Hi Andy,Can't find out any of the details that you are looking for but your tribute/site to your dad is brilliant!

Hi andy;

Can't help with your specifc question, but I will share my findings about "official" records of aircraft assignments.

Most published lists of RAF aircraft histories are based on the RAF movement record cards. In my researches of RCAF aircraft in the UK, using squadron level records and crew log books, I have found many examples of aircraft moving between squadrons that were not recorded on the movement record cards. Also, crew could be shared between units when needed. This was often true when you had 2 squadrons with the same equipment within the same Group or Wing, and especially true if the two squadrons shared an airfield. Today we call this "aircraft pooling". It meant that if, for example, a group was asked to supply 20 aircraft for a mission, it would find twenty crews (from wherever) and 20 servicable aircraft (again, from wherever) and match them up for that one day. The first choice would be to use a complete crew with an aircraft from the same unit, but aircrew injuries and illness, plus aircraft servicability, meant you sometimes had to mix and match.

This means that your father's 30th mission is not necessarily unusual. Have you checked other squadron ORBs for missions to Berlin on that date?

-- Edited by Bill Walker at 12:19, 2009-03-01