Description
Object description
Interesting ts account (18pp) and RAF Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book (Form, 1767, 100pp) recording his service as an Air Observer and Navigator with Bomber and Transport Commands, April 1939 - September 1945, including joining the RAFVR, April 1939; training in the UK, June 1939 - August 1940; active service flying Wellingtons with No. 37 Squadron in No 3 Group, RAF Feltwell, Norfolk, August - November 1940, and No 25 Group, Middle East Command, in Malta, November - December 1940, and RAF Shallufa, Egypt, December 1940 - September 1941; training as a navigator, April - May 1942; an instructor in navigation, No 2(O) AFU, RAF Millom, Cumbria, June 1942 - April 1944; active service flying Mosquitos with No 464 Squadron RAAF, No 140 Wing, TAF, RAF Gravesend, Kent, and RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire, April - September 1944; flying Dakotas with No 108 OTU, Transport Command, RAF Wymeswold, Leicestershire, January - March 1945, and No 52 Squadron, RAF Dum Dum, India, and Burma, April - August 1945; and making some interesting comments on RAF life and esprit de corps. Also included are 53 captioned photographs.
Content description
Interesting ts account (18pp) and RAF Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book (Form, 1767, 100pp) recording his service as an Air Observer and Navigator with Bomber and Transport Commands, April 1939 - September 1945, including joining the RAFVR, April 1939; training in the UK, June 1939 - August 1940; active service flying Wellingtons with No. 37 Squadron in No 3 Group, RAF Feltwell, Norfolk, August - November 1940, and No 25 Group, Middle East Command, in Malta, November - December 1940, and RAF Shallufa, Egypt, December 1940 - September 1941; training as a navigator, April - May 1942; an instructor in navigation, No 2(O) AFU, RAF Millom, Cumbria, June 1942 - April 1944; active service flying Mosquitos with No 464 Squadron RAAF, No 140 Wing, TAF, RAF Gravesend, Kent, and RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire, April - September 1944; flying Dakotas with No 108 OTU, Transport Command, RAF Wymeswold, Leicestershire, January - March 1945, and No 52 Squadron, RAF Dum Dum, India, and Burma, April - August 1945; and making some interesting comments on RAF life and esprit de corps. Also included are 53 captioned photographs.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1995-06-14