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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
Roll of Honour by Cemetery and Country
United Kingdom
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Holland
Poland
Sweden
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Prisoners of War
Evaders
Escapers
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
September 1940
October 1940
November 1940
December 1940
FORM 540 – 1941
January 1941
February 1941
March 1941
April 1941
May 1941
June 1941
July 1941
August 1941
September 1941
October 1941
November 1941
December 1941
Form 540 – 1942
January 1942
February 1942
March 1942
April 1942
May 1942
June 1942
July 1942
August 1942
September 1942
October 1942
November 1942
December 1942
Form 540 – 1943
January 1943
February 1943
March 1943
April 1943
May 1943
June 1943
July 1943
August 1943
September 1943
October 1943
November 1943
December 1943
Form 540 – 1944
January 1944
February 1944
March 1944
April 1944
May 1944
June 1944
July 1944
August 1944
September 1944
October 1944
November 1944
December 1944
Form 540 – 1945
January 1945
February 1945
March 1945
April 1945
May 1945
June 1945
July 1945
August 1945
September 1945
October 1945
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
Wellington
Stirling
Lancaster
Ask a ? – Individuals
Memorial Garden, Mepal
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Aircrew information form – download here
Reuben Birch – Portrait
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