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- From: Anssi Oorni <oorni@hkkk.fi>
- Subject: Re: Gladiators in WWII RAF service
- Message-ID: <BzzCx9.w7@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:36:45 GMT
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- From Anssi Oorni <oorni@hkkk.fi>
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- In <Bzq2ow.4GJ@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> MR KR COMAN <bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za> writes:
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- >>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 (!!!!).
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- >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.
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- There seems to have been one flight of Gladiators in 247 Squadron
- stationed at Roborough. Don't know if they saw any action.
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- My source of information is:
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- Richard Hough and Denis Richards, The Battle of Britain (ISBN 0-340-53470-2)
- Page 376, Appendix VII, Fighter Command Order of Battle 8 August 1940
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- | Anssi Oorni (oorni@hkkk.fi) | I really know where my |
- | Helsinki School of Economics, Computing Centre | towel is... er was. |
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