The photograph here appears on the opposite page of the diary entry. The photograph is titled: Officers of No.63 Squadron in May 1939 and prior to outbreak of War.
The following margin notes were found next to this photograph:
P/O Coventry missing 1:12:39.
P/O Ing missing from "ops" in France in Battles.
P/O Blom Went through "ops" in France OK. Was blown up by a bomb explosion on an airodrome in England in summer 1940.
F/O Fowler missing off P.R.O sortie November presumed killed 1940.
F/O Corbishley prisoner of war in Italy after flying a Spitfire to Malta. December 1940.
F/O Lawson missing off night "ops" with 9 squadron in Wellington February 1941 Probably ran out of petrol.
P/O Henderson missing off night ops with 149 Squadron. Mildenhall in Wellingtons February 1941. Probably shot down.
P/O Savage missing from night ops in G 1 Group Squadron Wellingtons. May 1941.
F/O Rogers missing off night ops with 99 Squadron Waterbeach in Wellington 19/06/41
P/O Broadsmith missing from "ops" in Middle East-
Hi Deborah,
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't mind me contacting you out of the blue. For sometime I have been researching RAF photo recce operations and aircrew during WWII and whilst searching the internet came across your blog. Two pilots I'm very interested in finding out more about are F/O Fowler and F/O Corbishley who appear in the photo above. I'd very much like to find out anymore info you have on them. My e-mail address is:
von_shagmeister[AT]yahoo.co.uk
(replace [AT] with @)
I hope to hear from you.
Best Regards
Andy