Description
Object description
RCAF Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book (156pp), recording his career as an Air Gunner and Staff Officer with the RAF, September 1941 - August 1950, including: his training at No 6 B & G School, Mountain View, Ontario, Canada, September 1941; service with No. 297 Squadron RAF, Bomber Command, towing gliders and on operations over France, from RAF Netheravon, Wiltshire, February - June 1942; RAF Hurn, Dorset, June - October 1942 (attached to No 298 Squadron RAF, September - October 1942); RAF Thruxton, Wiltshire, October 1942 - August 1943 (No 65 Gunnery Leader Course, GL Wing, CGS, RAF Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, August - September 1943); RAF Stoney Cross, Hampshire, September 1943 - April 1944 (acting Squadron Gunnery Leader, November 1943 - April 1944; commissioned, November 1943); RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, April - September 1944 (dropping paratroopers and a Horsa glider, D-Day, June 1944); Instructor, No 42 OTU, RAF Darley Moor, Derbyshire, September 1944 - March 1945; ORTU, RAF Matching, Essex, April - November 1945; Staff Officer, January 1945 - August 1950. Also included is his RCAF Pilot's Flying Log Book (11pp) recording his pilot training with No 20 EFTS, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, June - August 1941, and his postwar annual training for RAFRO, May 1954 - July 1958.
Content description
RCAF Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book (156pp), recording his career as an Air Gunner and Staff Officer with the RAF, September 1941 - August 1950, including: his training at No 6 B & G School, Mountain View, Ontario, Canada, September 1941; service with No. 297 Squadron RAF, Bomber Command, towing gliders and on operations over France, from RAF Netheravon, Wiltshire, February - June 1942; RAF Hurn, Dorset, June - October 1942 (attached to No 298 Squadron RAF, September - October 1942); RAF Thruxton, Wiltshire, October 1942 - August 1943 (No 65 Gunnery Leader Course, GL Wing, CGS, RAF Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, August - September 1943); RAF Stoney Cross, Hampshire, September 1943 - April 1944 (acting Squadron Gunnery Leader, November 1943 - April 1944; commissioned, November 1943); RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, April - September 1944 (dropping paratroopers and a Horsa glider, D-Day, June 1944); Instructor, No 42 OTU, RAF Darley Moor, Derbyshire, September 1944 - March 1945; ORTU, RAF Matching, Essex, April - November 1945; Staff Officer, January 1945 - August 1950. Also included is his RCAF Pilot's Flying Log Book (11pp) recording his pilot training with No 20 EFTS, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, June - August 1941, and his postwar annual training for RAFRO, May 1954 - July 1958.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1994-01-31