John Cox’s pilots flying log book

SWarrenGC1580687v20010.pdf

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John Cox’s pilots flying log book

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Pilots flying log book (partial) for John Cox, covering the period from 28 July 1944 to 16 March 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Peplow and RAF Wickenby. Aircraft flow in were Wellington and Lancaster. He flew a total of 20 operations with 626 squadron, being shot down on his 27th operation and baling out. Targets were Karlsruhe, Essen, Ludwigshaven, Ulm, Bonn, Nuremberg, Munich, Wiesbaden, Kleve, Dresden, Chemnitz, Dortmund, Duisburg, Pforzheim, Dessau, Kassel, and Gelsenkirchen. His pilot for his first 'second dickie' operation was Flight Lieutenant Blenner Hasset.

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11 photocopied sheets

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SWarrenGC1580687v20010

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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “John Cox’s pilots flying log book,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 9, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/26809.

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