Edward Key’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers

LKeyEG1866522v1.pdf

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Edward Key’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers

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Flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunner and flight engineers for E G Key, flight engineer. Covering the period from 16 October 1944 to 16 June 1952. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAF St Athan, RAF Stradishall, RAF Feltwell, RAF Waterbeach, RAF Mogadiscio, RAF Eastleigh, RAF Leconfield, RAF Burn, RAF Tuddenham and RAF Upwood. Aircraft flow in were, Stirling, Lancaster, Liberator (B-24), Dakota (C-47), Baltimore, Hudson and Lincoln. He flew a total of 20 operations with 514 squadron 13 daylight and 7 night operation. He also flew 3 flights on Operation Manna, 5 flights on Operation Exodus, a Cook's Tour of the Ruhr and one Operation Dodge flight to Italy. Targets were Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Wiesbaden, Dortmund, Krefeld-Hohenbudberg, Dresden, Chemnitz, Wesel, Kamen, Gelsenkirchen, Hattingen, Hamm, Merseburg, Kiel, Bremen as well as flights to  The Hague, Rotterdam, Juvincourt, Brussels and Bari. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Audis.

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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Edward Key’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 3, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/18507.

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