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Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
20-Jan-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Tactical Exercise 11:15 11:45 An exercise in co-operation with the Army. Dummy Attacks were made on troop concentrations and supply columns in the Marlborough - Yatesbury area.
12-Feb-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy Recco. 10:40 11:00 No Incident.
12-Feb-42 P.7052 P/O P. Harvey Convoy 16:50 18:13 No Incident.
13-Feb-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy Patrol 16:50 18:20 No Incident.
18-Feb-42 P.7052 F/Lt C.P. Rudland DFC Convoy 10:20 10:50 No incident.
22-Feb-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy 16:45 17:20 No incident.
07-Mar-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Scramble 09:30 10:25 Nothing seen. Both aircraft were plotted within 4 miles of bogies off Lundy Island.
08-Mar-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy Patrol 16:45 18:10 Nothing Seen.
10-Mar-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy Patrol 15:10 16:40 Nothing Seen.
14-Mar-42 P.7052 Sgt H.D. Muirhead Convoy Patrol 15:10 16:30 Nothing Seen.
14-Mar-42 P.7052 Sgt H.D. Muirhead Convoy Patrol 18:45 19:20 Nothing Seen.
15-Mar-42 P.7052 P/O V.L. Currie Convoy Patrol 11:25 12:05 Nothing Seen.
21-Mar-42 P.7052 Sgt J.E. Meredith Convoy 08:45 09:35 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7052 P/O V.L. Currie Sweep of Irish Sea 11:00 12:20 Nothing Seen.
24-Mar-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy Patrol 17:00 18:20 Nothing Seen.
02-Apr-42 P.7052 S/Ldr R.S. Woodward DFC Convoy 15:40 16:55  
05-Apr-42 P.7052 S/Ldr R.S. Woodward DFC Convoy 18:50 20:10  
08-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy 15:30 17:00  
08-Apr-42 P.7052 P/O H.J Blackshaw Convoy 18:30 19:55  
14-Apr-42 P.7052 P/O P. Harvey Convoy 16:35 17:40  
15-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt H.D. Muirhead Salter sweep 09:25 10:40  
16-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Lt C.P. Rudland DFC Convoy 14:40 16:10  
16-Apr-42 P.7052 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 18:05 19:45  
17-Apr-42 P.7052 P/O V.L. Currie Scramble 07:30 08:45  
17-Apr-42 P.7052 P/O V.L. Currie Convoy 10:55 12:25  
21-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy 07:00 08:05  
21-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy 08:35 09:55  
21-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy 10:50 12:00  
22-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Scramble 16:45 18:00  
23-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy 07:15 07:40  
23-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy 20:10 20:40  
23-Apr-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Convoy 11:10 12:15  
30-Apr-42 P.7052 Sgt K.C. Ridley 10 Group Ramrod 18 18:05 19:25 Attack on Lannion aerodrome, B Flight to attack Morlaix
03-May-42 P.7052 P/O W.A. Lovell Scramble 19:40 20:30 P/Os W Lovell and Coyne followed a bogy from base area towards St Eval 
04-May-42 P.7052 P/O Lovell Scramble 10:15 11:15 A Flight scrambles produced plots coincidental with e/a off Carnsore. Nothing seen.
05-May-42 P.7052 P/O Lovell Scramble 16:15 17:25  
08-May-42 P.7052 P/O V.L. Currie Scramble 08:45 09:55 Vectored far out over Irish Sea. Nothing seen.
13-May-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Irish Sea sweep 16:30 17:40 Irish Sea Sweep. Another determined effort to intercept the elusive 1/123
13-May-42 P.7052 S/Ldr R.S. Woodward DFC Irish Sea sweep 19:10 20:05 Irish Sea Sweep. Another determined effort to intercept the elusive 1/123
20-May-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Scramble 12:35 14:00  
21-May-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Scramble 11:30 12:00  
04-Jun-42 P.7052 P/O V.L. Currie Scramble 20:40 21:05 No incident
05-Jun-42 P.7052 S/Ldr R.S. Woodward DFC 10 Group Ramrod 19 15:20 16:40 Attack on Lannion aerodrome
19-Jun-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Scramble 20:35 21:35 Enemy aircraft out of range off Irish South coast.
20-Jun-42 P.7052 P/O C.P. Van Zeller Scramble 08:05 09:00 No incident.
25-Jun-42 P.7052 F/Sgt H.D. Muirhead Scramble 20:10 21:05 No incident
26-Jun-42 P.7052 F/Sgt H.D. Muirhead Scramble 12:35 13:40 Enemy aircraft between Anglesea and Ireland. A Valley aircraft engaged it, a JU.88 but we obtained no result
29-Jun-42 P.7052 P/O Lovell Scramble 18:35 19:30 Bogey identified as Liberator.
30-Jun-42 P.7052 P/O Lovell Scramble 19:50 20:15 Bogey identified as Liberator.
01-Jul-42 P.7052 P/O Lovell Scramble 20:10 20:55  
04-Jul-42 P.7052 Sgt K.C. Ridley Scramble 17:20 17:40  
05-Jul-42 P.7052 P/O Lovell Scramble 21:40 23:00  
06-Jul-42 P.7052 P/O P. Harvey Scramble 13:20 14:00 No incident.
08-Jul-42 P.7052 P/O P. Harvey Scramble 07:50 08:55 No incident.
28-Jul-42 P.7052 F/Sgt C.P. King Scramble 19:50 20:15 No incident.
17-Aug-42 P.7052 Sgt K.C. Ridley Convoy 13:35 15:05  
17-Aug-42 P.7052 Sgt K.C. Ridley Scramble 17:55 18:25  
15-Sep-42 P.7052 F/Sgt H.D. Muirhead Escort A/S/R launch 18:55 19:25 H.S. Launch escorted to 20 miles South of Warmwell
19-Sep-42 P.7052 P/O C.P. King Anti-Rhubarb Patrols 18:45 19:25 Sections patrolled between Swanage and Needles. Nothing seen
03-Oct-42 P.7052 P/O C.P. King 10 Group Roadstead Operation 18:15 19:00 Attack a 3000 ton M/V in Alderney harbour
17-Oct-42 P.7052 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 08:45 10:25 Convoy escorted without incident from Needles to Portland.
17-Oct-42 P.7052 F/Lt A.N.W. Johnstone DFC Convoy Patrol 11:00 12:35 Convoy escorted without incident from Needles to Portland.
10-Nov-42 P.7052 P/O C.P. King DFM Convoy 15:05 16:40 Convoy of Floating Dock from Needles, Westward.
26-Nov-42 P.7052 Sgt J. MacAulay Rhubarb 16:10 17:00 F/O Harvey led this operation intending to attack railway objectives S.W. of Isigny, but found inadequate cloud cover 10 miles S.E. of Barfleur.
26-Nov-42 P.7052 F/O J.P. Coyne 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.
14-Dec-42 P.7052 Sgt M.T. Cotton Anti-Rhubarb Patrol 15:00 16:25 Pilots flew, or were vectored, five or six times between Portland and St. Aldhelms Head. Finally vectored to 20 miles North of Barfleur. Returning from there, they met 2 F.W.190s and had a dogfight from zero to 4000 feet
07-Feb-43 P.7052 F/O C.P. King DFM Army Co-Op 15:45 16:25 Equipment containers dropped on Netheravon aerodrome at 1600 hours. F/O E. Brearley's containers hung up.
12-Feb-43 P.7052 Sgt D.J. Williams Rhubarb 08:30 missing 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.