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Date |
A/C |
Crew |
Duty |
Up |
Down |
Details of
Sortie or Flight |
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10-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
S/Ldr R.S. Woodward
DFC |
Convoy |
17:45 |
18:50 |
Patrol of Irish Sea to Saltees |
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14-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O D.R. Gill |
Convoy |
10:35 |
12:05 |
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15-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt W.R. Wright |
Convoy |
14:40 |
16:10 |
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15-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O D.R. Gill |
Patrol |
18:25 |
19:50 |
Saltee Patrol |
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16-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O D.R. Gill |
Convoy |
11:50 |
13:20 |
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26-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Convoy |
13:05 |
14:15 |
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27-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Convoy |
18:15 |
18:35 |
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30-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
10 Group Ramrod 18 |
18:12 |
19:30 |
Attack on Morlaix aerodrome, A Flight to attack Lannion. |
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27-Apr-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt K.C. Ridley |
Convoy |
18:15 |
18:35 |
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06-May-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O D.R. Gill |
Patrol Portreath
& Falmouth (Royal visit) |
08:00 |
20:20 |
Patrolled Cornwall for Royal visit |
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16-May-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Scramble |
15:20 |
16:10 |
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16-May-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Scramble |
20:15 |
21:05 |
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22-May-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt R.I. Reed |
Scramble |
21:00 |
21:56 |
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24-May-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Scramble |
19:30 |
20:30 |
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31-May-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O V.L. Currie |
Hust Escort. |
14:55 |
16:10 |
Hust Escort. |
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26-May-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O V.L. Currie |
Rhubarb 54 |
06:15 |
06:56 |
Rhubarb 54 to attack Railway objective in Landivisiau. No cloud
cover so returned |
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05-Jun-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O I.F. Kennedy |
10 Group Ramrod 19 |
15:10 |
16:30 |
Attack on Morlaix aerodrome |
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08-Jun-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt W.R. Wright |
Scramble |
09:45 |
10:00 |
Abortive Scramble. |
|
15-Jun-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt W.R. Wright |
Scramble |
- |
- |
Cancelled |
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28-Jun-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
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.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Patrol |
21:20 |
22:05 |
Enemy patrol to Salter area. |
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01-Jul-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Scramble |
20:20 |
21:20 |
Scramble no incident. |
|
08-Jul-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O J.J. Walker |
Scramble |
07:55 |
08:55 |
No incident. |
|
10-Jul-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Patrol |
13:35 |
14:25 |
Patrol Irish Sea. |
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18-Jul-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O Lovell |
Scramble |
19:40 |
20:20 |
No incident. |
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23-Jul-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt W.R. Wright |
Combined Rhubarb
Operation |
15:28 |
16:43 |
Rhubarb |
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27-Jul-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Patrol |
20:20 |
21:15 |
Patrol of Small area. |
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28-Jul-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Scramble |
12:35 |
13:05 |
No incident. |
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05-Aug-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Convoy |
10:50 |
12:50 |
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05-Aug-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Convoy |
12:45 |
13:45 |
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09-Aug-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt B.C. Abrams |
Convoy |
07:30 |
07:40 |
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17-Aug-42 |
P.7090 |
F/Sgt H.D. Muirhead |
Scramble |
17:55 |
18:25 |
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17-Aug-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O N.V. Crabtree |
Patrol |
17:00 |
17:30 |
Anti-Enemy Rhubarb Patrol off Bolt Head. |
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18-Aug-42 |
P.7090 |
Sgt J.I. Yates |
Scramble |
09:15 |
10:00 |
Patrol base at 20,000 or enemy aircraft, which turned back |
|
03-Sep-42 |
P.7090 |
P/O E. Brearley |
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 |
|
06-Apr-43 |
P.7090 |
F/O J.P. Coyne |
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.7090 |
Sgt S.P.D.
Thyagarajan |
10 Group Circus
22 |
17:30 |
19:00 |
Brest/Guipavas aerodrome was successfully divebombed with 20 x
250lb bombs. |
|
14-Apr-43 |
P.7090 |
F/O P. Harvey |
Armed Ship-Recco |
07:12 |
08:30 |
First light recco from Predannack to search for E-Boats. Found
Lancaster floating and its crew in a dinghy near it, 20 miles S of Start
Point. |
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14-Apr-43 |
P.7090 |
F/O P. Harvey |
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. |
|
16-Apr-43 |
P.7090 |
F/O P. Harvey |
Bomb Mondeville
Industries (Night) |
22:57 |
00:25 |
Making landfall near Courseulles, he flew East but missed the
Caen canal and therefore returned to disintegrate the main line W of Bayeux |
|
17-Apr-43 |
P.7090 |
F/O P. Harvey |
Night Armed Shipping
Reccos and Rhubarbs |
23:00 |
missing |
Ordered to look for trains between Bayeux and Caen nothing was
heard of him after he left Warmwell |
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