Thursday 16 August 2012

Isle of Wight festival

July 16th, 1940

Briefing: Its late in the afternoon of Tuesday, July 16th. Radar has picked up multiple contacts (40+) heading for Ventnor on the Isle of Wright at around Angels 10.

Spitfires from Biggin Hill are fueled and ready to go.

A cross country flight with the sun rapidly going down and late evening mist. Interesting to see we started to get a bit jumpy about whether we'd missed the attack. Finally when it came there a lot of aircraft. I think we prevented Ventor getting hit, but Pompey docks got a pasting from what I saw.

Lots of diverts to alternate airfields. Great to see an almost full mission.


Stats: http://www.keets.org/eafstats/out_missdata.cfm?mission_id=316


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