Six Sacks of Potatoes

Click on the link below to open one of the monthly operations reports or summaries. What they show is surprising. Some crews, perhaps the more experienced ones, flew many more missions than junior crews. Planes were treated interchangeably; crews may have a different plan from one mission to the next.

407 Squadron had over 90 pilots for, on average, about 16 aircraft. Even with two pilots per flight, an aircraft was shared among 3 flight crews.

The operations records, of course, record only operations, and not the many hours spent in training and training flights. The records for the second half of 1944 indicate the problems caused by bad weather. Ops went ahead, while training missions were often scrubbed.