F/O Thurston Turner
'B' Flight, 32 Sqd
Biggin Hill AF

17 July 1940- Group has assured me of replacement pilots and machines within the next few days. I've sent the current 'spare' fitters and riggers to help with the defensive preparations. I'm sure they are thrilled with me. Dispersal scrambled us at 1400h to defend the Chain-Home station at Beachy Head. Patrolled between 12000' and 17000', no enemy spotted during the fifteen minutes we were kept overhead. Ordered home at 1445h, all four of us made it back at 1500h. P/O Ross complaining his engine is not firing correctly. Ground crew will pull it apart this evening. Right, I'm off to sit outside the hut, so damnably stuffy in here eh.

F/O T.W. Turner
Acting Squadron Leader,
32 Sqdn, Biggin Hill Air Field.


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