Enlistment details – to be added after checks and confirmation of Service Numbers – please make contact if you believe there are errors in initials, or given names, or Service Numbers.
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Additional Crew Information – more to be added, Service numbers are as applicable at 462 Squadron.
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Crew Ops – extra detail to be added (Totals are Ops "tasked", with some DNTO (did not take off); recall; abandoned, or early return).
Pilot Edward Peter LANDON Tasked with 38 Ops, (1 landing away with mishap; 2nd landing away; 3 early returns; one attacked alternate target.
Second Pilots – Robert Douglas LANGTON x 1 Op
Kenneth Ernest Mark MARSH x 1 Op (KIA with crew 12 Oct 1943);
W/Cdr William Taylor RUSSELL x 1 Op (photo with LANDON and KANE on 462 Squadron Middle East page.
Observer H REDMAN x 35 Ops with LANDON; 1 with KOFOED; 1 with RHV THOMAS; 4 with St PIERRE (Total 41 Ops tasked)
Substitute Observer – L J P DUNLOP x 2; D Q WATSON x 1
Wireless Operator Charles Kenneth TURNER – 18 Ops with LANDON, did not fly Ops with other crews (Total 18 Ops tasked)
Wireless Operator J MARTIN – 16 Ops with LANDON; plus Ops with possibly 7 other pilots (Total ?? Ops tasked, needs more research)
(Not to be confused with W/Op P H MARTIN with another crew, but twice listed in 2 crews on the same Op)
Substitute Wireless Operator – J ROBERTSON x 4 Ops (needs more research, also A ROBERTSON as W/Op; perhaps the same person?)
Tail Gunner Leonard Charles DOAK x 25 Ops with LANDON, 2 with BAKER (Total 27 Ops tasked)
Tail Gunner H J DUNNE x 8 Ops with LANDON, also Ops with BUSKELL, WARNER, HARRISON, D J MCINTOSH (Total 37 Ops tasked)
Substitute
Tail Gunners – Raymond Llewellyn FENNEL x 2 Ops (KIA with MF HALL Crew 12 Oct 1943);
Gordon John SHEPPARD x 1 Op; Edwin Raymond WALLER x 2 Ops.
Flight Engineer K O ROLFE x 38 Ops with LANDON, 2 Ops with BROWNE (Total 40 Ops tasked)
(or K O ROLPHE ?)
Mid-Upper Gunner R S WARRENDER x 15 Ops; 2 with BAKER, 1 with HALLEY (Total 18 Ops tasked)
Substitute Mi Gunner Edwin Raymond WALLER x 1 Op (also with Crew as Tail Gunner)
Bomb Aimer Harry POPE x 37 Ops with LANDON; also Ops with WARNER, KOFOED, KNIGHT, RHV THOMAS (Total 48 Ops tasked).
No other B/Aimer listed for this crew's Ops.
It is assumed that when Bomb Aimers were not listed in the ORB, the bombing duties were carried out by the Observer on approach to the target.
If you can assist with correct initials, or given names, or Service Numbers of anyone listed above – please make contact.
Table of Op Details, including dates, aircraft identification, Targets, actions – to be added.
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