Page 8 - Alfred Thorpe Turton

The following two pages from Sergeant Turton’s log book show the crew did an ‘X’ country flight
fully loaded with a 12,000 lb bomb load. This exercise familiarizes the pilot to a full operational
bomb load. Landing with this weight would have caused damage to the undercarriage, so it is
likely the bomb load were concrete filled practice bombs and the load would have been released
over a Bombing Range, the nearest range to Fiskerton being Donna Nook, south of Skegness, still
in use today.