Aircraft flows were Martinet, Botha, Wellington, Whitley, Halifax and Lancaster. Gerald flew 37 operations, 32 night time and 5 daylight with 101 and 170 Squadrons including one Cook's tour with Pilot Officer Forsyth, Flight Lieutenant Dixie, Flight Lieutenant Court, Flight Lieutenant Chandler and Wing Commander Rooke.

Targets were Berlin, Stettin, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Scheinfurt, Frankfurt, Essen, Aulnoye, Aachen, Rouen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Maintenon, Mailly-le-Camp, Rennes–Saint-Jacques airport, Orleans, Duisburg, Brunswick, Leopoldsburg, Trappes, Politz, Dortmund, Nordhausen, Heligoland, and Rotterdam. ]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lynn Corrigan]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Poland]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Aulnoye-Aymeries]]> France--Maintenon]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Rouen]]> France--Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> 1944-01-01]]> 1944-01-02]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-06]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1944-01-28]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-01-31]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-05]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-19]]> 1944-03-22]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-03-25]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-03-27]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-12]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-30]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-03]]> 1944-05-04]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-19]]> 1944-05-20]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-05-24]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-05-31]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-04-03]]> 1945-04-18]]> 1945-05-01]]> 1945-05-25]]>
Served at RCAF Picton, RCAF Mount Hope, RAF Millom, RAF Sleap, RAF Tilstock, RAF Fairford, RAF Great Dunmow, RAF Qastina.

Aircraft flown were Anson, Bolingbroke, Whitley, Oxford, Stirling, Halifax.

With 620 Squadron operations involved glider towing, paratrooper and supply dropping to support the Special Operations Executive and the Special Air Service. Took part in the Normandy airborne assault, Operation Market Garden, Operation Varsity and Operation Doomsday.
He flew 32 operations (10 day and 22 night) including 2 Operation Exodus. These operations were to France, Netherlands, Brussels, Germany (The Ruhr, Wesel), Norway (Oslo, Eggemoen, Gardermoen).

His pilot on all his operations was Warrant Officer Miller.

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Served at RAF Perth, RAF Stormy Down, RAF Watchfield, RAF Tilstock, RAF Sleap, RAF Bourn.

Aircraft flown were Tiger Moth, Oxford, Lysander, Anson, Whitley V, Halifax II, Lancaster.

Flew one night operation with 81 OTU dropping leaflets over Caen.
Flew 30 night operations with 97 Squadron. Targets included Peenemünde, Leverkusen, Berlin, Nuremberg, Mannheim, Munich, Montluçon, Modane, Hannover, Stuttgart, Kassel, Düsseldorf, Ludwigshafen, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Stettin, Brunswick.
He flew as the pilot on all operations other than his first three. His pilots for these were Wing Commander Hind and Fight Lieutenant Fletcher.]]> 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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Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Essex]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Normandy]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> 1943-10-17]]> 1943-10-18]]> 1943-10-24]]> 1943-10-25]]> At the end there is a biography of the officer in charge of Arnhem, Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Browning and his wife Daphne du Maurier.]]> Roger Millington]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> British Army]]> Wehrmacht. 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