Arthur Close's Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book

LCloseHA1592357v1.pdf

Title

Arthur Close's Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book

Description

H A Close’s Flying Log Book covering the period from 26 February 1944 to 11 September 1944 detailing his operations and training flown as Flight Engineer. He was stationed at RAF Rufforth (1663 HCU), RAF Elvington (77 Squadron) and RAF Driffield (466 Royal Australian AF Squadron). Aircraft flown in was Halifax. He flew 23 night and 16 day operations (total 39) with 466 Squadron pilot Pilot Officer Mullen. Targets were Collinge Beaumont, Hasselt, Bourg Leopold, Trappes, Chateaudun, Juvisy, Laval, Amiens, Evercy, Duisburg, St Martin le Hortier, Siracourt, Oisemont Nieuville, Le Grand Rossignol, Mimoyecques, Wizernes, Villers Bocage, Domleger, Caen, Ferme-du-Forestal, Les Catelliers, Foret de Nieppe, May-sur-Orne, Coquereaux, Dijon, Etaples, Brunswick,,Eindhoven, Kiel, Sterkrade, Brest, Homberg, La Pourchinte, Soesterberg, and Le Havre.

Language

eng

Format

One booklet

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Contributor

Terry Hancock

Identifier

LCloseHA1592357v1

Collection

Close, Henry Arthur

Citation

Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Arthur Close's Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed August 13, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/62222.