Barking Creek
Although a tragic incident at the time, this event had the effect of 'fine tuning' our defence system and was probably a lesson that would have had to be learnt anyway.
It was all new technology that had yet to be tested for real, and many lessons were learnt which paid dividends later.
It also brings home just how difficult it was to identify specific targets with only limited IFF available.
The RAF element that went to France with the AASF and BEF paid a heavy price for having to operate outside the home defence system, and it just confirms How well that system did despite it having to deal with an enemy operating much closer than planned. Our 'Bungalow' sector station ops rooms were the 'chink' there that had to be rapidly deployed out of harms way.