Eric Harrison’s RAF flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers

LHarrisonEW2204970v1.pdf

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Eric Harrison’s RAF flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers

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E W Harrison’s RAF Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bombers, Air Gunners and Flight Engineers, from 2nd October 1944 to 12th January 1950, detailing training and operations (1944-45), and instructional duties (1948-50), as a flight engineer. He was stationed at RAF Chedburgh (1653 HCU), RAF Feltwell (3 Lancaster Finishing School), RAF Wratting Common (195 Squadron), RAF Little Rissington (Central Flying School), RAF Hullavington (Empire Flying School) and RAF Manby (RAF Flying College). Aircraft in which flown: Stirling, Lancaster I, Lancaster III, Lancaster VII, Harvard, Tiger Moth, Lancastrian, Prentice, Auster, Anson, Hastings and Lincoln II. He flew a total of 31 operations (11 night, 20 day). Targets in Belgium and Germany were: Altenbogge, Bocholt, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Erkenschwick, Gelsenkirchen, Gneisenau, Homberg, Kamen, Kiel, Krefeld, Merseburg, Neuss, Oberhausen, Rheydt, Scholven (Buer), St Vith, Vohwinkle, Wanne-Eickel, Wesel and Witten. His pilot on operations was Flight Sergeant Fitton.

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One booklet

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LHarrisonEW2204970v1

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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Eric Harrison’s RAF flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 6, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/25674.

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