Personnel Index - Detail

Name
SULLINGS
First Names
Alan
Rank
Flight Lieutenant
Service
RAF
Service Number
Not known
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
Posted in 5/44 and tour completed 8/44

 

Flew 32 operations with 49Sqn.

The 'lucky' Sullings crew, survivors of a crash landing at Syerston LFS, and a head-on collision with a JU88, had completed one of the quickest tours in 5 Group:

(Back row l to r);
Doug Simmons, rear gunner;
Jim Skidmore, wireless operator;
Johnnie Richards, flight engineer;
Charlie Wright, mid-upper gunner.

(Front row l to r);
Chris Christian, navigator;
Alan Sullings, pilot;
Edgar 'Eddie' Haines, bomb-aimer