On 24 September 1940, Ken Holland was
hauled out of his cot for an early morning flap with Flight Lieutenant Thomas,
as 152 Squadron's Blue Two. Soon after, he was in the air again as Blue Two when B Flight scrambled.
Then, some time later, he was off again, for his third operational sortie of
the day, this time on ‘yet another squadron scramble as Blue 2 to the CO’. This
last was not a doddle. He had no oxygen and, after 20 minutes at 23,000 feet
blacked out on a turn. He ‘woke up at 3000 doing 400 and pulled out gently!!’
He climbed to 14,000 feet then went home.
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