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Date |
A/C |
Crew |
Duty |
Up |
Down |
Details of
Sortie or Flight |
04-Jan-41 |
P.6971 |
P/O G.S. Milligan |
Interception Patrol |
14:30 |
15:10 |
The two aircraft were put on patrol, but were not ordered to
intercept any raid. |
25-Apr-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt C.P. King |
Convoy Patrol |
14:15 |
15:45 |
Convoy Patrol |
29-Apr-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt D.St J. Jowitt |
Interception Patrol |
14:00 |
14:50 |
The section was on patrol. |
03-May-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt H.J. Blackshaw |
Interception Patrol |
15:15 |
15:55 |
The section was on patrol. |
04-May-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt D.F.J. Tebbitt |
Convoy Patrol |
07:35 |
08:45 |
Convoy Patrol |
04-May-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt D.F.J. Tebbitt |
Convoy Patrol |
11:30 |
12:45 |
Convoy Patrol |
04-May-41 |
P.6971 |
F/Lt J.G. Hughes |
Convoy Patrol |
19:00 |
20:00 |
Convoy Patrol |
05-May-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt D.F.J. Tebbitt |
Interception Patrol |
14:30 |
15:10 |
The section was on patrol |
08-May-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt D.St J. Jowitt |
Convoy Patrol |
15:35 |
17:05 |
Convoy Patrol |
08-May-41 |
P.6971 |
P/O C.P. Rudland |
Convoy Patrol |
21:00 |
22:00 |
Convoy Patrol |
09-May-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt C.P. King |
Interception Patrol |
12:00 |
12:25 |
The section was on patrol |
13-May-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt D.F.J. Tebbitt |
Convoy Patrol |
17:55 |
19:25 |
Convoy Patrol |
19-Aug-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt D.St J. Jowitt |
Convoy Patrol |
08:50 |
10:10 |
Convoy Patrol in the Bristol Channel. |
03-Sep-41 |
P.6971 |
Sgt J.E. Meredith |
Convoy Patrol |
12:40 |
13:25 |
Convoy patrol in the Bristol Channel. |
08-Jan-43 |
P.6971 |
F/Sgt W.R. Wright |
Convoy |
13:25 |
14:10 |
Convoy South of St. Aldhelms Head, going West. |
15-Jan-43 |
P.6971 |
P/O A.H. Lee-White |
Air Sea Rescue |
16:10 |
17:40 |
The second sweep was entirely unsuccessful. |
19-Feb-43 |
P.6971 |
F/O C.P. King DFM |
Army Co-Op Exercise
"Longford" |
15:20 |
16:15 |
Army transports attacked North of Wroughton aerodrome on
Wroughton-Swindon Road. |
26-Feb-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt M.T. Cotton |
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.6971 |
Sgt M.T. Cotton |
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.6971 |
Sgt M.T. Cotton |
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.6971 |
F/Lt J.W.E. Holmes |
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.6971 |
P/O B.C. Abrams |
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. |
26-Mar-43 |
P.6971 |
W/O D.F.J. Tebbitt |
Rhubarb Operation |
10:45 |
11:55 |
Ordered to attack target as above but they mistook Cap
Flamanville for Cap Carteret and so searched too far North. Finding no other
target, they bombed a road at La Mare du Pors. |
04-Apr-43 |
P.6971 |
F/O S.J. Lovell |
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.6971 |
F/O S.J. Lovell |
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. |
13-Apr-43 |
P.6971 |
S/Ldr G.B. Warnes DFC |
10 Group Circus
22 |
17:30 |
19:00 |
Brest/Guipavas aerodrome was successfully divebombed with 20 x
250lb bombs. |
14-Apr-43 |
P.6971 |
S/Ldr G.B. Warnes DFC |
Armed Shipping Recco |
07:20 |
08:40 |
First light recco from Warmwell to search for E-Boats |
18-Apr-43 |
P.6971 |
F/O S.J. Lovell |
Escorted Armed Dusk
Recco |
20:20 |
21:25 |
Reccod the Channel Islands area at zero feet in good visibility,
but found no shipping there. |
11-May-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt H.M. Proctor |
Ship Recco |
13:00 |
14:20 |
Uneventful recco south of Jersey |
03-Aug-43 |
P.6971 |
P/O N.P. Blacklock |
Shipping Recco |
11:25 |
12:35 |
Channel Islands shipping lanes were thoroughly searched from a
height of 20-100 feet. |
15-Aug-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt H.M. Proctor |
10 Group Circus |
15:00 |
16:20 |
This operation to dive-bomb Guipavas aerodrome. S/Ldr Baker
returned with exactor trouble. F/Lt McClure found 10/10 cloud and operation
abandoned |
17-Aug-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt J.B. Purkis |
10 Group Ramrod |
08:50 |
10:00 |
It was intended to divebomb Brest Guipavas. Aborted in 10/10
cloud |
29-Aug-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt G. Williams |
Convoy |
10:35 |
12:05 |
Convoy from Needles to West of Portland. |
29-Aug-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt I.D.M. Dunlop |
Convoy |
12:55 |
14:05 |
Convoy from Needles to West of Portland. |
11-Sep-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt I.D.M. Dunlop |
Convoy Patrols |
10:35 |
12:15 |
Convoy moving westward from Portland. |
18-Sep-43 |
P.6971 |
F/Sgt H.M. Proctor |
Night Ranger
Operation |
01:27 |
01:55 |
Chatanooga Choo-Choo. Briefed to bomb Ponthou Viaduct. Think
they hit cuttings N and S |
23-Sep-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt I.D.M. Dunlop |
|
11:30 |
12:50 |
This operation consisted in the d/b of MORLAIX a/d. |
24-Sep-43 |
P.6971 |
Sgt D.C. Todd |
Scramble |
16:40 |
18:00 |
Various vectors at 10,000 feet S. of base. |
17-Oct-43 |
P.6971 |
F/Sgt R.C. Beaumont |
Night Recco |
22:31 |
23:51 |
More searches Predannack – PORSPOIER – SEPT Iles – Predannack. |
19-Oct-43 |
P.6971 |
P/O N.P. Blacklock |
Rhubarb |
14:20 |
15:45 |
Repeatedly bombed and cannoned a goods train N of Airel. |
25-Nov-43 |
P.6971 |
F/Sgt I.D.M. Dunlop |
Ramrod 106 pt 1 |
12:00 |
12:32 |
10/10 Cloud with tops 6-7,000 over Cherbourg, so sorties turned
back |
26-Nov-43 |
P.6971 |
F/Sgt D.C. Todd |
Ramrod 108 |
11:57 |
12:45 |
Whirlibombers dive-bombed SS Munsterland again |
26-Nov-43 |
P.6971 |
F/Sgt I.D.M. Dunlop |
Ramrod 109 |
15:40 |
16:50 |
Attack on a secret target SW of Cherbourg. |
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