Ronald Gard’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers

LGardR1852841v1.pdf

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Ronald Gard’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers

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Flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers for R Gard, air gunner, covering the period from 7 March 1944 to 14 February 1945 when he went missing on operations. He was stationed at RAF Stormy Down, RAF Turweston, RAF Silverstone, RAF Winthorpe, RAF Syerston and RAF Waddington. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Wellington, Stirling and Lancaster. He flew a total of 17 operations with 463 squadron, 4 Daylight and 13 night operations. Targets were Brunswick, Nuremburg, Flushing, Bergen, Homberg, Düsseldorf, Ems-Weser Canal, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Trondheim, Giessen, Heimbach, Gdynia, Merseburg-Leuna, Siegen, Politz and Rositz. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Padgham.

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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Ronald Gard’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 14, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/23289.

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