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RAIDS - 1943-45
Date Target Plane Call- Check Pilot FE Nav AB WO MUG RG
sign
25/03/1944 Aulnoye ME642 PH-W Sgt. F/Sgt. F/O Sgt. Sgt. Sgt.
Harris Matthews A. Johnston Lummis E. Parry R. Prescott D.
N. T. WC RCAF A. B. G.
26/03/1944 Essen ND749 PH-J P/O Sgt. F/Sgt. F/O Sgt. Sgt. Sgt.
Sinclair Harris Matthews Johnston Lummis Parry Prescott
W. L. N. A. T. WC RCAF E. A. R. B. D. G.
30/03/1944 Nuremburg ND749 PH-J P/O Sgt. F/Sgt. F/O Sgt. Sgt. Sgt.
Sinclair Harris Matthews Johnston Lummis Parry Prescott
W. L. N. A. T. WC RCAF E. A. R. B. D. G.
09/04/1944 Gardening ND679 PH-F P/O Sgt. F/Sgt. F/O Sgt. Sgt. Sgt.
Sinclair Harris Matthews Johnston Lummis Parry Prescott
W. L. N. A. T. WC RCAF E. A. R. B. D. G.
10/04/1944 Aulnoye ND749 PH-J P/O Sgt. F/Sgt. F/O Sgt. Sgt. Sgt.
Sinclair Harris Matthews Johnston Lummis Parry Prescott
W. L. N. A. T. WC RCAF E. A. R. B. D. G.
20/04/1944 Cologne LM516 PH-D P/O Sgt. F/Sgt. F/O Sgt. Sgt. Sgt.
Sinclair Harris Matthews Johnston Lummis Parry Prescott
WL N. A. T. WC RCAF E. A. R. B. D. G.
These are the six operations undertaken by William with 12 Squadron at RAF
Wickenby. They consist of three Main Force area bombing operations on German
targets. Two French operations and a Gardening Operation. Gardening is the RAF
code word for mine laying. The mines themselves were called ʺVegetables". The
crew laid their sea mines in the Gulf of Danzig, RAF code "Privetʺ.
