"Seven Skies" by John Pudney has a couple of mentions.It recalls his Berlin airlift uniform as being a boiler suit as they carried cargoes such as coal and flour. That would have been on Dakotas.
"Merchant Airmen" has him flying BOAC Lodestars from Cairo into the Western Desert in support of the army.
"Mosquito"says Captain Pelly returned from North Africa to Leuchars in September 1943.