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Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
08-Dec-40 P.6972 F/O D.A.C. Crooks Interception Patrol 11:15 11:45 Section patrolled Exmouth, the vectored to Torquay, then returned to Exmouth.
08-Dec-40 P.6972 F/O D.A.C. Crooks Interception Patrol 15:25 16:40 Section patrolled base at 15000'. Plotted as a hostile raid. Sirens sounded in Exeter.
13-Dec-40 P.6972 F/O D.A.C. Crooks Interception Patrol 15:05 15:40 Section ordered to intercept Raid 132 in the vicinity of Start Point. Enemy not sighted. Plotting was irregular and R/T poor.
17-Dec-40 P.6972 P/O H.H. Kitchener Interception Patrol 14:45 15:15 Section patrolled in the vicinity of Start Point & Plymouth.
21-Dec-40 P.6972 F/O D.A.C. Crooks Interception Patrol 09:00 09:30 The section was ordered to intercept Raid 164. This was intercepted at 0912 off Start Point and identified as a Martin 167.
12-Jan-41 P.6972 P/O D. Stein Interception Patrol 09:40 11:05 P/O Stein intercepted a JU.88 40 miles S.W. of the Scillies
13-Jan-41 P.6972 P/O P.G. Thornton-Brown Interception Patrol 10:20 11:35 When on patrol 20 miles South of Land's End at 19000 feet they sighted an HE.111 8 or 10 miles ahead of them at 21000 feet. They gave chase but when South of the Scillies found themselves short of petrol. They opened fire at extreme range but observed no effects, and the E/A escaped into cloud.
14-Jan-41 P.6972 P/O D. Stein Interception Patrol 10:50 11:40 A patrol was carried out, but no interception order was given.
30-Mar-41 P.6972 Sgt C.P. Rudland Interception Patrol 14:55 15:55 The section was detailed to two raids plotted about 60 miles South of the base.