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Date |
A/C |
Crew |
Duty |
Up |
Down |
Details of
Sortie or Flight |
17-Dec-40 |
P.6968 |
F/O D.A.C. Crooks |
Interception Patrol |
11:10 |
11:40 |
Section patrolled between Start Point at Exmouth. |
21-Dec-40 |
P.6968 |
P/O G.S. Milligan |
Interception Patrol |
09:00 |
09:30 |
The section was ordered to intercept Raid 164. This was
intercepted at 0912 off Start Point and identified as a Martin 167. |
12-Jan-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt D.W. Mason |
Interception Patrol |
09:40 |
10:25 |
P/O Stein intercepted a JU.88 40 miles S.W. of the Scillies |
14-Jan-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt D.W. Mason |
Interception Patrol |
10:50 |
11:40 |
A patrol was carried out, but no interception order was given. |
15-Jan-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt D.W. Mason |
Interception Patrol |
13:20 |
14:20 |
An E/A was sighted, but it was too high and too far off to give
chase. |
19-Jan-41 |
P.6968 |
P/O P.G.
Thornton-Brown |
Interception Patrol |
11:20 |
12:10 |
The two aircraft were on patrol. |
08-Feb-41 |
P.6968 |
F/Lt D.A.C. Crooks |
Interception Patrol |
09:06 |
10:15 |
Blue section up from Exeter at 0840 on a practice flight was
vectored onto Raid 139, 12 miles south of Start Point an Arado 196 was
intercepted and F/O Hughes gave it a 5 second burst with no observed results.
Red section up from St.Eval at 0906 as orbiting south of Dodman Point when
F/Lt Crooks saw a float plane crash into the sea. P/O Graham had passed him 2
minutes earlier, but this was the last that he saw of him. A coastguard
reported that two aircraft had crashed into the sea 3 miles south of Dodman
Point, the first in flames. P/O Graham was credited with the destruction of
an Arado 196. |
28-May-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt C.P. King |
Convoy Patrol |
11:55 |
12:45 |
Convoy Patrol |
03-Jun-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt Garthwaite |
Convoy Patrol |
12:15 |
13:40 |
Convoy Patrol |
07-Jun-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt C.P. King |
Convoy Patrol |
14:30 |
15:45 |
Convoy Patrol |
07-Jun-41 |
P.6968 |
P/O C.P. Rudland |
Convoy Patrol |
21:00 |
22:00 |
Convoy Patrol |
11-Jun-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt D.St J. Jowitt |
Convoy Patrol |
15:20 |
17:00 |
Convoy Patrol |
15-Jun-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt C.P. King |
Convoy Patrol |
21:50 |
23:00 |
Convoy Patrol |
23-Jun-41 |
P.6968 |
Sgt J.J. Walker |
Convoy Patrol |
13:45 |
15:15 |
Convoy Patrol |
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