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Date |
A/C |
Crew |
Duty |
Up |
Down |
Details of
Sortie or Flight |
16-Jul-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O J.P. Coyne |
Scramble |
21:20 |
22:00 |
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21-Jul-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O Lovell |
Scramble |
13:55 |
15:10 |
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23-Jul-42 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt C.P. King |
Combined Rhubarb
Operation |
15:30 |
16:45 |
Rhubarb to Morlaix area |
28-Jul-42 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt C.P. King |
Scramble |
16:05 |
17:10 |
No incident. |
01-Aug-42 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt H.D. Muirhead |
Convoy |
14:25 |
15:15 |
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24-Aug-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O H.J Blackshaw |
Scramble |
17:20 |
18:15 |
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28-Aug-42 |
P.7057 |
Sgt J.I. Yates |
Scramble |
14:20 |
15:30 |
Plots were good from Cherbourg at 20,000-30,000ft. The
Whirlwinds which were scrambled struggled to 24,000 but saw nothing. |
10-Sep-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O J.P. Coyne |
Roadstead Operation |
18:25 |
20:05 |
Searched the Sept Islands – Brehat Shipping lane. Target not
found. |
16-Sep-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O J.P. Coyne |
A/S/R Search |
07:20 |
08:15 |
Search for Typhoon pilot who bailed out about 20 miles North of
Cherbourg after engine failure on the previous day's operation. Nothing seen. |
19-Sep-42 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt H.D. Muirhead |
Anti-Rhubarb Patrols |
18:15 |
18:55 |
Sections patrolled between Swanage and Needles. Nothing seen |
03-Sep-42 |
P.7057 |
Sgt J. MacAulay |
Scramble |
09:15 |
10:00 |
Up from Colerne they were vectored South at 15,000 feet, and
finding low cloud at base landed at Middle Wallop. No incident in either
patrol |
08-Oct-42 |
P.7057 |
F/O P. Harvey |
Shipping Recco |
10:25 |
10:40 |
This was an abortive sortie. S/Ldr Woodward orbitted over the
coast and found no cloud cover, and the recco was abandonded. |
10-Oct-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O J.P. Coyne |
Shipping Recco |
14:10 |
15:20 |
Armed recco, Alderney – Cherbourg area, nothing seen. |
17-Oct-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O J.P. Coyne |
Convoy Patrol |
12:05 |
13:20 |
Convoy escorted without incident from Needles to Portland. |
31-Oct-42 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Rhubarb Operation |
10:40 |
12:00 |
Sections were led by F/O Harvey to attack the railway triangle
N.W. of the La Haye du Puits. |
07-Nov-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O J.P. Coyne |
Rhubarb |
10:30 |
11:40 |
This operation had as its target the Valognes – Carentan
railway. |
10-Nov-42 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Convoy |
13:00 |
14:25 |
Convoy of Floating Dock from Needles, Westward. |
10-Nov-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O J.P. Coyne |
Convoy |
14:30 |
15:00 |
Convoy of Floating Dock from Needles, Westward. |
10-Nov-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O J.P. Coyne |
Convoy |
16:05 |
17:30 |
Convoy of Floating Dock from Needles, Westward. |
18-Nov-42 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Convoy |
13:20 |
14:40 |
This convoy of 16-18 ships was escorted without incident from
Needles area to Portland. |
07-Dec-42 |
P.7057 |
P/O C.P. King DFM |
10 Group Roadstead 45 |
13:10 |
14:40 |
West of Guernsey, Enemy convoy was sighted lying off Baie de St.
Brelade, South West of Jersey. |
14-Dec-42 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
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 |
15-Dec-42 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Anti-Rhubarb Patrol |
12:00 |
13:10 |
No incident, in this Needles-Portland routine patrol. |
07-Jan-43 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Roadstead Operation
from Predannack |
16:00 |
17:40 |
The channel was swept for minesweepers reported off Ile Vierge. |
10-Jan-43 |
P.7057 |
F/Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Roadstead Operation
from Predannack |
09:22 |
11:05 |
The channel was swept for minesweepers reported off Ile Vierge. |
15-Feb-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O C.P. King DFM |
Rhubarb |
08:25 |
09:25 |
Attack on Carentan-Valognes Railway abandoned because of no
cloud cover. |
15-Feb-43 |
P.7057 |
F/Lt H.J Blackshaw |
Night Off. Ops |
20:30 |
22:10 |
Abortive Shipping Recco round Channel Islands. |
26-Feb-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
10 Group Circus 16 |
16:00 |
17:00 |
Attack on Maupertus. Landfall made at Cherbourg. Hits were
observed on aerodrome, dispersals and buildings. |
27-Feb-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
Diversion to 10 Group
Ramrod |
13:30 |
14:30 |
Attack on Maupertus. Landfall made at Pointe du Barfleur. Hits
were again observed on aerodrome, dispersals and buildings. |
28-Feb-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
10 Group Circus 17 |
14:40 |
15:40 |
Attack on Maupertus. The veteran dive-bombers of “A” Flight went
in for the third time. |
14-Mar-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
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.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
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.7057 |
P/O B.C. Abrams |
10 Group Night
Rhubarb No. 23 (Morlaix Viaduct) |
00:20 |
02:10 |
Bombed 3000-1500 ft. & scored direct hit on top of Viaduct. |
22-Mar-43 |
P.7057 |
P/O B.C. Abrams |
10 Group Night
Rhubarb No. 24 |
00:20 |
02:05 |
Landfall at Ile Vieuge. Therefore bombed Pense Bridge. |
16-Apr-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
Escorted Armed Dusk
Ship Recco |
20:40 |
22:10 |
Dusk escorted armed recco in Channel Islands area. |
17-Apr-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
Night Armed Shipping
Reccos and Rhubarbs |
22:56 |
00:25 |
He searched for trains Bayeux – Airel, meeting intense flak at
Airel, then disintergrated the line near Carentan. |
18-Apr-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
Escorted Armed Dusk
Recco |
20:20 |
21:25 |
Reccod the Channel Islands area at zero feet in good visibility,
but found no shipping there. |
19-Apr-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
Night Roadstead |
01:55 |
03:15 |
difficult and unfruitful |
28-Apr-43 |
P.7057 |
P/O M.T. Cotton |
10 Group Roadstead 62 |
14:22 |
15:45 |
This operation did not find the depleted convoy in its estimated
position south of Jersey. |
29-Apr-43 |
P.7057 |
P/O M.T. Cotton |
10 Group Roadstead 63 |
13:10 |
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Attack on shipping near Isigny. Found to be fishing vessels |
06-May-43 |
P.7057 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
Roadstead 65 |
17:15 |
18:10 |
Attack on tanker with 5 small escort vessels reported W.N.W. of
Alderney. The Casquets were indeed found in this position. |
11-May-43 |
P.7057 |
F/Lt J.W.E. Holmes |
Ship Recco |
13:00 |
14:20 |
Uneventful recco south of Jersey |
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