At one point it was hoped that Luftwaffe WWII pilots might join our virtual crew-room, but it was not to be. Even the stories of deceased fathers, etc, have been related by their children using this invaluable and precise record.

All the stories were woven on the armatures of various RAF Form 414's (Pilots Flying Log Book) of course. Sadly, we have lost many of the members who qualified per the OP and told their stories of wartime recruitment, training, and operations, but happily we have Danny42C, who dive-bombed the Japanese Army in Burma for a living, having been trained in the USA Arnold Schools for his RAF wings.

Siko (if I may?), the Gaining an RAF Pilots Brevet in WWII thread is now well into its 10th year.

Siko's Luftwaffe and RAF Flugbuch/logbook collection - Militaria Forums If you don't want to click on the link then feel free to google 'Siko Luftwaffe' and it's the first hit. If anyone is interested, probably not I know, I have put a lot of my collection into a thread on another forum which is linked below, with some of the most interesting stuff at the end. I have some really interesting logbooks if you're a fellow history buff and that way inclined: 2 TAF Typhoon pilot, Me109 ace, Ju88/He177 and finally Me262 pilot (surely unique?), FW190 squadron commander in Italy/Curland, Ju87 attack pilot on the Eastern front and many more covering much of the air war in Europe during WW2. This lead to a rather large (and one very well-hidden from Mrs Siko) collection appearing in my office, including both RAF and Luftwaffe WW2 pilot's logbooks (Flugbuch in German) and I thought I'd share it with you here, as there seems to be a lot of interest in military aviation history on the forum. Luckily he changed his mind and gave them to me, and I started researching Fg Off Stringer's amazing career and short life.finding records of Blenheim missions over Norway, gun camera footage of his kills over the Bay of Biscay, Beaufighter attack missions from Malta and sadly ending clinging to a fuel tank from his shotdown Beaufighter. Very geeky and sad I know, but does anyone else have any interest in these amazing items of history, we used ourselves not so long back to record our flying careers? A fellow pilot at work was about to throw out two musty old logbooks he'd had since a child, given to him by his dad, who was a fellow WW2 pilot and a colleague of one Fg Off RG Stringer DFC.

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