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- From: MR KR COMAN <bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za>
- Subject: Re: Gladiators in WWII RAF service
- Message-ID: <Bzq2ow.4GJ@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- References: <Bzo8DG.BK2@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:17:20 GMT
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- From MR KR COMAN <bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za>
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- In article <Bzo8DG.BK2@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz> writes:
- >From: Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
- >Subject: Gladiators in WWII RAF service
- >Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:24:51 GMT
- >
- >From Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
- >
- >> From MR KR COMAN <bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za>
- >
- > <quite a lot deleted>
- >
- >> Certainly no Glad squadrons feature in
- >> the RAF's Order of Battle after May 1940.
- >
- >
- >I seem to remember that there was a single squadron still equipped
- >with the type in 10 (?) Group (SW of England) during the "Battle of
- >Britain", August - September 1940. The final delivery was only in
- >April 1940 (!!!!).
- >
- >Any one know any other details?
- >--
- >Mike Campbell, Christchurch, New Zealand
- >mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz
- >
-
- Mike,
- You might well be right, the timing's the thing. The OoB for June-July
- and August in the vital Sector 11 (SE England) features only one "funny": the
- Bristol Blemheim "fighter" -- a 4 x 303 Browning gunpack bolted on under the
- nose.
-
- Sector 12 (?) in the SW also included parts of Wales and the Bristol
- Channel -- bit of a backwater, so rotating in a Glad sqdn there makes sense
- if the objective is to attain some low-risk combat procedures training.
-
- Another area that's worth a look is the northern-most sector covering
- Scotland.
-
- Will try to check all this out further after Xmas.
- Cheers to all!
- Keith Coman
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