Australia's Few. 29 August 1940

As August 1940 drew to a close, the weather, for the time being, was in Fighter Command’s favour. Enemy activity was light with only occasional reconnaissance incursions along the east coast. There was ‘a flap’ at Warmwell on 29 August ‘but the bandits turned back’ and then a quiet day for Ken Holland of 152 Squadron at dispersal as, for the main part, Fighter Command, adopted the policy of leaving the reconnaissance aircraft to it. Ken didn’t mind. He was happy to play out his shift at dispersal and then head off for a swim at Lulworth Cove. John Crossman at Acklington, however, was still itchy. ‘This place is awfully quiet and as yet we haven’t even heard of Jerries and from the look of things won’t’. Patience wasn’t one of John’s strong points.

 

 

 

Beautiful images of Lulworth Cove, near the village of West Lulworth on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England, lifted from http://www.lulworthonline.co.uk/