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Log Book. A WWII log book kept by Captain H. C. Warren AFC, South African Air Force, commencing 8 March 1941 (Tiger Moth), 26 May 1941 (Harvard), 31 May 'now flight commander at 173 Sqdn, Helio', 9 February 1942, No 127 Squadron (Hurricane), 14 February 'Dog Fight', 28 June 1942 'Tobruk had fallen, morale very low', 30 August 1942 'No of Sorties 52', ... final entry 3 September 1945 (Oxford), type of aircraft flown Tiger, Magister, Harvard, Mowhawk, Tomahawk, Kittyhawk, Hurricane, Spitfire, Corsair, Martinet, Anson, Oxford, Dakota, Baltimore, Hudson and Marauder, total flying time 1860hrs50mins (Quantity: 1) The medals of Captain H. C. Warren AFC were sold at DNW (now Noonan's) on 17 February 2021 (lot 23). Harry Charles Warren was born in Durban on 15 November 1917 and enlisted in the Union Defence Force in May 1940. Initially trained as an Air Gunner, he was re-mustered as a pupil pilot in early 1941 and was embarked for Southern Rhodesia, where he qualified for his ‘Wings’ at R.A.F. Bulawayo. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in November 1941, he embarked for the Middle East, where he was seconded to the Royal Air Force and joined 127 Squadron (Hurricanes) in February 1942. In June 1942, and having been advanced to Lieutenant, Warren moved with 127 Squadron to the Western Desert. He was quickly back in action, the unit operating out of a series of forward landing grounds and regularly operating over the ‘Alamein Box’. During one such patrol on 16 July he intercepted ten enemy aircraft and claimed a ‘probable’. A few days later, on 23 July, his luck ran out and he was slightly wounded in three places in his lower back after a close scrap with 109s. He crash-landed at L.G. 97 and came to rest among some tents. By his own log book account, it was a ‘Shaky do!!’ Warren transferred to No. 1 A.D.U. in October 1942, and was advanced to Captain. He subsequently lent valuable service as a ferry pilot in No. 216 Group on the West Africa-Cairo-Algiers-Nairobi routes. For his services during the Second World War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 12 January 1945) and awarded the Air Force Cross.