IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Slide 1 - captioned 'Heavy transport drivers on right George and Hardy GD 1945'. Four men standing in front of four lorries (at least one of which is a petrol bowser) with nose of a Stirling behind on the left.
Slide 2 - captioned 'Few gliders on this DZ we were up front in line Rhine crossing from GD'. Oblique aerial photograph of open countryside with fields and a few woods.
Slide 3 - captioned 'Flying in formation Arnhem and lift from GD taken from "Y"'. Air-to-air view of a four engine bomber with D-Day stripes on rear fuselage. In the foreground part of engine.
Slide 4 - captioned 'Halifax flying right on top of us'. Air-to-air view showing the underneath of a Halifax flying above. Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Bishop's Stortford]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Germany]]> England--Herefordshire]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
Bottom - photograph - view from above of a Lancaster with Spitfire and Hurricane on either wing over sea. Captioned 'Memorial in Flight, from original photograph by Arthur Gibson'.]]> David Shepherd]]> Arthur Gibson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frank Schilder]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>
Bottom right - an Oxford parked on airfield with fuel bowser in front. Behind left a control tower. Captioned 'Penhold, Oct 1942'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> Alberta--Red Deer Region]]> Alberta]]> 1942-10]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> On the reverse ' "Strictly on Flying Control Grounds" Note our wizard "Roman" road. Campoformido. Udine. Italy. March 1946.'
There is a second identical photograph. On the reverse ' "Strictly on Flying Control Grounds" Note our wizard "Roman" road. Campoformido Udine Italy. March 1946. Arthur & I'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Foskett, William. Udine-Campoformido airfield]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Udine]]> 1946-03]]>
Mark Hilton]]> Vaugh Thomas Hilton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Belgium]]> Germany]]> Poland]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Ladbergen]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Ulm]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-09]]> 1944-10-26]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-10]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-26]]> 1944-12-01]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-28]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-22]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-05]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1942-02-20]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-04-02]]> 1945-04-04]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1946]]> Underneath is a caption explaining that inside the Halifax 'A' is an air gunner who was washed out but was desperate to fly.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Cyril Bell
Tony Tine
Albert
Paddy Aherne
Lancaster'
There is a second copy.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PLancasterJO1704,
PLancasterJO1705]]>
Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> PCothliffKB15090058]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Charles E Brown]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> 1946-10]]> 1946-08-08]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Udine]]> 1946]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
A second image shows the top half of a Halifax.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are available.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Initially posted to 527 Squadron, which was Canadian, at RAF Digby and then to 695 squadron at RAF Bircham Newton working on drogue towing aircraft.
Posted overseas, he arrived at RAF Chakeri near Kampur where he worked on servicing B-24 and C-47 aircraft for South East Asia Command. He recalls that as an airframe mechanic he had to sign the Form 700 certifying that all the other trades had carried out their servicing correctly.
The local town was largely off-limits and only certain parts were allowed to be visited. The weather was very hot and in the summer hill parties were sent to the hills to escape the heat. Peter spent his 21st birthday at Darjeeling. When hostilities ceased the spent its time dismantling and scrapping B-24s aircraft. Whilst India was partitioned, Peter's demobilisation was postponed in case of tensions between India and Pakistan.
After two and a half years he was sent home via Liverpool, where he saw his first jet, and was demobilised in July 1947.
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Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Holmes]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> India]]> India--Kānpur]]> India--Darjeeling]]> Pakistan]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1947-07]]> 1943-11]]>
He describes being prepared to be sent to Okinawa, but the war finished before he was sent. He was awarded a scholarship to study accountancy and successfully obtained his diploma. He then returned to Jamaica on HMT Empire Windrush.
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Heather Hughes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Paul Valleley]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Jamaica]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Filey]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Jamaica--Little London]]> Jamaica--Kingston]]> Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad]]> Trinidad and Tobago]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1942]]> 1943]]>
In the early 1970s the Lancaster PA474 was flown to RAF Waddington from RAF Henlow ostensibly to be a gate guardian. In 1973 the Lincolnshire Echo announced that it was to be moved to RAF Coltishall. A group gradually formed to oppose the move because of the Lancaster’s connections to Waddington; the Lincolnshire Lancaster Committee. A public meeting was held and the City Council agreed to adopt the Lancaster. The Lancaster moved to RAF Coltishall. The committee collected over 17,000 signatures in 15 weeks and eventually the Lancaster returned to RAF Coningsby.
The committee became Lincolnshire’s Lancaster Association so funds could be raised. While Stuart was Chair for c. 36 years, £½ million was donated to projects, including the digitisation of manuals.
Stuart describes how unfairly he felt Bomber Command and Sir Arthur Harris were treated.
Stuart lists a large number of people he has met, received letters or signatures from.]]>
Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Second generation]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Lincolnshire]]>
F K Barker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1943]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> M J Davies]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--Port Alfred]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> England--Leicestershire]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> United States]]> Oklahoma]]> Oklahoma--Ponca City]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> France]]> Ontario--St. Thomas]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Barrow-in-Furness]]> England--Herefordshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Germany]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Heilbronn]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Scotland--Aberdeenshire]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> France--Royan]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Ontario]]> New Brunswick]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1945-02-16]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-11]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-26]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-21]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-04]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-19]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-02-24]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-03-22]]> Raymond Barrett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Burma]]> Tunisia]]> France--Corsica]]> Italy]]> France]]> Italy--Sicily]]> Egypt]]> Syria]]> India]]> Burma]]> Syria]]> Syria--Aleppo]]> North Africa]]>