Lionel Horner’s Royal Air Force Air Navigator’s Flying Log Book
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Lionel Horner’s Royal Air Force Air Navigator’s Flying Log Book
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Lionel Horner’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book as an Air Navigator from 29th June 1942 until 10th September 1945.
Navigation training at the Pan American Airways Navigation Section, Miami and then Advanced Flying Unit in England. Posted to 29 Operational Training Unit in 1943 followed by 1661 Conversion Unit.
Posted to 50 Squadron for operations.
Served at RAF Bobbington (Halfpenny Green), RAF Skellingthorpe, RAF Sturgate.
Aircraft flown were Avro Commodore, Anson, Wellington, Manchester, Lancaster III.
With 50 Squadron he flew 33 bombing operations (3 day and 30 night). His targets were Nurnberg, Leverkusen, Berlin, Hannover, Mannheim, Bochum, Hagen, Munich, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Stettin, Brunswick, Augsburg, Farge, Nordhausen, Ijmuiden.
He also flew one Cook’s Tour, one Operation Post-Mortem (Flensburg) and four Operation Dodge (Pomigliano).
His pilots on operations were Flight Sergeant Lloyd, Flight Lieutenant Lees, Pilot Officer Dobbyn, Pilot Officer Durham and Flight Lieutenant Morgan.
Includes the following hand written note “Skipper court martialled and reduced to the ranks for low flying over aeffield [airfield]”.
Navigation training at the Pan American Airways Navigation Section, Miami and then Advanced Flying Unit in England. Posted to 29 Operational Training Unit in 1943 followed by 1661 Conversion Unit.
Posted to 50 Squadron for operations.
Served at RAF Bobbington (Halfpenny Green), RAF Skellingthorpe, RAF Sturgate.
Aircraft flown were Avro Commodore, Anson, Wellington, Manchester, Lancaster III.
With 50 Squadron he flew 33 bombing operations (3 day and 30 night). His targets were Nurnberg, Leverkusen, Berlin, Hannover, Mannheim, Bochum, Hagen, Munich, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Stettin, Brunswick, Augsburg, Farge, Nordhausen, Ijmuiden.
He also flew one Cook’s Tour, one Operation Post-Mortem (Flensburg) and four Operation Dodge (Pomigliano).
His pilots on operations were Flight Sergeant Lloyd, Flight Lieutenant Lees, Pilot Officer Dobbyn, Pilot Officer Durham and Flight Lieutenant Morgan.
Includes the following hand written note “Skipper court martialled and reduced to the ranks for low flying over aeffield [airfield]”.
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Multi-page printed book with handwritten entries
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Lionel Horner’s Royal Air Force Air Navigator’s Flying Log Book,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed January 15, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/49815.
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