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]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> William Cragg]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1942-12-24]]> 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]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Pending review]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> France]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Aube]]> France--Aubigny-sur-Nère]]> France--Calais]]> France--Dieppe]]> France--Poitiers]]> France--Saint-Cyr-l'École]]> France--Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne)]]> France--Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines]]> France--Thoiry (Yvelines)]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Maldon]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Barnetby le Wold]]> England--Barton-upon-Humber]]> England--Brigg]]> England--Caistor (Rural District)]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Market Rasen]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Diepholz]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Freiburg im Breisgau]]> Germany--Geilenkirchen]]> Germany--Gerolstein]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hennef-Sieg]]> Germany--Lehnin (Kloster Lehnin)]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Nordstemmen]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Steinheim (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Treuenbrietzen]]> Germany--Welver]]> Germany--Westerburg]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Apeldoorn]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Netherlands--Oisterwijk]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10]]> 1943-11]]> 1943-12]]> 1944-01]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-05]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-09]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-11]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-01]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-05]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-12]]> Page one begins with the reformation of the squadron in 1936 and gives details of the aircraft operated, the stations flown from and the roles the squadron played in training and operations.
Page two describes three miscellaneous incidents that occurred on the squadron, including one where the mid-upper gunner accidentally shot and killed the rear gunner.
Page three contains details about three notable Lancasters.]]>
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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]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Denmark]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Russia (Federation)]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Denmark--Copenhagen]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Brest]]> France--Dunkerque]]> France--La Rochelle]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Cuxhaven]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Wismar]]> Northern Ireland--Antrim (County)]]> Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1940-10-29]]> 1940-10-30]]> 1940-11-15]]> 1940-11-16]]> 1940-11-25]]> 1940-11-26]]> 1940-11-28]]> 1940-11-29]]> 1940-12-08]]> 1940-12-09]]> 1940-12-16]]> 1940-12-17]]> 1940-12-21]]> 1940-12-22]]> 1940-12-28]]> 1940-12-29]]> 1941-01-01]]> 1941-01-02]]> 1941-01-04]]> 1941-01-05]]> 1941-01-08]]> 1941-01-09]]> 1941-01-14]]> 1941-01-15]]> 1941-01-30]]> 1941-01-31]]> 1941-02-05]]> 1941-02-06]]> 1941-02-07]]> 1941-02-08]]> 1941-02-10]]> 1941-02-11]]> 1941-02-12]]> 1941-02-21]]> 1941-02-22]]> 1941-02-24]]> 1941-02-25]]> 1941-02-26]]> 1941-02-27]]> 1941-03-18]]> 1941-03-19]]> 1941-03-20]]> 1941-03-21]]> 1941-03-29]]> 1941-03-30]]> 1941-04-08]]> 1941-04-09]]> 1941-04-13]]> 1941-04-14]]> 1941-04-17]]> 1941-04-18]]> 1941-04-24]]> 1941-04-25]]> 1941-04-28]]> 1941-04-29]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1942-05-03]]> 1942-05-31]]> 1942-06-01]]> 1942-06-02]]> 1942-07-26]]> 1942-07-27]]> 1942-07-29]]> 1942-07-30]]> 1942-08-09]]> 1942-08-13]]> 1942-08-17]]> 1942-08-19]]> 1942-08-28]]> 1942-08-29]]> 1942-09-01]]> 1942-09-02]]> 1942-09-10]]> 1942-09-11]]> 1942-09-14]]> 1942-09-15]]> 1942-09-16]]> 1942-09-17]]> 1942-09-24]]> 1942-09-25]]> 1942-10-01]]> Harry Bartlett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> 1943]]> 1944-08-17]]> 1945]]>
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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]]>
Incident 2. Describes watching another aircraft taking off when its flaps fell down and bomb doors opening as it reached take off speed on the runway. Manage take off but took airfield fences with it and subsequently landed wheels up. Problem ascribed to hydraulic problem due to flak damage. Goes on to describe an incident with his own aircraft where a piece of flak shrapnel ricocheted through aircraft causing several different things to happen to mid upper gunner, pilot and the aircraft. Concludes with description of a fire arms incident he was involved in at Moreton-in-the-Marsh where he was an instructor at a later date.]]> J H Thomas]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> 1944-08]]> 1944-10]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> The second shows two airmen collecting pieces of wreckage. From information kindly supplied by donor, 'These two fellows are busy gathering up the pieces from the plane after the bomb load exploded. I don't remember the crash as I was rendered unconscious and was found on the wing. I have often wondered how I ended up on the wing. The cockpit might have split open when the plane hit the ground.']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944-07-05]]> P Potter]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> Callum Davies]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Egypt]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Egypt--Suez]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> France--Alençon]]> France--Brest]]> France--La Rochelle]]> France--Morlaix]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Regensburg]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> Norway--Oslo]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> North Africa]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-05-29]]> 1944-05-30]]> 1944-05-31]]> 1944-06-02]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1944-08-27]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-01-29]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-16]]> 1945-02-18]]> 1945-02-19]]> 1945-02-23]]> 1945-02-24]]> 1945-02-25]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-18]]> 1945-03-27]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-20]]> 1945-04-29]]> 1945-05-01]]> 1945-05-09]]> 1945-05-12]]> 1945-06-17]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--Kiel Bay]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> France--Lille]]> France--Royan]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Euskirchen]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Italy--Pomigliano d'Arco]]> Manitoba--Portage la Prairie]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Scotland--Wigtownshire]]> Germany--Urft Dam]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Manitoba]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this item is available only at the University of Lincoln.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> CC BY-NC 4.0 International license]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> 1943-09]]>
Jeff Brown]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1945-05-08]]> Nigel Moore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1945]]> Dawn Hughes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> England--Blackpool]]> France--Paris]]> France--Sangatte]]> 1942-04-20]]> 1943-05]]> 1943-10]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01]]> 1944-04-06]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-08-31]]> 1946]]> 1944-07]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams ]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Second generation]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jim Sheach]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Northern Ireland--Down (County)]]> Great Britain]]> 1943-09]]> 1944]]> Brian Wright]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tilly Foster]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> The second part describes the 'Skilling Follies', an aircrew who completed 25 operations from RAF Skellingthorpe.
The third part describes an operation from RAF Market Harborough. On their return from Germany they were shot down by 'friendly' fire over Belgium and crash landed at Juvincourt. He then describes a crash landing in a Wellington at Juvincourt. They were offered turkey for dinner and insisted on no vegetables.
The next day he describes looking at crashed aircraft before they were flown back to Great Bitain in a Lancaster.]]>
Paul Martin]]> Allan McDonald]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France--Juvincourt-et-Damary]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-02-01]]>
His pilots on operations were Sergeant Clark, Flight Sergeant Banks, Pilot Officer Medley and Pilot Officer Rodbourne. He was killed on his tenth operation, to Stuttgart. At the end of the book there is a photo of the grave site with six headstones.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Rutland]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Wales--Carmarthenshire]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-09-05]]> 1943-09-06]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-07]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-02-26]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1944-08-07]]>