The IBCC Digital Archive consists of more than 40,000 documents about those who were caught up in bombing war in Europe 1939-1945. Our ethos is to promote recognition, remembrance, and reconciliation. Archival content includes interviews with eyewitnesses, personal papers and memorabilia that have for the most part not been seen in the public domain before.


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Edgar Hope Marlow and his fiancée

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Picture of Edgar Hope Marlow and his fiancée in a garden. Reverse has sticker 'Edgar Hope Marlow + fiance [sic] Coral Tigges'.

A diary kept by Herbert Leslie Cousins

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Handwritten notes from January to July 1941.

Memoir about Edgar Hope Marlow by his former fiancée

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A memoir by EH Marlow's former fiancée, Coral Tigges, from their meeting in December 1941 until his death on operations in March 1945. The memoir…

Letter with details of two H2S training flights

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Typed letter giving details of two H2S training flights, one of which was over Scotland and included a mock combat with a Spitfire. Letter signed…

Typed note with details pf flying operations

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Typed note on lined paper headed 'Additional Info' containing various flying operational statistics for 460 Squadron and 100 Squadron.

Collection of Second World War medals and a squadron crest

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Collection of five medals: 1939-45 War Medal, France and Germany Star, Aircrew Europe Star, Italy Star and North Africa Star and a squadron crest…

Group photograph of servicemen

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Group photograph of servicemen with G W J Juby on the third row from the front, seventh from right.

Ashton Flying Officer's fate

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A newspaper cutting reporting that Joseph Bradburn has been killed in action. His final resting place has been located in Evreux, France.

Alphabetical extract of pilot losses

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A list with rank, date of accident, aircraft. base, target fate, fate of crew, buried and take-off time.