-2- 11.Royal Air Force Night of 23rd/24th. Seventy-one aircraft were sent to docks at Calais, Boulogne and Den Heider. Numerous fires were started at Boulogne but elsewhere results were unobserved, Two aircraft are missing. 12. Eritrea. On 21st South African Hurricanes destroyed six aircraft and six hangars at Massawa aerodrome. One Hurricane was lost, 13. Greece On 22nd Blenheims shot down three enemy aircraft. 14. German Air Force During daylight 23rd enemy aircraft carried out continuous patrols of the Straits and made one sweep over East Kent Coast. 15. Night of 23rd/24th. A small scale bombing attack was made on the Humber area and there was slight activity over Eastern and South Eastern England and the London area. 16. Aircraft casualties in operations over and from the British Isles. German: Nil British - two bombers missing. |