RAF R/T transcripts.

[Dennis Peschier]

In an issue of “after the battle” there was an article about the shooting down of Douglas Bader. The author had made use of a written transcript of the RAF radio communications that day.
I will be going to the National Archive in the near future and would like to see if these exist for other dates as well.
I have no idea if they are held by the NA, and if they do, where to look for them. Can anyone help out?
Dennis

[Amrit1]

I do not know about where in the NA but copies are also (?) held at the RAF Museum at Hendon:

http://navigator.rafmuseum.org/resul...ze=1&id=149491

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[VoyTech]

Andy Saunders has discussed that in his book "Bader's Last Fight":
http://www.grubstreet.co.uk/bader's_last_fight.htm
I believe they are rather unique in surviving.

[Dennis Peschier]

Amrit1 and VoyTech,
Thank you for responding! It’s a pity that these transcripts only exist for this short period of the war.
Thanks,
Dennis

[Nick Beale]

The Air Ministry daily radio monitoring summaries are in the NA, round about AIR22/500 I think, but you'd need to check that on their website. The ones I've looked at don't include transcripts but do record Luftwaffe activity (units, times, places etc.).

[Franek Grabowski]

Nick
Do not you mean w/t intercepts of German traffic? I think discussed transcripts are of RAF communications, so a little bit different subject.

[Dennis Peschier]

Hello Nick,
I have the AIR 22/476-503 intercept summaries. They are indeed summaries of Luftwaffe radio traffic. I am however still hoping that the verbatim records of, RAF and Luftwaffe radio traffic, are around. Somewhere.
Dennis