While looking through the logbook of a mid-upper gunner who flew with Coastal Command in 1942 I came across an abbreviation that has me puzzled. On each operation, he notes "anti-submarine patrol, Bay of Biscay" and adds "D.C.O.". I know DNCO stands for Did Not Complete Operation, but have not seen D.C.O. before. Can anyone shed any light? "Did Complete Operation' perhaps?
My father marked every operation he flew as either D.C.O. for "Duty Carried Out" or D.N.C.O. For "Duty Not Carried Out" and usually put down the reason for any D.N.C.O.
Thanks for sharing a page from your Dad's logbook Dave....I see that on Aug 3rd (Isle d'Adam ) our Dad's were on the same operation, a flying bomb storage site I think?
Yes it was a storage depot about 15 km north of Paris. It was also known as BOIS DE CASSAN. On the 3rd of August the H-Hour was 14:00, there was a Master Bomber and Deputy Master Bomber from 582 Squadron directing the attack. The Master Bomber's call sign was ROSEMERE, Deputy's was ROSEMERE 2, the main force call sign was THUNDER and abandon the mission code word was SULTANA. The primary marking was done by 2 Oboe Mosquitos from 109 Squadron and two from 105 Squadron dropping red target indicators. My father's Mosquito (109 Squadron) and the other from 109 Squadron marked successfully from 30,000', and the Oboe controllers estimated their target indicators hit 120 yards and 133 yards from the aiming point. I counted well over 40 aircraft being damaged by flak on this op and that was from a partial list of aircraft damaged on this target. 163 aircraft were damaged by flak on operations that day. Dave
-- Edited by dawallace on Friday 20th of January 2017 09:41:59 AM
