Postings and Movements
of 561013 C.C. Harper (Wally)
Flying Log
Canada -
Bermuda - UK - Singapore
Wally's original Flying Log
was destroyed on 31 January1943 during a "special" flight from Bermuda
to Elizabeth City in the USA when the Catalina Flying Boat W8430
did a
water loop and the aircraft was written off. He reconstituted
his log
book ina Royal Canadian Airforce log book from alternative sources.
The copy was certified by Wing Commander Ware the Commanding
Officer
of the base in Bermuda. No flights are recorded for a whole
month
after. The return flight to Bermuda was a month later and is
logged on
the 1 March 1943 as a "special" with Sqdn Ldr Jones in Catalina JX 202.
The
flying log makes interesting reading and includes a hunt
for the battleship Bismarck interrupting the delivery of Liberator
AM923 on 27 May 1941. 9 hours 25 minutes flying time were
expended on
the search out of Gander.
The
log also details some VIP flights including one with Members of the
Bermuda Parliament as passengers.
There is a particularly memorable link to the final page of the log as
this details a flight from Singapore to Heathrow in a Hunting Clan
Airways Brittania. This was Wally's last ever flight and my
very
first.
