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Date |
A/C |
Crew |
Duty |
Up |
Down |
Details of
Sortie or Flight |
17-Oct-42 |
P.7094 |
Sgt M.T. Cotton |
Convoy Patrol |
12:05 |
13:20 |
Convoy escorted without incident from Needles to Portland. |
31-Oct-42 |
P.7094 |
F/O P. Harvey |
Rhubarb Operation |
10:40 |
12:00 |
Sections were led by F/O Harvey to attack the railway triangle
N.W. of the La Haye du Puits. |
08-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Convoy |
14:30 |
15:55 |
Large convoy escorted without incident from Isle of Wight
towards Portland. |
10-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Convoy |
13:00 |
14:25 |
Convoy of Floating Dock from Needles, Westward. |
10-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
Sgt J.M. Barclay |
Convoy |
15:05 |
16:40 |
Convoy of Floating Dock from Needles, Westward. |
16-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
F/O E. Brearley |
Rhubarb |
16:05 |
17:30 |
Rhubarb operation against the Valognes – Carentan railway. |
18-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
F/O P. Harvey |
Convoy |
12:15 |
13:50 |
This convoy of 16-18 ships was escorted without incident from
Needles area to Portland. |
19-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
Roadstead 40
Whirlwinds Antiflak |
11:20 |
12:15 |
This was the first all-Whirlwind Roadstead Operation. 4 “B”
Flight Whirli-bombers were escorted by 4 “A” Flight Whirlwinds antiflak. No
incident. |
23-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
Sgt M.T. Cotton |
Convoy |
09:40 |
10:45 |
Convoy escorted Eastwards from Portland. |
20-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Roadstead Operation
Whirlibombers |
08:45 |
09:50 |
This was the first all-Whirlwind Roadstead Operation. 4 “A”
Flight Whirli-bombers were escorted by 4 “B” Flight Whirlwinds antiflak. No
incident. |
30-Nov-42 |
P.7094 |
Sgt D.J. Williams |
Diversion from
Practice |
14:30 |
15:30 |
This section airborne North of base on cine camera gun
dogfighting was diverted to chase a bandit. They were recalled from 20 miles
South of Swanage. |
03-Dec-42 |
P.7094 |
P/O Samant |
Convoy |
08:40 |
09:55 |
Convoy approaching Solent from Needles. |
07-Dec-42 |
P.7094 |
F/O P. Harvey |
10 Group Roadstead 45 |
13:10 |
14:40 |
West of Guernsey, Enemy convoy was sighted lying off Baie de St.
Brelade, South West of Jersey. |
14-Dec-42 |
P.7094 |
F/Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Scramble (Recalled) |
16:40 |
17:00 |
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15-Jan-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
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.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
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.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Night Recco |
22:15 |
23:35 |
First 263 Night Operations. These extensive shipping reccos of
the Channel Island area were uneventful. |
07-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
S/Ldr G.B. Warnes DFC |
Army Co-Op |
15:40 |
16:35 |
Equipment containers dropped on Netheravon aerodrome at 1600
hours. F/O E. Brearley's containers hung up. |
12-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/O P. Harvey |
Rhubarb |
08:30 |
10:00 |
Attack on La Haye du Puits. 2 trains attacked with cannon and a
siding at Port Bail bombed. Sgt. D. Williams hit by flak from train and
ditched 4 miles off Cap de Carteret. Last seen organising dinghy. |
16-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Night Off. Ops |
20:05 |
21:40 |
F/Lt Blackshaw, DFC, bombed a bridge S.E. of Carentan. |
16-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Night Off. Ops |
22:45 |
23:45 |
Returned to above locality but too dark for accurate
observations |
18-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Rhubarb |
08:25 |
09:35 |
Bombed railway junction at La Haye du Puits Triangle. |
18-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/O C.P. King DFM |
Rhubarb |
11:25 |
12:50 |
Lock gates at Ouistreham bombed. |
19-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/O P. Harvey |
Army Co-Op Exercise
"Longford" |
15:20 |
16:15 |
Army transports attacked North of Wroughton aerodrome on
Wroughton-Swindon Road. |
26-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
10 Group Circus 16 |
16:00 |
17:00 |
Attack on Maupertus. Landfall made at Cherbourg. Hits were
observed on aerodrome, dispersals and buildings. |
27-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Diversion to 10 Group
Ramrod |
13:30 |
14:30 |
Attack on Maupertus. Landfall made at Pointe du Barfleur. Hits
were again observed on aerodrome, dispersals and buildings. |
28-Feb-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
10 Group Circus 17 |
14:40 |
15:40 |
Attack on Maupertus. The veteran dive-bombers of “A” Flight went
in for the third time. |
14-Mar-43 |
P.7094 |
F/O P. Harvey |
10 Group Circus 18 |
16:15 |
17:15 |
Attack on Maupertus. They dive-bombed 15000 – 8000 ft. and saw 8
bursts on centre of the airfield, on the S.W. perimeter and in the S.E.
dispersal area. Moderate flak. |
19-Mar-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
10 Group Roadstead 52 |
18:10 |
19:10 |
The large convoy which had been reported South of Guernsey could
not be located in thick black haze in the Channel Island area. |
23-Mar-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
10 Group Night
Rhubarb No. 25 (Ponthou Viaduct) |
01:00 |
02:15 |
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09-Apr-43 |
P.7094 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
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.7094 |
Sgt J. MacAulay |
10 Group Circus
22 |
17:30 |
19:00 |
Brest/Guipavas aerodrome was successfully divebombed with 20 x
250lb bombs. |
14-Apr-43 |
P.7094 |
Sgt S.P.D.
Thyagarajan |
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.7094 |
F/O C.P. King DFM |
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.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Bomb Mondeville
Industries (Night) |
22:49 |
00:25 |
Finding a (heavily) armed trawler N of Ouistreham, he bombed it
but thinks that in evading flak, he missed. |
17-Apr-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Night Armed Shipping
Reccos and Rhubarbs |
22:59 |
23:47 |
Intending to bomb Granville – Folligny he returned from the
Casquets with exactor trouble. |
18-Apr-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Night Recco |
22:45 |
23:50 |
Night Recco of Channel Islands Barfleur area |
21-Apr-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Night Roadstead |
02:00 |
03:40 |
The Channel Islands convoy which F/O Coyne had attacked was
sought for, but not found. It had probably berthed in Alderney. |
14-May-43 |
P.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
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.7094 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Night Roadstead 2 |
01:05 |
02:35 |
Attack on convoy off Barfleur. S/L Warnes and Sgt Simpson
couldn't find it. F/Lt Holmes bombed one ship of it but did not see whether
he hit it (Cat 4). F/Lt Blackshaw returned to orbit Exeter, Harrowbeer and
Exeter again, without lights or R/T and then crashed fatally near Exeter.
F/Lt Blackshaw KiA |
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