Back ABRAMS Basil Courtney
d. 17 Apr 1943 CWGC
Service Number 133547 (1377968)
P/O 28th Sept. 1942. (Gazette Issue 35813 published on the 4 December 1942. Page 3 of 6)
Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
13-Feb-42 P.6991 Sgt B.C. Abrams Dusk Patrol 17:50 18:35 Nothing seen - These flights are regularly made from Fairwood Common to intercept bandits which tend to appear off Linney Head at dusk.
15-Feb-42 P.7041 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 08:35 09:00 No Incident.
15-Feb-42 P.7041 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 10:05 11:20 No Incident.
19-Feb-42 P.7007 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 13:30 14:35 Sgt. Abrams failed to contact No.1 in poor visibility.
09-Mar-42 P.6991 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy Patrol 15:30 17:00 Nothing Seen.
14-Mar-42 P.7007 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 11:45 12:25 Nothing Seen.
15-Mar-42 P.7041 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 14:15 15:00 Nothing Seen.
21-Mar-42 P.7001 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 13:25 14:55 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7114 Sgt B.C. Abrams Sweep of Irish Sea 10:05 11:45 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7041 Sgt B.C. Abrams Sweep of Irish Sea 14:00 14:30 Nothing Seen.
23-Mar-42 P.7041 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy Patrol 16:00 17:30 On the way back from patrol Sgt Abrams' port engine cut five miles from base. He made a good landing.
24-Mar-42 P.7110 Sgt B.C. Abrams Patrol 15:00 16:45 Nothing Seen.
28-Mar-42 P.7060 Sgt B.C. Abrams Patrol 09:20 11:00 Nothing Seen.
29-Mar-42 P.7110 Sgt B.C. Abrams Search for lost pilot 17:15 18:25 A pilot of 402 Spitfire Squadron on convoy patrol pancaked in the sea 12 miles south of Tenby.
02-Apr-42 P.7041 Sgt B.C. Abrams Patrol 07:40 09:05 Patrol of Irish Sea
10-Apr-42 P.7056 Sgt B.C. Abrams Patrol 14:30 15:50 Patrol of Irish Sea to Saltees
14-Apr-42 P.7110 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 11:40 13:10  
16-Apr-42 P.7114 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 12:55 14:05  
21-Apr-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 15:20 16:30  
21-Apr-42 P.7061 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 18:00 19:15  
21-Apr-42 P.7061 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 20:35 21:45  
22-Apr-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 08:10 09:10  
23-Apr-42 P.7056 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 13:40 14:45  
26-Apr-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 13:05 14:15  
30-Apr-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams 10 Group Ramrod 18 18:12 19:30 Attack on Morlaix aerodrome, A Flight to attack Lannion.
15-May-42 P.7000 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 09:40 10:20  
16-May-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 15:20 16:10  
16-May-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 20:15 21:05  
22-May-42 P.7007 Sgt B.C. Abrams A.S.R. 18:25 19:45 A search was made for ten miles around St David's Head. Nothing was seen of the Blenheim supposed to have gone in there
23-May-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 10:30 10:50  
24-May-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 19:30 20:30  
19-Jun-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams   08:15 08:50 Nothing seen.
19-Jun-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 11:00 12:15 Scramble Smalls 8000. Plots faded and Section was ordered to convoy Peroration.
28-Jun-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 19:05 19:55 Black Blue and Green Sections were vectored hard after plots 20-60 miles S.W. of Base. They were also vectored on to each other and intercepted successfully but fortunately did not engage
28-Jun-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Patrol 21:20 22:05 Enemy patrol to Salter area.
01-Jul-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 20:20 21:20 Scramble no incident.
07-Jul-42 P.7056 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 22:10 22:55 No incident.
08-Jul-42 P.7056 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 07:55 08:55 No incident.
10-Jul-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Patrol 13:35 14:25 Patrol Irish Sea.
23-Jul-42 P.7120 Sgt B.C. Abrams Combined Rhubarb Operation 15:28 16:30 Rhubarb to St. Tregonnec and Morlaix area.
25-Jul-42 P.7056 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 09:25 10:15 No incident.
26-Jul-42 P.7110 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 19:05 19:20 Plots identified as friendly.
26-Jul-42 P.7000 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 20:00 20:45  
27-Jul-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Patrol 20:20 21:15 Patrol of Small area.
