The Squadron’s Operations Record Book shows that WN Cook was the Captain of a 35 Squadron aircraft on the following sorties:
- 23/07/1944 Kiel
- 25/07/1944 Stuttgart
- 30/07/1944 Normandy
- 07/08/1944 Normandy
- 09/08/1944 Foret De Nieppe
- 14/08/1944 Falaise
- 16/08/1944 Stettin
- 18/08/1944 Bremen
- 25/08/1944 Watton (Incident)
- 26/08/1944 Kiel
- 03/09/1944 Gilze Rijen
- 08/09/1944 Le Havre
- 09/09/1944 Le Havre
- 10/09/1944 Le Havre (Alvis”1″)
- 11/09/1944 Le Havre-Cadillac 1
- 12/09/1944 Frankfurt
- 15/09/1944 Kiel
- 17/09/1944 Westkapelle
- 05/10/1944 Saarbrucken
- 06/10/1944 Dortmund
- 14/10/1944 Duisburg (Daylight}
- 15/10/1944 Wilhelmshaven
- 19/10/1944 Stuttgart
- 21/10/1944 Hanover
- 28/10/1944 Cologne
- 29/10/1944 Walcheren
- 02/11/1944 Dusseldorf
- 04/11/1944 Bochum
- 18/11/1944 Wanne-Eickel
- 21/11/1944 Aschaffenburg
- 27/11/1944 Freiburg
- 29/11/1944 Dortmund
- 04/12/1944 Urft Dam
- 05/12/1944 Soest
- 06/12/1944 Merseburg (Leuna)
- 17/12/1944 Ulm
- 21/12/1944 Cologne
- 26/12/1944 St.Vith
- 13/01/1945 Saarbrucken
- 14/01/1945 Merseburg/Leuna
- 16/01/1945 Magdeburg
- 22/01/1945 Gelsenkirchen
- 28/01/1945 Stuttgart
- 01/02/1945 Mainz
- 04/02/1945 Bonn
- 07/02/1945 Goch
- 08/02/1945 Politz
- 14/02/1945 Chemnitz (2)
- 20/02/1945 Reisholz
- 05/03/1945 Chemnitz
- 07/03/1945 Dessau
- 15/03/1945 Bottrop
- 20/03/1945 Heide
- 24/03/1945 Gladbeck
Note: WN Cook also flew one sortie on 18/07/1944 [Wesseling] as second dickie to MW Mills
The following shows the composition of his crew on these sorties, along with the number of sorties undertaken by each airman as part of his crew (as recorded in the squadron’s Operations Record Book). Details of all flights (including training flights) will be recorded in their Flying Log Books:
(Pilot) | William Norman Cook | 54 |
(Navigator) | Arthur Bryan Curtis | 54 |
(Air Bomber) | George Binns | 43 |
Peter Coggan | 11 | |
(Set Operator) | Gilbert Wood | 4 |
Peter Coggan | 38 | |
(Wireless Operator) | Malcolm Leonard Toynton | 35 |
William McDonald | 19 | |
(Air Gunner) | Andrew Jackson Mundell | 1 |
D Therault | 13 | |
Donald Charles Dunkley | 1 | |
Douglas Farrant Hadland | 3 | |
Edward Garner | 2 | |
Frank Vaughan Thomas | 41 | |
Geoffrey Alwin Knapp | 1 | |
George Henry Parsons | 2 | |
George Leonard Marsh | 1 | |
Harry Foxton | 1 | |
Henry Frank MacNevin | 1 | |
Jack Richard Floyde | 1 | |
James Mursell Colledge | 1 | |
Maurice Palmer | 29 | |
Maxwell Edwin Ladyman | 1 | |
Phillip James Pentelow | 1 | |
RET Hunter | 1 | |
Robert Nicholson | 1 | |
Roy Ronald Long | 3 | |
Vivian Montague Bailey Halls | 1 | |
William Thomas Quirke | 2 | |
(Flight Engineer) | Andrew Jenkinson Dick | 1 |
Peter Varty | 53 |

Target Photo Gilze-Rijen 03/09/1944