Bryan Craven]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales]]> 1940-06]]> 1940-09-02]]> 1941-09-26]]> 1942-05]]> 1942-06]]> 1942-12-31]]> 1943-05-05]]> 1943-06-15]]> He was stationed at RAF Benson (12 OTU), RAF Manby (1 AAS) and RAF Binbrook (142 Squadron). Aircraft flown in were Anson, Battle, Blenheim and Wellington.
He flew on 20 night operations with 142 Squadron. Targets were Calais, Amsterdam, Bremen, Boulogne, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Lorient, Vegesack, Hamburg, Berlin, Rostock, and Stettin. On this operation logbook annotated ‘Nil return, death presumed’.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Calais]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Vegesack]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Amsterdam]]> Poland]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> 1940-09-02]]> 1940-05-03]]> 1941-05-11]]> 1941-06-11]]> 1941-06-15]]> 1941-06-17]]> 1941-06-21]]> 1941-07-02]]> 1941-07-04]]> 1941-07-07]]> 1941-07-11]]> 1941-07-13]]> 1941-07-22]]> 1941-08-26]]> 1941-08-29]]> 1941-09-07]]> 1941-09-11]]> 1941-09-15]]> 1941-09-19]]> 1941-09-29]]> Stationed at RAF Hinaidi, RAF Driffield, RAF Manston, RAF Honington, RAF Bramcote, RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Feltwell, RAF Shallufa. Returned to England post-war staying in the RAF. Aircraft flown were Valentia, Harrow, Wellington, Magister, Lysander, Maryland, Fiat CR42, B26, Harvard, Auster, Proctor, Anson, and Prentice.
He flew 1 propaganda leaflet drop with 11 OTU, 1 day and 21 night operations with 37 Squadron in Europe. Targets were St Omer, Eindhoven, Soest, Osnabruck, Frankfurt, Stockum, Bottrop, Hannover, the Black Forest, Gelsenkirchen, Hamm, Flushing, Bitterfeld, Rotterdam, Mannheim, Leipzig, Kiel, Hamburg, Berlin.
12 day and 18 night operations with 37 Squadron and 257 Wing in the Middle East. Targets were Benina, El Adem, Derna, Berca, Bardia, Tobruk, Benghazi, Rhodes, Brindisi, Halfaya, Marble Arch landing ground, Heraklion, Misurata, Homs, Palermo, Gabes, the Mareth Line, El Hamma, Kourba, Pantelleria, Villa San Giovanni, Vibo Valentia, Adrano, Cape Peloro. Posted to HQ RAF Middle East where carried out 28 day supply dropping operations.
Post war career included postings to Air Division Control Commission Germany, Flying Training Command, 41 Group, 22 Maintenance Unit and RAF Negombo, Sri Lanka.
Log book also contains Form 3921 – Aircrew Qualification Record, a 1949 calendar and Form 2745 Record of Service, Educational and Professional Qualifications.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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