Interview with Edward Scott Jones

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British NCO served as wireless operator with 428 (RCAF) Sqdn, No 6 (RCAF) Group, Bomber Command, RAF in GB, 7/1943-4/1944; prisoner of war in Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug and Stalag 357, Fallingbostel, Germany, 5/1944-4/1945

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REEL 1 Background in Liverpool, GB, 1922-1939: family; education; reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939. Aspects of period as member of 86th (Liverpool) Bn Lancashire Home Guard in Liverpool, GB, 1940-1941: role guarding blockhouse; accidental discharge of rifle; blowing up of ammunition train at Edge Hill; incendiary bomb in garden of family home in West Derby; bombing of Jolly Miller Public House in West Derby; German Air Force bombing of Liverpool, 5/1941. Aspects of enlistment and training as wireless operator with Royal Air Force in GB, 1941-1943: enlistment, 2/1941; Morse Code training in Blackpool; reasons for prolonged training at No 2 Radio School, RAF at RAF Yatesbury; role of Flight Sergeant Charles Cox during Bruneval Raid, 27/2/1942-28/2/1942; opinion of training; attitude of public towards Royal Air Force aircrew; crewing up procedure at RAF Atherstone, summer 1943. REEL 2 Continues: leaflet raid on Orléans, France; character of Canadian aircrew; flying in Vickers Wellington. Recollections of operations as wireless operator with 428 (RCAF) Sqdn, No 6 (RCAF) Group, Bomber Command, RAF in GB, 7/1943-4/1944: posting to squadron at RAF Middleton St George; loss of pilot Canadian Flying Officer Frederick 'Len' Rogers flying as second pilot over North Sea, 3/8/1943; responsibilities of wireless operator in Handley Page Halifax; tinselling work to jam German communications; use of Fishpond; raid on Leipzig, Germany, 19/2/1944; character of raids on Berlin, Germany, 11/1943-2/1944; preferences for targets in Northern France; psychological effects of service on crew member; treatment of Lack of Moral Fibre (LMF) cases; coning of aircraft over Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27/9/1943; damage to aircraft on raid to Bochum, Germany, 29/9/1943. REEL 3 Continues: realisation that Bomber Command strategy had switched from German cities to France, 1944; attitude to operating in Handley Page Halifax; bailing out of aircraft after attack by German Air Force night fighter over Lens, Belgium, 20/4/1944; how his aircraft got back to GB, 20/4/1944. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Belgium, 4/1944: attempt to evade capture; capture by Germans; interrogation by German Air Force officer in Menin; encouragement received from Belgium civilians in Menin; use of five pound notes for toilet paper. Recollections of period as prisoner of war in Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug and Stalag 357 Fallingbostel, 5/1944-4/1945: pattern of prisoner of war captivity; helpful German guard at Stalag 357, Fallingbostel; prisoner of war rations; Gestapo searches; forging railway tickets. REEL 4 Continues: character of Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug; second hand story of prisoners of war sabotaging German efforts to photograph them; difference between long-term British Army and Royal Air Force prisoners of war; mockery of German camp commandant on white horse; bartering with German guards; question of effect of experiences during Second World War.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Jones, Edward Scott (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1997-08-27
Dimensions: whole: Duration 100, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 17564

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