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Date |
A/C |
Crew |
Duty |
Up |
Down |
Details of
Sortie or Flight |
08-Dec-40 |
P.6969 |
S/Ldr J.G. Munro |
Interception Patrol |
11:15 |
11:45 |
Section patrolled Exmouth, the vectored to Torquay, then
returned to Exmouth. |
17-Dec-40 |
P.6969 |
F/O J.G. Hughes |
Interception Patrol |
14:45 |
15:15 |
Section patrolled in the vicinity of Start Point & Plymouth. |
23-Dec-40 |
P.6969 |
P/O G.S. Milligan |
Interception Patrol |
08:40 |
09:35 |
The section was on patrol in the neighbourhood of Start Point. |
17-Jan-41 |
P.6969 |
P/O H.H. Kitchener |
Interception Patrol |
16:30 |
17:20 |
The two aircraft were on patrol. |
19-Jan-41 |
P.6969 |
P/O P.G.
Thornton-Brown |
Interception Patrol |
09:45 |
10:45 |
P/O Kitchener and P/O Thornton-Brown went to intercept a raider
S.E. of the Lizard, but he turned South too soon. |
20-Jan-41 |
P.6969 |
P/O P.G.
Thornton-Brown |
Interception Patrol |
10:45 |
11:30 |
The two aircraft were detailed to intercept a raid off Land's
End. Visibility was very bad and no interception was made. |
22-Jan-41 |
P.6969 |
P/O P.G.
Thornton-Brown |
Interception Patrol |
11:05 |
12:00 |
The two aircraft were on patrol. |
28-Jan-41 |
P.6969 |
P/O P.G.
Thornton-Brown |
Interception Patrol |
13:45 |
14:50 |
The two aircraft were on patrol. |
08-Feb-41 |
P.6969 |
P/O K.A.G. Graham |
Interception Patrol |
09:15 |
missing |
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. |
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