Norman Mackie’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book. Two
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Norman Mackie’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book. Two
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Norman Mackie’s Flying Log Book 2 as a pilot from 29 September 1942 until 12 December 1944. Continued in 29 OTU and 83 Squadron for operations until March 1943 when shot down by a Messerschmidt 110. Baled out at 1500 feet. Captured but escaped. Return to England in January 1944 via Switzerland, Spain and Gibraltar. Posted to Pathfinder Force Navigation Training Unit (PFF NTU) and 1655 Mosquito Training Unit (MTU), thence to 571 Squadron for operations. December 1944 saw a posting to Empire Central Flying School and then 29 OTU where he finished his wartime service. Continued in the RAF until 1957.
Served at RAF North Luffenham, RAF Wyton, RAF Upwood, RAF Warboys, RAF Oakington, RAF Hullavington, RAF Bruntingthorpe. Aircraft flown were Wellington, Ventura, Lancaster, Mentor, Manchester, Lysander, Mosquito, Warwick, Oxford, Tiger Moth, B17 Flying Fortress.
He flew 18 night operations with 83 Squadron, being shot down on the last one. His targets were Turin, Duisburg, Munich, Lorient, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven, Milan, Bremen, Stuttgart.
With 571 Squadron he flew 40 operations (3 day and 37 night operations). His targets were Hamburg, Saarbrucken, Ludwigshafen, Berlin, Brunsbüttel, Cologne, Hannover, Leverkusen, Gelsenkirchen, Bremen, Homberg, Wesseling /Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Wanne-Eickel, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Kiel, Essen, Mannheim, Brunswick, Wilhelmshaven, Cologne, Wiesbaden, Duisburg, Hagen, Ludwigshafen.
Includes numerous newspaper clipping about operations and navigation maps.
Served at RAF North Luffenham, RAF Wyton, RAF Upwood, RAF Warboys, RAF Oakington, RAF Hullavington, RAF Bruntingthorpe. Aircraft flown were Wellington, Ventura, Lancaster, Mentor, Manchester, Lysander, Mosquito, Warwick, Oxford, Tiger Moth, B17 Flying Fortress.
He flew 18 night operations with 83 Squadron, being shot down on the last one. His targets were Turin, Duisburg, Munich, Lorient, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven, Milan, Bremen, Stuttgart.
With 571 Squadron he flew 40 operations (3 day and 37 night operations). His targets were Hamburg, Saarbrucken, Ludwigshafen, Berlin, Brunsbüttel, Cologne, Hannover, Leverkusen, Gelsenkirchen, Bremen, Homberg, Wesseling /Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Wanne-Eickel, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Kiel, Essen, Mannheim, Brunswick, Wilhelmshaven, Cologne, Wiesbaden, Duisburg, Hagen, Ludwigshafen.
Includes numerous newspaper clipping about operations and navigation maps.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Norman Mackie’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book. Two,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 28, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/45748.
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