en-route to Alderney with armed escorts the Vorpostenboot’s V204 Ex-Zieten and V209 and Hafenschutz boats FK04 Seehund and FK05 Notre Dame were just off the French coast, moving out away from the protection of the land near Cap de la Hague when they were attacked by four aircraft...
As much as for the RAF and Luftwaffe, the Straits of Dover were a battleground for German Schnellboote (fast attack boats) and British Motor Torpedo Boats; not only did the Kriegsmarine speed out to rescue him, so did the Royal Navy, hoping to capture him. The difference between rescue ...
Dundee, as alternate. Shot down by Yellow Section No. 603 Squadron (Pilot Officer J. R. Caister, Pilot Officer G. K. Gilroy and Sergeant I. K. Arber) over Aberdeen 1.10 p.m. Crashed and burned out at the skating rink in South Anderson Drive. (Ff) Lt Herbert...