Willy Welsh’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book

Willy Welsh’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book

Willy Welsh’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book from 1st November 1942 until 3rd August 1943 when death was presumed. During this time trained as an air gunner. Attended No. 4 Air Gunnery School. Posted to 9 Squadron for operations.

Served at RAF Bardney.

Aircraft flown were Botha, Lancaster.

Sergeant Welsh flew 9 night bombing operations with 9 Squadron. His targets were Mulheim, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne and Hamburg. His pilot for all his operations was Sergeant Mackenzie.
His aircraft was reported missing on his last operation to Hamburg on 2nd/3rd August 1943.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available. Pages pre-operational posting to 9 Squadron are missing.

Multi-page printed book with handwritten entries

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