Douglas 'Hank' Iveson's pilot's flying log books. One
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.
Creator
Date
1941
1942
1943
1944
Temporal Coverage
Spatial Coverage
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Language
Format
One booklet
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Identifier
LIvesonD1917112v1
Collection
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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