Kenneth Pope's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers

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Kenneth Pope's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers

Description

Royal Air Force flying log book for Sergeant Kenneth Pope, flight engineer, covering the period 25 September 1944 to 17 May 1945, detailing training, and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Winthorpe, RAF Syerston, RAF Waddington. Aircraft flown were the Stirling and Lancaster. He flew 32 operations with 467 Squadron, five night time and 27 daylight. Targets in Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Poland were Bremen, Knolle Dyke, Brunswick, Nuremberg, Flushing, Bergen, Duren, Dortmund Ems Canal, Trondheim, Munich, Heilbronn, Giessen, Erft Dam, Gdynia, Politz, Rheydt, Merseburg Leuna, Most, Siegen, Dresden, Rositz, Ems Weser Canal, Sassnitz, Harburg, Dortmund, Lutzendorf, Wurzburg, Wesel and Farge. His pilots on operations were Squadron Leader Deignan, Flight Lieutenant Cross and Flight Lieutenant Colley. The log book is well annotated with information about diversions, feathered engines, anti-aircraft fire and fighters.

Format

One booklet

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Pending review

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PPopeKMJ18010002

Citation

Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Kenneth Pope's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/9608.

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