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Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
04-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Armed Recco 11:40 12:12 Abortive armed recco for two Hun destroyers reported lurking in Lenardrieux Estuary
07-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Night Recco     Found thick haze to 1000 feet N. of CHERBOURG and abandoned recces.
08-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Night Recco 19:00 20:25 S/Ldr BAKER bombed an E. Boat Cat 4 off VARRIVILLE but was prevented by S/Ls from investigating further.
08-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Night Shipping Recco 22:20 23:35 S/Ldr Baker found P/O Heaton's ship off Cap de la Hague and bombed it from mast height without seeing more than indistinct explosions. Remaining aircraft RTB.
14-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Night Recco 19:45 21:27 Night searches (Without bombs) for the Munsterland. Warmwell – Sept Iles – Iles de Batz – Predannack.
18-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC 263 Special Night Ops - Chuffa Prang 02:22 03:30 Designed to disorganise railway communications in and near Cherbourg Peninsula and thereafter to take advantage of the tactical situation. It was a great success.
23-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Ship Recco 08:00 09:00 The Munsterland was not found between Casquets and Barfleur. It is though that this will be found to be the last time in the history of the world in which twelve Whirlwinds were airborne together.
23-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC 10 Group Roadstead 77 15:00 16:10 Attack on Munsterland in Cherbourg Harbour
28-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Ramrod Operation 14:30 15:25 These eight a/c dive-bombed the Munsterland in No 5 dry dock Cherbourg
30-Oct-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Ramrod 99 15:00 16:00 The seven Whirlwinds which were serviceable took off to divebomb the Munsterland 
05-Nov-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Ramrod 100 15:15 15:45 7 Whirlibombers took off to dive bomb M/V Munsterland lying in No 5 dry dock Cherbourg. They met 10/10 cloud and RTB
06-Nov-43 P.7102 F/Sgt F.A. Green Night Shipping Recco 20:15 21:45 Uneventful recco to Channel Islands.
10-Nov-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Night shipping strike 10:32 00:07 S/Ldr Baker attacked small trawler 50-75 tons SSE of Hurn
24-Nov-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Armed shipping recco 14:59 16:06 Turned back owing to bad weather S.W. of Plienmount Point.
25-Nov-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Armed shipping recco 08:30 09:58 Recco 10 miles N of St Malo. Nothing seen.
25-Nov-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Ramrod 106 pt 1 12:00 12:32 10/10 Cloud with tops 6-7,000 over Cherbourg, so sorties turned back
25-Nov-43 P.7102 S/Ldr E.R. Baker DFC Ramrod 106 pt 2 15:57 16:45 8 Whirlibombers dive-bombed SS Munsterland again