'CONTACT'' The National Magazine of the Royal New Zealand Air Force: A call for assis

Dear all,

I’m posting this for a firend who is in his seventies and a leading researcher in things 578 squadron. His pre war Cub scout leader David Wilkerson became a leading bomber pilot and first C.O of 578 squadron based at Burn, Yorkshire. He was killed as a passenger in an internal flight in 1944.

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‘CONTACT’ was the National Magazine of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Magazine. Page 33 of Volume 2 Issue No.4 dated August 1942 contains the first part of an artical entitled ‘A Day in the Life of a Bomber Pilot’ and features my friend Flight Lieutenant (as he then was) David Wilkerson, a Halifax pilot flying with 35 Squadron RAF from Linton on Ouse, Yorkshire. I have a poor photo copy of this and would very much like to obtain an original. Can anybody help, please? Part two of this artical appeared in in the subsequent September – October 1942 edition, of which I have an original copy. David subsequently became the first Wing Commander C.O. of 578 Squadron RAF based at Burn, Yorkshire.

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For those who don’t know who David Wilkerson was here is a well known photograph of him in charge of a 35 squadron Halifax:

A biography can be found here:

Regards all,

Paul.

http://www.578squadron.org.uk