Auction Catalogue

22 September 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 492

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22 September 2000

Estimate: £300–£400

R.A.F. Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book, for the period October 1943 to December 1945, kept by Sergeant N. Newman, No. 13 Squadron, Royal Air Force, together with a good wartime photograph album containing 46 photographs, mostly of aircraft, including several aerial shots, good condition (2) £300-400

Sergeant N. Newman joined No. 13 Squadron in May 1944, as part of the Desert Air Force in Italy. As an Air Gunner in Baltimores and Bostons, he completed 62 operational night sorties against targets in Italy. The squadron gave close support to the Eighth Army in its final assault on the German forces in Italy, most of its bombing being done on timed runs from Army landmark beacons.