J F Lane’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book

J F Lane’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book

J Lane’s Flying Log Book from 30th October 1943 until 19th June 1944. During this time trained as an air gunner.
Training starts at No. 12 Air Gunners School, 29 Operational Training Unit, 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit and No. 5 Lancaster Finishing School. Operational posting to 9 Squadron in August 1944 as a rear gunner.

Served at RAF Bishops Court, RAF Bruntingthorpe, RAF Bitteswell, RAF Winthorpe, RAF Syerston, RAF Bardney.

Aircraft flown were Martinet, Anson, Wellington, Stirling, Lancaster I, Lancaster III.

Lane flew one night leaflet operation with 29 OTU to Orleans. His pilot was Sergeant Dickenson. They force landed on their return.

With 9 Squadron he flew 30 bombing operations (19 day, 11 night). His targets were La Pallice, IJmuiden, Brest, Karlsruhe, Bremen, Trondheim, Munich, Urft Dam, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Bergen, Leuna, Brux, Altenbeken, Sassnitz, Essen, Dortmund, Arnsberg, Vlotho, Farge, Molbis, Lutzkendorf, Swinemunde - Prinz Eugen, Helgoland, Berchtesgaden.

His pilots were Flying Officers Wiley, Newton and Williams.

Numerous annotations give more detail of operations.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

One booklet

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