Been down this road before. I am not messing with the a/c stats.

Its your project, but if you could (and this would be a massive amount of work I suppose) do both the RAF/AASF/NZAF/PAF/CRAF(? Canadian/Poles/NZ/AU). and all the USAAF day by day now that would be really tremendous and awesome.

If I pulled that off, I would probably get the Nobel prize for ...

Thanks Mark and Zovs for your kind words. It was a mixture of joy and pain in the a$$ at times doing it.

Shall we do it all over again in 2029? The museum now has an interesting book on the day to day doings of the AASF, so that would make the 1939 first half of 1940 a little more interesting. And ...

Dear Reader,

FOR YOU, DA VAR ISS OVER!

8-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire XIV)
Still no flying to-day and Squadron activity consisted mainly of celebrating the surrender of Germany was made official to-day by an announcement by Prime Minister Churchill and a stirring speech by the King ...

7-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire XIV)
No flying carried out to-day by 401 Squadron. Everybody is waiting to hear the official announcement by Churchill that Germany has surrendered. It's understood this Announcement will one over the radio to-morrow.

USAAF
ETO: Ninth Air Force P ...

6-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire XIV)
No flying carried out to-day, but something new has been added. Yes, some of the boys who have been wishing they were pushing Spit XIV’s through the air have got their wish. Our old faithful Spit IX's have been replaced by Spit XIV's from No. 185 ...

5-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
Patrols are continued to-day and we carried out 2 four man patrols before 08.00 hrs. Both were uneventful.

2nd TAF
Despite the ending of operations which were supposed to include a complete ban on further flights by Luftwaffe aircraft ...

401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
To-day the weather was not too good for flying and got slowly but steadily worse. We managed to work in only one uneventful Armed Recco. In the GRISHORN/FLENSBURG Area.

However the first official indication that the War is nearly over was received ...

3-5-45
402 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire FRXIV)
Three Armed Recces were carried out in the Bad Sageburg/Kiel/Rendsberg/Klinshorn/Hamburg area. In the second show the Squadron located 8 F1.156's on the ground and thoroughly strafed them. S/L Gordon contacted another not far away flying near ...

2-5-45
169 Sqn (B.116 Great Massingham – Mosquito NFXIX)
Cloudy at first, clearing in the afternoon. Twelve aircraft operated by making low level attacks on two aerodromes, JAGEL and WESTERLAND on SYLT, with drop tanks filled with Napalm Gel. F/O. R. CATERALL DFC, and F/Sgt. D.J. BEADLE his ...

1-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
Low cloud prevented any type of flying other than patrols and this Squadron carried out such patrols.

The first patrol who took off at 14.55 and landed at 16.55 was led by W/C Northcott ( Wing Commander, Ops). This patrol found an FW. 190 in ...

30-4-45
3 Sqn (B.152 Fassberg – Tempest V)
F/0 J.LR. TORPY Led a weather recce to the BRIDGEHEAD AREA at 08.00hrs and found same MET which was attacked, The C. O. led a BRIDGEHEAD PATROL at 09.00hrs with some success. G.C.C, reported Hums and for a change the Squadron found them with the following ...

29-4-45
616 Sqn (B.109 Quackenbrück – Meteor III)
Patrols were carried out in pairs during the day.

S/Ldr. L.W. Watts DFC and F/Sgt. Cartmel B. reported missing. Information received through G.C.C. that Spitfire pilots heard S/Ldr. L.M. Watts DFC. calling F/Sgt. Cartmel to come closer as he was ...

28-4-45
412 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
Fog and low cloud prevented an early start of flying today and this squadron. which was "Joe” for Patrols did not get airborne until 10.15 hours, but by dark, they had carried out 10 Patrols in the area from ZARRENTIN to AHRENSBURG. All ...

27-4-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
The weather was not too good today, but good enough to permit patrols, which 401 was once more in line for. Four man patrols was the order of the day but due to shortage of a/c, the patrols were flown by 8 men. Eleven such patrols were carried ...

26-4-45
438 Sqn RCAF (B.150 Hustedt – Typhoon IB)
No sun is shining and the first “do” was away early. Visibility was very poor in the morning, but improved somewhat later. Five operational missions, all rail interdiction, were reported with good results. <Unreadable> for the day was 17 rail cuts ...

25-4-45
426 Sqn RCAF (Linton-on-Ouse – Halifax VII)
The Squadron was called upon for a Goodwood effort and twenty aircraft commenced take-off at approx 1430 hrs and carried out an attack on Wangerooge, one of the Frisian Islands. Can/R174866 WO2 J.C. Tuplin failed to return from this operation and ...

24-4-45
109 Sqn (Little Staughton – Mosquito BIX)
The daylight operation laid on last night was postponed and then eventually cancelled about midday. A call me through during the morning for 13 A/C for night operations. This was later increased to 18 then reduced to 15 and finally increased to 20 ...

23-4-45
403 Sqn RCAF (B.114 Diepholtz – Spitfire LFXVI)
A good flying day, with the gang airborne at 0530 hours right through to 2057 hours in the evening, which was a very tiring day for most. The squadron has been flying with two pilots short up to to-day, and when J7599 F/L C. S. Yarnrll and ...

22-4-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
Duff weather during most of the day permitted only one 10 man Squadron show. This was an Armed Recce. mission that returned with a claim of 4 tail trucks destroyed and 2 loco’s and 15 rail trucks damaged.

BOMBER COMMAND
22 April 1945
BREMEN ...