Weather: unsettled with poor visibility.
Fighter Command Serviceable Aircraft as at 0900 hours:
- Blenheim – 74
- Spitfire – 232
- Hurricane – 333
- Defiant – 23
- Gladiator – 8 (1 Flight only)
- Total – 662
Fighter Command flew 688 sorties and succeeded in shooting down 2 German aircraft with no loss to themselves. Barry docks were attacked that night.
266 Squadron Operational Record Book, 30 July
Average temperature, sky overcast, visibility poor. Flying 3 hours. B Flight at readiness, Ac Flight available. Practices included Air Fighting tactics and sector reconnaissance. Raid investigation by one aircraft of Ac Flight.
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July 30, 2010 at 8:53 am
Paul Handley
I’m also following the day by day reports being published by the Daily Telegraph from their archives. It’s very interesting to compare their reports of actions and enemy numbers shot down, with this factual information.
Obviously, the numbers claims were far more than actual, and there is great need for morale boosting.
The DT reports talk of the success of breaking up the enemy attacks; perhaps you could add in your reports such information, ie: were attacks thwarted even though we shot down ‘only’ a few of the enemy?