Personnel Index - Detail

Name
HORNIGOLD
First Names
William
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
2219234
Crew Position
Air Gunner
Posting In
Posted in 1/45

 

This airman flew as a rear gunner on 17 operations.





Bill's logbook with details of the raid on Naval installations at Sassnitz on March 6th 1945 (Sassnitz is north of Peenemünde)
Click the image or this link for the detailed records that were taken (4.5Mb - opens in a new window).



AC2 Hornigold's Air Gunner qualification.



Click the image or this link for a larger version (opens in new window)



An interesting page from Bill's logbook which shows the raid on the German town of Wesel prior to the Rhine crossings.

Click the image or this link to view the pages of Bill's logbook that contain operations and details of the PoW repatriation flights (opens in a new page).

Click this link for a list of the intelligence debriefs from the above raids (a PDF document - opens in a new window).

Operations spreadsheet and defriefs compiled by Ed Norman (Association Archivist)

All images courtesy of Phil Lowes.

"Posted out" 2001.