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RAF 158 Squadron navigator's raid log/chart - L'Hey

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Code: P23580

RAF Form 441. Approximately 28 x 43.5cm (opened out) x 1. Document relating to a Bomber Command raid to Nothern France, by a Halifax crew of 158 Squadron on 2nd August 1944. We beleive this was part of a 394 strong aircraft raid with 234 Lancasters, 99 Halifaxes, 40 Mosquitoes, 20 Stirlings and 1 Lightning attacking a flying bomb launch site and associated supply sites. It names the aircraft captain, Squadron Leader Thomas Lindsey Parry (DFC/bar, 106234), and navigator, Pilot Officer Eric Geoffrey Huband (DFC, 184967), gives the weather forecast and details the flight from take off from RAF Lissett at 1846hrs, crossing the coast at 2035hrs and bombs being dropped at 2040hrs. They landed back at base at 2228hrs. Numerous entries and checks are recorded throughout the sheets. Annotated 'Below Average' with various criticisms, suggestions/observations. 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 P23580.

1 sheet plus map.