Hammer

£150

WW2 RAF North Africa Campaign Air Gunner's Medals & Logbook. Recording the RAF career of flying Officer N.S. Thomas who flew operationally with 37 Squadron.
1939/45 Star, Africa Star, clasp North Africa 1942-43, Defence Medal, War Medal. Mounted as originally worn ... Aircrew Logbook covering the period 1st November 1941 to 24th July 1944 including 6 Operations ... Air Gunner's brevet badge ... Side cap badge ... RAF Service and Release book ... Correspondence regarding medal issue ... etc. Flying Officer N S Thomas, originally served in the ranks of the Territorial Army before volunteering and transferring to the RAF qualifying as an Air Gunner. He was posted to 37 Squadron operating the Wellington bomber in North Africa in November 1942 and flew his first op to Crete on the 24th December 1942. By the 18th January 1943 he had completed 6 operations, one of these involving a flight to Malta on the on the 8th January and a crash landing on the 11th January. After a short posting with 70 Squadron he returned to the UK as a Gunnery Instructor with AGS. He was demobbed from the RAF on the 8th January 1946.