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Title
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Gomersal, Oliver.
Description
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Ten items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant Oliver Gomersal (b. 1921, 1433231, 139719 Royal Air Force), a memoir, accounts of operations, a list of postings, his logbook and two photographs. Oliver Gomersal was navigator with 621 Squadron stationed in East Africa and Aden. On 2 May 1944 his Wellington successfully attacked a German submarine, U852.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Oliver Gomersal and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
Identifier
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Gomersal, O
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Title
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Oliver Gomersal's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LGomersalO139719v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Description
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Observer's and air gunner's flying log book for Flight Lieutenant Oliver Gomersal from 17 September 1943 to 7 November 1944. He trained as a navigator in Great Britain and in South Africa and was stationed in East Africa and Yemen with 621 Squadron. He carried out 54 operational sorties tasked with convoy escort, patrols and shipping lane sweeps. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Mitchell. On 2 May 1944 his aircraft attacked and crippled a German submarine near Socotra in the Arabian Sea. Aircraft flown were Anson, Oxford and Wellington.
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1942
1943
1944
1943-10-23
1943-10-27
1943-10-29
1943-10-31
1943-12-27
1943-12-30
1944-01-14
1944-01-30
1944-01-31
1944-02-03
1944-02-09
1944-02-10
1944-02-11
1944-02-21
1944-02-28
1944-03-01
1944-03-03
1944-03-08
1944-03-12
1944-03-13
1944-03-18
1944-03-23
1944-03-25
1944-03-26
1944-03-27
1944-03-28
1944-04-07
1944-04-08
1944-04-09
1944-04-19
1944-04-21
1944-05-02
1944-06-16
1944-06-27
1944-07-08
1944-07-27
1944-07-29
1944-07-31
1944-08-01
1944-08-11
1944-08-12
1944-08-16
1944-08-20
1944-08-23
1944-08-24
1944-08-25
1944-09-03
1944-09-16
1944-09-30
1944-10-08
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Arabian Sea
Indian Ocean
Persian Gulf
England--Cumbria
England--Lancashire
Somalia--Mogadishu
South Africa--Oudtshoorn
South Africa--Port Alfred
Wales--Pembrokeshire
Yemen (Republic)--Aden
Yemen (Republic)
Somalia
South Africa
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
621 Squadron
aircrew
Anson
bombing
navigator
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
RAF Silloth
RAF Talbenny
submarine
training
Wellington