G B Coombes

Pilot
service number 205836 P.o.W. number 1810  
   
 
   
             
Date Type Aircraft Flight Squadron Crew No. Notes
             
21/05/1943 Wellington X HE529 Mining Schiermonnikoog 466 50  
25/05/1943 Wellington X MS494 Dusseldorf 466 50  
28/05/1943 Wellington X HE212 Sea Search 466 50  
29/05/1943 Wellington X HZ479 Wuppertal 466 50  
             
01/06/1943 Wellington X HE529 Mining Brest 466 50  
12/06/1943 Wellington X HZ279 Mining St Nazaire 466 50  
             
05/07/1943 Wellington X HF602 Mining Brest 466 50  
12/07/1943 Wellington X LN287 Training 466 50 Practice Bombing
13/07/1943 Wellington X LN287 Aachen 466 50  
16/07/1943 Wellington X HF602 Training 466 50 Practice Bombing
18/07/1943 Wellington X HE989 Training 466 50 Formation flying
20/07/1943 Wellington X HE989 Air test 466 50  
24/07/1943 Wellington X HE989 Hamburg 466 50  
25/07/1943 Wellington X HE989 Essen 466 50 Starboard engine u/s
27/07/1943 Wellington X HE989 Hamburg 466 50  
29/07/1943 Wellington X HE989 Hamburg 466 50  
             
01/08/1943 Wellington X HE989 Transit to Harwell 466 50  
01/08/1943 Wellington X HE989 Mining St Nazaire 466 50 Landed at Abingdon
02/08/1943 Wellington X HE989 Return to Base 466 50  
02/08/1943 Wellington X HE989 Hamburg 466 50  
19/08/1943 Wellington X HE989 Training 466 50 RDF co-operation
20/08/1943 Wellington X HE989 Air test 466 50  
20/08/1943 Wellington X HE989 Transit to Stanton Harcourt 466 50 Ops scrubbed, returned to base
23/08/1943 Wellington X HE989 Air test 466 50  
             
22/09/1943 Halifax II W1224 Training 466 50 Circuits and Landings
27/09/1943 Halifax II HR691 Training 466 50 Air to Sea firing
28/09/1943 Halifax II W1224 Training 466 50 Height test
29/09/1943 Halifax II JB927 Training 466 50 Practice Bombing
30/09/1943 Halifax II W1224 Training 466 50 Cross Country
             
03/10/1943 Halifax II W1224 Training 466 50 Cross Country
24/10/1943 Halifax II W1224 Training 466 50 Local flying
             
07/11/1943 Halifax II JB927 Training 466 50 Night Fighter affiliation
11/11/1943 Halifax III HX276 Training 466 50 Local flying
11/11/1943 Halifax III HX266 Training 466 50 Circuits and Landings
12/11/1943 Halifax III HX271 Training 466 50 Bulls Eye
15/11/1943 Halifax III HX266 Training 466 50 Local flying
17/11/1943 Halifax III HX273 Sea Search 466 50  
18/11/1943 Halifax III HX273 Sea Search 466 50  
             
01/12/1943 Halifax III HX276 Mining Terschelling 466 50 Landed at Catfoss
03/12/1943 Halifax III HX274 Mining Terschelling 466 50  
16/12/1943 Halifax III HX247 Training 466 50 H2S test
27/12/1943 Halifax III HX345 Test flight 466 50 Acceptance test
29/12/1943 Halifax III HX343 Berlin 466 50  
             
28/01/1944 Halifax III HX345 Berlin 466 50 Crashed at Biesdorff