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Weather: cloudy with some rain.
Fighter Command Serviceable Aircraft as at 0900 hours:
- Blenheim – 58
- Spitire – 239
- Hurricane – 400
- Defiant – 25
- Gladiator – 7
- Total – 729
The bad weather led to the Luftwaffe adopting harassing tactics using small groups or even single aircraft. Attacks took place on the Scilly Isles which were bombed and strafed by machine gun fire.
Fighter Command flew 599 sorties. However, 13 German aircraft were destroyed and only one RAF fighter shot down. 4 Blenheims on the ground were destroyed.
19 Squadron Operational Record Book – 21 August
P/Os Dolezal and Huadil, Sgts. Plzaxk and Marek of 310 Squadron attached to us to-day. All Czechs and very keen and eager to have a crack.
Reported Casualties (RAF Campaign Diary 21st August 1940):
* Enemy: 13 confirmed, 2 probable, 2 damaged
* Own: 1 Hurricane
Todays’s theme: Top Gun Gallery – Douglas Bader
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