Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Pending review]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Kent]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Staffordshire]]> France--Brest]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Wales--Flintshire]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1937]]> 1938]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1941-02-07]]> 1941-02-10]]> 1941-02-11]]> 1941-02-12]]> 1941-02-15]]> 1941-02-25]]> 1941-03-02]]> 1941-03-03]]> 1941-03-12]]> 1941-03-13]]> 1941-03-14]]> 1941-03-15]]> 1941-03-16]]> 1941-03-30]]> 1941-03-31]]> 1941-04-03]]> 1941-04-04]]> 1941-04-07]]> 1941-04-08]]> 1941-04-09]]> 1941-04-10]]> 1941-04-11]]> 1941-04-12]]> 1941-04-13]]> 1941-04-14]]> 1941-04-15]]> 1941-04-16]]> 1941-04-17]]> 1941-04-22]]> 1941-04-23]]> 1941-04-25]]> 1941-04-26]]> 1941-05-16]]> 1941-05-17]]> 1941-06-13]]> 1941-06-14]]> 1941-06-15]]> 1941-06-16]]> 1941-06-20]]> 1941-06-21]]> 1941-06-23]]> 1941-06-24]]> 1941-06-26]]> 1941-06-27]]> 1941-06-29]]> 1941-06-30]]> 1941-07-04]]> 1941-07-05]]> 1941-07-06]]> 1941-07-07]]> 1941-07-08]]> 1941-07-09]]> 1941-07-10]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-05-31]]> P Hudson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Nelson]]> Tunisia]]> Tunisia--Tunis]]> North Africa]]> 1941-04-22]]> 1941-05-06]]> Longshot]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Robin Christian]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Tunisia]]> North Africa]]> 1941-04-22]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> England--Plymouth]]> England--Oxford]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1941-04-22]]> 1941-04-24]]> Recruiting Officer]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Saltash]]> England--Plymouth]]> England--Oxford]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1941-04-22]]> Further training at 15 Operational Training Unit and then operational posting to 214 Squadron as pilot. In October 1941 posted to No. 2 Central Flying School to train as a flying instructor. After training posted to No. 3 Service Flying training School as an instructor.
In May 1942 posted to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with No. 23 Service Flying training School. Posted to No. 21 Service Flying Training School.

Served at RAF Woodley, RAF Brough, RAF Cranwell, RAF Hampstead Norris, RAF Harwell, RAF Stradishall, RAF Honington, RAF Church Lawford, RAF South Cerney, RAF Heany, RAF Kumalo.

Aircraft flown were Magister, DH83 Fox Moth, Miles M.2X Hawk Trainer, Blackburn B.2, Oxford, Wellington, Avro Tutor.

Alan Gwilliam flew 31 night bombing operations with 214 Squadron to Emden, Kiel, Brest (Scharnhorst & Gneisenau), Cologne, Hamburg, Mannheim, Düsseldorf, Boulogne, Bremen, Münster, Osnabrück, Hannover, Frankfurt.
His pilots for his first 16 operations were Sergeant Leeke and Flying Officer MacGillivray.

On the 5 July 1941 his aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire.

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