Back |
|
SAMANT |
Dattatraya
Anant |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Service Number |
108957 (1312242) |
|
|
|
P/O |
21st
Nov. 1941. (Gazette Issue 36503 published on the 5 May 1944. Page 5 of 10) |
|
|
F/O |
Not found |
|
|
F/Lt |
1st Nov. 1943.
(Gazette Issue 36510 published on the 9 May 1944. Page 4 of 8) |
|
Date |
A/C |
Crew |
Duty |
Up |
Down |
Details of
Sortie or Flight |
17-Oct-42 |
P.7120 |
P/O D. Samant |
Convoy Patrol |
11:00 |
12:35 |
Convoy
escorted without incident from Needles to Portland. |
18-Nov-42 |
P.6979 |
P/O D. Samant |
Convoy |
14:25 |
15:45 |
This
convoy of 16-18 ships was escorted without incident from Needles area to
Portland. |
26-Nov-42 |
P.7013 |
P/O Samant |
Rhubarb |
10:25 |
11:35 |
Pilots
did not reach their objective, the railway N. of La Haye du Puits, owing to
lack of cloud cover. F/O Coyne shot up a pill-box and bombed the harbour
installations at Diellette. P/O Samant bombed camouflaged huts 7 miles S.E.
of Piereville. Bombing results not seen. |
03-Dec-42 |
P.7094 |
P/O Samant |
Convoy |
08:40 |
09:55 |
Convoy
approaching Solent from Needles. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|