L V Rosser - private diary operations

L V Rosser - private diary operations

Written in RAF pilot's flying log book by Sergeant, pilot Rosser, Lewis Victor, RAFVR - diary of night bombing operations. Gives date, aircraft, crew, target and description of each operation. Also included are extracts from the Bomber Command war diaries concerning the overall operation numbers and losses. Covers 23 operations on first tour from 11 May 1941 to 15 November 1941 and then 14 operations on second tour from 5 March 1945 until 24 April 1945. Aircraft flown Whitley, Halifax and Lancaster. Includes some newspaper cuttings concerning particular operations. Operations on first tour to Bremen, Cologne, Schleswig Holstein, Duisburg, Hannover, Kiel, Rotterdam, Emden, Bremen again, Rotterdam again (crashed after undercarriage problems), Dunkirk, Le Havre, Mannheim, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Brest, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Nuremburg, Wilhelmshaven, Calais, Frankfurt again, Kiel (cancelled crashed). Operations on second tour (some in daylight) to Gelsenkirchen, Salzbergen, Dessau, Datteln, Dortmund, Hattingen (Heinrichshutte), Recklinghausen, Hamm, Münster, Hallendorf (Salzgitter), Leviva (near Leipzig), Kiel, Bremen, Bad Oldesloe.

1941-05-11

1941-05-16

1941-05-28

1941-06-11

1941-06-15

1941-06-17

1941-06-20

1941-06-25

1941-06-27

1941-06-29

1941-08-14

1941-08-18

1941-08-22

1941-08-27

1941-08-29

1941-09-07

1941-09-13

1941-09-29

1941-10-01

1941-10-12

1941-10-20

1941-10-22

1941-10-24

1941-11-15

1945-03-05

1945-03-06

1945-03-07

1945-03-06

1945-03-12

1945-03-14

1945-03-17

1945-03-20

1945-03-21

1945-03-29

1945-04-04

1945-04-09

1945-04-22

1945-04-22

Multi-page printed book with handwritten entries

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