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An Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book. The Log Book of Air Gunner Pilot Officer J. Austen, Royal Air Force, covering the period 15 November 1942 to 30 March 1944 (when shot down during the Nuremburg Raid and taken Prisoner of War); together with the recipient’s Prisoner of War scrap book, good condition (2) £180-£220 John Austen served during the Second World War as an Air Gunner initially with 158 Squadron (Halifaxes), and flew his first operational sortie on 16 February 1943, a bombing raid on Lorient. The recipient records in his Log Book ‘Flak Moderate. Bombed 10,000’ Lost one engine over channel’. Further operational sorties included Wilhelmshaven; Nuremburg; Cologne; Duisburg; Berlin (27 March 1943: ‘Heavy intense flak from 100 miles to target. Aircraft damaged’); Essen; Keil; Stuttgart (14 April 1944: ‘JU88 seen and evaded at target’); Pilsen (16 April 1944: ‘Low level attack on Skoda Works’); Dortmund; Duisburg (12 May 1943: ‘Searchlights and Flak intense. Port Aerloin and Starboard Inner Engine damaged from flak two hits on turret. Returned from target on 3 engines’); Dusseldorf; Le Creusot; Wuppertal; and Gelsenkirchen, this final sortie taking place on the night of 25-26 June 1943. Austen records in his Log Book: ‘Awarded D.F.C. on completion of 30 Operational Trips’, although no reference of this award has been found. After a spell at the Central Gunnery School, Austen was posted to 640 Squadron (Halifaxes), and began his second operational tour on 15 February 1944, a raid on Berlin. Further operational sorties included Leipzig (20 February 1944: ‘Attacked by FW190’); Stuttgart; Sweinfurt; Augsburg; Trappès; Le Mans; Frankfurt; Berlin (24 March 1944: ‘FW190 shot down in target’); and Essen. Austen was shot down and taken Prisoner of War during the Nuremburg Raid, 30 -31 March 1944. Held at Stalag Luft 1, he was repatriated following the cessation of hostilities. Sold together with a photograph of the recipient; and other ephemera.
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An Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book. The Log Book of Navigator 1395184 Warrant Officer D. V. H. Evans, Royal Air Force, covering the period 24 November 1942 to 20 February 1944, good condition £80-£120 D. V. H. Evans served as a Navigator with 550 Squadron (Lancasters), and was shot down by a night fighter east of Hannover en route to Leipzig on 20 February 1944, and was taken Prisoner of War. Previous sorties, commencing on 27 August 1943, had included Nuremburg; Munchen Gladbach; Hannover (2); Mannheim; Stuttgart; Leipzig (2); Kassel; and six raids on ‘the Big City’ Berlin.
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The History of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 8th Battalion 1939-47, by Lieutenant-Colonel A. D. Malcolm, O.B. E., published by Thomas Nelson & Sons., 1949, 284pp., hardback; together with two bound volumes of ‘Argyllshire Highlanders News’, from the 1920s; a Historical Calendar of the Princess Louise’s 91st (Originally 98th) Highlanders, 75pp., hardback; a short History of the Argyll and Sutherland Highalanders (Princess Louise’s) 1794-1939, 60pp., softback; a Nationality Return of the 91st Highlanders, published in 1910, 12pp., softback; and a copy of 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Battalion and Company Order 1907, the outside cover inscribed ‘Capt. S. Coates’, generally reasonable condition (7) £60-£80
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Obituaries from The Times. Three Volumes, covering the period 1951-75, edited by William Rees-Mogg, published by Newspaper Archive Developments Ltd., 1978, hardback, with dust jackets, good condition A History of the Peninsular War. Three Volumes, Volume III: September 1809 to December 1810, by Sir Charles Oman, published by Greenhill Books 1996; Volume V: October 1811 to August 1812, by Sir Charles Oman, published by Greenhill Books 1996; Volume VIII: The Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded 1808-14, by John A. Hall, published by Greenhill Books 1998, all hardback, with dust jackets, good condition The Blitz - Then and Now Three Volumes, edited by Winston Ramsey, published by After the Battle Publications, 1990, hardback, with dust jackets, good condition Together with two scrapbooks containing a plethora of Royal Navy and British and Indian Army Regimental crests &c., as taken from the headers of writing paper, invitations, Christmas cards &c., incomplete but a most comprehensive selection (11) £60-£80
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A selection of Books and Pamphlets on the Imperial Japanese Forces. Including various Handbooks on Japanese Military Forces, published by the War Department, United States Government during the Second World War; a Japanese Military Dictionary; various Periodical Notes on the Japanese Army, published by the War Office during the Second World War; Japanese Army of World War II, by Philip Warner, published by Osprey, 1973, as part of their ‘Men-at-Arms series, 40pp, softback; Japanese Army Handbook 1939-1945, by A. J. Barker, published by Ian Allen Ltd., 1979, 128pp, hardback, with dust jacket; and Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment, in Japanese with an English summary, 336pp, hardback, with dust jacket, generally good condition £60-£80
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