Donald Briggs' log book
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Donald Briggs' log book
Description
Donald Briggs served as a flight engineer with 156 Squadron Pathfinders flying Lancasters from RAF Upwood between 27 May 1944 and 31 March 1945. The incomplete log book includes 62 daylight and night time operations to French, German, Dutch and Polish targets: battle fronts, Bayeux, Bois de Cassan, Chemnitz, Koblenz, Caen, Cagny, Calais, Cannantre, Cap Gris Nez (Calais), Oisemont, Eindohven, Foret de Nieppe, Fort d’Englos, Harpenerweg, Hemmingstedt, Hildesheim, Lens, Lumbres, Middel Straete, Miseburg oil refinery, Moerdijk bridges, Montdidier, Nucourt, Nuremberg, Politz, Royan, Saint-Lô, St Philibert, Bochum, Chemnitz, Dessau, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Essen, Goch, Hamburg, Hanau, Hannover, Kiel, Kleve, Koblenz, Leuna, Mannheim, Münster, Neuss, Osnabrück, Renescure, Rüsselsheim, Saarbrucken, Soest, Stuttgart, Szczecin, Vaires near Paris and Zeitz. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Neal, Wing Commander Bingham-Hall and Flight Lieutenant Williams.
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One handwritten booklet
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LBriggsDW56124v1
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Donald Briggs' log book,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed May 19, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/2232.
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