Ernest Olaf Lane's Royal Australian Air Force flying log book. One

LLaneEO402057v1.pdf

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Ernest Olaf Lane's Royal Australian Air Force flying log book. One

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Royal Australian Air Force flying log book for Ernest 'Cappy' Olaf Lane covering the period 30 April 1940 to 15 October 1944 detailing his training and operations flown. Cappy flew 51 operations, 18 as second pilot to Sergeant Lewis, Sergeant Attwell, Squadron Leader Rainsford, Sergeant Fennell and Flight Lieutenant Deaves and 33 as pilot. He flew operations, of which 41 were night time and ten daytime operations, in Wellington, Bombay and Lancaster aircraft. His first 29 operations, with 148 Squadron, were to Maleme, Benghāzī, Darnah, Rhodes, Gazala, Beirut, Jarabub, Antelat, Benina, El-Adem, Tmimeme, Gubbi, Msus, Aleppo, Kibrit, Candia, Corinth Canal, and Tobruk. After his transfer to England, Cappy joined 460 Squadron and flew operations to Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Oberhausen, Cologne, Krefeld, Mülheim, Wuppertal, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Mannheim, Nuremberg and Turin.

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One booklet

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LLaneEO402057v1

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Australia. Royal Australian Air Force, “Ernest Olaf Lane's Royal Australian Air Force flying log book. One,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed February 12, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/44669.

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