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DIMBLEBEE |
Frank Oswald |
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Service Number |
133260 (937693) |
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P/O |
27th
July 1942. (Gazette Issue 35813 published on the 4 December 1942. Page 3 of
6) |
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F/O |
27th
Jan. 1943. (Gazette Issue 36015 published on the 11 May 1943. Page 9 of 14) |
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F/Lt |
27th
July 1944. (Gazette Issue 36660 published on the 15 August 1944. Page 4 of 6) |
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DFC |
30
July, 1943. (Gazette Issue 36113 published on the 27 July 1943. Page 2 of 14) |
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Date |
A/C |
Crew |
Duty |
Up |
Down |
Details of
Sortie or Flight |
04-Jul-41 |
P.6974 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Interception Patrol |
15:00 |
15:40 |
The section was put on patrol from Portreath, There was an
enemy aircraft in the vicinity, and the section was sent 20 miles South of
the Lizard, but saw nothing. |
12-Jul-41 |
P. |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Interception Patrol |
18:25 |
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Raid 96, an unidentified enemy aircraft, was plotted South of
Cardiff, Blue section was put on patrol over a Convoy in the Barry Roads,
while Green Section was ordered to intercept. Visibility was bad with thick
layers of cloud up to 25,000 ft. The E/A dropped bombed near Cheltenham, but
although green section was said to have been within 8 miles dead behind it,
they saw nothing. |
14-Jul-41 |
P.7046 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Convoy Patrol |
06:00 |
06:35 |
Convoy
Patrol from Exeter. |
07-Aug-41 |
P.7041 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Convoy Patrol |
19:35 |
21:00 |
Convoy
Patrol in the Bristol Channel. |
19-Aug-41 |
P.7042 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Convoy Patrol |
10:15 |
11:55 |
Convoy
Patrol in the Bristol Channel. |
20-Aug-41 |
P.7046 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Convoy Patrol |
07:30 |
08:05 |
Convoy
Patrol in the Bristol Channel. |
03-Sep-41 |
P.7044 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Convoy Patrol |
13:25 |
14:45 |
Convoy
patrol in the Bristol Channel. |
28-Sep-41 |
P.7011 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Mandolin Operation |
14:20 |
15:45 |
Attack
on Morlaix aerodrome. |
15-Oct-41 |
P.7001 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Scramble |
12:45 |
14:05 |
Order
to patrol Newport at 15,000 feet. Nothing seen. |
02-Nov-41 |
P.7041 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Scramble |
11:40 |
12:10 |
No
incident |
17-Nov-41 |
P.6990 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Rhubarb 64 |
09:46 |
10:25 |
Attack
on Distillery targets - abortive |
02-Nov-41 |
P.7056 |
Sgt F.O. Dimblebee |
Attack on Whitchurch
Aerodrome |
08:00 |
08:25 |
Ten Whirlwinds co-operated in this large scale Home Guard
Tactical Exercise. In the first phase Whitchurch aerodrome and the three Avon
bridges on the South side of Bristol were beaten-up in low level attacks by
four sections of aircraft. In the second phase the Southern approaches of
Bristol were again attacked by three sections of aircraft. |
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