Code: P23573
RAF Form 441. Approximately 28 x 43.5cm (opened out). Document relating to a Bomber Command raid to the French coast, just inland from the Omaha beach area, by a Halifax crew of 158 Squadron on 5th June 1944, just prior to D-Day. 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 0108hrs, bombs being dropped at 0325hrs returning to base at 0548hrs. Numerous entries and checks are recorded throughout and the sheets were annotated post raid in red crayon 'LIGHTS OUT!'. 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 the day before D-day. Stock code P23573.
