Notebook
Item
Title
Notebook
Description
A navy blue hardcover notebook with a burgundy spine. This notebook belonged to Bruce McPherson while training at No. 18 Operational Training Unit, RAF Finningley, York and No. 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit, Sandtoft, York. Bruce trained as a bomb aimer and would go on to fly 29 operations with No. 12 Squadron, Bomber Command Group #1.
Written on the front cover of the notebook is:
P/O McPherson C. B.
v40004 R.C.A.F.
NO 18, O.T.U.
Finningley
York,
1667 H.C.U.
Sandtoft
York,
The contents of the notebook feature handwritten notes, diagrams and sketches for bomber operations:
- Mark 14 Bombsight
- Procedures for bombing (on ground, night, blind bombing,
- Crossing the English Coast
- Nickel raids
- Synthetic bombing
- Lancaster Bomb stations
- Ground Check and before flight
- Bomb angle and sighting angles
- Wireless signals, Morse code
- R.T. procedure, language
- Day landing
- Darky (or Darkie) procedure
- Flying control
- Airmanship
- Navigation (conventional signs, maps, position, maps)
- Astro Definitions
- Coastlines
- H25 Installation Halifax and simple faults
- Diagrams of controls
- bombs and components
Written on the front cover of the notebook is:
P/O McPherson C. B.
v40004 R.C.A.F.
NO 18, O.T.U.
Finningley
York,
1667 H.C.U.
Sandtoft
York,
The contents of the notebook feature handwritten notes, diagrams and sketches for bomber operations:
- Mark 14 Bombsight
- Procedures for bombing (on ground, night, blind bombing,
- Crossing the English Coast
- Nickel raids
- Synthetic bombing
- Lancaster Bomb stations
- Ground Check and before flight
- Bomb angle and sighting angles
- Wireless signals, Morse code
- R.T. procedure, language
- Day landing
- Darky (or Darkie) procedure
- Flying control
- Airmanship
- Navigation (conventional signs, maps, position, maps)
- Astro Definitions
- Coastlines
- H25 Installation Halifax and simple faults
- Diagrams of controls
- bombs and components
Date
Identifier
025.038.031