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RAF 158 Squadron Navigator's raid chart - Versailles

Code: P23575

RAF Form 441.  Approximately 28 x 43.5cm (opened out).  Document relating to a Bomber Command raid on the locomotive sheds at Versailles, France, by a Halifax crew of 158 Squadron on 7th June 1944.  It names the aircraft captain Squadron Leader Thomas Lindsey Parry (DFC/bar, 106234), Navigator, Sergeant Eric Geoffrey Huband (DFC, 184967), gives the weather forecast and details the flight from take off at their base (Lisset) at 0022hrs to the bomb being fused at 0145hrs, target sighted at 0226hrs, dropping the bombs at 0229hrs and returning to base at 0500hrs.  Numerous entries and checks are recorded throughout and the sheets were annotated post raid in red crayon 'why 3 min diff in ETA' , 'your computing is still careless - 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 P23575.