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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