Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Great Britain]]> 1944-04-30]]> 1944-05-01]]> Middle, left, Christmas greetings.
Middle, right, best wishes at Christmas.
Bottom left, regarding diplomats.
Bottom right, German identity.
Right page, top, announcements of family engagements, marriages and births.
Top left, list of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and a list of Royal Air Force Volunteer Force members.
Middle left, lifeboat dropped to the crew of an American flying-boat. Middle right, woman with a dog in her arms in a garden.
Third row left, three women, a man and a dog in a garden.
Third row right, five women sat on a bench alongside a hedge.
Bottom left, birth announcements.
Bottom right, a group of five women with a sixth figure with tennis rackets alongside.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> eng]]> deu]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Filton]]> 1913]]> 1915]]> 1942]]> 1944]]> 1951]]>
Claire Bennett]]> This Interview was recorded by Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--The Wash]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Great Britain]]> 1940-12-16]]> Ivan Ure]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Royal Air Force]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Wales--Colwyn Bay]]> England--London]]> England--Lancing]]> England--Blackpool]]> Scotland--Edzell]]> Scotland--Arbroath]]> England--Whitley Bay]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> France]]> France--Le Tréport]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Lithuania--Klaipėda]]> Poland--Świnoujście]]> Poland--Białogard]]> Europe--Elbe River]]> Germany--Lüneburg]]> Germany--Rheine]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Lithuania--Klaipėda]]> Ivan Ure]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Royal Navy]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Isle of Wight]]> Norway]]> Scotland--Argyllshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Westbourne (West Sussex)]]> England--London]]> England--Hayling Island]]> England--Evenley]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Blackpool]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> France]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Lithuania]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> Lithuania--Klaipėda]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Poland--Białogard]]> Poland--Pyrzyce (Powiat)]]> Germany--Lauenburg]]> Germany--Lüneburg]]> Germany--Rheine]]> England--London]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Ireland]]> Ireland--Dublin]]> Ireland--Cork]]> Austria]]> Austria--Vienna]]> Libya]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Jīzah]]> Egypt--Port Said]]> Kuwait]]> Bahrain]]> Iran]]> Iran--Tehran]]> Scotland--Oban]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Andover]]> Germany]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Italy]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Poland]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> Charles Francis Saunders]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> Wales--Carmarthenshire]]> Scotland--Moray]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> 1943-01]]> 2005-07]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Cosgrove, Teddy. Album]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leeds]]> England--Devon]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Vegesack]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Bremen]]> France]]> Germany]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Rhineland]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Bexhill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Birkenhead]]> Germany]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Italy]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> Bottom left - three-quarter length image of an airman wearing tunic and smoking a cigarette. Trees in the background.
Bottom centre - full length image of an airman wearing tunic with pilot's brevet and side cap with trees behind. Captioned 'The glorious Riccall surroundings'.
Right - newspaper cutting headline '101 airmen saved from North, Halifax "persuade foreign trawler"'. Account of air-sea rescues in North Sea.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Wickham, Harry William. Album]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]>
]]> During the month of September 1943 the squadron lost 6 aircraft and 21 men killed with 7 being prisoners of war. All aircraft are noted as now being equipped with 'Monica' and some additionally equipped with 'Mandrell.
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Andy Barff]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> South Africa]]> Great Britain]]> England]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France]]> France--Nantes]]> Germany]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Milan]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Tanzania]]> South Africa--Makhanda]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1943-09-29]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lynn Corrigan]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Italy]]> Germany]]> Italy--Turin]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Hannover]]> South Africa]]> 1943-07-11]]> 1943-07-12]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-25]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-11]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-13]]> 1943-08-14]]> 1943-08-15]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-18]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Brighton]]> Europe--Baltic Sea Region]]> Malta]]> England--Denham (Buckinghamshire)]]> England--Bognor Regis]]> England--Chichester]]> England--Cambridge]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Jack Darby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Oxford]]> 1944-06]]> ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> O A Cusse]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Oxford]]> 1941-01-02]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-09]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-26]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-12]]> 1944-12-15]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-21]]> 1944-12-24]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-02-23]]> 1945-02-28]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-13]]> 1945-03-23]]> 1945-04-02]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-18]]> At the end there is a biography of the officer in charge of Arnhem, Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Browning and his wife Daphne du Maurier.]]> Roger Millington]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> British Army]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Free French Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Letchworth]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Wales--Penrhos]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> Singapore]]> France--Cherbourg]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> France--Brest]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> France--Brest]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Quiberon]]> France--Boulogne-Billancourt]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Le Creusot]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> France--Caen]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Norway]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--Rochester (Kent)]]> Northern Ireland--Belfast]]> England--Longbridge]]> France--Arras]]> England--Darlington]]> Italy--Genoa]]> England--Longbridge]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy--Sicily]]> France--Normandy]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Wales--Pwllheli]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leicester]]> England--Sunderland (Tyne and Wear)]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> England--Rochford]]> England--London]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Scotland--Ayr]]> England--Friston (East Sussex)]]> England--Gravesend (Kent)]]> England--West Malling]]> England--Hailsham]]> England--Yelverton (Devon)]]> England--Bentwaters NATO Air Base]]> England--Great Dunmow]]> England--Heacham]]> England--Weybridge]]> Wales--Hawarden]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Old Sarum (Extinct city)]]> England--Kent]]> England--Folkestone]]> England--Hambleton (North Yorkshire)]]> England--York]]> Scotland--Scottish Borders]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Thurleigh]]> England--Darlington]]> England--Hitchin]]> England--Lancashire]]> Italy]]> France]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Netherlands]]> Great Britain]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Essex]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Swindon (Wiltshire)]]>
This recording was made around 1990, as Leslie recounts the story to his grandson, Matt Phillips.
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Matt Philips]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Gibraltar]]> Great Britain]]> Malta]]> Mediterranean Sea]]> Middle East]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> England--Berkshire]]> 1941-07]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Germany]]> Germany--Essen]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Cromer]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Cromer]]> Germany]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> France--Troyes]]> Germany--Aachen]]> France--Paris]]> England--Kent]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Denmark]]> England--Berkshire]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Liège]]> France]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-12]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>