WWII Start 80th Anniversary
An extract from my Dad's logbook marked the start of his war, when he was with 149 Squadron;
(1939) Sept 4th; Wellington 1A; L4259; Pilot Self; Crew FO Macrae, AC Hartnell, Cpl Roberts, AC Wyndham; OPS Brunsbuttel; 4/500lb GP.
He returned safely from that and his next sortie over Germany was 4 years later in September 1943, as a Lancaster pilot. Most of the time in between was in Rhodesia as an instructor with 20 SFTS.
(He completed 4 sorties between 22 Sept and 30 September 1943, and was then shot down on 2nd October near Munich.)
Does anyone else have any record of that Brunsbuttel raid on 4th September? There was another on the same day on Wilhemshaven, with Blenheims and Wellingtons, with many losses to fighters and flak. They were the RAF's first losses in the war.