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    • Enlistment and training
      • 9/10/41 Aviation Candidate Selection Board, Edinburgh
      • 23/3/42 Reserves to Aircrew Reserve Centre (ACRC)
      • 11/4/42 Initial Training Wing (ITW)
      • 14/7/42 No.3 Elementary Flying Training School (E.F.T.S)
      • 10/8/42 Recommended for Re-Mustering to Unit
      • 29/8/42 Re-Mustered to Unit
      • 10/11/42 No.2 (O) Advanced Flight Unit (Course 87). Millom, Cumbria
      • 6/4/43 No.11 Operational Training Unit, Oakley (11 O.T.U)
      • 24/6/43 No. 1651 Conversion Unit, Waterbeach (1651 C.U.)
    • 75(NZ) Squadron RAF – Tour 1 1943
      • 21/7/43 75(NZ) Squadron RAF, Mepal, Nr. Ely, Cambridgeshire
      • 30/7/43 Mine Laying off the Frisian Islands (Gardening)
      • 2/8/43 Attack Against Targets at Hamburg
      • 6/8/43 Mining in the Gironde Estuary (Gardening)
      • 10/8/43 Attack Against Targets at Nurenburg
      • 12/8/43 Attack Against Targets at Turin
      • 16/8/43 Attack Against Targets at Turin
      • 17/8/43 Attack Against Targets at Peenemunde (Operation HYDRA)
      • 27/8/43 Attack Against Targets at Nurenburg
      • 30/8/43 Attack Against Targets at Munchen-Gladbach
      • 31/8/43 Attack Against Targets at Berlin
      • 5/9/43 Attack Against Targets at Mannheim
      • 8/9/43 Attack Against Targets at Boulogne
      • 15/9/43 Attack Against Targets at Montlucon – Dunlop Rubber Factory
      • 16/9/43 Attack Against Targets at Modane – Railway Yards
      • 22/9/43 Attack Against Targets at Hanover
      • 23/9/43 Attack Against Targets at Mannheim
      • 3/10/43 Attack Against Targets at Kassel
      • 4/10/43 Attack Against Targets at Frankfurt
      • 8/10/43 Attack Against Targets at Bremen
      • 18/11/43 Attack Against Targets at Mannheim
      • 19/11/43 Attack Against Targets at Leverkusen
      • 21/11/43 Tour Expired
    • Between Tours
    • 75(NZ) Squadron RAF – Tour 2 1945
      • 3/12/44 FSGT Zinzan V.J and crew arrived on posting from 1668CU
        • 12/12/44 ATTACK AGAINST WITTEN – Ruhrstahl steelworks
        • 21/12/44 ATTACK AGAINST TRIER – Railway Yards
        • 31.12.44 ATTACK AGAINST VOHWINKEL – Railway Yards
        • 1/1/45 ATTACK AGAINST VOHWINKEL – Railway Yards
        • 3/1/45 ATTACK AGAINST DORTMUND – Benzol Plants
        • 5/1/45 ATTACK AGAINST LUDWIGSHAVEN – Railway Yards
        • 13/1/45 ATTACK AGAINST SAARBRUCKEN – Marshalling Yards
        • 15.1.45 ATTACK AGAINST LANGENDREER – Rober Muser Benzol Plant
        • 16/1/45 ATTACK AGAINST WANNE EICKEL – Benzol Plant
      • P/O Sommerville returns to Mepal
        • 1/2/45 ATTACK AGAINST MUNCHEN-GLADBACH
        • 2/2/45 ATTACK AGAINST WIESBADEN
        • 9/2/45 ATTACK AGAINST HOHENBUDBERG (Krefeld)– Railway Yards
        • 13/2/45 ATTACK AGAINST DRESDEN (Operation Thunderclap)
        • 14/2/45 ATTACK AGAINST CHEMNITZ (Operation Thunderclap)
        • 16/2/45 ATTACK AGAINST WESEL
        • 19/2/45 ATTACK AGAINST WESEL
        • 20/2/45 ATTACK AGAINST DORTMUND
        • 2/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST COLOGNE
        • 4/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST WANNE EICKEL – Oil Refinery
        • 6/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST SALZBERGEN – Wintershall oil refinery
