Most Memorable Operations

Members of Crew on Ops: P/O Bind; P/O Watson; F/O Hutchisson; P/O Featherston; P/O Bowens;
F/O Davis; P/O Chubb; P/O Ruston; P/O Hartnell; S/L Carr; Cpl. Bushnell; A/C Mewett; A/C Gill;
A/C Bennett; A/C Durant; A/C Freeman; A/C Fitzgerald; Sgt. Jones; Cpl. Metcalfe; A/C Britton - DFM; A/C Carns; A/C Deighton; LAC Keeper; A/C Ploughwright; A/C Swinson; LAC Crawford; A/C Caufield; A/C Roberts; A/C Manniok; LAC Steel; LAC Lewis; LAC Layt; Sgt. Humphreys; Cpl. Gumbrill.
 

 Took part in 1st Op Flight, WWII - 9 Ansons parallel track search towards Germany. Took off 6pm. Sep2/39  with 2x100 lb A/S bombs looking for subs etc.  Nov 8/39 - P.T. search, attacked by Heinkel 115. I was navigator, sent messages back in code. Then somehow climbed into pilot seat ( Harry Featherstone) and shot down one Heinkel 115. My air gunner (Lewis), got DFM. Actually shot the Heinkel with Vickers Mark1, front gun.
       May 25/40 flying Hudson, undercarriage collapsed on landing. Plane burst into flames. Crew got out quickly, just before 2x500 lb. a/s bombs exploded.
       Incredible sight, low escorting of Dunkirk evacuation.
       Oct 26/40 low level PRU flight about 200 ft., Bordeaux in Hudson. Took about 100 photos, oblique.
       May 21/41 commanded flight (self & P/O Suckling) PRU Spits, Norway, photographs of Bismark and Prinz Eugen in fjord, started big flap. Two interesting flights - phototype Mosquito and Spitfire racer.
       August 20/41 - Shot down 35 miles north of Brest in Channel, by 3 ME 109s while doing Recce off Brest.
       PRU recce Brest Scharnhorst, Prince Eugen, etc. Shot down at 30,000 feet, landing in a very rough sea.
Remarkable rescue by Germans. Flying boat tried to land on water. Unsuccessful, eventually a large sea going Tug arrived on scene.

PRISON CAMPS: Dulag Luft, Frankfurt, Lubeck; Warburg, Schubin; Stalag Luft III, Sagan(east camp);
                         Mariag und Milag Nord, Tarmstedt.