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Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
26-Dec-41 P.7108 Sgt C.P. King Scramble 15:55 16:35 Ordered to patrol base at 10,000 ft. No incident
20-Jan-42 P.7108 P/O P. Harvey Tactical Exercise 10:50 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.
28-Feb-43 P.7108 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 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.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton 10 Group Circus 18 16:22 17:30 Attack on Maupertus. They dive-bombed 15000 – 8000 ft. and saw 8 bursts on centre of the airfield, on the S.W. perimeter and in the S.E. dispersal area. Moderate flak. 
19-Mar-43 P.7108 P/O J.I. Yates 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.7108 F/Lt H.J Blackshaw 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 23 (Morlaix Viaduct) 00:30 01:40 Target not found. Jettisoned bombs over sea.
22-Mar-43 P.7108 F/Lt J.W.E. Holmes 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 24 00:10 01:25 Bombed from 1000 ft. and scored a direct hit.
22-Mar-43 P.7108 F/Lt H.J Blackshaw 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 24 00:35 01:50 Port engine u/s.
23-Mar-43 P.7108 F/Lt J.W.E. Holmes 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 25 (Ponthou Viaduct) 01:00 02:10 Target not found. Bombed unknown railway track
26-Mar-43 P.7108 F/O J.P. Coyne Rhubarb Operation 10:45 12:10 Making landfall at LANGRUNE/S/M they scored cannon strikes on a goods loco there (Cat II) then bombed Ouistreham lock gates
04-Apr-43 P.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton 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.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton 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.
09-Apr-43 P.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton 10 Group Roadstead 55 12:50 14:30 Swept the Sept Iles – Ile de Batz area for shipping reported there, as often, ship-like rocks were found.
17-Apr-43 P.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton Night Armed Shipping Reccos and Rhubarbs 22:44 23:30 Ordered to recco the Channel Islands area, he returned from the Casquet area with port engine trouble.
18-Apr-43 P.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton Night Recco 22:45 00:05 Night Recco of Southern Channel Islands area
20-Apr-43 P.7108 F/O J.P. Coyne Night Armed Recco 23:05 00:25 He found a small convoy of 2 Dutch Coasters a small M/V and 2 Motor barges, steaming N.E. from Guernsey. He bombed the small M/V and doesn't think he missed. Light flak followed.
21-Apr-43 P.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton Night Roadstead 02:00 03:40 The Channel Islands convoy which F/O Coyne had attacked was sought for, but not found. It had probably berthed in Alderney.
27-Apr-43 P.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton 10 Group Roadstead 59 16:35 17:50 Attack on convoy of 9 ships S. of Jersey.
30-Apr-43 P.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton       Attack on shipping off Ushant. No shipping sighted
19-May-43 P.7108 F/O M T Cotton Night Recco 00:50 01:15 Repitition of previous nights uneventful ship Reccos.
22-May-43 P.7108 P/O M.T. Cotton Night Roadstead 2 00:25 01:50 Attack on convoy steaming from Cap de la Hague towards Cherbourg.
23-Oct-43 P.7108 P/O A. Barr Ship Recco 08:00 09:00 The Munsterland was not found between Casquets and Barfleur. It is though that this will be found to be the last time in the history of the world in which twelve Whirlwinds were airborne together.
28-Oct-43 P.7108 F/Sgt H.M. Proctor Ramrod Operation 14:30 15:25 These eight a/c dive-bombed the Munsterland in No 5 dry dock Cherbourg
30-Oct-43 P.7108 F/Sgt I.D.M. Dunlop Ramrod 99 15:00 16:00 The seven Whirlwinds which were serviceable took off to divebomb the Munsterland 
05-Nov-43 P.7108 F/Lt D.G. Ross Ramrod 100 15:15 15:45 7 Whirlibombers took off to dive bomb M/V Munsterland lying in No 5 dry dock Cherbourg. They met 10/10 cloud and RTB
06-Nov-43 P.7108 F/Sgt R.C. Beaumont Night Shipping Recco 18:15 19:35 Beaumont and Todd to Channel Islands and Cap de la Hague – Marcouf.
09-Nov-43 P.7108 F/Sgt H.M. Proctor Night Shipping Recco 19:00 20:30 Proctor went to Channel Islands but saw no shipping.
09-Nov-43 P.7108 F/Sgt J.B. Purkis Night Shipping Recco 21:07 22:32 Both sorties from Predannack and both sorties uneventful.
24-Nov-43 P.7108 F/O R.B. Tuff Armed shipping recco 14:59 16:06 Turned back owing to bad weather S.W. of Plienmount Point.
25-Nov-43 P.7108 F/O K.F.J. Funnell Armed shipping recco 08:30 09:58 Recco 10 miles N of St Malo. Nothing seen.
25-Nov-43 P.7108 F/Lt D.G. Ross Ramrod 106 pt 1 12:00 12:32 10/10 Cloud with tops 6-7,000 over Cherbourg, so sorties turned back
25-Nov-43 P.7108 F/Lt D.G. Ross Ramrod 106 pt 2 15:57 16:45 8 Whirlibombers dive-bombed SS Munsterland again
26-Nov-43 P.7108 F/Lt D.G. Ross Ramrod 108 11:57 12:45 Whirlibombers dive-bombed SS Munsterland again