550 Squadron Log Books

F/O A C Bothe & Crew

Sgt Fred Knight flew as a rear gunner with the F/O A C Bothe crew (and others) in early-mid 1945. The F/O Bothe crew is listed below:

• F/O A C Bothe RAAF (P)
• F/Sgt J H Andrews (F/Eng)
• F/Sgt A S Wiltshire RNZAF (Nav)
• F/O S W Collins (A/B)
• Sgt B J Williams (W/Op)
• Sgt H W Barton (MU/AG)
• Sgt F R Knight (R/AG)

The pictures below are from Fred Knight's log books, showing a mix of flights with HCU prior to joining 550 Squadron, training flights after joining 550 and live ops while with the squadron. Look out for comments like "piece of cake" and "bags of flak".

	Training in Wellingtons with 16 OTU Log book pages scanned and kindly made available by Christian Wood
	Training with 1667 HCU, Sandtoft Log book pages scanned and kindly made available by Christian Wood
	Ops with 550 Squadron March/April 1945 Log book pages scanned and kindly made available by Christian Wood
	Flights with F/Sgt Blower July 1945 Log book pages scanned and kindly made available by Christian Wood

Christian is trying to find out about the crew: if any of the crew are still alive, what happened after they disbanded, what happened when they returned to civvy street, etc. If you have any information then please email the web-site so that the information can be passed on. The email address is available from the Contact link at the bottom of the page.

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