Code: P23589
RAF Form 441. Approximately 28 x 43.5cm (opened out) x 2. Document relating to a Bomber Command daylight raid to Gladbeck, Germany, by a Halifax crew of 158 Squadron on 6th December 1944. It names the aircraft captain Squadron Leader Thomas Lindsey Parry (DFC/bar, 106234), Navigator, Pilot Officer Eric Geoffrey Huband (DFC, 184967), gives the weather forecast and details the flight from take off at 1445hrs to the bomb being fused at 1559hrs, sighting of the target at 1714hrs, bombs being dropped at 1715hrs returning to base at 1850 and landing at RAF Carnaby (Emergency landing strip) at 1915hrs. Numerous entries and checks are recorded throughout and the sheets were annotated post raid in red crayon 'You still have difficulty in resetting API. Log corrections and try to get some kind of system into your work. Average'. Comes with the section of plotting map used on the raid. The route to and from the target has been marked in pencil with times recorded at various points. Scarce original documents that were actually completed on the bombing raid. Stock code P23589.
2 sheets plus map section.
