Walter Perkins flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers

LPerkinsW2223326v1.pdf

Title

Walter Perkins flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers

Description

Air Gunners flying log book for Walter Perkins covering the period from 3 August 1944 to 21 March 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. Includes gunnery course results, attacked by intruders on return and “Death Presumed” final comment. He was stationed at RAF Morpeth (4 AGS), RAF Oulton (1699 HCU and 214 Squadron). Aircraft flown in were Anson, Flying Fortress, Liberator. He flew 23 night-time operations with 214 Squadron. Targets were Stuttgart, Osnabruck, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Horten, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Brux, Mönchengladbach, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Hassum, Politz, Bohlen, Duisberg, Krefeld, Düsseldorf, Sylt, Dortmund, Nuremburg. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Kingdon.

Language

eng

Format

One booklet

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Contributor

Mike French

Identifier

LPerkinsW2223326v1

Collection

Perkins, Walter

Citation

Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Walter Perkins flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 24, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/31692.

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