HURRICATS THE FIGHTERS THAT COULD NOT RETURN
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Characteristics
| ISBN-10 | 0 7524 2005 4 |
| Book cover finish(es) | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special Features | Dust jacket |
| Condition | NLike New |
| Author(s) | Ralph Barker |
| Publisher | Tempus Publishing Ltd |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Published date | 2000 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 18 x 25 x 1,5 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION MILITAIRE • SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE |
Description
Returning with a homeward-bound convoy to Bangor in August, Scott and Walker learned for the first time that Everett had got back to his diary. But on 31 July, as Scott was writing a line about our experiences,* confided Scott in his diary. But on 31 July during Cecil Walker, Maplin joined a convoy from Liverpool numbered OG 70, outward bound for Gibraltar. There were no attacks on this convoy, thus Maplin's striking power remained intact for the return trip.
At 21.30 on Saturday evening, 2 August, while Convoy OG 70 continued to Gibraltar, Maplin headed south-west with three destroyers to meet Convoy SL 81, homeward-bound from Sierra Leone. The destroyers in attendance with Maplin were the Norwegian-manned St Albans as starboard, the four-stacked American lend-lease Campbell to port, and Wanderer carrying the senior officer of the Escort Group dead ahead, each at a distance from Maplin of about half a mile. When daylight came on Sunday 3 August, the weather was foggy, but during the morning the air cleared up and by noon the horizon had cleared. The wind was westerly, Force three, and there was some light wispy cloud, but visibility was extensive, impaired only by the dancing mirage in the middle distance where the surface of the sea reflected the sun. As they continued to head south-west, the three pilots on Maplin took turn and turn about in the cockpit of the Hurricane, two hours on and four hours off.