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Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
13-Dec-40 P.6973 F/Lt H.A. Olivier Interception Patrol 15:05 15:40 Section ordered to intercept Raid 132 in the vicinity of Start Point. Enemy not sighted. Plotting was irregular and R/T poor.
20-Dec-40 P.6973 F/O D.A.C. Crooks Interception Patrol 14:50 15:50 The Section was ordered to patrol Bear Head and then to intercept Raid 148. Plots of the raid faded in Lyme Bay
21-Dec-40 P.6973 F/Lt W.O.L. Smith Interception Patrol 13:35 15:20 The section was on patrol over a wide area between Plymouth and Exeter.
23-Dec-40 P.6973 F/O D.A.C. Crooks Interception Patrol 08:40 09:35 The section was on patrol in the neighbourhood of Start Point.
03-Jan-41 P.6973 F/O D.A.C. Crooks Sweep 09:45 11:10 F/O Crooks carried out a sweep over the Channel 40 miles South of the Lizard, then 40 miles East, then North to the coast. He did not sight anything.
01-Mar-41 P.6973 Sgt D.W. Mason Interception Patrol 16:05 16:55 The two aircraft were on patrol.
01-Mar-41 P.6973 Sgt D.W. Mason Interception Patrol 18:50 19:15 The two aircraft were sent between Land's End and the Scillies to intercept a raider, but no interception resulted.
05-Mar-41 P.6973 P/O R.F. Ferdinand Interception Patrol 11:15 12:00 The raid went West of the Scillies and was not intercepted.
14-Mar-41 P.6973 Sgt D.W. Mason Interception Patrol 08:40 09:40 The section was on patrol over Lizard Point.
14-Mar-41 P.6973 Sgt D.W. Mason Convoy Patrol 18:05 19:16 Convoy patrol. Returning from this patrol P/O Thornton-Brown crashed and sustained serious injuries.