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Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
06-Nov-41 P.7089 Sgt H.J. Blackshaw Rhubarb 56 10:40 11:53 Attack on road and railway West of Maupertus.
15-Nov-41 P.7089 Sgt D.E. Prior Rhubarb 61 12:40 14:10 Attack on Distillery targets. Green Section (P/O Holmes and Sgt. Prior) Target 216. Corseulles.
17-Nov-41 P.7089 Sgt D.E. Prior Rhubarb 64 09:38 10:40 Attack on Distillery targets - abortive
23-Nov-41 P.7089 Sgt J.J. Walker Beat up of Home Guard 10:25 10:55 Three sections of aircraft co-operated in this Home Guard Exercise. The village of Charlton immediately to the West of Filton Aerodrome was repeatedly attacked from a low level.
12-Feb-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 11:00 13:40 No Incident.
13-Feb-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Dusk Patrol 17:30 18:05 Nothing seen - These flights are regularly made from Fairwood Common to intercept bandits which tend to appear off Linney Head at dusk.
07-Mar-42 P.7089 Sgt R.I. Reed Convoy Patrol 13:20 15:00 Nothing Seen.
07-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 16:10 17:35 Nothing Seen.
08-Mar-42 P.7089 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy Patrol 07:45 09:35 Nothing Seen.
08-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 11:30 13:00 Nothing Seen.
09-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 15:30 17:00 Nothing Seen.
14-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 11:45 12:50 Nothing Seen.
15-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 15:55 17:10 Nothing Seen.
21-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 13:25 14:55 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Sweep of Irish Sea 13:10 14:10 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Sweep of Irish Sea 16:10 17:30 Nothing Seen.
23-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 15:05 16:15 Nothing Seen.
23-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 17:40 19:00 Nothing Seen.
24-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 15:15 16:55 Nothing Seen.
05-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 09:05 10:55 Patrol of Skipper
05-Apr-42 P.7089 Sgt D.F. Small Convoy 11:25 13:10 Patrol of Steward
10-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 14:30 15:50 Patrol of Irish Sea to Saltees
10-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 19:10 20:50 Patrol of Irish Sea to Saltees
16-Apr-42 P.7089 F/Sgt R.I. Reed Convoy 11:10 12:30  
16-Apr-42 P.7089 F/Sgt R.I. Reed Convoy 14:40 16:00  
17-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O J.W.E. Holmes Convoy 16:25 17:50  
21-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 11:10 12:00 Bogey was identified as Liberator.
21-Apr-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 15:20 16:30  
21-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O J.J. Walker Convoy 20:35 21:45  
22-Apr-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams Convoy 08:10 09:10  
23-Apr-42 P.7089 Sgt D.F. Small Convoy 14:30 15:40  
26-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 14:05 15:15  
30-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O I.F. Kennedy 10 Group Ramrod 18 18:12 19:30 Attack on Morlaix aerodrome, A Flight to attack Lannion.
03-May-42 P.7089 P/O S.J. Lovell First Solo 18:00 18:30  
03-May-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 12:50 13:15  
06-May-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Patrol Portreath & Falmouth (Royal visit) 08:00 20:20 Patrolled Cornwall for Royal visit
16-May-42 P.7089 Sgt W.R. Wright Scramble 15:20 16:10  
16-May-42 P.7089 Sgt W.R. Wright Scramble 20:15 21:05  
22-May-42 P.7089 Sgt W.R. Wright A.S.R. 19:40 20:25 A search was made for ten miles around St David's Head. Nothing was seen of the Blenheim supposed to have gone in there
23-May-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 10:30 10:50  
04-Jun-42 P.7089 F/Lt G.B. Warnes Patrol 05:55 06:55 Early patrol of Smalls-Carmsore area.
05-Jun-42 P.7089 F/Lt G.B. Warnes 10 Group Ramrod 19 15:10 16:30 Attack on Morlaix aerodrome
19-Jun-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams   08:15 08:50 Nothing seen.
19-Jun-42 P.7089 Sgt B.C. Abrams Scramble 11:00 12:15 Scramble Smalls 8000. Plots faded and Section was ordered to convoy Peroration.
20-Jun-42 P.7089 F/Sgt R.I. Reed Scramble 13:15 13:40 Plots were off Salters but faded before contact could be made.
28-Jun-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 19:05 19:55 Black Blue and Green Sections were vectored hard after plots 20-60 miles S.W. of Base. They were also vectored on to each other and intercepted successfully but fortunately did not engage
28-Jun-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 21:20 22:05 Enemy patrol to Salter area.
