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Title
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North, Geoffrey John
North, G J
North, Johnny
Description
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31 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey John 'Johnny' North, DFC, (173836, Royal Air Force) who served as a rear gunner on 428, 76 and 35 Squadrons flying Wellington, Halifax and Lancaster. He was called up in 1940 from his job as a tailor in Saville Row where he returned after the war. He was shot down on an operation to Duisburg on 21 February 1945. The collection contains his logbook, an account of his shooting down, capture and time as a prisoner of war, including documentation, forced march to another camp in 1945, liberation and repatriation. The collection includes membership documents for Royal Air Force Association, Pathfinders Association and Caterpillar Club as well as personnel documentation, Pathfinder badge correspondence and photographs of crew and squadron as well as other memorabilia.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Carole Bishopp and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-05-20
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North, G
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SIXTH FROM LEFT IN FIRST STANDING ROW F/SGT HALL. EIG [DELETED] HT [/DELETED] TH FROM RIGHT IN REAR STANDING ROW, SELF.
SEVENTH FROM LEFT FRONT ROW SGT PADDY JOHNSON, BOMB AIMER, MARRIES DAUGHTER OF BAKERS SHOP IN THIRSK. SHOT DOWN P.O.W.
[drawn line with two arrows connects this line with the first line] TAKEN OFF FLYING HEAVY AIRCRAFT FIT FOR OPS (THANK GOD!), CREW DISPERSED AMONG OTHER CREWS.
428 Squadron. Dalton Feb. 1943
RAF C.O. WAS NOT ALOWED TO FLY DUE TO EYESIGHT, BUT HE DID INCLUDING GOING ON OPS! ON NIGHT LANDINGS HIS BOMB AIMER HAD TO CALL OUT “IN GREEN” “IN YELLOW” “IN RED” AS HE WAS COLOUR BLIND TOO! HIS PLANE WAS FITTED WITH HIDDEN SWITCH TO CUT OFF NAVIGATION LIGHTS, WE DIDNT [sic] KNOW AND ONE NIGHT COULDNT [sic] GET THE LIGHTS TO COME ON, DAMN NEARLY PRANGED BY HALIFAX IN TOPCLIFFE CIRCUIT WHEN WE WERE IN DALTON CIRCUIT, TWO CIRCUITS OVER LAPPED! HE LEFT SQUADRON FOR NON FLYING [sic] DUTIES FEB/MARCH 1943. WHAT A MAN, MUST HAVE BEEN 50 YEARS OLD. RESPECTED BY ALL THE STATION.
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Title
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428 Squadron
Description
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A squadron group of Royal Air Force personnel sitting and standing in rows in front of a Wellington. There are two men standing up through the cockpit roof of the aircraft. On the reverse the title '428 Squadron 1943, Dalton, Feb 1943'. Statements on the location of members of Geoffrey North's crew including himself (eighth from the right in rear standing row). A story concerning the commanding officer who was not supposed to fly.
Members of the crew of Halifax DK229 NA-W hit by anti-aircraft fire on the 10th July 1943 have been identified by their family members.
Date
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1943-02
Format
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One b/w photograph
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PNorthGJ1605, PNorthGJ1606
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Canadian Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Yorkshire
England--Topcliffe (North Yorkshire)
Temporal Coverage
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1943-02
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Andy Hamilton
Steve Baldwin
Ffai Gritten
428 Squadron
aircrew
RAF Dalton
Wellington