John Maunsell's Observer's and Flying Log Book
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John Maunsell's Observer's and Flying Log Book
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Observer's and Flying Log Book for Flying Officer John Maunsell (1333451, 138134) covering 14 October 1942 to 11 June 1945 detailing training flights, air tests and operations. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Dakota, Fortress, Lancaster, Liberator, Stirling, Sunderland, Tiger Moth and Wellington.
His pilots on training and test flights were: Lieutenants White, Swart, Lindsay-Rae, Youngleeson, Robertson, Peters, Holmner, Tindall, Rabinowitz, Rosenthal, Hopper, Webb, Norval, Donelly, Marillier, Watteyne, Penver, Benjamin, Crouse, Nel, Le Riche, Mould, Geater, Gradwell, Du Bruin, Ceuppens, Connell, Lagesse, O'Leary, McIver, Spriggs, Bayley, Allnut, Stevenson and Croft; Warrant Officers Le Cocq, Humphrey, and Langdon; Flying Officers Harvey, Ryde, Dean, Sharpe, Boyd, Beecroft, Scofield, Walters and Adams; Wing Commanders Stapleton and Burnell; Pilot Officers Pugh, Langlands, L'Abbé, Onysko, O'Gara, Greville, Ainley and Anderson; Flight Sergeants West, Johnstone, Goldstein, West, Thomas, Whiddon, Patterson, Stein, Cannon and Bodrill and Squadron Leader Petty. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenants Bayley and Allnutt.
Targets in France, Belgium, Poland, and The Netherland were: Amiens, Annecy, Antwerp, Augsburg, Aunay-sur-Odon, Beauvois, Berlin, Bonn, Braunschweig, Bremen, Caen, Dortmund-Ems Canal, English Channel, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Gdańsk, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Hagen, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Kamen, Kassel, Kiel Bay, Koblenz, La Pernelle, Ladbergen, Le Havre, Leopoldsburg, Lüneburg, Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Mannheim, Munich, Münster in Westfalen, Nuremberg, Paris, Poland, Saumur, Schweinfurt, Stuttgart, The Ruhr, Toulouse, Tours, Turnhout, Wesel and Wesseling.
John Maunsell was shot down at Turnhout, Belgium on the return journey from an operation on 21 June 1944. The fate of the crew is listed in the logbook. The Captain, Flight Lieutenant A F Bayley, Wireless Operator, Warrant Officer F Beecher and Rear Gunner, Sergeant J Donovan were killed in action. The Bomb Aimer, Flight Sergeant A D Naysmith, Mid-Upper Gunner, Flight Sergeant L Marshall and Flight Engineer, Sergeant R Heaseman were captured and became prisoners of war. John Maunsell evaded capture.
His pilots on training and test flights were: Lieutenants White, Swart, Lindsay-Rae, Youngleeson, Robertson, Peters, Holmner, Tindall, Rabinowitz, Rosenthal, Hopper, Webb, Norval, Donelly, Marillier, Watteyne, Penver, Benjamin, Crouse, Nel, Le Riche, Mould, Geater, Gradwell, Du Bruin, Ceuppens, Connell, Lagesse, O'Leary, McIver, Spriggs, Bayley, Allnut, Stevenson and Croft; Warrant Officers Le Cocq, Humphrey, and Langdon; Flying Officers Harvey, Ryde, Dean, Sharpe, Boyd, Beecroft, Scofield, Walters and Adams; Wing Commanders Stapleton and Burnell; Pilot Officers Pugh, Langlands, L'Abbé, Onysko, O'Gara, Greville, Ainley and Anderson; Flight Sergeants West, Johnstone, Goldstein, West, Thomas, Whiddon, Patterson, Stein, Cannon and Bodrill and Squadron Leader Petty. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenants Bayley and Allnutt.
Targets in France, Belgium, Poland, and The Netherland were: Amiens, Annecy, Antwerp, Augsburg, Aunay-sur-Odon, Beauvois, Berlin, Bonn, Braunschweig, Bremen, Caen, Dortmund-Ems Canal, English Channel, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Gdańsk, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Hagen, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Kamen, Kassel, Kiel Bay, Koblenz, La Pernelle, Ladbergen, Le Havre, Leopoldsburg, Lüneburg, Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Mannheim, Munich, Münster in Westfalen, Nuremberg, Paris, Poland, Saumur, Schweinfurt, Stuttgart, The Ruhr, Toulouse, Tours, Turnhout, Wesel and Wesseling.
John Maunsell was shot down at Turnhout, Belgium on the return journey from an operation on 21 June 1944. The fate of the crew is listed in the logbook. The Captain, Flight Lieutenant A F Bayley, Wireless Operator, Warrant Officer F Beecher and Rear Gunner, Sergeant J Donovan were killed in action. The Bomb Aimer, Flight Sergeant A D Naysmith, Mid-Upper Gunner, Flight Sergeant L Marshall and Flight Engineer, Sergeant R Heaseman were captured and became prisoners of war. John Maunsell evaded capture.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “John Maunsell's Observer's and Flying Log Book,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 8, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/55316.