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Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
11-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O D.R. Gill Convoy 13:30 14:45 Convoy “POKER”
11-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 17:10 18:15 Convoy “POKER”
12-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 13:15 14:20 Convoy “STEWARD”
12-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 15:15 16:30 Infrequent plots in Carnsore area faded when our aircraft approached.
13-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 08:40 08:50 Doubtful plots identified as friendly. Aircraft Backing-up at Exeter.
28-Aug-42 P.7059 F/Sgt R.I. Reed Scramble 09:25 10:05 Plots were good from Cherbourg at 20,000-30,000ft. The Whirlwinds which were scrambled struggled to 24,000 but saw nothing.
01-Oct-42 P.7059 P/O D.R. Gill Roadstead Operation 17:00 18:15 Roadstead to bomb minesweepers in Trieux estuary. Not found.
12-Oct-42 P.7059 F/O S.J. Lovell Armed Recco 09:55 10:55 Armed low recco of Alderney, Cap de la Hague, Guernsey area. 
07-Nov-42 P.7059 Sgt J.I. Simpson Convoy 16:00 17:20 Convoy off Portland. A Hudson was chased and identified.
08-Nov-42 P.7059 Sgt J.I. Yates Convoy 11:20 13:00 Convoy of important Floating Dock from Needles area towards Portland
10-Nov-42 P.7059 Sgt J.I. Yates Convoy 15:00 16:35  
18-Nov-42 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley Convoy 16:55 17:55 Convoy off Portland (going West)
19-Nov-42 P.7059 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 10 Group Roadstead 40 11:20 12:15 F/Lt Warnes led the 4 Whirlibombers on this first all-263 Roadstead Operation. No incident
20-Nov-42 P.7059 Sgt J.I. Yates Roadstead Operation 08:45 09:50 F/Lt Warnes led the 4 Whirlibombers on this second all-263 Roadstead Operation. No incident
01-Dec-42 P.7059 Sgt Barclay Armed Recco 16:30 17:35 These Whirlibombers patrolled Cap Levy, Casquettes, Jersey area. Returning they met 3 Me.109Fs.
14-Dec-42 P.7059 F/Sgt W.R. Wright Anti-Rhubarb Patrol 11:50 13:00 Routine Anti-Rhubarb Patrol. No incident, although Pilots were vectored about 40 miles South of Portland.
15-Jan-43 P.7059 F/Sgt W.R. Wright Air Sea Rescue 12:20 13:10 F/Lt Blackshaw and Sgt MacAulay actually sighted the missing pilot in his dinghy about 20 miles South of Portland. Owing to the failure of R/T communication, which is normal and well known in this area, this pilot was not picked up. 
15-Jan-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley Night Rhubarb 22:15 23:37 F/O E. Brearley penetrated the Cotentin as far as Baupte. Near there he descried a train upon which he released his starboard bomb, reserving his port bomb for the track a mile ahead.
14-Mar-43 P.7059 P/O J.I. Yates 10 Group Circus 18 15:55 17:00 Attack on Maupertus. They dive-bombed from 15000 - 9000 ft. and saw 2 bursts in S.E. corner and other bursts in the centre. Flak was slight and inaccurate.
21-Mar-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 23 (Morlaix Viaduct) 00:15 01:45 Bombed 4000-1000 ft. After passing through heavy flak.
22-Mar-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 24 00:15 01:55 Bombed from 3000 ft. after dummy run. Two direct hits.
23-Mar-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 25 (Ponthou Viaduct) 01:15 02:50 Target not found. Bombed main line cutting.
26-Mar-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley Rhubarb Operation 15:05 15:50 Intending to attack targets in the Carentan area they found no cloud cover whatever 20 miles North of Carentan and returned to base.
06-Apr-43 P.7059 F/Lt J.W.E. Holmes 10 Group Circus 20 18:27 20:12 These Whirlibombers were intended to form a second bombing wave to the Typhoon bombers which had bombed Caen/Caupiquet aerodrome an hour before. However they found 9/10 cloud at Ouistreham at 8000 feet and the operation was abandoned.
09-Apr-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White 10 Group Roadstead 55 12:50 14:30 Swept the Sept Iles – Ile de Batz area for shipping reported there, as often, ship-like rocks were found.
13-Apr-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White 10 Group Circus 22  17:30 19:00 Brest/Guipavas aerodrome was successfully divebombed with 20 x 250lb bombs.
14-Apr-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White Armed Ship-Recco 07:12 08:30 First light recco from Predannack to search for E-Boats. Found Lancaster floating and its crew in a dinghy near it, 20 miles S of Start Point.
14-Apr-43 P.7059 Sgt J.I. Simpson 10 Group Roadstead 57 15:30 17:05 Shipping was reported in the Lannil Is estuaries. By chance, landfall was made too far south and F/O Harvey inadvertently led into the area off Raie de Brest and thereby found three ships.
15-Apr-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White 10 Group Roadstead 58 12:10 13:20 Searched Guernsey – Jersey area at zero feet in good visibility. The ships which had been reported there seemed evarescent
16-Apr-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White Bomb Mondeville Industries (Night) 22:45 00:15 He made a dummy run through the flak and then attacked primary target from 800 feet, seeing bursts satisfactorily in the target area. Was shot up by ship on way out.
28-Apr-43 P.7059 Sgt J.I. Simpson 10 Group Roadstead 60 10:15 12:50 Attack on convoy of 8 ships N. of Sept Isles
28-Apr-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White 10 Group Roadstead 62 14:22 15:45 This operation did not find the depleted convoy in its estimated position south of Jersey.
06-May-43 P.7059 F/Sgt K.C. Ridley Roadstead 65 17:15 18:10 Attack on tanker with 5 small escort vessels reported W.N.W. of Alderney. The Casquets were indeed found in this position. 
14-May-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White Roadstead 67 21:00 21:45 Attack on two destroyers alongside the Quai Maritime alternatively a medium M/V in the Basin Napoleon in Cherbourg docks
15-May-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White Night Recco 23:50 01:30 Reccod from Alderney to Isigny and was returning from there when he saw an 8 ship convoy steaming east of Cape Barfleur. He kept out of sight and sound of it and bombed the rearmost ship
16-May-43 P.7059 Sgt J.I. Simpson Escorted Armed Recco     Escorted armed recco recalled because of a failure of R/T reception
16-May-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White Ship Recco     Search for two destroyers and a medium M/V suspected in the Channel Islands area. 7 miles west of Casquets our formation which was in loose line abreast at zero feet was attacked by two F.W.190's. Both damaged.
19-May-43 P.7059 F/Lt J.W.E. Holmes Night Recco 00:50 01:15 Repitition of previous nights uneventful ship Reccos.
22-May-43 P.7059 F/O A.H. Lee-White Night Roadstead 00:50 02:05 Attack on convoy steaming from Cap de la Hague towards Cherbourg.