Douglas 'Hank' Iveson's pilot's flying log books. One

LIvesonD19171121v1.pdf

Title

Douglas 'Hank' Iveson's pilot's flying log books. One

Description

Pilot's flying log book for Squadron Leader Douglas 'Hank' Iveson covering the period 3 June 1939 to 10 June 1947 and 13 June 1947 to 15 June 1958. Served with 76 Squadron, 77 Squadron and 462 Squadron in Europe and North Africa. Aircraft flown were Blackburn B2, Tiger Moth, Oxford, Tutor, Gladiator, Whitley, Halifax, Lancaster, Cub, Stirling, York, Proctor and C-47. Carried out a total of 8 daytime and fifty one night-time operations; fifty three as pilot and 6 as second pilot to Pilot Officer Baber, Sergeant Chell, Pilot Officer Roscoe and Sergeant Scott Martin. Targets were in Germany, Greece, Libya, Norway and Poland to Osnabrück, Aachen, Bremen, Cologne, Hannover, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Krefeld, Kassel, Szczecin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Brest, Trondheim, Essen, Tobruk, Heraklion, Maleme, Leipzig, Berlin, Schweinfurt, Orléans, Juvisy, Douai, Saint-Pierre-de-Manneville and Ver-Sur-Mer. Annotations include bombing the Tirpitz, a successful hit on a German aircraft and El Alamein. Hank went on to serve with 47 Group and spent time at the Empire Air Navigation School, the staff training college in Canada, the headquarters of the Second Air Force in the United States and at the headquarters of Bomber Command.

Date

1941
1942
1943
1944

Language

Format

One booklet

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LIvesonD1917112v1

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Citation

Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Douglas 'Hank' Iveson's pilot's flying log books. One,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 1, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/44746.

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