        • 7/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST DESSAU
        • 8/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST DATTELN – Emscher Lippe benzol plant
        • 10/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST GELSENKIRCHEN-BUER – Scholven synthetic oil refinery
        • 12/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST DORTMUND
        • 14/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST HEINRICH HUTTE (Hattingen )- oil plants
        • 17/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST AUGUSTE VIKTORIA (Marl-Hüls) – Benzol Oil Plant
        • 19/3/45 ATTACK AGAINST HAMM – Railway Yards
        • 29/3/45 ATTACK ON SALTZGITTER (Hallondorf in logbook) – Hermann Goering benzol plant
        • 4/4/45 ATTACK ON MERSEBURG – Leuna synthetic oil plant
        • 13/4/45 ATTACK ON KIEL – Howaldtswerke AG, U-Boat Yards
        • 14/4/45 ATTACK ON POTSDAM – Troop Barracks & Railway Facilities. This was the last raid of the war by a major Bomber Command force
    • After the War
  • Dad’s crews
    • Mayfield crew 1943
    • Zinzan crew 1945
  • 75(NZ) Squadron RAF
    • 75(NZ) Squadron RAF History
      • Chapter 1 – The New Zealand Squadron, June-August 1939
    • RAF Stations
      • RAF Marham
      • RAF Feltwell
      • RAF Mildenhall
      • RAF Newmarket
      • RAF Mepal
      • RAF Spilsby
    • Articles……
      • Maori aircrew who served with 75(NZ) Squadron 39-45
      • Jimmy Ward, V.C. – ‘a bloody fine little chap’.
  • Group Photographs
    • 75(NZ) Squadron group photograph, April 1942
    • Squadron group photographs – December 1943
      • 75(NZ) Squadron December 1943
      • ‘C’ Flight 75(NZ) Squadron RAF 1943
    • March/ May 1944 Squadron group photographs
      • 75(NZ) Squadron RAF group photograph March/ May 1944
      • 75(NZ) Squadron RAF Ground Crew 1944
      • Ground crew of 75(NZ) Squadron RAF March/ May 1944 infront of ‘P’
      • ‘A’ Flight group photograph, March 1944 in front of ‘P’
      • ‘B’ Flight group photograph, March/ May 1944 in front of ‘P’
      • Navigators – 1944 (exact date unknown)
    • 1945 Squadron group photographs
      • 75(NZ) Squadron group photograph March 1945
      • ‘A’ Flight group photograph, March 1945 in front of PB820 JN-V
      • ‘B’ Flight group photograph, March 1945 in front of PB820 JN-V
      • ‘C’ Flight group photograph, March 1945 in front of PB820 JN-V
      • Pilots & Flight Engineers, May 1945
      • B Flight Pilots, June 1945.
      • Group Photograph, Air Gunners, Mepal 1945
      • ‘C’ Flight Pilots – June to September 1945 (possibly Tiger Force)
  • Collections
    • New Zealanders in the Air War – John Leonard Wright & the crew of ‘Thomas Frederick Duck’
    • The Memoirs of James Colin Burch, Air Bomber – Young Crew.
    • Richard Melville Curtis RAF 42200 – Pilot. 1939. Uniforms
    • Leonard Roy Gould, Wireless Operator – Lucas crew
    • P/O Clifford Frederick Page, Observer – Nola crew
    • Robert Douglas ‘Jock’ Sommerville – Air Bomber. Mayfield/ Zinzan Crew
      • Medical Enlistment Certificate
      • Clothing Book
      • Service and Pay Book
      • Service and Release Book
    • Arthur Rhys Williams RAFVR 1608118 – Flight Engineer. Hubbard Crew
      • Arthur Rhys Williams – Flight Engineers notes
    • Missing. McCartin crew – the chain of loss.
