Description
Object description
Two flying log books, November 1929 - July 1959, with entries showing his flying training with the Oxford University Air Squadron, November 1929 - September 1932, at No 5 FTS, Royal Air Force (RAF), September 1932 - May 1933; service with No 26 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, RAF Catterick, May 1933 - September 1935; RAF School of Aeronautical Engineering, September 1935 - September 1937; Aircraft Depot, Karachi, India, October 1937 - February 1939, RAF detachment Dera Ismael Khan, March 1939 - May 1941; Coast Defence Wing, India, May 1941 - June 1942; No 58 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, September 1943 - April 1944, on anti-submarine patrols; with Allied Naval Expeditionary Force, April - September 1944; then in various Air Ministry and Command posts; together with a ms notebook of notes and aide-memoir re communication, equipment, orders, etc. and 3 volumes of Coastal Command Duty Liaison Officers Log, May - September 1944, kept by him and his staff giving details of Coastal Command Operations during the invasion of France; a file containing Coastal Command RAF memorandum on the conduct of Anti-Shipping Operations in 1945; a Report on RAF St. Eval Group Trial Scheme, March - August 1946; a ts (12pp) description of life in No 58 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, September 1943 - April 1944, written in 1952; and ts essay (17pp) about the growing importance of air power in warfare and calling for the establishment of a single fighting force.
Content description
Two flying log books, November 1929 - July 1959, with entries showing his flying training with the Oxford University Air Squadron, November 1929 - September 1932, at No 5 FTS, Royal Air Force (RAF), September 1932 - May 1933; service with No 26 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, RAF Catterick, May 1933 - September 1935; RAF School of Aeronautical Engineering, September 1935 - September 1937; Aircraft Depot, Karachi, India, October 1937 - February 1939, RAF detachment Dera Ismael Khan, March 1939 - May 1941; Coast Defence Wing, India, May 1941 - June 1942; No 58 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, September 1943 - April 1944, on anti-submarine patrols; with Allied Naval Expeditionary Force, April - September 1944; then in various Air Ministry and Command posts; together with a ms notebook of notes and aide-memoir re communication, equipment, orders, etc. and 3 volumes of Coastal Command Duty Liaison Officers Log, May - September 1944, kept by him and his staff giving details of Coastal Command Operations during the invasion of France; a file containing Coastal Command RAF memorandum on the conduct of Anti-Shipping Operations in 1945; a Report on RAF St. Eval Group Trial Scheme, March - August 1946; a ts (12pp) description of life in No 58 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, September 1943 - April 1944, written in 1952; and ts essay (17pp) about the growing importance of air power in warfare and calling for the establishment of a single fighting force.
History note
Cataloguer PJT
History note
Catalogue date 1987-04