Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

John,

Happy to let you have any info about 1661 HCU that I find or that anyone can send.

Have you found anything so far? I'll have a look through what I've got, although it's a bit limited so far!

Regards,

Ronald

James, Thanks for your reply, that's a very interesting & helpful post on the Forum you've directed me to. If anyone has access to any 1661 HCU ORB's or related documents covering the period concerned (September 1944), I'd be pleased to hear from them. In the meantime, I've e-mailed the RAF Muse...

Alan,

Thanks for that, it clarifies that point.

Ronald

Hello John, Thanks for your reply & for your diligence in tracking it down – seems to be a bit of a mystery! So, if I understand correctly, the Stirling with serial number LK716 didn’t exist (so this serial number entered in the flight engineer’s Flying Log Book must have been an error, although...

Hello John, Thanks for your reply, much obliged. However, whilst the aircraft you point out was from 1661 HCU at RAF Winthorpe, it doesn’t seem to correspond with “my” crew’s crash landing because the incident in Chorley’s book was the day before, had a different serial number & the captain &...

Thanks James, much appreciated.

Look forward to seeing if anyone else can help.

Can anyone help please regarding the crash landing of a Stirling on 26 September 1944, in which my uncle Flight Sergeant Ronald Quiney was navigator. My uncle was coming to the end of his training at 1661 HCU at RAF Winthorpe. The flying log books of the flight engineer & wireless operator of th...