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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 315

Pilot's Flying Log Books of Flight Lieutenant J. S. McWallace, Royal Air Force

Pilot's Flying Log Books (3), Form 414, covering dates 20 December 1943-30 August 1949, 5 September 1949-19 April 1963 and 26 March 1963-26 March 1967, closing total 3535.00hrs, good very fine and a good complete set (3)

J. S. McWallace flew some 12 hours dual and 15 minutes solo as a Leading Aircraftman (No. 1627762) from 26 EFTS, Theale, Reading in a Tiger Moth before going to 25 EFTS and training on the Cornell. Having been through his OTU, he flew the Thunderbolts of No. 79 Squadron in Burma in the summer of 1945. His first sortie was a bombing and strafing Op on Kyaukkyi on 16 July, flying another 4 sorties with another aborted before the month was out.

McWallace joined No. 41 Squadron in May 1948. He flew Meteors with No. 4 Squadron in 1954, before single-seat Pioneers of No. 215 & 230 Squadron. The Log Book covers the period in which he is flying Whirlwind helicopters of No. 225 Squadron in Malaya and the same craft for No. 22 Squadron. During this period, McWallace participated in a number of operations, doing a medivac on 13 January 1964, before no less than six troop lifts before the month was out. He also took the famous War Correspondent Noyes Thomas for a forward area on a Press Visit on 24 January. Lifting out a 42 Commando 'tracker team' on 22 March, practicing roping for 'D' Company, 1/6th Gurkha Rifles on 14 April and dropping Paras into the Klauh Range on 10 June, it was a busy time for McWallace. By 1965, he was with 'B' Flight, No. 22 Squadron.

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