Personnel Index - Detail
It is not recorded that F/O Johnson-Biggs flew operations with 49sqn.
The following text appears on the 214Sqn website.
It would appear likely that this is the airmen who was the AGLT Officer with 49Sqn.
Flt/Lt W A 'Johnny' Johnson-Biggs DFC, Rear Gunner :
Johnny, with his wife, was a regular attender at Reunions until 2004 when age and ill health prevented him from coming.
His story, "How I became an air gunner" was published in the Winter/Spring 2006 edition of the Nightjar.
He joined the RAF in 1935 and trained as a medical orderly in the rank of ACl and ended the war as a Flt/Lt. with a DFC .
He flew a total of 67 ops as a rear gunner (a few as mid-upper) with 214 on Stirlings and 15, 97 and 619 Squadrons on Lancasters.
He was also credited with shooting down two night fighters. He was awarded the DFC on June 30th. 1944.
Johnny died on February 14th. 2007 aged 96