The Squadron’s Operations Record Book shows that RA Norman was the Captain of a 35 Squadron aircraft on the following sorties:
- 12/08/1941 Essen
- 14/08/1941 Magdeburg
- 16/08/1941 Cologne
- 02/09/1941 Berlin
- 07/09/1941 Berlin (Incident)
- 13/09/1941 Brest
- 15/09/1941 Hamburg
- 19/09/1941 Stettin
- 29/09/1941 Stettin
- 10/10/1941 Essen
- 12/10/1941 Nuremberg
- 14/10/1941 Nuremberg
- 07/11/1941 Berlin
- 09/11/1941 Hamburg
- 25/11/1941 Brest
- 30/11/1941 Hamburg
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). It should be noted that some of these sorties may have been aborted and therefore would not have counted for the purposes of their “Operational Tour”. Details of all flights (including training flights) will be recorded in their Flying Log Books:
| (Pilot) | Robert Alexander Norman | 16 |
| (2nd Pilot) | Cecil Edgar Robertson Parsons | 2 |
| Stanley Linwood Pettingale | 1 | |
| Thomas Percival McHale | 2 | |
| William Henry Brunskill | 6 | |
| Henry Anthony Perks | 1 | |
| [-] Tweddle | 1 | |
| (Observer) | Alfred Abels | 2 |
| Richard Guy Baker | 5 | |
| [-] Williams | 2 | |
| “Jackie” Watt | 7 | |
| (WOP / AG) | John Albert Orton | 1 |
| John Stewart Morrison | 1 | |
| Leslie Douglas Haig Izzard | 15 | |
| Norman Henry Hood | 3 | |
| Richard Yates | 2 | |
| RW Long | 10 | |
| (Air Gunner) | H Olsen | 11 |
| Ivan Jackson | 5 | |
| (Flight Engineer) | Dennis Clancy Gardner Butchart | 3 |
| Wilfred Thomas Palmer | 11 | |
| [-] Berwick | 1 | |
| William G Higgs | 4 |
NORMAN CREW
Believed to be: Long, Higgs, Olsen, Izzard, Watt, Norman, Palmer
Posting Dates
| Norman | RA | In From: | 19 O.T.U. | 20/04/1941 |
| Out to: | 28 Conv. Flt. | 16/12/1941 |