    • Letters of Loss – Carl ‘Bob’ Freeman, 20th November 1944, Homberg.
    • ‘Sent to Sheffield’ – Ronald Flamank
    • Albert ‘Titch’ Halliday RAFVR 1899145 – Air Gunner. Kilpatrick Crew
      • Albert ‘Titch’ Haliday – Personal photographs
    • Letters home – Jim Haworth. Mallon/ Butler crew.
    • Reuben William Birch RAFVR 1629667 Rear Gunner 1945 – Meharry Crew
      • Reuben Birch – Portrait
      • Reuben Birch – Newspaper clipping
      • Reuben Birch – Medical Enlistment Certificate
      • Reuben Birch – Welcome Letter
      • Reuben Birch – RAFVR Badge Receipt
      • Reuben Birch – RAF Class Science Test
      • Reuben Birch RAF Dental Treatment
      • Reuben Birch – Group Training photo 1
      • Reuben Birch – Group Training photo 2
      • Reuben Birch – Clothing Card
      • Reuben Birch – No.11 ITW Christmas Menu
      • Reuben Birch – RAF Desford Absence Form
      • Reuben Birch – RAF Westcott Sergeants Mess Card
      • Reuben Birch – Aircrew photo 1
      • Reuben Birch – Aircrew photo 2
      • Reuben Birch – Air Speed Indicator calculator
      • Reuben Birch – Fern Leaf Club, guest ticket
      • Reuben Birch – Clearance Certificate
      • Reuben Birch – RAF Absence Pass
      • Reuben Birch – RAF Bruntingthorpe Arrival Form
      • Reuben Birch – Service and Release Book
      • Letter to Ron Birch from Gordon Gunter – The Meharry crew
      • NE181 Test page for layout of parts
  • Squadron crews
    • Pilots starting – Alphabetical index
  • Nominal Roll
  • Crew Logbooks
    • 1939
      • Richard Melville Curtis RAF 42200 – Pilot. 1939
    • 1940
      • Frank Albert Andrews RNZAF NZ391336 – Pilot. 1940 & 1943
      • Malcolm George Harris RAFVR 755984/ 102977 – Navigator. 1940
    • 1941
      • Gwyn Martin RAFVR 981426/ 110857 – Observer. 1941
      • Verdun Cecil ‘Mick’ Strickland RAFVR 956811 – Front Gunner. 1941
      • Paul Burton Chamberlain RAF 33229 – Pilot. 1941
      • Eric Reginald Jones RNZAF NZ404375 – Pilot. 1941
    • 1942
      • Henry John Price RNZAF NZ404095 – Wireless Operator. 1942
      • Andrew John “Jack” Moller RNZAF NZ411770 – Air Bomber. 1942
      • Gerald Howard Jacobson RNZAF NZ41333 – Pilot. 1942
      • Bruce James Hosie NZ412882 – Wireless Operator. 1942 – 1943
    • 1943
      • Donald Gordon McCaskill RNZAF NZ413573 – Pilot. 1943
      • Keith Halliburton RNZAF NZ415411 – Pilot. 1943
      • Hector Alistair Stewart RAFVR 1029882 – Navigator. 1943
      • Robert Douglas ‘Jock’ Sommerville RAFVR 1562617/161049 – Air Bomber. 1943
      • Jack Francis David Jarmy RAFVR 1337320/134695 – Navigator. 1943
      • Thomas Darbyshire RAFVR 1032870 – Mid Upper Gunner. 1943
      • James Colin Burch RAFVR 1434570/ 175383 – Air Bomber. 1943
      • Arthur Russell Young RNZAF NZ421133 – Pilot. 1943
      • Arthur George Bernard RNZAF NZ424964 – Rear Gunner. 1943
      • Alfred Newnham RAFVR 1172993 – Rear Gunner. 1943
    • 1944
      • Euan Wilfred Sachtler RNZAF NZ41362 – Pilot. 1944
      • John Edward Lithgow McFarland RAFVR 1503993 – Navigator. 1944
      • Douglas Hugh Trigg RAAF AUS.419577 – Rear Gunner. 1944
      • Arthur Rhys Williams RAFVR 1608118 – Flight Engineer. 1944
      • Reginald Charles Weeden RAFVR 1602823/ 153661 – Navigator. 1944
