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Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at Andreas on the Isle of Man. After a short leave he was posted to an operational training unit at Chipping Warden followed by intensive training at Edge Hill. Finally he went to Feltwell for Escape and Evasion training before joining a Heavy Conversion Unit at Wratting Common then Waterbeach.

Chapter 2. Operations RAF Witchford. After seven days leave he commenced operational flying in a Lancaster. Their first target was Augsburg and he reports being waved off by WAAFs and airmen. On the next operation the navigator had a breakdown and refused to help. He continues with details of several operations.
Chapter 3. Return to Ops RAF Waterbeach. Initially this proved to be a very relaxing posting but after his recovery he was back on operations. After 30 operations he was posted to RAF Brackla, Nairn.

Chapter 4. Grounded. He was unhappy at Brackla which was remote and cold. Next was a transfer south to RAF Weeton where he learned about motor transport and learned to drive. He was then posted to RAF Halfpenny Green, followed by RAF Croughton and South Cerney. He then went to Hornchurch before being sent to Germany where he joined a micro film unit at Frankfurt. On completion of photographing relevant factory installations his unit headed south to Triberg in Bavaria.

Chapter 5. As Time Goes By. He reflects on his letter from the Secretary of State from Air, Bomber Command losses and life after the war. he discusses Labour minister John Strachey, a pre-war fascist then Communist Party , who belittled the work of Bomber Harris. and the refusal to allow a thanksgiving service to honour the ex-Prisoner of War Association at Coventry Cathedral.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Jean Massie]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Gibraltar]]> Pyrenees]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-08-05]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> fra]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France--Étampes (Essonne)]]> Photograph 2 is a street scene with a curved road, lamp posts and trees, captioned 'The road outside Dr Larsen's House'.
Photograph 3 is a a modern photograph of a man with his arm round a woman, captioned 'Roy and Lisa outside the Summer House'.
Photograph 4 is three men seated on a bench. They are in uniform and are wearing steel helmets. It is captioned 'Peter Bredsorss who was a Freedom Fighter. He was also an architect from 1942 and became World famous as an 'Urban planning authority' and 'Three freedom fighters from the architect group of 'Frit Danmark' outside Randersgade Skole, 5th May '45. Peter Bredsdorff in the middle, Mogens Boertmann to the left, and Esben Klint to the right. Source: private archive.'
Photograph 5 is a small passenger ship with a single funnel. It is parked at the quayside with office buildings behind. It is captioned 'S/S Carl of Nekso, Bornholm', originally 'Carl von Linne', built 1884 in Norrkoping, Sweden, since '38 owned by A/S Det ostbornholmske Dampskibsselskab, at full steam, at the quay at Havnegade. Please note the lifeboats on the top deck. Source: S.R. No 93:93, Handels-og Sofartsmuseet pa Kronberg, Elsinore' and underneath 'The [undecipherable]'.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> E V Witmeur]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Liège]]> 1945-08-14]]> 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]]> Items 1 to 3 are head and shoulder photos of Ernest Probyn.
Item 4 is a French/English phrase book.
Item 5 is 'The Responsibilities of a Prisoner of War'.
Item 6 is a Sergeants' Mess Subscription Card, RAF Skellingthorpe.
Item 7 is the Christmas Menu, RAF Skellingthorpe, 1944.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> fra]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>