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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.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Aircraft in which flown: Tiger Moth, Harvard, Whitley III, Whitley IV, Halifax I, Halifax II, Oxford, Lancaster I, Lancaster III, Lancaster VI, Mosquito IV, Liberator I. Expeditor, Beechcraft, B-29, Goose, North Star, Dakota III, Dakota IV and Mitchell.
Records a total of 64 operations (63 night, one day). Targets in Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and Norway were: Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Brest, Caen, Cologne, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Emden, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kiel, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Milan, Munich, Nuremberg, Nurnberg, Osnabruck, Paris, Pilsen, Saarbruck, Schweinfurt, Stuttgart, Trondheim, Turin, Vegesack and Warnemunde. His first or second pilots on operations were Sergeant Williams, Sergeant Hammond, Pilot Officer Field, Pilot Officer Dobson, Sergeant Murray and Sergeant John. Records four flights with Flight Lieutenant G. L. Cheshire in October 1941. Post war flights include “FIRST RCAF ROUND - THE - WORLD FLIGHT” January and February 1950.]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> Czech Republic]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Norway]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Alberta--Edmonton]]> British Columbia--Vancouver]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Manitoba--Dauphin]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> France--Brest]]> France--Caen]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy--Turin]]> Norway--Trondheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Ontario]]> Alberta]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Manitoba]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1956]]> 1941-11-07]]> 1941-11-08]]> 1941-11-09]]> 1941-11-10]]> 1941-12-11]]> 1941-12-12]]> 1941-12-18]]> 1941-12-30]]> 1942-03-03]]> 1942-03-04]]> 1942-03-08]]> 1942-03-09]]> 1942-03-13]]> 1942-03-14]]> 1942-03-30]]> 1942-03-31]]> 1942-04-27]]> 1942-04-28]]> 1942-05-04]]> 1942-05-05]]> 1942-05-08]]> 1942-05-09]]> 1942-05-19]]> 1942-05-20]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-05-31]]> 1942-06-01]]> 1942-06-02]]> 1942-06-03]]> 1942-06-16]]> 1942-06-17]]> 1942-06-19]]> 1942-06-20]]> 1942-06-21]]> 1942-06-22]]> 1942-06-23]]> 1942-06-25]]> 1942-06-26]]> 1942-06-29]]> 1942-06-30]]> 1942-07-02]]> 1942-07-03]]> 1942-07-19]]> 1942-07-20]]> 1942-07-21]]> 1942-07-22]]> 1942-07-23]]> 1942-07-24]]> 1942-07-25]]> 1942-07-26]]> 1942-07-27]]> 1942-07-30]]> 1942-07-31]]> 1942-08-01]]> 1942-10-13]]> 1942-10-14]]> 1942-10-15]]> 1942-10-16]]> 1942-10-24]]> 1942-10-25]]> 1942-11-09]]> 1942-11-10]]> 1942-11-22]]> 1942-11-23]]> 1942-12-31]]> 1943-01-01]]> 1943-02-03]]> 1943-02-04]]> 1943-02-05]]> 1943-02-14]]> 1943-02-15]]> 1943-02-25]]> 1943-02-26]]> 1943-02-27]]> 1943-03-01]]> 1943-03-02]]> 1943-03-03]]> 1943-03-04]]> 1943-03-08]]> 1943-03-09]]> 1943-03-10]]> 1943-03-11]]> 1943-03-12]]> 1943-03-27]]> 1943-03-28]]> 1943-03-29]]> 1943-03-30]]> 1943-04-04]]> 1943-04-05]]> 1943-04-14]]> 1943-04-15]]> 1943-04-16]]> 1943-04-17]]> 1943-11-17]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-12-16]]> 1943-12-17]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-21]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-22]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-07-18]]>
He flew a total of 30 operations with 57 Squadron (24 by night and six by day), targets were Darmstadt, Koningsberg, Bergoneuse, Stuttgart, Bremerhaven, Rheydt, Munster, Karlsruhe, Kaiserlauten, Bremen, Brunswick, Nuremburg, Dusseldorf, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Hamburg, Gravenhorst, Trondheim, Munich, Heinbach dam, Oslo, Royan, Leuna, Siegen, Cologne, Wilhelmshaven, Veerk, Homburg, Duren and Ladbergen. His pilot for his first 'second dickie' operation was Squadron Leader Fairburn. After December 1944 he instructed and then flew transport operations in the Far East.

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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Norway]]> France--Royan]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Homburg (Saarland)]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Bremerhaven]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hörstel]]> Germany--Kaiserslautern]]> Germany--Ladbergen]]> Germany--Leuna]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rheydt]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Norway--Oslo]]> Norway--Trondheim]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1944-08-27]]> 1944-08-29]]> 1944-08-30]]> 1944-08-31]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-18]]> 1944-09-19]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-24]]> 1944-09-26]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-11]]> 1944-10-14]]> 1944-10-15]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-03]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-07]]> 1944-11-11]]> 1944-11-12]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-23]]> 1944-11-26]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-12-10]]> 1944-12-29]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-04]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]>
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Their first operation was to Konigsberg, an eleven-hour trip but had to divert to Scotland because of bad weather. Several ‘bullseye’ feint operations were next before a raid on Bremen Docks was a failure due to navigator error.
Another operation was to Dusseldorf, carried out on a perfect moonlit night. An attack by a Me109, left the rear gunner severely wounded and the mid upper turret out of action. After fifteen minutes of corkscrew evasive action, the enemy fighter flew alongside, waggled his wings and flew off. Keith comforted the rear gunner until they made an emergency landing in England. Examination of the damaged aircraft revealed the emergency whistle of the mid upper gunner had deflected a bullet and saved his life. On an operation to Trondheim, the crew were unable to bomb so returned but had a lucky escape when they flew too low and hit the sea, tearing off the tail wheel and causing a crash landing for which the pilot received a red endorsement
Their last operation was to Siegen and in mid flight the navigator wanted to turn back so the pilot ordered Keith to map read the route from the nose of the aircraft and so he finished his first tour on 1st February 1945.
After time as a bombing instructor at RAF Swinderby, Keith was posted to Sudan as an air traffic controller from where he was demobbed.
He worked as a salesman until 1984, during which time he joined 57/630 Squadron association.
Keith feels angry at the treatment of Arthur Harris and considers the aircrew clasp as a pathetic gesture.]]>
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