      • Patrick Leo McCartin RAAF AUS 88689/ 419328 – Pilot. 1944
      • Philip Francis Smith RAAF AUS. 427206 – Wireless Operator. 1944
      • Laurence Percy Bergman RAAF AUS.424579 – Wireless Operator. 1944
      • Reginald Charles Weeden RAFVR 1602823/ 153661 – Navigator. 1944
      • Richard Pickup RAFVR 18888 – wireless operator 1944
      • John Townson Dickinson RAFVR (2221282) – Mid Upper Gunner. 1944
      • Gordon Ford RAFVR 1523080 – Wireless Operator. 1944
      • Ronald Brown RAFVR 996517 – Flight Engineer . 1944
      • Philip Daniel ‘Paddy’ McElligott RAFVR 1797796 – Rear Gunner. 1944
      • Albert ‘Titch’ Halliday RAFVR 1899145 – Air Gunner. 1944
      • John Lawrence Beard RAFVR 3006185 – Mid Upper Gunner. 1944
      • Gerald Newey RNZAF NZ425285 – Wireless Operator 1944.
    • 1945
      • Sidney George Sizeland RAFVR 196611 – Mid Upper Gunner. 1945
      • James Ernest ‘Jimmy’ Wood RAFVR 1801019/154906 – Air Bomber. 1945
      • Mervyn Price RAFVR 1836910 – Flight Engineer. 1945
      • Reginald Arthur Smith RAFVR 1606544- Rear Gunner. 1945
      • Stanley John Heald RNZAF NZ415319 – Air Bomber. 1945
      • Robert Alfred Jay RAFVR 1596172 – Flight Engineer. 1945
      • Reuben William Birch RAFVR 1629667 Rear Gunner 1945
      • Ivan Hislop RNZAF NZ428181- Navigator. 1945
      • Fred Charles Entwistle Potter RNZAF NZ4215278 – Wireless Operator. 1945.
  • Roll of Honour
    • No. 75 (HD) Squadron 1916 – 1919
    • No. 75 (Bomber) Squadron 1937 – 1940
    • No. 75(NZ) Squadron RAF 1940 – 1945
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  • Prisoners of War
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  • 75(NZ) Squadron RAF Records
    • No. 75 (H.D.) Squadron, No. 75 (Bomber) Squadron RAF ORB’s
      • No. 75 (H.D.) Squadron 1916 – 1919
      • No. 75 (Bomber) Squadron RAF – 1937
      • No. 75 (Bomber) Squadron RAF – 1938
      • No. 75 (Bomber) Squadron RAF – 1939
    • Form 540 – 1940
      • January to April 1940 – No. 75 (Bomber) Squadron
      • February 1940 – New Zealand Squadron
      • March 1940 – New Zealand Squadron
      • April 1940 – New Zealand / 75 (New Zealand) Squadron
      • May 1940
      • June 1940
      • July 1940
      • August 1940
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    • FORM 540 – 1941
      • January 1941
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    • Form 540 – 1942
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    • Form 540 – 1943
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    • Form 540 – 1944
      • January 1944
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    • Form 540 – 1945
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    • Combat Reports AIR 50/192 series
  • The aircraft of 75(NZ) Squadron RAF
    • Wellington (updated 10th November 2016)
    • Stirling (updated 10th November 2016)
    • Lancaster (updated 6th August 2014)
    • Aircraft Operational Lists
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FORM 540 – 1941

Records for this year are as follows:

January 1941
February 1941
March 1941
April 1941
May 1941
June 1941
July 1941
August 1941
September 1941
October 1941
November 1941
December 1941

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