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1678 Heavy Conversion Unit
1678 Heavy Conversion Unit trained crews to operate heavy bombers, who had learned to fly in smaller aircraft at the Operational Training Units. Their aircraft werre markde with the squadron code SW.
Airfields which 1678 Heavy Conversion Unit flew from.
- Waterbeach.
- Foulsham.
List of those who served with 1678 Heavy Conversion Unit during The Second World War
- Sergeant Richard "Jock" Day (d.22nd Mar 1944) Read his Story.
- Flt/Sgt. Gordon Stromberg (d.9th June 1944) Read his Story.
Flt/Sgt. Gordon Stromberg 514 Squadron (d.9th June 1944)
My grandmother died not so long ago, and although I had always know about my great uncle who died during the war, it wasn't until clearing out the house that my mother and I came across his flight log book. My great uncle was Flt/Sgt Gordon Stromberg No1386539 a w/op. From his log book he was posted to Waterbeach on November 1943. His first flight was on a Lancaster C on the 25th of November 1943 with no 1678 otu and flew ops with 514 Squadron. His first op was on the 29th of December 1943 to Berlin in a Lancaster S which ditched in the North Sea. He flew various other ops, mostly in C, until he was shot down on 7th June 1944 and died as a POW on 9th June 1944. I am trying to get as much information as possible as we were always told he died with his aircraft until his log book indicated he died two days later as a POW. I would welcome any information that anyone may have or advice on how I might proceed further. It would be great to piece together this family mystery.
Sergeant Richard "Jock" Day 514 Squadron (d.22nd Mar 1944)
My father's brother Sgt R J Day was a wireless operator with 514 Squadron and he was shot down in a Lancaster B2 L.L 684 J.I.N. in the village of Zwartemeer near Emmen(west of the Kamerlingswijk) a mile or so from the German border during an operational flight to or from Frankfurt on the night of 22 March 1944.
The aircraft crew who lost their lives were
- F.O. IJF Rich
- Sgt H John
- Sgt JB Underwood( pilot)
- Sgt AW Johnson
- Sgt RJ Day (wireless operator)
Two members were apparently saved by parachute, but were imprisoned by the Germans. A copy of my uncle's RAF Observers & Air Gunner's Flying Logbook is now in a local museum near to his grave in Neiuw-Dordrecht:
Collectie Brands (Hans Brands), Heerenstreek 11, 7885 AT, Nieuw Dordrecht.
If any surviving family members of the aircrew wish to they can make contact with me.
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