Part 2, "No Problem Sport".Covers Alan Gamble's short flying history over France in 1945 before being shot down, and his experiences as a POW in southern Germany and subsequent liberation. The manuscript of Part 2 appears to be complete except for one or more pages missing about two thirds of the way through. This is at the beginning or the end of a fragment bound by metal clips, and could easily have become detached as the outside pages of some fragments' in Part 3 were also lost. It is therefore possible that only one page is missing.

Part 3. "Nil Desperandum".Covers Alan Gamble's post war experiences up to about 1963. This has not been read.

The manuscript of Part 3 is missing pages 24-86, 120 and 170, the latter two being the outside pages of bound fragments. (Page numbering here has assisted in reconstruction).

Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.





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A T Gamble]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Skegness]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> Wales--Porthmadog]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Barrow-in-Furness]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--North Friesland Region]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> France]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Jordan]]> Jordan--Amman]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-06-17]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-07-03]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-07]]>
Adam Sutch]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Southeast Asia]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> United States]]> Alabama--Montgomery]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Army Bureau of Current Affairs]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany]]> 1944-01-22]]> British Meteorological Offices and Canadian Meteorological Division]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-070002]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1st image: Front cover. Annotated by hand: 'Sgt GL Royall' and 'Sgt Hardy JC. R103813'
2nd image: Title page.
3rd image: Table of contents.
4th image: Back cover (blank)

This item is available at the International Bomber Command Centre/University of Lincoln.]]>
Canada department of transport - air services branch - meteorology division]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Text. Training material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> 1941]]>
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-080002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> 1942-10-19]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Cathy Brearley]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> Heathrow Airport (London, England)]]>
After the Air Training Corps, Roy was called up to be a meteorological officer. Roy trained in Kilburn, and went as a forecaster to RAF Warboys in Cambridge before RAF Wyton and then RAF North Creake.

Roy recounts the death of Canadian “Tiny” Thurlow, brought down by friendly fire in Northern France. There were three meteorological officers at RAF North Creake, working shifts. The information recorded was sent to the regional meteorological office whose forecast could not be amended. He attended the aircrew briefing and de-briefing sessions. The 100 Group dropped Window radar countermeasure. Its aircraft were prone to icing.

Roy contrasts weather forecasting then and now, particularly with reference to the jet stream. He talks about weather balloons and the readings they took. RAF Docking sent up Hurricanes or Spitfires, fitted with new equipment, to take readings.

In 1945 Roy set sail from Tilbury on RMS Strathaird to Bombay, Singapore (RAF Seletar) and then spent nearly two years for the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces at RAF Iwakuni in Japan, passing through Hiroshima. A Japanese man committed Hari-kari and there were three arson attempts by the Japanese.

On his return, Roy was promoted to flight lieutenant. After discharge, Roy taught mathematics, and subsequently became a school inspector and senior further education adviser.]]>
Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--London]]> Singapore]]> Japan]]> Japan--Iwakuni-shi]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
Department of Transport - Air Services Branch]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Herkes ]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Training material]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> I. Introduction: Meteorology and Air crews
II. Atmosphere, pressure and temperature
III. Wind
IV. Cloud and fog
V. Weather
VI. Clouds
VII. Visibility
VIII. Wind
IX. Pressure, temperature and humidity
X. Altimeters
XI. Introduction to the weather map]]>
Great Britain. Air Ministry]]> Directorate of Flying Training]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Training material]]> Royal Air Force]]>
XII. RAF Meteorological Service
XIII. Flight weather reports and forecasts
XIV. Routine forecasts and warnings
XV. The basis of forecasting
XVI. Meteorological codes
XVII. Air masses, depressions and fronts
XVIII. Other fronts
XIX. Other types of pressure distribution
XX. Clouds and precipitation
XXI. Visibility
XXII. Ice formation
XXIII.Thunderstorms
XXIV. Flying in clouds
XXV. Wind. Gusts and bumps
XXVI. Meteorology and operational flying]]>
Great Britain. Air Ministry]]> Meteorological Office]]> Directorate of Training]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Training material]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]>
Great Britain. Air Ministry Meteorological Office]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-090002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Greece]]> Greece--Rhodes]]> Henry Wagner]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Roger Dunsford]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Essen]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-11-29]]> Julian Maslin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Australia]]> Christmas Island]]> Great Britain]]> Iraq]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Hampshire]]> Northern Territory--Darwin]]> Scotland--Stranraer]]> Northern Territory]]> 1943]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-09]]> 1950]]> 1956-02-18]]> 1956-07-10]]> 1957-01-19]]> 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]]> Meteorological Office]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Between leaving school and joining the Royal Air Force, Kenneth worked as a bank clerk, before signing up as aircrew when he was 18 years of age.
Kenneth tells of his time as a Leading Aircraftsman in Morecambe, training as an aircraft mechanic, before being posted to 97 Squadron in Bourn in 1943, and his first involvement with the Lancasters of the Pathfinder Squadron.
He tells of Black Thursday, a day of heavy losses for Bomber Command and how it affected him and his fellow ground crew.
Kenneth was then posted to 635 Squadron in March 1944, which was based at Downham Market in Norfolk where they conducted operations to assist the D-Day landings, and then was interviewed to become part of a Meteorological Air Corp team, to gather information about the weather over the Atlantic.
Kenneth was promoted to Flight Sergeant at the end of his service with the Royal Air Force
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Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1943]]> 1944]]>
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and lists his operations he was involved in.

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WH Brooker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Orange]]> Victoria--Geelong]]> New South Wales--Harden]]> Victoria]]> New South Wales--Lismore]]> South Australia--Adelaide]]> Great Britain]]> England--Newcastle upon Tyne]]> England--High Wycombe]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> France--Brest]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Orléans]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Victoria]]> France]]> New South Wales]]> South Australia]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> 1944]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Page has hand written log of his flights at Empire Air navigation School in 1946, flying in Lancaster, Lancastrian 'Aries' and Halifax. Also a list of the RAF stations he was stationed at from 1939 to 1946.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> The code names for the routes are Magnum, Recipe, Rhombus, Bismuth, Mercer, Allah, Sharon, Epicure and Nocturnal.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map]]> Royal Air Force]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Bottom, an airman with an instrument on a tripod, Captioned 'Roger Rackwell', '1946 Chivenor'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> 1946]]> Bottom, photograph of an airwoman looking at meteorological equipment, other equipment in background. Captioned 'Wendy Lord', '1946', 'Chivenor'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> 1946]]> Right, same group standing by corner of building, dry stone wall in immediate background, village background of building, wall and church tower.
Left and centre, two small head and shoulders portraits of Wendy Lord in Women's Auxiliary Air Force uniform, from right side, captioned 'Wendy Lord' and 'Wendy Lord', 'Met office Brawdy'.
Bottom left, a Christmas card with has six children with angel wings around Christmas tree, inscribed 'Wesolych Swiat'.
Bottom right, a photograph of two very small children sitting on a blanket with part of building in background. Captioned '[undecipherable] Bishop's children', 'Mar 1947'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> pol]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]>
Bottom left, is of a bride in wedding dress with veil and flowers standing on path in front of bank of flowers and hedge, captioned 'Doris Batchelor', 'Cook - Chivenor 1945', 'Sep 1946'.
Bottom right, is of a wedding party, two ladies in long dresses with flowers , two men in suits and a young lady in long dress with flowers, standing on grass in front of a tall hedge. Captioned 'Wedding Doris Batchelor', 'Sep 1946'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> 1946-09]]>