Lancaster Log Book

My uncle was a navigator in Lancasters and here is one page of his log book with a picture of that crew.



Anyone else here crew in Lancasters or have an interest? If you did let me know and I'll post some more.

KTK

 

Yes, please post more! great stuff!

 

I’m glad there is some interest, my pleasure. Here are a few more pages. I’ll try to scan and post the rest as time permits.

KTK

 

I'm a newbie and not too sure how many pictures I am allowed to post. I can only seem to get one per post. Is that right or am I screwing up some how?

My uncle by the way is alive and well living south of Tuscon. We went down and visited him a couple of years ago and he took me to the air museum and the bone yard. Pretty damn impressive!

KTK

 

great log book pics and great quality above all , easy to decypher.

 

Great stuff, Ken. Thanks for posting these scans.

I see he was at No 7 Air Observer School at Portage Le Prairie, Manitoba in September of 1943. About 6 weeks later and you know how cold it gets in Manitoba.

Anytime you want to post more I think you can see the consensus here. Thanks again

 

You're uncle dropped food supplies over holland, nice!

 

Sorry about that, I'm a newbie and I appreciate your patience. I'll try to put things in the correct place but I'm afraid that I might not be up to speed for awhile as this site is quite a bit larger than what I'm used to.

KTK

 

Great stuff, might want to flag this thread over at this forum:

Topics - 625 Squadron Discussion Forum

 

I have copied Uncle Gus's log book and bit more information. Here is a link to the photobucket site.

KTK

Uncle Gus RCAF pictures by KenHallgren - Photobucket

 

the food supplies drop over Holland was a special truce at the end of the war. Bombers were to fly harmless over Holland and feed the starving poulation by dropping food over cities and in return the Flak and Luftwaffe would not fire. Note that similar attempts had been made before with food from the Swedish Redcross dropped by the RAF during the harsch 1944-45 winter , but most of the food had been confiscated by the Germans who were hungry themselves.

On May 8th 1945, despite the truce there was some damage: Lanc NN806 from 576 Squadron broke its undercariage and swung off the runway at Fiskerton airfield.

 

fantastic log book, thanks so much for taking the time to share with us!

 

I know, I live in The Netherlands

They say people were hurt when the crates dropped down..

Here's more information ( and interesting ):

http://home.clara.net/heureka/lincolnshire/operation-manna.htm

 

My uncle told me that dropping food to the Dutch was one of his fondest memories. To this day there seems to be a special bond between the Canadians and the Dutch. In part I am sure due to this operation.

Thanks for the kind words,

KTK