslautern, Munster, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Nuremberg, Flushing docks, Bergen, Dusseldorf, the Dortmund-Ems Canal, the Mitteland Canal, Harburg, Duren, Heilbronn, the Urft Dam, Heimbach, Munich, Politz, Houffalize, Leuna, Brux, Siegen, the Rositz Oil Refinery, the Bohlen Synthetic Oil Plant, Wurzburg. He also carried out two Operation Exodus flights.

Awarded the DFC after an operation during which his aircraft was hit by bombs from another aircraft above him. He successfully flew his aircraft back to England. Includes various newspaper clippings.]]>
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W Morris]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Kettering]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--London]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Scarborough]]> United States]]> Massachusetts--Boston]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Alberta--Innisfail]]> Ontario--Trenton]]> Ontario--Picton]]> Ontario--Hamilton]]> Germany]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Massachusetts]]> Ontario]]> New Brunswick]]> Alberta]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1941]]> 1942-02-12]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-09]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-08-18]]>
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'Based at Burn' Introduction by Jim Allen
One More Chalked Up
A Trip to Remember
Sabotage on 578 Squadron at Burn by Joe Dudley
Memories of 578 Squadron at Burn 1944 by Joe Dudley]]>
Jim Allen]]> Joe Dudley]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Roger Dunsford]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Navy]]> Great Britain]]> France]]> France--Calais]]> Belgium]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Rüsselsheim]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Villers-Bocage (Calvados)]]> France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1944-06-30]]>
]]> Harold Kirby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1942-08]]> 1946-11]]> Top right - air-to-air view looking down on B-24 with bombs falling. Captioned 'Bomb hit B-24 but plane survives, not our plane, taken in 44'.
Middle left - three airmen two wearing khaki uniform with shorts and the third wearing battledress standing in front of a tent. Captioned 'Norman Skeets, JC Foggia 45'.
Middle centre - two airmen playing cards inside a tent. Captioned 'In desert, Norman an Dixon playing rummy waiting to return to UK'.
Middle right - Airman wearing flying helmet manning machine gun. Captioned 'JC Line shooting on beam .05 gun'.
Bottom left - crashed and burned aircraft, captioned 'Lincoln' [nb. actually Lancaster Mk 7 NX732 crashed 11 April 1946].
Bottom centre - seven airmen some shirtless sitting on grass surrounded by B-24s. Captioned 'Behind enemy lines'.
Bottom right - two airmen wearing battledress with half brevet standing side by side. Captioned 'JC + Norman Abu Suier after VE Day'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Foggia]]> Egypt]]> North Africa]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]>
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William was based at 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit at Winthorpe, then No. 5 Lancaster Finishing School in Syerston, and then on 49 Squadron, as a rear gunner on Lancasters.
He flew a variety of aircraft, including Wellingtons with the Operational Training Unity, Avro Ansons on an Air Gunner course, Avro Lancasters and the American B24 Liberator at Kola Airfield.
He tells of his experiences after he and his crew went to India in 1944, after his skipper was posted there and flying operations to Rangoon and Burma.
William tells of how Lancasters fly at night, his bombing raid on a tanker and his encounter with a Mosquito which did not give any identification. He also tells of his crash and the death of his skipper.
William was demobbed in February 1947, and after the war worked for local water authorities until they were incorporated into Severn Trent. He retired just before his 65th birthday.
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