Also, a handwritten note: "DRESDEN:- FIRE RAID ← FLIGHT OF AIRCRAFT.".]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocation impractical]]> Photograph]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dresden]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bury St. Edmunds]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Norwich]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]>
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Don Nicholson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944-07-13]]> Don lists his 31 operations and recounts how having arrived for the briefing for his first operation, he was grounded by the medical officer and sent to hospital. His crew did six operations without him and did not return from the last one. Having done some operations as a spare flight engineer he describes how he was recruited by a captain who wanted to replace his engineer. He was impressed by his new captain landing a Lancaster with a punctured tyre, ending up on the grass but the aircraft was intact.
He then goes on to describe a number of incidents during his operations. These include bombing the German battle cruiser Lutzow which turned out to be a decoy. Being diverted to Kinloss and the airfield was not open but they had to land as they were out of fuel, they also had a bomb loose in the bomb bay. Returning from an operation below cloud over the North Sea and one of their Lancasters bounced off the water. One of his last operations to Hamburg he did not think that they would survive, they were coned by searchlights, ended up in a power dive when corkscrewing and having recovered flying round to gain height to eventually bomb.]]>
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Flight Lieutenant Curtis, Adjutant, Methwold.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Service material]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1945-03-20]]>
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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]]> Belgium]]> Canada]]> Egypt]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Egypt--Suez Canal Region]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Rheims Region]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Bremen Region]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Germany--Halle an der Saale]]> Germany--Harburg (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Heilbronn]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Leipzig Region]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Urft Dam]]> Netherlands--IJmuiden]]> Ontario--Hamilton]]> Ontario--Picton]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Scotland--Moray Firth]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Juvincourt-et-Damary]]> 1943]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-12-10]]> 1944-12-11]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-19]]> 1944-12-21]]> 1944-12-22]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-04]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-12]]> 1945-03-14]]> 1945-03-15]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-03-21]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-03-27]]> 1945-04-04]]> 1945-04-07]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-23]]> 1945-04-26]]> 1945-05-06]]> 1945-05-12]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1954]]> Deployed to 61 Squadron, he flew as second pilot ("second dickey") on a number of daylight operations before undertaking night time operations. He feared the intense anti-aircraft fire but considers the German fighter with its upward firing cannon as the most dangerous.
Frank describes in detail the various exit ports used in an evacuation of the aircraft and the difficulties for some crew members.
He recalls that a tour was 34 operations, which was followed by six months as an instructor then required to carry out a second tour, except for the pathfinders who did 35 operations but were not required to carry out a second tour. Of his own tour, Frank carried out nine area bombings, twelve rail yard bombings, six primary target bombings and seven army support missions and dropped two hundred and ninety tons of bombs. One of the memorable missions was in February 1945, the bombing of Dresden which he bombed at 23.00 hours. On his return flight he could see the flames from 120 miles away. During the German offensive in the Ardennes, he flew missions in support of US troops.
After VE day he was trained for the Tiger Force and assigned to Okinawa but VJ day prevented his deployment. After his return to Australia he kept in touch with his former crew and his last reunion with them was in Lincoln.

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Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> Canada]]> Czech Republic]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Altenburg (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Bremerhaven]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Euskirchen (Kreis)]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Heilbronn]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Kaiserslautern]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Rheydt]]> Germany--Sassnitz]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Weser-Ems Region]]> Manitoba--Dauphin Area]]> Manitoba--Portage la Prairie]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> Netherlands]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Manitoba]]> Czech Republic--Most]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-18]]> 1944-09-19]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-24]]> 1944-09-26]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-29]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-03]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-07]]> 1944-11-11]]> 1944-11-12]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-12-09]]> 1944-12-27]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-17]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-02-19]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-12]]> Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> England--Runnymede]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]> Germany--Eichstätt]]> England--Torquay]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Manchester]]> Scotland--Gourock]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> United States]]> Georgia--Albany]]> Florida--Lakeland]]> Florida--West Palm Beach]]> Ontario--Trenton]]> Lake Ontario]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> Manitoba--Brandon]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> England--Harrogate]]> England--Bournemouth]]> England--Whitley Bay]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Douglas (Isle of Man)]]> Scotland--Elgin]]> Scotland--Findhorn]]> Scotland--Forres]]> Germany--Ramsen]]> England--York]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> England--Flamborough Head]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--IJssel Lake]]> England--Chigwell]]> England--Kew]]> England--Norwich]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Florida]]> France]]> Georgia]]> Ontario]]> New Brunswick]]> Germany]]> Nova Scotia]]> Netherlands]]> North America--Niagara Falls]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Essex]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Surrey]]> Manitoba]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-11-11]]> 1943-11-12]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-25]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Wales--Sealand]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-11]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-22]]> 1945-01-23]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-04]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-25]]> 1945-02-26]]> 1945-02-28]]> Samuel Guyan flew an operational tour with 90 Squadron and a second tour with 115 Squadron where he manned a .5 calibre gun beneath the aircraft. In all he flew fifty one operations. Including one where his crew thought he was just going for his breakfast but found himself flying that night with another crew as a spare gunner.
He sings several songs including 'Ops on a Stirling' to the tune of Waltzing Matilda, 'The old red flannels drawers that Maggie wore' and 'No more ops for me'.]]>
Samuel Guyan]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> England--Farnborough (Hampshire)]]> England--Suffolk]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Hampshire]]> 1943]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1945]]>

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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> 1944-09-26]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-07]]> 1944-11-11]]> 1944-11-12]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-12-10]]> 1944-12-11]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-01-17]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-22]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-08]]> 1944-03-12]]> 1944-03-14]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-04-06]]> 1944-04-09]]>