30-Jun-42 P.7089 P/O N.V. Crabtree Scramble 22:50 23:10 Nothing seen.
04-Jul-42 P.7089 P/O N.V. Crabtree Patrol 18:15 19:40 Patrol to S. of Eire.
07-Jul-42 P.7089 P/O J.J. Walker Scramble 22:10 22:55 No incident.
01-Oct-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Roadstead Operation 17:00 18:15 Roadstead to bomb minesweepers in Trieux estuary. Not found.
07-Nov-42 P.7089 W/O D.B. McPhail Convoy 16:00 17:20 Convoy off Portland. A Hudson was chased and identified.
08-Nov-42 P.7089 F/O E. Brearley Convoy 11:20 13:00 Convoy of important Floating Dock from Needles area towards Portland
10-Nov-42 P.7089 W/O D.B. McPhail Convoy 14:10 15:20  
10-Nov-42 P.7089 F/Lt G.B. Warnes Convoy 16:00 17:30  
15-Jan-43 P.7089 W/O D.F.J. Tebbitt Air Sea Rescue 16:10 17:40 The second sweep was entirely unsuccessful.
05-Mar-43 P.7089 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Convoy 15:25 17:05 Patrol off St. Davids
07-Mar-43 P.7089 F/O E. Brearley Convoy 15:05 16:20 Patrol off St. Davids. Large Convoy.
12-Mar-43 P.7089 P/O J.I. Yates Convoy 18:10 19:40 Escort Convoy “Dinner”.
14-Mar-43 P.7089 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 10 Group Circus 18 15:55 17:00 Attack on Maupertus. They dive-bombed from 15000 - 9000 ft. and saw 2 bursts in S.E. corner and other bursts in the centre. Flak was slight and inaccurate.
19-Mar-43 P.7089 F/O E. Brearley 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.
24-Mar-43 P.7089 F/O A.H. Lee-White Rhubarb Operation 13:45 14:45 Ordered to attack railway objectives at La Haye du Puits, they found no cloud cover in the Casquets area and returned to base with their bombs
26-Mar-43 P.7089 F/O A.H. Lee-White Rhubarb Operation 12:45 14:20 Attack on the Transformer Station at St. Lo. Making landfall East of Isigny they flew through various patches of light flak, located the target and both scored cannon strikes on it. P/O Abrams bombs apparently disintegrated the whole transformer unit. F/O A. Lee-Whites' exploded among the complex of huts.
13-Apr-43 P.7089 P/O B.C. Abrams 10 Group Circus 22  17:30 19:00 Brest/Guipavas aerodrome was successfully divebombed with 20 x 250lb bombs.
14-Apr-43 P.7089 P/O B.C. Abrams 10 Group Roadstead 57 15:30 17:05 Shipping was reported in the Lannil Is estuaries. By chance, landfall was made too far south and F/O Harvey inadvertently led into the area off Raie de Brest and thereby found three ships.
17-Apr-43 P.7089 F/O A.H. Lee-White Night Armed Shipping Reccos and Rhubarbs 22:51 00:15 He reccod Alderney – Marcouf and finding no shipping, bombed Fort St. Marcouf. He landed at Exeter.
21-Apr-43 P.7089 Sgt J.I. Simpson 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.
28-Apr-43 P.7089 S/Ldr G.B. Warnes DFC 10 Group Roadstead 60 10:15 12:50 Attack on convoy of 8 ships N. of Sept Isles
28-Apr-43 P.7089 W/O D.F.J. Tebbitt 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.7089 W/O D.F.J. Tebbitt 10 Group Roadstead 63 13:10   Attack on shipping near Isigny. Found to be fishing vessels
14-May-43 P.7089 P/O P.T.R. Mercer Roadstead 67 21:00 21:45 Attack on two destroyers alongside the Quai Maritime alternatively a medium M/V in the Basin Napoleon in Cherbourg docks
18-May-43 P.7089 Sgt J.I. Simpson Roadstead 18:50 20:20 No minesweepers were found in their suspected position between Jersey and Brehat.
19-May-43 P.7089 Sgt W.E. Watkins Roadstead     Repetition of previous days uneventful search for minesweepers Channel Islands – Brehat
23-May-43 P.7089 F/O M T Cotton Roadstead 70 07:45 09:00 Attack on convoy nearing Guernsey from C de la Hague