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Service Number
Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
15-Feb-42 P.7007 Sgt W.R. Wright Scramble 14:35 15:30 Section patrolled Angle at 15000. Several short vectors given by F'Wood Humbug. Nothing seen.
07-Mar-42 P.7041 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy Patrol 15:05 16:40 Nothing Seen.
08-Mar-42 P.7089 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy Patrol 07:45 09:35 Nothing Seen.
19-Mar-42 P.7007 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy Patrol 13:35 14:55 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7007 Sgt W.R. Wright Sweep of Irish Sea 10:30 12:10 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7007 Sgt W.R. Wright Sweep of Irish Sea 14:00 14:30 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7007 Sgt W.R. Wright Sweep of Irish Sea 16:10 17:30 Nothing Seen.
23-Mar-42 P.7007 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy Patrol 15:05 16:15 Nothing Seen.
23-Mar-42 P.7007 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy Patrol 17:40 19:00 Nothing Seen.
24-Mar-42 P.6991 Sgt W.R. Wright Patrol 15:15 16:50 Nothing Seen.
05-Apr-42 P.7116 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 11:30 12:30 Patrol of Irish Sea
05-Apr-42 P.7116 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 10:20 11:55 Patrol of Steward
10-Apr-42 P.7116 Sgt W.R. Wright Patrol 14:00 15:25 Patrol of Irish Sea to Saltees
14-Apr-42 P.7056 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 12:50 14:00  
14-Apr-42 P.7060 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 17:00 18:15  
15-Apr-42 P.7090 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 14:40 16:10  
15-Apr-42 P.7116 Sgt W.R. Wright Patrol 18:25 19:50 Saltee Patrol
16-Apr-42 P.7060 Sgt W.R. Wright Scramble 08:20 09:35  
16-Apr-42 P.7060 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 11:50 13:20  
16-Apr-42 P.7061 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 17:10 18:45  
17-Apr-42 P.7116 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 16:25 17:50  
03-May-42 P.7007 Sgt W.R. Wright Scramble 12:50 13:15  
06-May-42 P.7114 Sgt W.R. Wright 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
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
14-Jul-42 P.7056 Sgt W.R. Wright Patrol 20:35 21:35 Patrol South of Eire. The whole area between Angle and Eire and Lundy was swept, but unsuccessfully.
23-Jul-42 P.7090 Sgt W.R. Wright Combined Rhubarb Operation 15:28 16:43 Rhubarb
25-Jul-42 P.7110 Sgt W.R. Wright Scramble 09:25 10:15 No incident.
26-Jul-42 P.7117 Sgt W.R. Wright Scramble 19:05 19:20 Plots identified as friendly.
26-Jul-42 P.7110 Sgt W.R. Wright Scramble 20:00 20:45  
09-Aug-42 P.7099 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 06:30 07:55  
11-Aug-42 P.7000 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 18:00 19:00 Convoy “POKER”
21-Oct-42 P.7000 Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 10:40 11:55 Convoy escort between Needles and Portland.
31-Oct-42 P.7099 Sgt W.R. Wright Rhubarb Operation 10:40 12:20 Sections were led by F/O Harvey to attack the railway triangle N.W. of the La Haye du Puits.
08-Nov-42 P.7000 F/Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 12:30 13:55 Convoy of important Floating Dock from Needles area towards Portland
10-Nov-42 P.6987 F/Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 15:00 16:35  
19-Nov-42 P.7059 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 10 Group Roadstead 40 11:20 12:15 F/Lt Warnes led the 4 Whirlibombers on this first all-263 Roadstead Operation. No incident
07-Dec-42 P.6995 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 10 Group Roadstead 45 13:10 14:40 West of Guernsey, Enemy convoy was sighted lying off Baie de St. Brelade, South West of Jersey.
14-Dec-42 P.7059 F/Sgt W.R. Wright Anti-Rhubarb Patrol 11:50 13:00 Routine Anti-Rhubarb Patrol. No incident, although Pilots were vectored about 40 miles South of Portland.
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.7059 F/Sgt W.R. Wright Air Sea Rescue 12:20 13:10 F/Lt Blackshaw and Sgt MacAulay actually sighted the missing pilot in his dinghy about 20 miles South of Portland. Owing to the failure of R/T communication, which is normal and well known in this area, this pilot was not picked up.
28-Feb-43 P.7108 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 10 Group Circus 17 14:40 15:40 Attack on Maupertus. This was their first dive-bombing attack. It was observed to have been successful.
01-Mar-43 P.7110 F/Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 08:00 09:20 Patrol off Angle
05-Mar-43 P.7110 F/Sgt W.R. Wright Convoy 17:40 18:55 Patrol off St. Davids
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.7013 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 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.
21-Mar-43 P.7013 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 23 (Morlaix Viaduct) 00:35 02:00 Target not found. Jettisoned bombs in sea.
22-Mar-43 P.7013 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 24 00:40 02:05 Unable to evade S/Ls and flak, jettisoned bombs.
23-Mar-43 P.7040 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 25 (Ponthou Viaduct) 01:30 01:40 Artificial Horizon etc. u/s.
26-Mar-43 P.7007 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 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.
06-Apr-43 P.7007 F/Sgt W.R. Wright 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.
 See also the Summary Jun-Jul 42 tab