Spitfires in flight formation, copyright RAF Museum Hendon

Weather: Cloudy in the Channel and along the East coast.

Fighter Command Serviceable Aircraft as at 0900 hours:

  • Blenheim – 63
  • Spitfire – 238
  • Hurricane – 352
  • Defiant – 22
  • Total – 675

The Luftwaffe attacked a convoy off the East coast and sank a trawler. Fighter Command intercepted several raiders and flew 477 sorties. No victories were claimed but several enemy aircraft were damaged. No RAF planes were lost but one Spitfire was burnt out.

That night Swansea was bombed and residential properties were damaged.

91/41/1 PO DH Wissler – Diary, 2 August
Returned off leave at 1.30 but the flight was forward at Martlesham so I did nothing all day. F/O Count Czernin has been shooting up a grand line in the Daily Sketch about his dog, and the no. of enemy he has shot down, it is treated with dirision [sic] up here, and his flight wrote to the “Talk of the Town” section and said it was 18 enemy not 8 that he had shot down, and it was printed today.

Reported Casualties (RAF Campaign Diary 2nd August 1940):

  • Enemy: Nil.
  • Own: Nil.

Todays’s theme: 92 Squadron