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Service Number
Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
18-Jul-43 P.6990 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Shipping Recco 18:57 20:15 Armed escorted shipping recco of Channel Islands area
03-Aug-43 P.6997 F/Sgt G.H. Smith 10 Group Circus 19:57 21:15 These 8 Whirlibombers divebombed Brest Guipavas aerodrome
12-Aug-43 P.7096 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Night Shipping Recco 23:15 00:30 These two night shipping reccos were standard types of the August moon period
15-Aug-43 P.6990 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Scramble     The section was variously vectored at 10,000 to 15,000 feet seawards of Swanage and Portland but did not see the enemy.
17-Aug-43 P.7098 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Night Recco 23:10 00:15 The pilots found nothing remarkable other than more mysterious flares N. of BARFLEUR
23-Aug-43 P.7047 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Convoy 10:10 11:10 Escort of convoy Swanage to Needles
29-Aug-43 P.6977 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Convoy 11:45 13:10 Convoy from Needles to West of Portland.
11-Sep-43 P.7012 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Convoy Patrols 11:45 13:15 Convoy moving westward from Portland.
12-Sep-43 P.6986 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Convoy 07:55 09:05 Large convoy forming off Needles and moving West.
18-Sep-43 P.7012 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Night Ranger Operation 01:29 03:05 Chatanooga Choo-Choo. Bombs on or near the line E. of MORLAIX
24-Sep-43 P.7047 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Scramble 09:30 10:03 Orbited Portland at 10,000 feet nothing seen
24-Nov-43 P.7012 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Armed shipping recco 14:59 16:06 Turned back owing to bad weather S.W. of Plienmount Point.
25-Nov-43 P.7012 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Armed shipping recco 08:30 09:58 Recco 10 miles N of St Malo. Nothing seen.
25-Nov-43 P.7012 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Ramrod 106 pt 2 15:57 16:45 8 Whirlibombers dive-bombed SS Munsterland again
26-Nov-43 P.7012 F/Sgt G.H. Smith Ramrod 109 15:40 16:50 Attack on a secret target SW of Cherbourg.