28-Jul-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 12:35 13:05 No incident.
05-Aug-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 10:50 12:50  
05-Aug-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 12:45 13:45  
09-Aug-42 P.7090 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 07:30 07:40  
11-Aug-42 P.7099 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 18:00 19:00 Convoy “POKER”
21-Sep-42 P.7099 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 13:05 14:05 Patrol off Portland. Nothing seen
01-Oct-42 P.7099 Sgt B.C. Abrams Roadstead Operation 17:00 18:15 Roadstead to bomb minesweepers in Trieux estuary. Not found.
10-Oct-42 P.7099 Sgt B.C. Abrams Armed Recco 12:00 13:10 This recco was carried out in the Alderney area and three miles off the coast of the Contentin as far as Cap Barfleur. Nothing seen
07-Nov-42 P.7099 F/Sgt B.C. Abrams Rhubarb 10:30 11:45 This operation had as its target the Valognes – Carentan railway.
08-Nov-42 P.7007 F/Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 12:30 13:55 Convoy of important Floating Dock from Needles area towards Portland
10-Nov-42 P.7099 F/Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 14:00 15:15  
10-Nov-42 P.7099 F/Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 17:00 -- cancelled
26-Nov-42 P.7113 P/O B.C. Abrams Rhubarb 16:05 17:05  
29-Nov-42 P.7113 P/O B.C. Abrams Scramble 16:50 17:40 The section was vectored very fast after a JU. 88 and, according to Ops, were “right on top of it” at 10,000 feet about 16 miles North of Cherbourg. The bandit was, however, concealed in 10/10 cloud.
10-Dec-42 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams Rhubarb 11:50 12:15 Intending to bomb the Valognes – Carentan main line, they were recalled by Facta from 15 miles S. of St Aldhelms Head, because “the sea was too rough for Air Sea Rescue.”
14-Dec-42 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams 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.7007 P/O B.C. Abrams 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.
28-Feb-43 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams 10 Group Circus 17 14:40 15:40 Attack on Maupertus. This was their first dive-bombing attack. It was observed to have been successful.
14-Mar-43 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams 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.
19-Mar-43 P.6971 P/O B.C. Abrams 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.
21-Mar-43 P.7057 P/O B.C. Abrams 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 23 (Morlaix Viaduct) 00:20 02:10 Bombed 3000-1500 ft. & scored direct hit on top of Viaduct.
22-Mar-43 P.7057 P/O B.C. Abrams 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 24 00:20 02:05 Landfall at Ile Vieuge. Therefore bombed Pense Bridge.
23-Mar-43 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 25 (Ponthou Viaduct) 01:17 02:40 Found target but unfortunately misfused bombs.
24-Mar-43 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams Rhubarb Operation 13:45 14:45 Ordered to attack railway objectives at La Haye du Puits, they found no cloud cover in the Casquets area and returned to base with their bombs
26-Mar-43 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams Rhubarb Operation 12:45 14:20 Attack on the Transformer Station at St. Lo. Making landfall East of Isigny they flew through various patches of light flak, located the target and both scored cannon strikes on it. P/O Abrams bombs apparently disintegrated the whole transformer unit. F/O A. Lee-Whites' exploded among the complex of huts.
04-Apr-43 P.6995 P/O B.C. Abrams Roadstead Operation 07:40 08:45 Swept the Alderney – Cap de la Hague area at zero feet, in quest for E Boats reported there, but none was found
06-Apr-43 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams 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.
13-Apr-43 P.7089 P/O B.C. Abrams 10 Group Circus 22 17:30 19:00 Brest/Guipavas aerodrome was successfully divebombed with 20 x 250lb bombs.
14-Apr-43 P.7089 P/O B.C. Abrams 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.
16-Apr-43 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams Bomb Mondeville Industries (Night) 22:37 00:10 Mistaking Isigny for the Caen canal, he pin-pointed too late. He then disintergrated the main line N. of Carentan
17-Apr-43 P.7099 P/O B.C. Abrams Night Armed Shipping Reccos and Rhubarbs 22:48 missing Ordered to recco the Houlgate – St Marcouf area, nothing was heard of him after he left Warmwell. Believed he may have found and attacked an armed trawler off Ouistreham.
 See also the Summary Jun-Jul 42 tab