F Hooper’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book

F Hooper’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book

F Hooper’s Flying Log Book from 23rd October 1943 until 19th April 1945. During this time trained as an air gunner.
Trained at No. 2 Air Gunners School, followed by 29 Operational Training Unit, 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit and No. 5 Lancaster Finishing School. Operational posting to 9 Squadron.

Served at RAF Dalcross, RAF Bruntingthorpe, RAF Swinderby, RAF Syerston, RAF Bardney.

Aircraft flown were Anson, Wellington, Stirling, Lancaster.

Martinet and P-40 Tomahawk were used as attacking aircraft during training.

With 9 Squadron, Hooper flew 32 bombing operations (18 day and 14 night). His targets were Caen, Revigny, Courtrai, Donges, St. Cyr, Givors, Lorient, La Pallice, Bordeaux, Ijmuiden, the Sorpe Dam, Nurnberg, the Tirpitz in Norway, the Urft Dam, Munich, Gdynia, Bergen, Brux, Berlin, Paderborn, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Sassnitz, Hamburg, Arnsberg, Vlotho, Nienburg, Bremen, Lutzkendorf, Helgoland.
His pilot for all these operations was Flight Lieutenant Morrison.

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